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Research Fields:
Comparative Politics
Email: vicki-hesli@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-2356
Office: 309 SH
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:00-4:00 PM, and by appointment.

Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1985.
Fields: Comparative Politics (political parties, women and politics, voting behavior).
Sample Publications: “National Identity: Civic, Ethnic, Hybrid, and Atomised Individuals,” Europe-Asia Studies (with H. Hansen, 2009); Government and Politics in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region, Houghton Mifflin (2007); “The 2006 Parliamentary Election in Ukraine,” Electoral Studies (2007); “Tobacco Use, Cessation Advice to Patients, and Attitudes to Tobacco Control among Physicians in Ukraine,” European Journal of Cancer Prevention (with C. Squier, J. Lowe, V. Ponamorenko and N. Medvedovskaya, 2006); The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy, Cambridge University Press (ed., with W. Reisinger, 2003).
Books:
Vicki L. Hesli, Government and Politics in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007.
Vicki L. Hesli and William M. Reisinger, editors, The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003.
Vicki L. Hesli and Margaret Mills, editors, Medical Issues and Health Care Reform in Russia, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1999.
John E. Turner, Vicki Hesli, Dong Suh Bark, Hoon Yu, Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and Change in Korea, New York: Praeger, 1993.
Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger, Vicki L. Hesli, editors, Public Opinion and Regime Change, Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
John E. Turner, Vicki Templin Hesli, Roger Benjamin, Dong Suh Bark, Hoon Yu, Community Development and Rational Choice: The Case of Korea, Monograph Series in World Affairs, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1983.
Chapters in Books:
Hesli with the assistance of V.Volovych, A.Gorbachyk, K.Korzh, E.Bashkirova, "Political Participation and Public Opinion in Ukraine and Russia: A Comparative Analysis" // Suspilni procesy: psychologo-pedagogichni ta socialni aspekty.- K.: "Kyivskyi Universitet", 2004.- pp. 37-46.
Hesli and Ha-Lyong Jung, "South Korea second revised version " in W. Phillips Shively ed. Comparative Governance, Hightstown, NJ: McGraw-Hill Primis customized textbook 2004, 66 pages.
Hesli, Alexis Bushnell, and Rasa Alisauskiene, "Lithuania" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: Europe, edited by Lynn Walter, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 401-420.
Hesli, “Parliamentary and Presidential Elections in Russia: The Political Landscape in 1999 and 2000” in The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy, Hesli and Reisinger, editors New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 pp. 1-27.
Hesli and Brian Kessel, "The State and Social Science Research in Russia" in The Politics of Social Science Research: Race, Ethnicity and Social Change, edited by Peter Ratcliffe, New York: Palgrave MacMillan Series, 2001 pp. 202-238.
Hesli and Rasa Alisauskiene, “Attitudes on Health Care Reform in the Former Soviet Union,” in Hesli and Mills eds. Medical Issues and Health Care Reform in Russia, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1999 pp. 65-112.
Hesli, "South Korea revised version " in W. Phillips Shively ed. Comparative Governance, Hightstown, NJ: McGraw-Hill Primis customized textbook 1999 pp. 14-67.
Hesli, "Political Institutions and Democratic Governance in Divided Societies" in Robert D. Grey ed. Democratic Theory and Post-Communist Change, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997 pp. 109-216.
Elena Bashkirova and Hesli, "Polling and Perestroika", in Arthur Miller, William Reisinger and Vicki Hesli eds., Public Opinion and Regime Change, Boulder: Westview Press, 1993 pp. 17-36.
Hesli and Joel D. Barkan, "The Center-Periphery Debate: Pressures for Devolution Within the Republics", in Public Opinion and Regime Change, Boulder: Westview Press, 1993 pp. 124-152.
Articles in Professional Journals:
Holley Hansen and Vicki Hesli, "National Identity: Civic, Ethnic, Hybrid, and Atomised Individuals," Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 61, Issue 1, 2009, pp. 1-28.
Hesli, “The 2006 Parliamentary Election in Ukraine,” Electoral Studies, Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 501-527.
Christopher Squier, Vicki Hesli, John Lowe, Victor Ponamorenko and Natalia Medvedovskaya, “Tobacco Use, Cessation Advice to Patients, and Attitudes to Tobacco Control among Physicians in Ukraine,” European Journal of Cancer Prevention 15(5), October 2006, pp. 458-463.
Gerald Jogerst, Jeanette Daly, Vicki Hesli and Chandan Saha, “Comparison of Health and Effective Functioning in Russia and the United States,” Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2006: 1 (2): 189-196.
Hesli, Jacqueline DeLaat, Jeremy Youde, Jeanette Mendez and Sang-shin Lee, “Success in Graduate School and After: Survey Results from the Midwest Region,” PS: Political Science and Politics, April 2006, pp. 317-325.
Hesli, “The Orange Revolution: 2004 presidential election(s) in Ukraine,” Electoral Studies, 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 168-177.
Hesli,“The 2006 Parliamentary Election in Ukraine,” Electoral Studies Vol. 26, 2007, pp. 501-527.
Hesli, Jacqueline DeLaat, Jeremy Youde, Jeanette Mendez and Sang-shin Lee, “Success in Graduate School and After: Survey Results from the Midwest Region” PS: Political Science and Politics, April 2006.
Christopher Squier, Hesli, John Lowe, Victor Ponamorenko and Natalia Medvedovskaya, “Tobacco Use, Cessation Advice to Patients, and Attitudes to Tobacco Control among Physicians in Ukraine,” European Journal of Cancer Prevention, forthcoming.
Hesli, “The Orange Revolution: 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine,” Electoral Studies, 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1.
Hesli, Evelyn C. Fink, and Diane Duffy, “The Role of Faculty in Creating a Positive Graduate Student Experience: Survey Results from the Midwest Region, Part II,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, October 2003 pp. 801-804.
Hesli, Evelyn C. Fink and Diane Duffy, “Mentoring in A Positive Graduate Student Experience: Survey Results from the Midwest Region, Part I,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, July 2003 pp. 457-460.
Hesli, Ha-Lyong Jung, Reisinger, Miller “The Gender Divide in Russian Politics: Attitudinal and Behavioral Considerations," Women and Politics, 2001, Vol. 22, No. 2 pp. 39-78.
Hesli, Ebru Erdem, Reisinger, Miller “Religion and Political Choice in Russia,” Demokratizatsiya, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 1 pp. 42-72.
Hesli, Reisinger, Miller “Political Party Development in Divided Societies: The Case of Ukraine,” Electoral Studies, 1998, Vol. 17, No. 2 pp. 235-256.
Miller, Hesli, Reisinger "Conceptions of Democracy among Mass and Elite in Post-Soviet Societies," British Journal of Political Science, 1997, Vol. 27 pp. 157-190.
Miller, Reisinger, Hesli "Understanding Political Change in Post-Soviet Societies: A Further Commentary on Finifter and Mickiewicz," American Political Science Review, March 1996, Vol. 90, No. 1 pp. 153-166.
Reisinger, Miller, Hesli "Public Behavior and Political Change in Post-Soviet States," Journal of Politics, November 1995, Vol. 57, No. 4 pp. 941-970.
Hesli "Public Support for the Devolution of Power in Ukraine: Regional Patterns," Europe-Asia Studies, January 1995, Vol. 47, No. 1 pp. 91-121.
Kisangani Emizet and Hesli "The Disposition to Secede: An Analysis of the Soviet Case" Comparative Political Studies, January 1995, Vol. 27, no. 4 pp. 493-536.
Hesli and Barbara Burrell "Faculty Rank among Political Scientists and Reports of the Academic Environment: The Differential Impact of Gender on Observed Patterns", PS: Political Science and Politics, March 1995, Vol. 28, No. 1 pp. 101-111.
Hesli, Miller, Reisinger "Comment on Brym and Degtyarev's Discussion of Anti-Semitism in Moscow," Slavic Review, Fall 1994, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 836-841.
Hesli, Miller, Reisinger, Kevin L. Morgan "Research Note: Social Distance from Jews in Russia and Ukraine," Slavic Review, Fall 1994, Vol. 53, no. 3 pp. 807-828.
Miller, Hesli, Reisinger, "Reassessing Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in the Former USSR", American Political Science Review, June 1994, Vol. 88, no. 2 pp. 399-411.
Reisinger, Miller, Hesli, Kristen Maher "Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania: Sources and Implications for Democracy" British Journal of Political Science, April 1994, Vol. 24, pp. 183-223.
Hesli and Miller "The Gender Base of Institutional Support in Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia", Europe-Asia Studies, 1993, Vol. 45, No. 3 pp. 505-532.
Vicki Templin [Hesli] "Predicting the Policy Choices of Individual Legislators: A Comparative Study of Canada and the United States", Population Research and Policy Review 6, 1987 pp. 241 274
International Publications:
Hesli “The renaissance of nationalism and the disintegration of the state,” in Andrei Melville ed., Global Social And Political Changes In The World, Moscow: Independent Institute For World Research in Russian, 1997 pp. 136-158.
Hesli and Elena Bashkirova, “The Impact of Time and Economic Circumstances on Popular Evaluations of Russia’s President,” International Political Science Review, 2001, Vol. 22, No. 4 pp. 379-398.
Hesli, “Issue Voting in Ukraine,” Political Thought, 2000, No. 3-4 pp. 58-83.
Hesli, Reisinger, Miller "The Sources of Support for Separatism: Public Opinion in Three Soviet Republics," Nations and Nationalism, 1997, Vol. 3 No. 2 pp. 201-229.
Hesli "Nationalistic Revivals and State Disintegration," Polis, 1996, Vol. 36, No. 6 pp. 39-51 published in Moscow, Russian Federation.