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Vicki L. Hesli
Professor

 

 

Email: vicki-hesli@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-2356

Fall 2008 Office Hours in 309 SH:
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30AM-12:00PM, and by appointment.

Hesli’s new textbook: Government and Politics in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region
Textbook website: http://college.hmco.com/polisci/hesli/gov_politics/1e/student_home.html


Research Fields:

Comparative Politics

Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1985. Fields: Comparative Politics, Political Parties, Voting Behavior, Women and Politics. Sample Publications:

(BOOKS)

Vicki L. Hesli Government and Politics in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2007 http://college.hmco.com/polisci/hesli/gov_politics/1e/student_home.html

Vicki L. Hesli and William M. Reisinger, editors, The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003 http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521816769

Vicki L. Hesli and Margaret Mills, editors, Medical Issues and Health Care Reform in Russia, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1999 http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=3791&pc=9

John E. Turner, Vicki Hesli, Dong Suh Bark, Hoon Yu, Villages Astir: Community Development, Tradition, and Change in Korea, New York: Praeger, 1993 http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/0275943720

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)

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.