Christian Hunold
| Position: | Associate Professor |  |
| Field: | Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Political Theory | |
| Office: | 3025 MacAlister | |
| Phone: | (215) 895-6089 | |
| Email: | hunoldc@drexel.edu | |
| Office Hours: | click here for current office hours |
Personal Statement
One of my teachers at the University of Pittsburgh thought the only good reason for studying politics was to figure out how to make democracy work better. I hope that this concern for democracy's health is evident in my own teaching and writing on the politics of nuclear waste, deliberative democracy, and environmental movements. In most of my writing I draw on work in comparative politics and political theory to make sense of democratic politics. My next project examines how European activists campaigning for improved food safety and animal welfare regulations are helping to create genuinely transnational public spheres, without which it would be hard to imagine a more democratic European Union.
The company of cats and racing for the Tri-State Velo cycling team (www.tristatevelo.com) keep me out of trouble in my spare time.
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This is Dionysus. |
This is me at the start of a race in Deinze, Flanders, in July 2005. Those 20-year-old hot shots seem to be getting faster every year, but I'm still having fun. |
Education
- University of Bonn, Germany, 1987-1990
- University of Pittsburgh , M.A., Political Science, 1993
- University of Pittsburgh , Ph.D., Political Science, 1998
Recent Publications
- Hendriks, C., Dryzek, J. S. & Hunold, C. (Forthcoming). Turning Up the Heat: Partisanship in Deliberative Innovation. Political Studies .
- Hunold, C. (2006). The European Commission's E-Government Initiatives and Public Participation. In Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko & Matti Mälkiä (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Digital Government . Hershey , PA : Idea Group.
- Green States and Social Movements: Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). ISBN 0199249032. 223 pp.
- European Politics Reconsidered . (Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc; 2nd edition, 1997). ISBN 0841913641. 369 pp.
- Hunold, C. (2005.) Green Political Theory and the European Union: The Case for a Nonintegrated Civil Society. Environmental Politics 14(3), 324-343.
- Hunold, C. & Dryzek, J. S. (2005). Green Political Strategy and the State: Combining Political Theory and Comparative History. In John Barry & Robyn Eckersley (Eds.), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (pp.75-95).
- Hunold, C. (2004). Procedural and Substantive Criteria for Siting Justice. Swiss Political Science Review 10(4), 192-201.
- Hunold, C. (2002). Canada 's Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Problem: Voluntarism Reconsidered . Environmental Politics, 11 (2), 49-72.
- Hunold, C. & Dryzek, J. S. (2002). Green Political Theory and the State: Context is Everything. Global Environmental Politics, 2 (3), 17-39.
- Dryzek, J. S., Hunold, C. & Schlosberg, D. (2002). Environmental Transformation of the State: The USA, Norway, Germany , and the UK . Political Studies, 50 (4), 659-682.
Courses Usually Taught
- PSCI 130 Research Methods in Political Science I
- PSCI 240 Comparative Government
- PSCI 357 The European Union
- PSCI 570 International Environmental Policy
- PSCI 571 Science and Technology Policy
- IAS 399 Global Research Methods
