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Office Hours:
ON LEAVE 2009-2010
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Quinn Mecham
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
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Robert A. Jones '59 House 107
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Phone: 802.443.5929
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Email: qmecham@middlebury.edu
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Courses Taught
PSCI 0103: Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSCI 0217: Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
PSCI 0347: Theories of Comparative Politics
PSCI 0378: Civil Conflict in Africa and the Middle East
PSCI 0438: Political Islam
Publications and Working Papers
"Why Do Islamist Groups Become Transnational and Violent?", MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, 06-11 (August 2006)
"When Islam Enters Politics, Structural Contexts for Islamist Political Mobilization," presented at the Conference of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006
"Why Islamic Political Parties Become More Moderate Over Time: Strategic Choices in Constrained Democracy," presented at the Conference of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2005
"From the Ashes of Virtue, A Promise of Light: The Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey", Third World Quarterly (April 2004)
Works in Progress
From the Sacred to the State: Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization
Research Interests
Civil Conflict
Comparative Politics
Democratic Development/Rule of Law
International Development
Political Islam
Religion and Politics