Debra Javeline

Debra Javeline

(B.A., Brown University, 1989; Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997), specializes in comparative politics, mass political behavior, survey research, and the politics of post-Soviet and other post-communist regimes. Her publications include "Who Sues Government? Evidence from the Moscow Theater Hostage Case" (Comparative Political Studies, 2007), Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (2003, University of Michigan Press ), “The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from Russia ” (2003, American Political Science Review ), and “Response Effects in Polite Cultures: A Test of Acquiescence in Kazakhstan ,” (1999, Public Opinion Quarterly ). She is currently conducting research on judicial effectiveness and respect for law in Russia, and she is beginning a new project on political responses to tragedy, which examines citizen participation after the hostagetaking in Beslan, North Ossetia.  She has conducted survey research in the former Soviet Union for the U.S. Information Agency (now State Department) and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and she has held fellowships from Fulbright-Hays, Mellon, ACTR, FLAS, Harvard University 's Davis Center for Russian Studies, the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science , the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Contact Information
On Leave and off campus for the 08/09 academic year. Contact via email.

Email: javeline@nd.edu
Office: 402 Decio
Phone: (574) 631-2793

Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN  46556