Michael Coppedge
On Leave Spring 2017
Rank
Regular Faculty - ProfessorTitle
Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Field(s)
Comparative Politics
Education
B.S. 1979, Randolph-Macon College
M.A. 1982, Yale University
Ph.D. 1988, Yale University
Research and Teaching Interests
Democratization worldwide
Research methods in comparative politics
Measurement
Political parties, party systems, and elections in Latin America
Venezuelan politics
Advising Specialties
Research design and measurement in comparative politics
Democratization
Latin America
Biography
Coppedge taught at Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Princeton, and Yale before coming to Notre Dame. His is one of the Principal Investigators for the Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), which has measured hundreds of attributes of democracy and governance for most countries since 1900 and won the APSA Comparative Politics Section's 2016 "Best Dataset" prize. He is the author of Approaching Democracy: Research Methods in Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (Stanford, 1994). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics, other journals, and various books. He argues for the complementarity of large- and small-sample research and qualitative and quantitative methods and is now using V-Dem data to analyze dimensions of democracy and the diffusion of democracy.
Office Hours
Wednesday and Friday 9:30-11 a.m.Contact Information
Office: 216 Hesburgh Center
Phone: 574-631-7036
Fax: 574-631-6717
Email: coppedge.1@nd.edu
Mailing Address
Kellogg Institute for International Studies
130 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556
