Faculty
Higley, John
Professor
Department Chair Jack S. Blanton Chair in Australian Studies Director, Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies
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Education: PhD, University of Connecticut
Research interests:
Professor Higley's interests include general comparative politics, political sociology, and the comparative study of political elites. He has written extensively about elite theory and analysis. Having been chair of the Government Dept. between 2001- 2006, he is currently chair of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Political Elites. As director of the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, which Professor Higley founded in 1988, he also writes about domestic, security, foreign and trade policy issues in those countries and how they affect U.S. relations with them (e.g., Elites in Australia, 1979; The Challenge of NAFTA: North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the World Trade Regime, 1993; "Australia: The Politics of Becoming a Republic," 2000; "The U.S.-Australia Alliance: An American Political Perspective," 2006).