Katz, Richard Stephen

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KATZ, Richard Stephen

KATZ, Richard Stephen. American, b. 1947. Genres: Politics/Government. Career: City University of New York, assistant professor of political science, 1974-1976; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, assistant professor of political science, 1976-1981, associate professor of political science, 1981-1985, professor of political science, 1985-; State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, professor of political science, 1995-1996; International School of Political Science, lecturer, 1993. Publications: (with K.V. Mulcahy) American Votes: What You Should Know About Election Today, 1976; A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems, 1980; Democracies and Elections, Oxford University Press, 1997. EDITOR: (with M.C. Cummings, Jr.) The Patron State: Government and the Arts in Europe, North America, and Japan, 1987; (with P. Mair) Party Organizations in Western Democracies: 1960-1990: A Data Handbook, 1992; (with P. Mair) How Parties Organize: Change and Adaptation in Party Organization sin Western Democracies, 1994; (with S. Bowler and D.M. Farrell) Party Discipline and Parliamentary Government, 1998. Contributor to books. Address: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]