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M. Steven FISH

Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley, USA; a Visiting Professor of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2000-01), and also a Faculty Member at Open Society Summer School in Social Science (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1998, 2003, 2004); the recipient of the Distinguished Social Sciences Teaching Award of the Colleges of Letters and Science, University of California-Berkeley (2005); served as a guest lecturer at many major universities, including the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, the European University at St. Petersburg, and the Moscow State University; a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and also a member of editorial boards of Slavic Review. Prof. Fish is a comparative political scientist who studies democracy and regime change in developing and postcommunist countries, social movements and political parties, religion and politics, constitutional systems and political economy; has an extensive field research experience throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge, 2005), which was the recipient of the Best Book Award of 2006, presented by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Prof. Fish’s articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs, and other journals. His publication list also includes: Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (co-auth. with R.D. Anderson, S.E. Hanson, and Ph.G. Roeder). (2001); Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution. (1995); Russian Studies without Studying // Post-Soviet Affairs 17, 4 (October-December 2001); When More Is Less: Superexecutive Power and Political Underdevelopment in Russia // Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? V.E. Bonnell and G.W. Breslauer (eds.). (2001); The Roots of and Remedies for Russia’s Racket Economy // The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Privatization, Business Networks, and Economic Transformation in Russia. S.S. Cohen, A. Schwartz, and J. Zysman (eds.). (1998); Democratization and Economic Liberalization in the Postcommunist World (co-auth. with O. Choudhry) (2007).