S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies
Expertise Geographic Areas
Eastern Europe | Western Europe | Russia Issues
developing nations | economic development | emerging markets | European Union and transatlantic relations | globalization | governance | international political economy | nation-building and democratization Background and Education
Former director of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan European Research Centers at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and tenured professor of political science; taught political science and public administration at Brown, Yale and Moscow State universities; visiting scholar at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Institute for EastWest Studies; awarded fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and International Research and Exchange Board; consultant to World Bank Social Protection Division and USAID; recipient of the American Political Science Association's 1997 Gabriel A. Almond Award for best doctoral dissertation in comparative politics; Ph.D., political science, Yale University Publications
Pensions, Social Security and the Privatization of Risk, editor (2008); Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform (2008), which won the 2009 Charles A. Levine Memorial Book Prize from the International Political Science Association for best book in comparative public policy and administration; Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (2001); "Follow the Leader: Three Models of Contemporary Capitalism" in New Ideas in Development After the Financial Crisis (2010); "Electoral Protests and Democratization: Beyond the Color Revolutions," co-author, in Comparative Political Studies (2009); "What Happened to East European Economies?" in East European Politics and Societies (2009); "Postcommunist Welfare States" in Journal of Democracy (2008); numerous journal articles and book chapters on the politics of economic reform and Central and East European political economy | 
