Department of Political Science

The Department of
Political Science

Thomas F. Remington
Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science

306 Tarbutton Hall
Department of Political Science
Emory University
1555 Dickey Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-6566 (Office)
404-727-4586 (FAX)
polstfr@emory.edu (Email)

Thomas F. Remington is Professor of Political Science at Emory University . He has taught at Emory since 1978. He was founding director of Emory’s Program in Russian and East European Studies. In 1990 he won the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. He is author of numerous books and articles on Russian politics. Among his publications are two books on the Russian parliament: The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999 (Yale University Press, 2001) and The Politics of Institutional Choice: Formation of the Russian State Duma (co-authored with Steven S. Smith) (Princeton University Press, 2001). Other books include Politics in Russia (1998, 2001, 2003; fourth edition forthcoming 2005); Parliaments in Transition (1994); and The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union (1988).

He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research and of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He is Advisor for Russia Workshops for the East-West Parliamentary Practice Project, based in Amsterdam , and has planned and directed a series of workshops for parliamentarians in a number of cities in Russia since 1993.

From 1997 to 2002 he held the Claus M. Halle Distinguished Professorship for Global Learning at Emory. In that capacity he organized an annual university-wide faculty research seminar focusing on international affairs.

His research focuses on the development of representative institutions in post-communist Russia , particularly parliamentary politics and legislative-executive relations. In addition to courses dealing with Russian political development, he teaches courses in comparative political institutions and comparative political and economic reform.

Curriculum Vitae (in .pdf format)

Links to syllabi for recently taught courses (in .pdf format):

POLS 336: Government and Politics of Russia
POLS 490: Democracy and the Market
POLS 520: Comparative Government and Politics
POLS 521: Comparative Representative Institutions

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