Faculty Publications
Democracy and Democratization in the Third and Fourth Waves
by Jane Curry
Jane Curry’s new book, Democracy and Democratization in the Third and Fourth Waves, was commissioned and published by the University of Warsaw Press. Aurora Zahm '18 (Political Science and Classical Studies) helped edit the book. It is based on the lectures Professor Curry gave at the Center for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw when she taught as the Inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2003-2004 (her 5th Fulbright since she was an undergraduate) and during the twelve summers she taught at their summer program for university students from the former Soviet Union and East Europe. Teaching in Warsaw has allowed her to keep up with what is happening in Central and East Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union so she can share it with her students at Santa Clara and also help prepare a new generation of scholars and activists from these countries.
Professor Curry also has been named the Director of the Cold War Communications Project established and sponsored by the Library of Congress. The Project is to encourage the development of archives of Western broadcasts into the former communist countries and encourage scholars to do research using these broadcasts and looking at their role in American and West European foreign policy.
Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Court to Rig America’s Election Rules
by Terri Peretti
Election law litigation has dramatically increased in recent years, with challenges to the 2020 election serving as a potent reminder. In her new book, Partisan Supremacy: How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America’s Election Rules, Terri Peretti assesses recent Republican efforts to advance the party’s election reform agenda in the courts and finds considerable evidence of “friendly” judicial review. The GOP has largely succeeded in securing judicial assistance in weakening the Voting Rights Act, requiring voter identification, permitting partisan gerrymandering, and ending limits on corporate campaign spending. Such partisan collaboration across the branches on critical election law issues poses a serious threat to minority voting rights, the legitimacy of courts, and democracy itself.