Resume
Dr. RICHARD D. ANDERSON, Jr.
Department of Political
Science, UCLA
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1472
(310) 562-2210 FAX:
(310) 825-0778
Employment
1996-Present |
Associate Professor of
Political Science, UCLA |
1989-1996 |
Assistant Professor of
Political Science, UCLA |
1988-89 |
Instructor, Claremont Graduate School |
1981-82 |
Staff Assistant to
Rep. Les Aspin, Washington, D.C. |
1978-81 |
Staff, Oversight Subcommittee,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, D.C. |
1975-78 |
Analyst, Central
Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. |
1973-75 |
Technical Staff,
General Electric/TEMPO, Washington, D.C. |
1973 |
Second
Lieutenant, U.S. Army Reserve, Active Duty for Training, Military
Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Fort Huachuca, Arizona |
Internships
1973 |
Editorial
Board, The New York Times |
1972 |
U.S. Mission to
NATO, Brussels, Belgium |
Education
Doctor of Philosophy |
University of California, Berkeley,
Political Science, 1989 |
Master of Public
Affairs |
Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.,
1973, International Affairs |
Bachelor of Arts |
Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.,
1971, German |
Honors
Odegard Prize, U.C. Berkeley, 1985
Phi Beta
Kappa, Davidson College, 1971
Fellowships and Grants
International Research
and Exchanges Board Short-Term Grant, 1995
UC Berkeley Center for
German and European Studies Junior Faculty Award, 1992
UCLA International
Studies and Overseas Programs Small Grant, 1992
RAND/UCLA Center for
Soviet Studies Grant-in-Aid, Summer 1990
Institute on Global
Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellow, 1987-1988
Stanford University Center for
International Security and Arms Control Dissertation Fellow 1987-1988
MacArthur Fellow in
International Security, 1986-1987
American Council of
Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Fellow in Russian and Soviet
Studies, 1985-1986
Foreign Language Area
Studies Fellow, 1982-1983
Contracts
National
Council for Soviet and East European Research, “Ideology, Communications, and
Russian Democracy,” November 1996-July 1997.
National
Council for Soviet and East European Research, “Speech and Democracy in
Russia,” July 1993-September 1994.
Principal Publications
Discourse, Dictators and
Democrats: Russia’s Place in a Global Process (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014).
“Discourse and strategic continuity from
Gorbachev through Putin,” Communist and
Post-Communist Studies 46 (2013), 123–135.
“Crony Politics in
Russia,” International Studies
Review 14, (2012), 324–330.
“When the Center Can Hold: The
Primacy of Politics in Shaping Russian Democracy,” Communist and
Post-Communist Studies 43, 4 (2010), 397-408.
“Obuchenie i demokratiia,” in Russian translation, in Uchitel’, pered imenem tvoim…:
Materialy Vserossiiskogo nauchnoi-prakticheskoi konferentsii
“Missiia uchitelia v proshlom, nastoiashchem, budushchem” 8-9 Aprelia 2010 goda (Nizhnii Tagil’, Russia, 2010), 7-13.
“Soviet Ethnic Policy and the Discursive Roots of Central Asian
Authoritarianism,” (Bloomington, Ind.: Center for Eurasian Studies, 2007).
“On a Cross-Cultural Resemblance among Certain Metaphors for
Political Power,” Politicheskaia Lingvistika
20 (2006), 9-20; in Russian in ibid., 21 (2007), 6-13.
“Discourse and the Export of Democracy,” St.
Antony’s International Review 2 (February 2007), 18-34.
“The Causal Power of Metaphor: Cueing Democratic Identities
in Russia and Beyond,” in Francis A. Beer and Christ’l de Landtsheer,
eds., Metaphorical World Politics: Rhetorics of Democracy, War and Globalization (East
Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State, 2005); reprinted in Russian
translation in Anatolii Chudinov and Eduard Budaev, Vvedenie v politicheskuiu
lingvistiku (Moscow: ,Nauka, Flinta, 2007).
“Why Did the Soviet Empire Collapse So Fast – and Why Was the
Collapse a Surprise?” in Bernard Grofman,
ed., Political Science as Puzzle Solving (Ann Arbor, Mich.:
Michigan, 2001).
Post-Communism and the Theory of Democracy, co-authored with M. Steven Fish, Stephen E.
Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder, Princeton, 2001.
“Metaphors of Dictatorship and Democracy: Change in the Russian
Political Lexicon and the Transformation of Russian Politics,” Slavic
Review, Summer 2001, 312-335; reprinted
in John E. Joseph, ed., Language and Politics (Routledge, 2010), vol. 2, 312-335.
“The Place of the Media in Popular Democracy,” Critical
Review (Fall 1998) 12(4):481-500.
“The Russian Anomaly and the Theory of Democracy,” Studies
in Public Policy Number 309, Center for the Study of Public Policy,
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland,
1998.
“Pragmatic Ambiguity and Partisanship in Russia’s Emerging
Democracy,” in Ofer Feldman and Christ’l de Landtsheer,
eds., Politically Speaking: A Worldwide
Examination of Language Used in the Public Sphere (Westport,
Conn.: Praeger, 1998).
“Going Public in Undemocratic Polities,” in Shanto Iyengar and
Richard Reeves, eds., Do the Media Govern? Politicians, Voters and
Reporters in America (Thousand Oaks, Ca.: Sage, 1997), 334-348.
“Speech and Democracy in Russia: Responses to
Political Texts in Three Russian Cities,” British Journal of Political
Science (January 1997) 27:23-45.
“Rhetoric and Rationality: A Study of
Democratization in the Soviet Union,” with Bernard Grofman, Public
Choice (1997) 93:287-314.
“Russian Constitution and Women’s Political
Opportunities,” in Wilma Rule and Norma C. Noonan, eds., Russian Women
in Politics and Society (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996).
“‘Look at All Those Nouns in a Row’: Authoritarianism, Democracy,
and the Iconicity of Political Russian,” Political Communication (April-June
1996) 13(2):145-164.
“Russia—Old Wine in a New Bottle? The
Circulation and Reproduction of Russian Elites, 1983-1993,” as third co-author
after Eric Hanley and Natasha Yershova, Theory
and Society 24 (1995), 639-668.
“Words Matter: Linguistic Conditions for Democracy
in Russia,” with Valery I. Chervyakov and Pavel B. Parshin, Slavic
Review (Winter 1995) 54(4):869-895.
“The Democratic Prospect in Russia,” Contention,
vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter, 1994).
Public Politics in
an Authoritarian State: Making Foreign Policy during the Brezhnev
Years (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell, 1993).
“Totalitarizm: kontsept ili ideologiia?” Polis (Moscow), 3, 1993.
“Explaining Self-Defeating Foreign Policy Decisions: Interpreting
Soviet Arms for Egypt in 1973 through Process or Domestic Bargaining
Models,” American Political Science Review, September 1992.
“Competitive Politics and Change in Soviet Policy toward the
Middle East, 1971-1972,” in Steven Spiegel, ed., Conflict Management in
the Middle East ( Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1992).
“Why Competitive Politics Inhibits Learning in Soviet Foreign
Policy,” in G.W. Breslauer and
P.A. Tetlock, eds., Learning
in U.S. and Soviet Foreign Policy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991).
“Questions of Evidence and Interpretation in Two Studies of Soviet
Decisions in the Berlin Crises,” Slavic Review, Winter 1983.
“Soviet Decision-Making
and Poland,” Problems of Communism, March-April 1982.
Miscellany
“Communist Parties,” International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2002), 2331-2334.
“Words of Liberation,” Northwestern Journal
of International Affairs vol. 3 (summer 2001), 67-77.
“On the Wisdom of Enlarging NATO,” UCLA Journal of
International Law and Foreign Affairs, 2 (Spring/Summer 1997), 1-23.
“The Defense Council, Succession Politics, and Soviet Military
Spending,” Proceedings of a Workshop on July 7 and 8, 1982, sponsored by the
Joint Economic Committee and the Congressional Research Service, Washington:
U.S. G.P.O., 1983.
Short Reviews
Review of Timothy Frye, Building States and Markets after
Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy, Perspectives on Politics 9,
4 (2011), 964-967.
Review of Herbert J. Ellison, Boris Yeltsin
and Russia's Democratic Transformation, Political Science
Quarterly (2007/2008) 122:689-690.
Review of Michael S. Gorham, Speaking in Soviet Tongues:
Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia, Journal
of Cold War Studies (2004-2005) 7:203-205.
Review of Tom Bjorkman, Russia’s
Road to Deeper Democracy, International Journal (2003-2004),
59:226-228.
Review of Neil Robinson, Russia: A State of
Uncertainty, Slavic Review (2003) 62:201-202.
Review of Arch Puddington, Broadcasting
Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, American
Historical Review (2002), 107:930-931.
Review of Stephen White, Russia’s New
Politics: The Management of a Postcommunist Society, Europe-Asia
Studies (2000) 52:760-762.
Review of Celeste Wallender, Mortal
Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War, Slavic
Review (2000) 59:472-473.
Review of N.A. Kupina, Totalitarnyi iazyk: Slovar’ i rechevye reaktsii, Canadian-American
Slavic Studies (1999) 31:487-488.
Review of James Richter, Khrushchev’s Double Bind, Political
Science Quarterly (1995) 110:141-142.
Review of Richard Ned Lebow and
Janice Gross Stein, We All Lost the Cold War, Slavic Review (1994)
53:1153-1155.
Review of Philip G. Roeder, Red Sunset: The Failure
of Soviet Politics, in Comparative Politics Newsletter, vol. v, no.
2.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
“Negation in the
(Co)-Construction of Political Identity by Rival Partisans in the Gosduma,” presented to “Ain’t misbehavin’? Implicit and explicit strategies in Eastern
European political discourse,” Conference held at University of Zurich Slavic
Department, October 20-21, 2013
Discussant, “The Politics
of Representation and Identity,” International Studies Association Annual
Convention, San Diego, California, 4 April 2012.
Discussant, “Political
Culture,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego,
California, 3 April 2012.
“Some Reasons for Skepticism about Political Effects of the Information Age,”
presented to International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego,
California, 2 April 2012.
Discussant, “Strategic
Narratives: Leaders and Strategic Communication in a New Media
Environment,” APSA Political Communication
Division Pre-Conference, “Power and Strategy in a New Communication
Environment,” Washington, DC, 1 September 2010.
Public Lecture, “The
Sources of War and the Prospects for Peace,” The Culture of
Peace, Soka Gakkai International,
Los Angeles, Ca., 28 August 2010.
Invited Lectures,
“Political Communication: International Scientific School for Junior Scholars,”
Yekaterinburg, Russia, 5-8 October, 2009: (1) “What Political Communications
Do”; (2) “Cues to Identity in Political Communications”; (3) “What We Can Learn
from Ancient Political Communications”; (4) “Communications in Democracy”
(lectures presented in Russian).
Invited
Lecture, Urals State Pedagogical University, 5 October 2009: “American Identity
and Policy toward Russia.”
Hammer Forum, “Reversing
the Deterioration of US-Soviet Relations,” Los Angeles, Ca., 5
March 2009.
Keynote Address, 14th Annual
Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, 31 March 2007: “Soviet
Ethnic Policy and the Discursive Roots of Central Asian Authoritarianism.”
Screener, International
Dissertation Field Research Fellowships, Social Science Research Council,
2005-2007.
Invited talk, “The 2004
Election: A Cognitive Science Approach,” UCLA Department of Political Science,
October 2005.
Invited talk, “Discourse
and Democracy in Russia,” Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies
Center and Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle,
Washington, 23 February 2003.
Invited
talk, “Discourse and Democracy
in Russia,” University of California Irvine, 2001.
“‘I did not have
sexual relations with that woman <pause, gaze averted> Ms. Lewinsky’: The
Iconicity of Democratic Political Speech in English,” presented to Third
Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 29-31 March
2001, Jena, Germany
Consultant, Soros
Foundation Open Society Institute, August 2000.
External
Examiner, Political Science Master’s Program, Moscow School of Social and
Economic Sciences and Manchester University, UK, 1997-2000.
“Metaphors of
Dictatorship and Democracy: Change in the Russian Political Lexicon and the
Transformation of Russian Politics,” presented to International Consortium for
Soviet and East European Studies, Tampere, Finland, August 2000.
Invited
talk, “Discourse and Democracy in Russia,” LISO,
University of California, Santa Barbara. October 8, 1999.
“Identity and
Information in a Senate Campaign,” with Shanto Iyengar, presented to the Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, 3 September,
1999.
Participant, Roundtable
on Neo-Institutional Theories and Post-Communist Evolution, Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, 2 September,
1999
“Metaphors of
Dictatorship and Democracy: Change in the Russian Political Lexicon and the
Transformation of Russian Politics,” presented to the Scientific Meeting of the
International Society for Political Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Amsterdam, July 1999.
“The Expansion of the
European Union and the ‘Russian Question,’” presented to Enlargement of the
European Union, a conference organized by the Center for European and Russian
Studies, UCLA,February 26-27,
1999
Rossiiskoe iskliuchenie k teorii demokratii, presented to the International Symposium
“Contemporary Development of Political and Sociological Sciences in the Context
of Russian and International Experience in the XXth Century,”
The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Moscow, Russia, November
27-28, 1998.
“The Russian Anomaly and
the Theory of Democracy,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6,
1998.
“Discourse and
Democratic Participation in the United States,” with Shanto Iyengar, presented
to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston,
September 3-6, 1998.
Chair and Participant,
Panel on “Preventing Deadly Conflicts in East and West Europe,” in
“Preventing Deadly Conflict Among Nations in
the 21st Century,” sponsored by Center for International
Relations, April 22-24, 1998, UCLA
“Political Speech and
the Emergence of Participatory Attitudes in Russia,” presented to Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, DC, August 28-31,
1997.
“Interlocutor Distance
and Democratic Participation in Russia: An Experimental Study,” presented
to Analysing Political Discourse, Aston
University, July 17-19, 1997, and to Scientific Meeting of the International
Society for Political Psychology, Krakow, Poland, 21-24 July, 1997.
“On the Irrelevance of
Culture to Politics,” presented at Third International Symposium: Dialogue of
Civilizations: West-East, Russian University of Friendship of
Peoples, Moscow, 2-4 April 1997.
“Encouraging Democratic
Participation in Russia: Pragmatic Ambiguity and Identification with Political
Speakers,” presented to Scientific Meeting of the International Society for
Political Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3 July 1996
Chair and Discussant,
Panel on Nationalism as Social Identity, Scientific Meeting of the
International Society for Political
Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1 July 1996
“Speech and Democracy
in Russia,” Invited Lecture at University of California, Irvine, 25
May 1996
“‘Look at All Those
Nouns in a Row’—Contestation, Inclusion, and the Syntax of Political Russian,”
presented to American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, September 1995
“Speech and Democracy
in Russia: An Experimental Result,” presented to American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 1993
“Women Legislators
in Russia,” presented to American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 1993
Participant, “Central
Asia in Transition,” sponsored by Duke University Center for East-West Trade, Investment and
Communication, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, May 22-30, 1993
Organizer, Institute for
Global Conflict and Cooperation conference on domestic politics of foreign
policy in the post-Soviet states, Monterey, May 1, 1993
Participant, Institute
for Global Conflict and Cooperation conference on regional security,
Laguna, February 27-28, 1993
Participant, Roundtable
on “Ethnic, Linguistic, and Regional Conflict and the Art of Constitutional
Design,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago,
September 1992
Commentator,
Whittier-UCLA Symposium on “Law and Economy after the Disintegration of
the USSR,” June 12-13, 1992
Participant, Conference
on “Central Asia in Transition,” sponsored by Duke University Center for
East-West Trade, Investment and Communication, Phoenix, AZ, June 1992
“Perestroika as Issue
Packaging and the Strategy of Democratization,” presented at “Rational Choice
Approaches to Comparative Politics,” University of California, Irvine May 22-23,
1992
Discussant, “Civil
Society in Post-Leninist States,” Trilateral Graduate Student Conference on the
Post-Soviet Era, May 14-15, 1992
Participant, NSF
Workshop on Political Economy of Former Communist States,
UCLA, January 17-18, 1992
“Perestroika: Socioeconomics
or Politics,” delivered at Conference on “U.S.-PRC Relations
in a Period of Global Transition,” June 3-5, 1991, Institute of East Asian
Studies, University of California, Berkeley
“Perestroika and the
Strategy of Democracy: Gorbachev in a Bargaining Game,” presented to Western
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 1991
Invited talk, Institute
of Sociology, Goteborg Universirty, Goteborg,
Sweden, October 1990.
Discussant, American
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September
1990
“Competitive Politics
and Change in Soviet Mideast Policy, 1970-1972,” delivered to Conference on
Conflict Management in the Middle East, August 1990
“Gorbachev in the Core,”
invited talk at the Department of Political Science, Washington University, St.
Louis, December 1989
“Discriminating Between
Internal and External Explanations for Foreign Policy: Soviet Response to
Escalation in Vietnam, 1965,” delivered at American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting,Atlanta,
September 1989
Participant,
“Publication and Dissemination of Laws in Comparative Perspective,” Conference
sponsored by Boalt Hall School of
Law, U.C.Berkeley, August 4-5 1989
“Soviet Policy in
the Third World: Learning or Adaptation?” delivered at Rockefeller program
conference, at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Ca., April
1988
Participant, 4th US-Korea
Conference on Security in Northeast Asia, Seoul, Korea, December
1985
“Military Influence on
the Andropov Succession,” delivered to the Section on Military Studies,
International Studies Association, Monterey, Ca., Dec.
1983
Moderator, panel on
Soviet defense spending, Kennan Institute, Washington, D. C., 1982
Discussant, panel on
Soviet interventions, Conference on Soviet Defense Decision-Making, Monterey, Ca., 1979
Member, editorial
boards, Studies in Comparative Communism, Comparative Politics
Newsletter, Politicheskaia Lingvistika.
Referee: Princeton
University Press, University of California Press, University of Michigan Press,
Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Columbia University Harriman
Institute, American Political Science Review, Political Communication,
International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, American Journal
of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Armed Forces and Society,
Studies in Comparative Communism, Slavic Review, Millennium Review, Demokratizatsiia, Nationalities Papers, Canadian Slavonic
Papers, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly
ASSOCIATIONS (Past or
Present)
American Political
Science Association
American Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies
International Society
for Political Psychology
International Studies
Association
LANGUAGES: Russian,
German, French, Dutch