Hahn, Jeffrey W. 1944-

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Hahn, Jeffrey W. 1944-

PERSONAL:

Born 1944. Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1966; Duke University, Ph.D., 1971.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Political Science, Villanova University, St. Augustine Center 264, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

City councilman, Radnor, PA, 1976-84; Villanova University, Villanova, PA, currently professor of political science. Moscow State University, visiting Fulbright professor, 1987; University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor, 1990-91. Served as a consultant for government and private organizations.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Villanova University, 1998.

WRITINGS:

Soviet Grassroots: Citizen Participation in Local Soviet Government, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1988.

(Editor, with Lev L. Kruglikov) Predstavitel'nye Organy Mestnogo Samoupravlenie v Sovremennom Mire (title means "Representative Bodies of Local Self Government in the Contemporary World"), [Yaroslavl, Russia], 1992.

(Editor, with Theodore H. Friedgut) Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 1994.

(Editor) Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 1996.

(Editor) Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl, Woodrow Wilson Center Press (Washington, DC), 2001.

Contributor to periodicals, including the British Journal of Political Science, Slavic Review, Post-Soviet Affairs, Polity, and Problems of Communism.

SIDELIGHTS:

Political scientist Jeffrey W. Hahn is the editor of several works on developments in Russian economics, politics, and social transition. In Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics, edited with Theodore H. Friedgut, Hahn offers a "collection of research on regional and local matters" that demonstrates continued academic interest in regionalism and stands as a "mark of growth in one of the disciplines which have survived the collapse of the Soviet Union," commented Peter Glatter in Europe-Asia Studies. In assessing the success of the book in terms of its general topic, Glatter concluded: "This is clearly a field in which there is no shortage of avenues requiring further investigation. The material collected here by Friedgut & Hahn is a key point of reference for such research."

Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions includes essays from authors who consider how post-Soviet development of legislative bodies in Russia contributed to the development of greater democratization. "Starting with the premise that legislatures are central to democracies, the book's essays focus on whether the experience of the first Russian legislature in the post-Soviet period demonstrates that the country was becoming more democratic," observed Terry D. Clark in the American Political Science Review. The contributors look at the Russian experiments with legislative institutions during the 1990 to 1993 period of the "First Republic," which includes the last year of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev's presidency and the first few years of post-Soviet politics. "Together, the contributors capture an extraordinary period that can instruct our understanding of Russian affairs, of legislative development, and the larger relationship between democracy and institutions," commented Daniel N. Nelson in Europe-Asia Studies.

Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl includes more material on regional issues in Russia. The book provides material on the Yaroslavl region by authors who are "well qualified to write on the subject of the region's political, economic, and social transition," according to Ronald R. Pope in Perspectives on Political Science. Though Pope observed that much of the material in the book was out of date, he concluded: "The effort to cover in detail the political, economic, and social development of a representative Russian region is most laudable."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Political Science Review, March, 1997, Terry D. Clark, review of Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions, p. 213.

Europe-Asia Studies, January, 1996, Peter Glatter, review of Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics, p. 156; July, 1997, Daniel N. Nelson, review of Democratization in Russia, p. 909.

Perspectives on Political Science, spring, 2003, Ronald R. Pope, review of Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl, p. 114.