Stephen E. Hanson

Stephen E. Hanson is the Lettie Pate Evans Professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary.

In 1985, Hanson received a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and in 1991 a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2010) with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001) Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Editor with Grzegorz Ekiert Capitalism and Democracy in Eastern and Central Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2003) with Willfried Spohn Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies (University of Washington Press, 1995)