FACULTY

Susan B. Hansen, PhD Stanford University, 1972 Professor of Political Science E-mail: sbhansen+@pitt.edu Curriculum Vitae

COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 1204 Women in Politics
PS 1252 State Government (to the papers)
PS 1261 American Public Policy
PS 1281 Seminar in American Politics (to the papers)
PS 2200 American Government & Politics

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

American Politics, economic policy, taxation, state and local politics, women and politics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Globalization and the Politics of Pay: Policy Choices in the American States. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

“Gender wage disparity in the Pittsburgh region,” (with Sabina Deitrick and Christopher Briem). University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research, 2006.

“A woman for U. S. president? Gender and leadership traits before and after 9/11” (with Laura Wills). Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy (March 2007).

Career and Location Decisions: Recent Pittsburgh-Area University Graduates, Report (with Leonard Huggins) of Career and Location Decisions Project, September 2001, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. On the Web at www.gspia.pitt.edu/CLDProject.

“The Impact of a Low-Wage Strategy on State Economic Development.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 1:3, pp.227-254.

“Governors’ Job Performance Ratings and State Unemployment: The Case of California.” State and Local Government Review, Winter 1999, pp. 167-188.

“Life is Not Fair: Governors’ Job Performance and State Unemployment,” Political Research Quarterly (March 1999).

“The Status of Women in the Pittsburgh Region: Economy, Politics, and Violence,” State of the Region Report 1999 (with Audrey Murrell and S. Laurel Weldon). University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research.

“Talking About Politics: Gender and Contextual Effects on Political Discourse,” Journal of Politics (February 1997).

“Targeting in Economic Development: Comparative State Perspectives” Publius (Spring 1989).

“Public Policy Analysis: Some Recent Developments and Current Problems” in Ada Finifter, ed., Political Science: The State of the Discipline (APSA, 1983).

The Politics of Taxation. Westport, CN: Praeger, 1983.

“Women’s Political Participation and Policy Preferences,” Social Science Quarterly (March 1976) 54,4:575-590.

“Participation, Political Structure, and Concurrency,” American Political Science Review (December 1975) 69,4:1181-1199.

OTHER PAPERS
Global6
A Woman for President (Word Perfect version) (MS-Word version)
ED $ Article
PRQ PAPER
JOP Article
APSA Jobs paper - tables and charts (zip file)

Bell article
Andrews article