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Department of Political Science
Mailcode #9420
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420

Phone: (805) 893-3432
Advising: (805) 893-4192
Fax: (805) 893-3309

Lorelei Moosbrugger, Assistant Professor
Comparative Politics, Politics of Public Policy, Environmental Politics, Comparative Institutions,
European Political Systems

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Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2001
C.V.
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Lorelei Moosbrugger is a comparative institutionalist focusing on industrialized countries, with regional expertise in Europe. Her primary research agenda is concerned with how the structure of political institutions affects the quality of democracy.

Moosbrugger recently completed a book manuscript in which she details how different institutional designs either inhibit or promote the production of public goods in the face of concentrated costs. Her current research examines the relationship between party competition, information, and political sophistication.  She also writes on the role of institutions in ethnic conflict and the policy impacts of the institutional structures of the European Union.

Courses Taught:

PS 6 Introduction to Comparative Politics 
PS 144Western European Political Systems
PS 177Comparative Environmental Politics
PS 195Junior Honors Seminar
PS 251Political Representation
PS 594Special Topics: Comparative Political Institutions

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