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Jonathan Mendilow

Professor
  • Email Address: jmendilow@rider.edu
  • Phone: (609)896-5267
  • Office: Fine Arts 277
  • Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Recepient of the British Academy Award and a Fulbright Scholar. He has published extensively in political theory and comparative politics. His latest book, on Ideology, party Change and Electoral Campaigns, has been published by New York University Press. His research interests include Middle Eastern politics, political campaigns, and the problems of democracy in the age of the internet. He teaches such courses as Modern Democracy and its Critics, the Politics of the Middle East, Terrorism Revolutions and Political Violence, and Comparative Political Systems.

EDUCATION

  • 1980 Ph.D. (with distinction) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.  Dissertation:  The World of the Past and the Society of the Future:  Conservative Reaction to Industrial Revolution (supervisor:  Jacob Talmon).
  • 1976 M.A. (with distinction) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Political Science and International Relations.
  • 1973 B.A. (with distinction) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Political Science and International Relations.


EXPERIENCE

  • 1993-Present:  Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey - Professor
  • 1987-1993:  Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey - Associate Professor
  • 1986-7:  University of Southern California Los Angeles, California - Visiting Professor
  • 1985-6:  University of the Witswatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa - Senior Lecturer
  • 1979-85:  University of Tel Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel - Assistant Professor
  • 1980-85:  Joseph Saltiel College Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel - Assistant Professor
  • 1980:  Yale University New Haven, Connecticut - Visiting Scholar
  • 1978-80:  Joseph Saltiel College Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel - Instructor


ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • 1981-85 Joseph Saltiel College Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Chairman, Division of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts
  • 1974-77 Manager, Office of Public Relations, City of Jerusalem


AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2003  Rider University Summer Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid
  • 1998  Rider University Summer Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid
  • 1996  Rider University Summer Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid
  • 1992  Rider University Summer Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid
  • 1989  Rider University Summer Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid
  • 1983  British Academy Award in Political Science for best short piece of the year
  • 1980  Fulbright Scholarship
  • 1979  Lady Davis Grant
  • 1976  State Lottery Prize for MA Thesis
  • 1973  Dean’s List
  • 1972  Dean’s List
  • 1971  Dean’s List


PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Ideology, Party Change and Electoral Campaigns in Israel (N.Y., New York University Press, in press).
  • The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought (N.Y. Barnes and Noble, 1985; London & Sydney; Croom & Helm, 1986) 272 pp.
  • (editor).  From the French Revolution to the Rise of Fascism:  Readings in the History of  Political Thought (Tel Aviv, Dyonon, 1982) 211 pp.

Other Professional Publications

  • "Te Internet and the Question of European Identity: A Tocquerillian Approach," Studia Europeana (forthcoming).
  • “Uniqueness  and Similarity; 2003 and the Study of Israeli Parties,” Israeli Studies Forum (forthcoming).
  • “Public Party Funding:  Maine, Arizona, and the Lessons of Europe,” Guy Lachapelle (ed) Democracy and Political Party Finance (London:  Frank Cass, forthcoming).  Translated to French, (Paris:  Sorbonne Press, forthcoming).
  • “Past, Present and Future Perfect:  The Israeli Elections of 2003,” Comparative Politics (forthcoming).
  • "Public Campaign Funding and Party System Change:  The Israeli Experience,” Israel Studies Forum 19 (Fall 2003), pp. 115-123.
  • “The Likud’s 1999 Campaign and the Headwaters of Defeat,” Asher Arian, Michal Shamir, eds. The Elections in Israel 1999, (Albany, NY:  SUNY, 2002), pp. 197-220.  Hebrew version, (Jerusalem:  The Israel Democracy Institute, 2001), pp. 132-167.
  • “The Electoral Campaign of 2001 and the ‘Weak-Strong Prime Minister Syndrome,’” Israel Studies Forum 17 (Fall 2001), pp. 23-46.
  • “The Internet and the Problem of Legitimacy:  A Tocquevillian Approach,” Bosah Ebo, ed.  Cyberimperialism?, (Praeger, Westport, CT, 2001), pp. 43-64.
  • “The Effects of Public Funding on Party Participation:  An Hypothesis and Case Study, “ Stuart Nagal, ed. Handbook of Global Political Policy (New York:  Marcel Dekker; 2000), pp. 605-624.
  • “The Likud’s Dilemma - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” Asher Arian, ed. The Israeli Elections - 1996 (Albany, NY:  State University of New York Press, 1999), pp. 127-210.  Hebrew version, (Jerusalem:  The Israel Democracy Institute, 1999) pp. 233-262.
  • “What is Conservatism?-Some Signposts in the Wilderness,” Journal of Political Ideologies, 1 (December 1996) pp. 221-236.
  • “PPF and the Schemes of Mice and Men-The Case of the 1992 Elections in Israel,”  Party Politics, 2 (July 1996) pp. 329-353.
  • “Africa:  Politics and Government,” Kent Rasmussen (ed), Survey of the Social Sciences:  Government and Politics (Los Angeles:  Magil Books), 1996, pp. 20-28).
  • “Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Night of Ambiguity of Conservatism” Political Theory, 23 (February 1995), pp. 128-146.
  • “The 1992 Elections in Israel:  Valence and Position Dimensions,” Asher Arian and Michal Shamir (eds.), The Elections in Israel, 1992 (NY: SUNY Press, 1995)  pp. 207-235.
  • “Soviet Intellectuals and the Disagreement with Party Policy” F.N. Magill (ed) Magill’s History of Europe (Los Angeles: Grolier Corporation, 1995) pp. 17-28.
  • “Waiting for the Axe to Fall:  Carlyle’s Place in Study of Crises of Authority”  Political Research Quarterly XLVI (Sep. 1993), pp. 1-18.
  • “The Swing of the Pendulum: The Israeli Labor Alignment, 1988” International Journal of Middle East Studies 25 (Summer, 1993) pp. 241-259.
  • "Cycle of Legitimacy:  Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Collapse of the USSR” Collegiate Press monograph.
  • “Public Party Funding and Party Transformation in Multi-Party Systems” Comparative Political Studies XXV (April 1992), pp. 90-117.
  • “The Enacting of Israel’s Law of Return.” In M.L. Alonzo, Great Events from History vol. II (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992), pp. 832-837.
  • “Israel is Created as Homeland for Jews.”  In M.L. Alonzo, Great Events from History vol. II (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992), pp.761-766.
  • “Andrei Sakharov” F.N. Magill (ed) Great Figures of the Twentieth Century (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1991), pp. 2011-2026.
  • “Is Public Party Funding Neutral?” CRF Papers (1990).
  • “Party Financing:  Experiment and Experience.”  In H. Alexander (ed.) Party Finances in the 1980’s (Cambridge (UK), Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 124-153.
  • “Catch-All Tactics in a Divided Society: The Alignment’s Campaign.” In H. Penniman (ed.) Israel at the Polls (Washington, D.C.:  American Enterprise, 1989), pp. 14-32.
  • “Catch All Tactics in a Divided Society:  The Israeli Labor Alignment in the 1984 Elections” Comparative Politics X (July 1988), pp. 443-460. (Reprinted in Daniel Elazar, Samuel Sandler, Israel’s Odd Couple (Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 1990) pp. 42-68.)
  • “Federal Factions and Federated Host Parties:  Some Ideological and Structural Dimensions” Publius XVI (1986), pp. 113-132.
  • “Merrie England and the Brave New World:  Two Myths of British Imperialism” Journal of the History of European Ideas VI (1985), pp. 41-85.
  • “Carlyle, Marx and the ILP:  Alternative Routes to Socialism” Polity XVII (1984), pp. 225-247.
  • “The Transformation of the Israeli Multi-Party System.”  In A. Arian (ed.) The Elections in Israel (Tel Aviv, Ramot, 1984), pp. 15-39.
  • “Past, Future and Present Perfect:  Three Tenses of the British Idea of Empire” Australian Journal of Politics and History XXX (1984), pp. 209-223.
  • “Sartor Resartus as an Historiography” HSLA, XII (1984), pp. 26-45.
  • “Party Clustering in Multi-Party Systems:  The Example of Israel (1965-1981)” American Journal of Political Science XXVII (1983), pp. 64-85.
  • “Towards a Theory of Catch-All Extremism” Government and Opposition, CXXVIII (1983), pp. 68-87.  Reprinted in J. Hall (ed.) Rediscoveries (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986 pp. 7-27).
  • “Shelley’s Philosophy of Liberty” Libertarian Studies, VI (1982), pp. 169-181.
  • “Party Cluster Formations in Multi-Party Systems” Political Studies, XXX (1982), pp. 485-513.

Conference Papers

  • 2004 “Internal Conflicts and the Making of Foreign Policy; The Case of the Israeli Likud.”  Conference  of the Israeli Studies Association, Jerusalem, June.
  • 2003 “Internet Hate Groups:  A Tocquevillian Perspective.”  Conference of the New Directions of the Humanities Association, Rhodes, July.
  • 2003 “The Elections of 2003.”  Conference of the Israeli Studies Association, San Diego, May.
  • 2002 “Maine, Arizona, and the Lessons of Europe.”  Conference of the Executive Council of IPSA, Montreal, May.
  • 2000 “Party Funding and Party System Change.”  Paper presented at the IPSA Conference, Quebec, Canada, August.
  • 2000 “Cybern Imperialism and Legitimacy of Territorial Units.”  Paper presented at the Conference of the Association for Social Knowledge, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July.
  • 2000 “1999 Election and the Future of Israeli Democracy.”  Paper presented at the Conference of the Israeli Studies Association, Tel Aviv, Israel, June.
  • 1997 “Party Funding and Party Participation.”  Paper presented at the IPSA Conference, Seoul, South Korea, August.
  • 1996 “Party Change in Israel:  A Kind of one or one of a Kind?”  Paper presented in the conference on Israel in comparative perspective, Berkley, September.
  • 1996 “The Likud’s Dilemma in the 1996 Elections.”  Paper presented as the ISA conference, Boston, June.
  • 1994 “PPF and the Schemes of Mice and Men - The Case of the 1992 Elections.”  Presented at the IPSA Conference, Berlin, Germany, August.
  • 1994 “Valence and Position Dimensions in Elections.” Presented at the ISA Conference, Willow Grove College, June.
  • 1991 “Public Party Funding and Party Transformation.” Paper presented at the IPSAConference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July.
  • 1988 “Public Party Funding in Israel 1969-1988: Experience and Experiment.”  Paper presented at the IPSA council for Political Finance and Political Corruption.  Bellagio, Italy, June.
  • 1987 “Party Funding in Israel.”  Paper presented at the IPSA Council on Money and Corruption.  Bellagio, Italy, May.
  • 1987 “Is Party Funding Neutral?”  Paper presented at the IPSA Council for Political Finance and Political Corruption.  Mannagio, Italy, May.
  • 1986 “Some Problems in Crisis Research.”  Paper presented at the South Africa Political Science Association, Johannesburg, January.
  • 1985 “Nature and Nurture in Political Theory.”  Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August.
  • 1984 “The Middle-east:  Is it in Crisis?”  Paper presented at the British Political Science Association, London, August.
  • 1983 “The Logic of Multi-party Systems.”  Paper presented at the Israeli Political Science Association, Haifa, October.
  • 1981 “The Transformation of the Israeli Multi-party System.” Paper presented at the Israeli Political Science Association, Tel Aviv, October.