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Jefferey Sellers

Associate Professor of Political Science

Contact Information
Office: VKC 317
Phone: (213)740-1684
E-mail: sellers@usc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae
Faculty Profile on Departmental Website
 

Education
J.D. Law, Yale Law School
Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University, 1994
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 2005-  
Associate Researcher, University of Bordeaux, France, 01/01/2002-  
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1999-08/31/2005  
Lecturer, Yale University, 01/01/1998-01/01/1999  
Research Affiliate, Harvard Center for European Studies, 01/01/1997-01/01/1999  
Consultant, University of Chicago, 05/01/1998-08/01/1998  
Lecturer, Boston University, 08/01/1997-12/01/1997  
Conant Fellow, Harvard Center for European Studies, 01/01/1996-01/01/1997  
Instructor, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany, 01/01/1994-01/01/1996  
Instructor, Yale University, 01/01/1993  
Research Assistant, Yale University, 01/01/1993  
Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 01/01/1989-01/01/1990  
Law Clerk, Judge Roger Robb, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Washington, D.C., 01/01/1985-01/01/1986  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Sellers' research interests focus on comparative politics with an emphasis on European politics, on urban and regional political economy, on multi-level governance and on environmental law and policy. His research agenda centers around comparative analysis of institutions and state society relations from the "bottom-up" perspective of cities and communities. Ongoing projects include the first systematic international database of local governance institutions, a comparative historical study of the role of urban regions in European and North American political development, collaborative international studies of contemporary metropolitan political transformations and urban environmental governance, and a study of efforts to create new alternatives for inner city economic development in downtown Los Angeles.
 

Research Specialties
Multilevel Governance and Federalism, Urban Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics, European Politics, American Politics, Environmental Policy and Politics
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization,http://www.cities-localgovernments.org/gold/
International Metropolitan Observatory,http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/sellers/IMO/IMOEnglish.htm
Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise,http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/bedrosian/
The Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Engineering Sustainable Cities Program,http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/ESPE/index.htm
USC GIS Lab,http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/gislab/
 

Publications

Book
Sellers, J. M. The De-Centered State.
Sellers, J. M., Kübler, D., Walter-Rogg, M. Political Ecology of the Metropolis.
Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Sellers, J. M. (2007). Politique et métropole: une comparaison Internationale. Paris: CNRS Editions.
Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Sellers, J. M. (2005). Metropolitanization and Political Change. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Sellers, J. M. (2002). Governing From Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 

Book Chapter
Sellers, J. M. (2008). Desalination Policy in a Multilevel Regulatory State, in Cesar Nava Escudero, Gerardo Hiriart Le Bert (eds.), Desalaction de agua con energias renovables. pp. 173-188. Mexico City: National Autonomous University of Mexico Press.
Sellers, J. M. (2007). North America, in United Cities and Local Governments, World Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy. pp. 232-251. Barcelona: United Cities and Local Governments.
Sellers, J. M., Hoffmann-Martinot, V. (2007). Metropolitan Governance, in United Cities and Local Governments, World Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy. pp. 255-279. Barcelona: United Cities and Local Governments.
Sellers, J. M. (2007). Unions and the Strategic Context of Local Governance, in L. Turner and D. Cornfield (eds.), Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds. pp. 35-52. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Sellers, J. M. (2005). Metropolitanization and Political Change, in V. Hoffmann-Martinot and J.M. Sellers, Metropolitanization and Political Change. pp. 425-443. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Sellers, J. M., Hoffmann-Martinot, V. (2005). Introduction: Metropolitanization and Political Change, in V. Hoffmann-Martinot and J.M. Sellers (eds.), Metropolitanization and Political Change. pp. 11-14. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Sellers, J. M. (2005). Metropolitanization and Politics in the United States: From Single Model to Multiple Patterns, in V. Hoffman-Martinot and J.M. Sellers, Metropolitanization and Political Change. pp. 53-78. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Sellers, J. M. (2005). Conclusion: The Metropolitanization of Politics, in V. Hoffmann-Martinot and J. M. Sellers, Metropoitanization and Political Change. pp. 425-443. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Sellers, J. M. (2005). The Europeanization of a U.S. Metropolitan Area? The Case of Portland, in F. Eckhardt (ed.), The City and the Region. pp. 55-75. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Sellers, J. M. (2004). Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl, in H. Richardson and C.H Bae (eds.), Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States. pp. 195-214. London: Ashgate Publisher.
 

Journal Article
Sellers, J. M., Lidström, A. (2007). Decentralization, Local Government and the Welfare State. Governance. Vol. 20 (4), pp. 609-632.
Huang, J., Lu, X. X., Sellers, J. (2007). A Global Comparative Analysis of Urban Form: Applying Remote Sensing and GIS. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 82 (4), pp. 184-197.
Bae, J., Sellers, J. M. (2007). Globalization, the Developmental State and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea: A Multilevel Analysis. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 31 (3), pp. 543-560.
Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Sellers, J. M. (2006). L'Observatoire international des métropoles: Pour une comparaison internationale de la gouvernance métropolitaine, in G. Marcou (ed.), Annuaire des collectivités locales. CNRS Editions. pp. 19-30.
Sellers, J. M. (2005). Re-Placing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics. Urban Affairs Review. Vol. 40(4), pp. 419-445.
Sellers, J. M. (2003). Transnational Urban Associations and the State: Contemporary Europe Compared with the Hanseatic League. Yearbook of European Administrative History. Vol. 15, pp. 289-308.
Sellers, J. M. (2002). The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis. Urban Affairs Review. Vol. 37, pp. 611-641.
Sellers, J. M. (1999). Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation. Journal of Urban Affairs. Vol. 32, pp. 95-112.
Sellers, J. M. (1998). Place, Post-Industrial Change and the New Left. European Journal of Political Research. Vol. 33(2), pp. 187-217.
Sellers, J. M. (1996). Norms in the Politics of Housing for Minorities. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 19(3), pp. 585-608.
Sellers, J. M. (1995). Litigation as a Local Political Resource. Law and Society Review. Vol. 29(3), pp. 475-516.
 

Working Paper
Sellers, J., John, P. Solving the 'Levels of Analysis Problem': Scalability and Local Autonomy in Comparative Politics.
Kitayama, T., Sellers, J. M. Central-Local Logics of Egalitarian Welfare State Development: The Case of Japanese Health Care Policy in Time.
Sellers, J. M., Kwak, S. Nested Hierarchies: Local Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the OECD.
Sellers, J. M., Latner, M., Ohanesian, L. The Metropolitan Political Ecology of the United States.
 

Honors and Awards
Co-founder and co-chair, International Metropolitan Observatory, 2003-2008  
Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization, 2006-2007  
METRANS Faculty Research Grant, 2006-2007  
USC Bedrosian Center Faculty Research Grant, 2006-2007  
USC Provost's Undergraduate Research Program, 2004-2007  
USC Provost's Urban Initiative, 2004-2005  
ACI-Ville Grant, French Ministry of Research, 2001-2005  
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Awarded to a junior faculty who shos unusual promise in the areas of research, teaching, and service to the University, 2003  
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching Fellow, 2001-2002  
USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Toward A Comparative Perspecive on the Politics of Sprawl, 2001-2002  
Haynes Foundation Faculty Research Grant, 2000-2001  
James Bryant Conant Fellow in German and European Studies, Harvard University, 1996-1997  
Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1990-1991  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Urban Affairs Review, 2004-2007  
 

Professional Memberships
Chair, APSA Urban Section Best Book Award Committee, 2005-2006  
 
 
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