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The social bases of political parties: A new measure and survey. Gary Marks, David Attewell, Liesbet Hooghe, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen. British Journal of Political Science (online first, Feb 2022) || https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123421000740 || Replication data.
Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999-2019. Seth Jolly, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Jonathan Polk, Jan Rovny, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudova, Electoral Studies, 75 (online first, Nov 2021) || https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102420 || Supplementary appendix || www.chesdata.eu Contesting Covid: The ideological bases of partisan responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic, with Jan Rovny, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Jonathan Polk, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudova, European Journal of Political Research (online first, Jan 2022) || https://doi.org//10.1111/1475-6765.12510 || Replication data.
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Gary Marks is Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He was educated in England and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 2010 he was awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) for his contributions to political science and received of a €2.5 million Advanced European Research Council grant (2010-2015). In 2017 he was recipient of the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award of the APSA. He co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies and EU Center of Excellence in 1994 and 1998, respectively, and served as Director until 2006. Marks has had fellowships and visiting professorships at the VU Amsterdam, the Free University of Berlin, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Pompeu Fabra, the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Sciences Po, Konstanz University, McMaster University, the University of Twente, and was National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
From 2021 through 2025, Gary is co-leading with Liesbet Hooghe an advanced European Research Council grant on political polarization in Western societies, hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI, Florence.
His research and teaching are chiefly in comparative politics, multilevel governance, and measurement. Marks has published in the leading journals of political science and sociology. His (co-)authored books include Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Princeton, 1989), Multi-Level Governance and European Integration (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States (Norton, 2001); European Integration and Political Conflict (CUP, 2004), The Rise of Regional Authority: A Comparative Study of 42 Democracies (Routledge, 2010), and four volumes that set out a postfunctionalist theory of multilevel governance: Measuring Regional Authority (OUP, 2016); Community, Scale and Regional Governance (OUP, 2016); Measuring International Authority (OUP, 2017); and A Theory of International Organization (OUP, 2019).
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