Charles L. Taylor
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science
531 Major Williams Hall (0130)
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
clt@vt.edu
Professor Taylor is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science.
Dr. Taylor's areas of research and teaching interest include cross-national political analysis, comparative politics, and Western European politics. His current research is a study of the entry of working men and women into the British political system between 1763 and the founding of the Labour Party in 1918.
- Cross-National Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Quantitative Indicators of Political Development
- Aggregate Data Analysis
- PhD, Yale University
- MA, Yale University
- BA, Carson Newman College
- Past Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science
- Past Chair, Department of Political Science
- Consultant to the U.N. Institute for Training and Research
- Consultant to the National Archives
- London Summer Program (1999-2008 Lead Faculty Member)
- University Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award, 2008
- Member, Academy of Advising Excellence, since 2008
- Alumni Award for International Outreach, 2011
Books
Why Governments Grow: Measuring Public Sector Size, Publication of the International Political Science Association (Beverly Hills, Calif.: SAGE, 1983). edited.
The World Handbook of Political Indicators IV, (Columbus, Ohio: Mershon Center for International Studies, The Ohio State University, 2012 – https://sociology.osu/worldhandbook) with J. Craig Jenkins, Marianne Abbott, Thomas V. Maher, and Lindsey Peterson.
Series on Founding Elections in Eastern Europe (with Hans-Dieter Klingemann): Volumes published for Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Albania, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Latvia and Estonia (1991-2012).
Journal Articles
“Early Presbyterians in Southwest Virginia,” Smithfield Journal, 12 (2010), pp. 1-20.
“Coalition Government Formation in Latvia,” Founding Elections in Latvia, 1993-1995, (eds.) Janis Ikstens and Andris Runcis (Berlin: Sigma, 2011), pp.143-159, with Dmitrijs Osipovs.
“Empirical Data for Theory Development,” Czech Sociological Review 48/6 (December 2012), pp. 1144-1149.
“Data Quality for Measuring Political Protest and Government Change,” All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2/2 (July 2013), pp. 23-30.
- Mershon Center grant, October 2000-March 2003, $14,933.
- Joseph J. Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic Studies, from the National Council on U.S.- Arab Relations, June 25-July 28, 1991.
- National Science Foundation grant to measure cross-national attributes for 1950-1985, $30,000, 1986-1988.
Featured Books
Select Media Mentions
Recent Academic News
News Stories