Professor
Ph.D, University of Iowa, 2001
Bryon Moraski’s research and teaching focus primarily on the comparative study of political institutions and elections. His latest book, Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine, leverages political developments in Russia and Ukraine to analyze the effects of major electoral system changes on the behavior of parties and legislators in countries with diverging regime trajectories. In The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime (2017), he and Bill Reisinger use electoral politics at the national and subnational levels to understand the resurgence of authoritarianism in Russia. In Elections by Design (2006), Moraski examined the origins of subnational legislative electoral systems in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union.