Draft:Kenneth F. Janda
Political scientist and author
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Kenneth F. Janda (born November 14, 1935) is an American political scientist, author, editor, and retired professor.[1] He is recognized for his cross-national comparative analysis on political parties, research into the introduction of computers and technology into politics[2], and scholarly contributions to the study of the United States political system.[3][4][5] He retired in 2002 after 42 years working as a political science professor at Northwestern University, as well as holding roles as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Essex, and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.
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He is currently a Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northwestern University[4], and has continued publishing scholarly works such as The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire (2017), The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860–2020 (2022), an updated edition of The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, 16th Edition (2023), and The Democratic Evolution: From Slavery to Equality, 1828-2020 (2024).[6][7][8]
Early Life and Education
Born in Chicago on November 14, 1935, he first attended William Penn grade school until 7th grade, before his family moved into a rural area near Wilmington, Illinois and enrolled him into Moulton School.[9] Soon after, he transferred to Wilmington High School to complete his secondary education.[9]
He later attended Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State University) and obtained his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Education in 1957.[1][9] That year he moved to begin graduate school at Indiana University, where he studied political science and obtained his Ph.D. in Government in 1961.[1][9]
While at Indiana University he met his wife Ann Mozolak, and they married in September 2, 1961 right before moving to Illinois to start his new job at Northwestern University.[9]
Career
His teaching career began at Northwestern University in 1961, where he first served as an Assistant Professor before transitioning to Associate Professor in 1967.[1] In 1969 he received a promotion to Professor, a position he held until he retired in 2002.[1] That same year he received the status of Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus. While at Northwestern he held roles such as the Chair of Department of Political Science during the years 1973 to 1974 and 1980 to 1982, the Acting Director of the Vogelback Computing Center in 1982, and the Payson S. Wild Chair in Political Science from 1987 until his retirement.[1]
He served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1970 to 1971 as well as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Essex, Colchester, England in 1971.[1] In 1993 to 1994 he was also a Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (now Corvinus University of Budapest).[1]
Writer and Editor
Janda is a co-founder and previous co-editor of the peer-reviewed, political science journal Party Politics, currently published in SAGE journals and edited by Paul Webb.[10]
He has authored, co-authored, and edited a number of published books, textbooks, and articles. See: Selected Works.
Multimedia and Software
Janda helped develop the computer program IDEAlog alongside Dennis Hartman and Jerry Goldman in 1989, and the first version of the website IDEAlog created in 2001.[11][12] IDEAlog features 20 questions designed to determine the liberal or conservative ideological positions of the respondent on a certain subjects.[12] He won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1992 and 2005 for IDEAlog,[2][3] and the most recent version was released with the fourteenth edition of The Challenge of Democracy: Government in America in 2017.[11][12]
CROSSTABS is a program developed by Kenneth Janda, Jeffrey M. Berry, and Jerry Goldman in 1987, which features supplemental student handbooks written and published by Janda with both Philip Schrodt and David Wrobel.[2][13] This program uses crosstabulation to comparatively analyze the relationship between individuals' characteristics such as their demographics and voting record to their political actions and affiliations.[13] CROSSTABS won an award from Educom in 1987.[2]
Honors
Janda has received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service (2009) from American Political Science Association (APSA).[14]
Selected Works
Books
- Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-57: 1900-1963. Northwestern University Press, 1964.
- Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 1-62: 1900-1968. University Microfilms, 1969.
- Data Processing: Applications to Political Research. Second edition. Northwestern University Press, 1969. ISBN:0810102595.
- Political Parties and Their Environment: Limits to Reform?, with Robert Harmel. Longman, Inc., 1982. ISBN: 0-582-28299-3.
- CROSSTABS: Student Workbook for American Government. Third edition. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. ISBN: 0-395-72582-8.
- Cumulative Index to the American Political Science Review, Volumes 63-89: 1969-1995, with Richard Powell and Kristin Stehouwer. American Political Science Association, 1996.
- Party Systems and Country Governance, with Jin-Young Kwak. Paradigm Publishers, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-59451-932-1.
- The Social Bases of American Parties: Democrats and Republicans. Kenneth Janda, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-9888881-0-4.
- The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire. McFarland & Company, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4766-3118-9.
- The Republican Evolution: From Governing Party to AntiGovernment Party, 1860-2020. Columbia University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780231557160.
- The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, with Jeffrey M. Berry, Jerry Goldman, Deborah Schildkraut, Paul Manna. 16th Edition. Cengage Learning, 2023. ISBN: 9798214146195.
- The Democratic Evolution: From Slavery to Equality, 1828-2020. Revised Edition. Kenneth Janda, 2024. ISBN: 978-0-9888881-6-6.
Articles
- "A Microfilm Information Retrieval System for Newspaper Libraries," with David Gordon. Special Libraries, vol. 61. January, 1970. Pages 33-47.
- "Ecology of Party Strength in Western Europe: A Regional Analysis," with Svante Ersson and Jan-Erik Lane. Comparative Political Studies, vol. 18, no. 2. July, 1985. Pages 170-205.
- "Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on their Issue Positions." International Political Science Review, vol. 10 no. 4. 1989. Pages 349-370.
- "Teaching Research Methods: The Best Job in the Department." The Political Methodologist, vol. 10, no. 1. February, 1997. Pages 6-7.
- "Famine to Feast: New Books on Comparative Party Politics." International Politics, vol. 35. June, 1998. Pages 233-240.
- "Founding POP: The Origins of Our APSA Section." VOX POP, vol. 26, no. 3. Spring, 2008. Pages 1, 3.
- "Do Party Systems Matter?: Governance through Modern Political Parties." Harvard International Review, vol. 34. Spring, 2013. Pages 58-62.
- "More Slovaks in the U.S. than Czechs? Who Says? When and Where?." Slovakia, vol. 43, nos. 80-81. 2017. Pages 7-27.
- "Slovak Peasants in Hungry Prior to World War I." Nase Rodina, vol. 29, no. 3. September, 2017. Pages 114-119.
- "Chicago Czechs, Country Cottages, and the 1929 Crash: A Personal Story." Nase Rodina, vol. 32, no. 1. March, 2020. Pages 25-35.
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