Jerry F. Hough is the James B. Duke Professor

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 of Political Science

Political science

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 at Duke University

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. Hough has taught at Duke since 1973; he previously taught at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, and he has served as a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Hough received his A.B., A.M. and PhD from Harvard University

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Hough's research has focused on domestic American politics, the Soviet Union, the democratization of Russia and American efforts at nation-building

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Works

• Changing Party Coalitions: The Strange Red-Blue State Alignment, New York, Agathon, 2006.
• The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia, 1991-1998, Washington, The Brookings Institution, 2001.
• with Timothy Colton (eds), Growing Pains : The 1993 Russian duma Election, Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1998.
• Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991, Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1997.
• with Evelyn Davidheiser and Susan Goodrich Lehmann, The 1996 Russian Presidential Election, Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1996.
• Russia and the West: Gorbachev and the Politics of Reform, second edition, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990.
• Opening Up the Soviet Economy, The Brookings Institution, 1989.
• Russia and the West: Gorbachev and the Politics of Reform, Simon and Schuster, 1988.
• The Struggle for Third World: Soviet Debates and American Options, The Brookings Institution, 1986.
• The Polish Crisis, The Brookings Institution, 1982.
• Soviet Leadership in Transition, The Brookings Institution, 1980.
• with Merle Fainsod
  Merle Fainsod
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  , How the Soviet Union is Governed, Harvard University Press, 1979.
• The Soviet Union and Social Science Theory, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1977.
• The Soviet Prefects: The Local Party Organs in Industrial Decision-Making, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969.

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