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DEPARTMENT OF
POLITICAL SCIENCE

 
Professor Karl Kaltenthaler

Karl Kaltenthaler-Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science

Research Interests

Comparative politics, political behavior/public opinion, political extremism and violence, political economy, Europe

Karl.Kaltenthaler@case.edu
Mather House 111
Phone (216) 368-2424
Fax (216) 368-4681

Professor Kaltenthaler received his Ph.D. from Washington University in 1995. His research has centered on how publics in various countries think about issues such as political violence and terrorism as well as international and domestic policy issues such as welfare provision, privatization, economic integration, and trade. He has also studied how political and economic interests in various institutional settings around the world use their power to influence various policies. He is currently working on a series of projects on how terrorism and the U.S. "war on terror" are perceived in the Islamic world. He is also researching how publics around the world think about the government's role in the provision of health care.

Selected Publications:

The Politics of Policy-making in the European Central Bank (Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)

Germany and the Politics of Europe's Money. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998).

The Domestic Politics of German Unification, co-edited with Christopher Anderson and Wolfgang Luthardt. (Boulder,CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 1993).

"The Rationality of Radical Islam." with Quintan Wiktorowicz. Political Science Quarterly. Vol 121, No. 2 (Summer) 2006, pp. 295-325.  (Republished in Crisis in National Security: Can Terrorist Attacks and Nuclear Proliferation Be Stopped? Demetrios James Caraley, ed. (New York: Political Science Quarterly, 2007.)

"Explaining Individual-level Support for Privatization in Post-Soviet Economies." with Steve Ceccoli and Andrew Michta . European Journal of Political Research,Vol 45, 2006, pp.1-29.

"Explaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalization." with Steve Ceccoli and Ron Gelleny. International Studies Quarterly,Vol. 48, 2004, pp. 829-851.

"Managing the Euro." European Union Politics, Vol. 4, No.3, 2003, pp.329-349.

"Europeans and Their Money: Explaining Public Support for the Common European Currency." with Christopher Anderson. European Journal of Political Research. Vol. 40, 2001, pp. 139-170.