Charles Lockhart—Curriculum Vitae

I. Education


Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYB), February 1971.

M.A., SUNYB, February 1969.

B.A., Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, June 1967, magna cum laude.

II. Areas of specialization and teaching interests

Comparative American state policy with regard to elderly citizens.

Comparative social policy and comparative political culture (including American social policy and American political culture).

Political and social theory: theories of social organization, distributive justice, modern political theory and American political thought.

III. Recent publications

"Disparities in Medicaid Support For and the Quality of Nursing Facility Long-Term Care Across the States" (with Jean Giles-Sims). Pp. ???-?? in Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, editor, Inequalities and Disparities in Health Care and Health: Concerns of Patients, Providers, and Insurers. Vol. 25 of Research in the Sociology of Health Care. New York: Elsevier, 2007.

"Cross-State Variation in Conceptions of Quality of Nursing Facility Long-Term Care for the Elderly" (with Jean Giles-Sims), Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 19 (4/December 2000): ???-??.

"Explaining Cross-State Differences in Elderly Suicide Rates and Identifying State-Level Public Policy Responses that Reduce Rates" (with Jean Giles-Sims), Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 36 (6/December 2006): 694-708.

"Grandparents' Visitation Rights:  Using Culture to Explain Cross-State Variation" (with Jean Giles-Sims), Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 44 (#3-4, 2006); 1-16.

"Grid-Group Theory and Corporal Punishment" (with Jean Giles-Sims).  Pp. 55-69 in Michael Donnelly and Murray A. Straus, editors, Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical Perspective.  New Haven, CT:  Yale University Press, 2005.

"States Matter: State Variation in Elderly Friendliness" (with Jean Giles-Sims). NCFR Report 50 (3/September 2005): 3, 5.

"Variation in Elderly Friendliness Across the U.S. States: Operationalization, Rankings and Selected Consequences" (with Jean Giles-Sims). Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35 (3/Summer 2005): 1-23.

“Culturally Shaped Patterns of Disciplining Children” (with Jean Giles-Sims). Journal of Family Issues 26 (2/March 2005): 196-218.

The Roots of American Exceptionalism: Institutions, Culture and Policies. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

“American and Swedish Tax Regimes: Cultural and Structural Roots.” Comparative Politics 35 (July 2003): 379-97.

“Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights.” In Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan and Kavita Philip, eds., Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003.

American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, 2nd ed. (with Glenn H. Utter). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

Protecting the Elderly: How Culture Shapes Social Policy. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2001.

“Using Grid-Group Theory to Explain Distinctive Japanese Political Institutions.” East Asia: An International Quarterly 19 (Fall 2001): 51-83.

“Controversy in Environmental Policy Decisions: Conflicting Policy Means or Rival Ends?” Science, Technology and Human Values 26 (Summer 2001): 259-77.

“Political Culture, Patterns of American Political Development and Distinctive Rationalities.” Review of Politics 63 (Summer 2001): 517-48.

Culture and Politics: A Reader (with Lane Crothers). New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

“Parsing Disparate Implications of Moral Equality: Drawing on John Stuart Mill’s Contrasting Views. Journal of Contemporary Thought 10 (Summer 2000): 97-115.

IV. Recent grants

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Stipend ($3,700), summer 1999.

V. Selected recent professional and university service

Member, Western Political Science Association, Committee on Nominations, 2006.

Member, American Political Science Association Gladys Kammerer Award Committee, 2000-01 (selects the best political science book in the field of U.S. national policy published in 2000).

Member, Executive Council, Western Political Science Association, 1998-2001.

Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, Western Political Science Association, 1995-98; Committee Chair 1997-98.

Section Chair, Western Political Science Association 1998 annual meeting, Conference theme section: “Institutions, Political Culture and Civil Society.”

Editorial Board, PS: Political Science and Politics, 1994-98.