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Education: B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor of Government
Joined Connecticut College: 1993
Specialization:
- German politics
- Comparative politics
- Western European politics
- Federal Republic of Germany
David Patton is Professor of Government. He is the author of Cold War Politics in Postwar Germany, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999) which explores the relationship between shifts in the Cold War and the emergence of new social coalitions and chancellor democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Drawing upon his first-hand experience in Berlin during 1989 and 1990, he has also published on German unification. In his current work, Patton places the success of Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in a comparative perspective by examining the rise of regionally-based protest parties in contemporary Europe and in the German past. He was a fellow of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin in 1997.
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