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August 2013
Curriculum Vitae
Terry D. Clark
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science Phone: (402) 280-4712
Creighton University Fax: (402) 280-4731
Omaha, NE 68178 E-Mail:
Education:
B.S., United States Military Academy (Phi Beta Kappa)
A.M., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Phi Beta Kappa)
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Phi Beta Kappa)
Professional Experience:
Editor, Journal of Baltic Studies, 2010-present.
Professor of Political Science, Creighton University, 2002-present
Director, Graduate Program in International Relations, Creighton University, 1998-present
Associate Professor of Political Science, Creighton University, 1997-2002
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Creighton University, 1993-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992-1993
Courses Taught:
Comparative politics (introductory and graduate seminar)
Epistemology of political science
Research Design and Analysis
Games and Methods
International relations theory (undergraduate and graduate)
International political economy
International regime theory
War and conflict
The War on Terror: Neoconservative Thinking
The new institutionalism
Democratization
Russian politics
East European politics
Senior thesis
Languages:
Russian
Lithuanian
Spanish
Publications:
Books:
Linear Models in the Mathematics of Uncertainty, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, (2012), co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Mark J. Wierman, Alex Pham, and Michael A. Redmond.
Applying Fuzzy Mathematics to Formal Modeling in Comparative Politics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008, co-authored with Jennifer M. Larson, John N. Mordeson, Joshua D. Potter, and Mark J. Wierman.
Changing Attitudes toward Economic Reform during the Yeltsin Era, Westwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing, Inc., 2003, co-authored with Ernest Goss and Larisa Kosova.
Beyond Post-Communist Studies: Political Science and the New Democracies of Europe, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002.
Unity or Separation: Center-Periphery Relations in the Former Soviet Union, Westwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing, Inc., 2001, co-edited with Daniel R. Kempton.
Guest Editor:
Special Issue: The Democratic Consolidation of Lithuania’s State Institutions, Journal of Baltic Studies 32, no. 2 (2001): 125-192.
Articles:
“Parliamentary Government and Deputy Behavior: A Social Network Approach,” Journal of East European and East Asian Studies 3, no. 1 (2012): 101-126, co-authored with Carly A. Goodman and Andrius Tekorius.
"Assessing Policy Stability in Iraq: A Fuzzy Approach to Modeling Preferences,” Public Choice 151, nos. 3-4 (2012): 409-423, co-authored with Peter C. Casey, Mark J. Wierman, Michael B. Gibilisco, and John N. Mordeson.
“The Uncovered Set and Indifference in Spatial Models: A Fuzzy Set Approach,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems 168, no. 1 (2010): 89-101, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Nicholas R. Miller, Peter C. Casey, and Michael B. Gibilisco.
“Post-Communist Successor Parties: The Lithuanian Case,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 41, no. 4 (2008): 443-464, co-authored with Jovita Pranevičiūte.
“Electoral Mandate and Party Cohesion: Does It Matter in Lithuania?” The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 24, no. 3 (2008): 317-337, co-authored with Žilvinas Martinaitis and Ramūnas Dilba.
“’Keeping Tabs’ on Coalition Partners”: A Theoretically Salient Case Study of Lithuanian Coalitional Governments.” Europe-Asia Studies 60, no. 4 (2008): 631-642, co-authored with Diana Jurgelevičiūtė.
“Extension of the Portfolio Allocation Model to Surplus Majority Governments: A Fuzzy Approach,” Public Choice 134, no. 3-4 (2008): 179-199, co-authored with Jennifer M. Larson, John N. Mordeson, and Mark J. Wierman.
“Committee Systems in Post-Communist Legislatures: A Case Study of the Lithuanian Seimas,” Europe-Asia Studies 58, no. 5 (2006): 731-750, co-authored with Eglė Verseckaitė.
“PaksasGate: Lithuania Impeaches a President,” Problems of Post-Communism 52, no. 3 (2005): 16-24, co-authored with Eglė Verseckaitė.
“Presidentialism and the Effect of Electoral Law in Post-Communist Systems: Regime Type Matters,” Comparative Political Studies 38, no. 2 (2005): 171-188, co-authored with Jill Wittrock.
"Explaining the 2000 Lithuanian Parliamentary Elections: An Application of Contextual and New Institutional Approaches," Slavic Review 62, no. 3 (2003): 548-569, co-authored with Nerijus Prekevičius.
"Economic Well-Being and Popular Support for Market Reform in Russia," Economic Development and Cultural Change 51, no. 3 (2003): 753-768, co-authored with Ernie Goss and Larisa Kosova.
“Introduction: The Democratic Consolidation of Lithuania’s State Institutions,” Journal of Baltic Studies 32, no. 2 (2001): 125-140.
“Lithuanian Entry into NATO: A Game Theoretic Approach,” Lithuanian Foreign Policy Review 1, no. 5 (2000): 161-178.
“Privatization and Democratization in Lithuania: A Case Study of Who Benefits in Siauliai,” Policy Studies Journal 28, no. 1 (2000): 134-151.
“The LDLP Faction in the Lithuanian Seimas, 1992-1996,” Nationalities Papers 27, no. 2 (1999): 227-246, co-authored with Stacy J. Holscher and Lisa Hyland.
“The 1996 Elections to the Lithuanian Seimas and Their Aftermath,” Journal of Baltic Studies 29, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 135-148.
“In Defense of Primordialism: The Lithuanian Case,” Politologija 98, no.1 (1998): 124-141.
“Subjective Evaluation of the Economy and Support for Reform in Russia,” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, no. 5 (1998): 43-49, co-authored with Larisa B. Kosova.
“Who Rules Siauliai? A Case Study of an Emerging Urban Regime,” Slavic Review 56, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 101-122.
“Voting Patterns in the Russian Federation Council,” The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 11, no. 4 (December 1995): 372-383.
“The Zhirinovsky Electoral Victory: Antecedents and Aftermath,” Nationalities Papers 23, no. 4 (December 1995): 767-778. .
"The Lithuanian Political Party System: A Case Study of Democratic Consolidation," EEPS: Eastern European Politics and Societies 9, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 41-62.
"Coalitional Behavior in the Lithuanian Parliament: The First Four Years," Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 3, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 61-75.
"The Russian Elections: Back to Square One?" PS: Political Science and Politics 27, no. 3 (September 1994): 520-524.
"Coalition Realignment in the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania and the Fall of the Vagnorius Government," Journal of Baltic Studies 24, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 53-66.
"A House Divided: A Roll-call Analysis of the First Session of the Moscow City Soviet," Slavic Review 51, no. 4 (Winter 1992): 674-690.
"State-Society Relations in the Soviet Union: A Model of Demokratizatsiia," Crossroads: An International Socio-Political Journal, no. 28 (1989): 63-74.
Fuzzy Mathematics Articles:
“A Fuzzy Mathematical Model of Political Stability,” The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics 21, no. 2 (2013): 427-444, co-authored with Michael B. Gibilisco, John N. Mordeson, and D.S. Malik.
“Fuzzy Strict Preferences and Fuzzy Cores,” Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems 13, no. 2 (2013): 127-142, co-authored with Lance Nielsen John N. Mordeson.
“Representing Thick Indifference in Spatial Models,” Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems 12, no. 2 (2012): 79-91, co-authored with John N. Mordeson.
“Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Fuzzy Arrow’s Theorem,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 8, no. 2 (2012): 219-237, co-authored with John N. Mordeson and Michael B. Gibilisco.
“Fuzzy Black’s Median Voter Theorem: Examining the Structure of Fuzzy Rules and Strict Preference,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 8, no. 2 (2012): 195-217, co-authored with Michael B. Gibilisco and John N. Mordeson.
“Economic Freedom Ranking of 171 Countries in Year 2009: A Weighted Average Approach,” The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, 19, no. 4 (2011): 895-906, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Hilary C. Wething, Michel L. Mallenby, and Douglas W. Mallenby.
“Failed State Ranking of 177 Countries in Year 2009: A Weighted Average Approach,” The Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics 19, no. 4 (2011): 975-987, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Nelson C. Fong, and Alex Pham.
“A Mathematical Model of Smart Power,” Annals of Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Systems 1, no. 1 (2011): 19-38, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Carly Goodman, and Alex Pham.
“A Fuzzy Mathematical Model of Cooperative Threat Reduction,” Advances in Fuzzy Sets and Systems 6, no. 2 (2010): 153-168, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Mark Wierman, and Alex Pham.
“A Consideration of Different Definitions of Fuzzy Covering Relations,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 6, no. 3 (2010): 247-259, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Michael B. Gibilisco, and Peter C. Casey.
“The existence of a majority rule maximal set in arbitrary n-dimensional spatial models, New Mathematics and Natural Computation 6, no. 3 (2010): 261-274, co-authored with John N. Mordeson.
“A Fuzzy Mathematical Model of Nuclear Stability,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 6, no. 2 (2010): 119-140, co-authored with John N. Mordeson and Hilary C. Wething.
“The Core in Fuzzy Spatial Models,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 6, no.1 (2010): 17-29, co-authored with John N. Mordeson.
“Single Peaked Fuzzy Preferences in One-Dimensional Models: Does Black’s Median Voter Theorem Hold?” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 6, no. 1 (2010): 1-16, co-authored with John N. Mordeson and Lance Nielsen.
“Fuzzy Arrow’s Theorem,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 5, no.2 (2009): 371-383, co-authored with John N. Mordeson.
“Determining the Causes of Democratic Consolidation: A Consideration of Several Fuzzy Methods,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 5, no. 2 (2009): 353-369, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Adam Karnik, Jacob Moore, and Mark J. Wierman.
“The Rationality of Fuzzy Choice Functions,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 4, no. 3 (2008): 309-327, co-authored with John N. Mordeson and K.R. Bhutani.
“Choice Functions and Upper Choice Functions.” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 4, no. 2 (2008): 177-190, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Jennifer M. Larson, and Mark J. Wierman.
“An Inductive Approach to Determining Causality in Comparative Politics: A Fuzzy Set Alternative,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 3, no. 2 (2007): 191-207, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Mark J. Wierman, Jennifer M. Larson, and Adam D. Grieser.
“Specifying Theories in Comparative Politics: Toward a More Thoroughly Deductive Approach,” New Mathematics and Natural Computation 3, no. 2 (2007): 165-189, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Mark J. Wierman, Jennifer M. Larson, and Adam D. Grieser.
Book Chapters:
“Lithuania,” in Dieter Nohlen and Philip Stöver, eds., Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010, co-authored with Dovilė Jakniūnaitė.
“Nationalism in Independent Lithuania: New Approaches for the Nation of ‘Innocent Sufferers’,” in Lowell W. Barrington, ed., pp. 162-186, After Independence: Nationalism in Post-Colonial and Post-Communist States, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
“Privatization and Democratization in Lithuania: A Case Study of Who Benefits in Siauliai,” in Joel Moses, ed., Dilemmas in Post-Communist Countries, Burnham Inc., Publishers, 2003.
"The Effect of Changes to the Electoral Law in Premier-Presidential Systems: The Lithuanian Case," in Algimantas Jankauskas, ed., Lithuanian Political Science Yearbook 2000, Institute of International Relations and Political Science: Vilnius, 2001, co-authored with Nerijus Prekevičius.
“The Case for Theory,” in Raimundas Lopata and Nortautas Statkus, eds., Teaching International Relations after Cold War, Vilnius: Vilnius University, 2000, pp. 74-78.
"The Year of the President," in Peter Rutland, ed., Holding the Course: Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1998, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000, pp. 123-129, with Andrea Adams.
“Lithuania Beyond the Return of the ‘Left’” in Charles Bukowski and Barnabas Racz, eds., Beyond the Return of the Left in Post-Communist States, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999, pp. 35-58, co-authored with Robin M. Tucker.
Other Publications:
“A Fuzzy Mathematical Model of Political Stability II,” Critical Review 6 (2012): 15-30, co-authored with Michael B. Gibilisco, Annie M. Gowen, Michael A. Redmond, Davender S. Malik, and John N. Mordeson.
“Causality: A Future Direction For Mathematics Of Uncertainty,” Critical Review 5 (2011): 61-83, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Beverly Doyle, and Lynn Olson.
“Fuzzy Geometry: Applied to Comparative Politics,” Critical Review 2 (2008): 1-12, co-authored with John N. Mordeson, Lance Nielsen, and Mark J. Wierman.
“Applying Fuzzy Mathematics to Political Science: What Is to Be Done?” Critical Review 2 (2008): 13-19, co-authored with John N. Mordeson.
“U.S. Foreign Policy in the Aftermath of the 2006 Congressional Elections: Neoconservatism and Its Opponents,” Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review 2007, Vilnius (2008): 9-24.
“Applying Fuzzy Logic to Comparative Politics: A Proposal,” Critical Review 1 (2007): 19-23, co-authored with Jennifer M. Larson, John N. Mordeson, and Mark J. Wierman.
“Lithuania,” in Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture," Richard Frucht, ed. Vol. I, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
“’PaksasGate’: Lithuania Again Leads the Way,” European Rim and Policy Investment Council (March 2004). Online, Internet, 21 March 2004. Available: http://www.erpic.org/perihelion/wps.htm#1. Co-authored with Egle Verseckaite.
“Lithuania 2002: A Year of Big Developments," Transitions Online, Country Files: Lithuania: Annual Report 2002. Online, Internet, 1 May 2003. Available http://www.tol.cz. Co-authored with Grazvydas Jasutis.
"Lithuania's Commitment to NATO: Explaining a Baltic Paradox," Russia and Eurasia Review, vol. 2, issue 7 (1 April 2003). Online, Internet, 1 April 2003. Available: http://russia.jamestown.org/pubs/view/rer_002_007_004.htm. Co-authored with Grazvydas Jasutis.
“Future prospects for Lithuania following the surprise victory of Rolandas Paksas,” European Rim and Policy Investment Council (3 February 2003). Online, Internet, 3 February 2003. Available: http://www.erpic.org/LithuaniaafterPaksasvictory.html. Co-authored with Kestutis Paulauskas.
“When Oil and Politics Mix: The Privatization of Lithuania’s Oil Industry,” Russia and Eurasia Review, vol. 1, issue 13 (3 December 2002). Online, Internet, 3 December 2002. Available: http://russia.jamestown.org/pubs/view/rer_001_013_004.htm. Co-authored with Kestutis Paulauskas.
“Lithuania 2001: A Steady Course,” Transitions Online, Country Files: Lithuania: Annual Report 2001. Online, Internet, 24 September 2002. Available http://www.tol.cz. Co-authored with Dovile Jakniunaite.
“The Durability of Lithuania’s Ruling Coalition,” Tiltas 2, no. 2 (September 2001): 28-33. Co-authored with Nerijus Prekevičius.
"Political Turmoil within Institutional Stability,” Transitions Online, Country Files: Lithuania: Annual Report 2000. Online, Internet, 3 June 2001. Available http://archive.tol.cz/frartic/litar00.html. Co-authored with Nerijus Prekevičius.
“Lithuanian Politics: Implications of the Parliamentary Elections,” Analysis of Current Events 13, no. 1 (February 2001): 1, 3-5. Co-authored with Nerijus Prekevičius.
“First We Take Vilnius, Then We Take Palm Beach,” Central European Review, Online, Internet, 27 November 2000. Available http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/prekevicius41.html with Nerijus Prekevičius.
"Shifting Party Sands: Forecasting Lithuania's Political Future," Central European Review, Online, Internet, 18 July 2000. Available http://www.ce-review.org/00/27/prekevicius27.html, with Nerijus Prekevičius.
"A Year of Political Turmoil," Transitions Online, Country Files: Lithuania: Annual Report 1999. Online, Internet. 1 May 2000. Available http://www.tol.cz/countries/litar99.html, with Brian Bartels.
“Russkie v Litve” (Russians in Lithuania), Ekonomicheskie I sotsial’nye permeny: monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniia, no. 2 (March/April 1997): 22-25
“Primordial and Minority Pressures in Lithuania,” Studies in Public Policy, Centre for the Study of Public Policy no. 285 (Glasgow, 1997).
“Free Trade Zone Project Brings Out Regional Rivalries,” Transition 2, no. 16 (9 August 1996): 52-55.
“A New Grass-Roots Partnership,” Transition: Events and Issues in the Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe 1, no. 3 (15 March 1995): 34-35.