Stephen E. Hanson

Stephen E. Hanson is the Lettie Pate Evans Professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary. ^[1]

In 1985, Hanson received a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and in 1991 a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. ^[1]

In 1998, Hanson's book Time and Revolution received the Wayne S. Vucinich book award from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. ^[1]

Books

• with Jeffrey Kopstein The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future (Polity, 2024) ^{[2] [3]}
• Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
• with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001) ^[8]
• Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1997) ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]}

Editor

• with Grzegorz Ekiert Capitalism and Democracy in Eastern and Central Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2003) ^{[13] [14] [15]}
• with Willfried Spohn Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies (University of Washington Press, 1995) ^[16]

References

1. "Stephen Hanson". William & Mary.
2. Ikenberry, G. John (February 25, 2025). "Two Books on Right-Wing Movements and the Regulatory State" – via Foreign Affairs.
3. Whimster, Sam (November 5, 2025). "The Assault on the State. How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein (review)". Max Weber Studies. 25 (2): 244–249 – via Project MUSE.
4. Waldner, David (July 1, 2011). "Book Review: Hanson, S. E. (2010). Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press" . Comparative Political Studies. 44 (7): 939–943. doi:10.1177/0010414011401245 – via SAGE Journals.
5. Gill, Graeme (October 5, 2011). "Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia. By Stephen E. Hanson . Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxvi, 274 pp. Notes. Index. Tables. ․90.00, hard bound. ․26.99, paper" . Slavic Review. 70 (3): 664–666. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.3.0664 – via Cambridge University Press.
6. Stephen E. Hanson. "Post‐Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post‐Soviet Russia".
7. "Reviewed Work: Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia". www.jstor.org.
8. Sakwa, Richard (April 10, 2003). "Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy. Richard A. AndersonJr. , M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder. Introduction, George W. Breslauer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. xi, 201 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. 19.95, paper". Slavic Review. 62 (1): 142–143. doi:10.2307/3090470 – via Cambridge University Press.
9. Siljak, Ana (November 5, 1999). "Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (review)". Journal of Cold War Studies. 1 (1): 119–122 – via Project MUSE.
10. Jr, Alfred B. Evans (September 10, 1997). "Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions. By Stephen E. Hanson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 258p. 18.95 paper". American Political Science Review. 91 (3): 762–763. doi:10.2307/2952136 – via Cambridge University Press.
11. Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (July 10, 1997). "Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions. By Stephen E. Hanson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiii, 258 pp. Bibliography. Index. 18.95, paper". Slavic Review. 56 (2): 368–369. doi:10.2307/2500818 – via Cambridge University Press.
12. Roeder, Philip G. (November 5, 1997). "Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions by Stephen E. Hanson" . American Journal of Sociology. 103 (3): 832–833. doi:10.1086/231289 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
13. Miller, W. L. (November 5, 2005). "Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule by Grzegorzs>EkiertStephen E. Hanson (review)". Slavonic and East European Review. 83 (3) – via Project MUSE.
14. "Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe". Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
15. White, Stephen (July 10, 2005). "Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule. Ed. Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi, 375 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. 30.00, paper". Slavic Review. 64 (2): 407–408. doi:10.2307/3649993 – via Cambridge University Press.
16. Nelson, Daniel N. (December 10, 1996). "Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies. Edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Wilfried Spohn. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 248p. 17.50 paper". American Political Science Review. 90 (4): 954–955. doi:10.2307/2945922 – via Cambridge University Press.