Dr. Stephen Brooks

Professor

Email: brooks3@uwindsor.ca
Phone: 519-253-3000 ext 2352
Office: Chrysler Hall North 1138
Winter 2011 office hours: Email for appointment

Education
Ph.D., Carleton University, 1985

Courses taught
45-100 Introduction to Canadian Government and Politics (Fall 2011)
45-232 Government and Politics of the United States (Fall 2011)
45-288 Selected Topics in Current Political Issues
45-431 Seminar in Comparative Politics
45-434 Seminar in the Politics of the United States (Fall 2011)
45-514 Canadian Politics: Participation and Process

Research
Professor Brooks teaches in the areas of Canadian politics and American politics. His research interests include the political influence of intellectuals, political thought in Canada and the United States, foreign perceptions of American politics and public policy. His recent books include Six penseurs en quête de liberté, d'égalité et de communauté (with Alain G. Gagnon and James Bickerton, also in English as Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians), Canadian Democracy (6th ed), Understanding American Politics, and As Others See Us: The Causes and Consequences of Foreign Perceptions of America.

Principal publications
2012.  Canadian Democracy: An Introduction (7th ed.).  Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.

2009.  Transboundary Environmental Governance in Canada and the United States.  Washington, DC: Canada Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center (co-edited with Barry Rabe).

2009.  Understanding American Politics.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2006.  As Others See Us: The Causes and Consequences of Foreign Perceptions of America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2003.  Six penseurs en quête de liberté, d'égalité et de communauté: Grant, Innis, Laurendeau, Rioux, Taylor, et Trudeau.   Saint-Nicolas, QC: Les Presses de l'Université Laval (avec J. Bickerton and A.G. Gagon).  In English as
Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians (2006, from McGill-Queen's University Press)

2001.  America Through Foreign Eyes: Classic Interpretations of American Political Life.  Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.