Faculty & Staff
Spencer Wellhofer
Professor
Sturm Hall, Room 470
Phone: 303-871-4115
Email: ewellhof@du.edu
Areas of expertise/research interests
democratization, global political economy, Europe, political behavior
Professional biography
Spencer Wellhofer was associate editor of the Journal of International Affairs from 1964-1965 and a Fulbright Fellow in Argentina from 1966-1967.
He also was associate editor of Social Science Journal from 1987-1981 and served on the editorial board of Comparative Political Studies from 1980-2005.
While at the University of Denver, Wellhofer has served as chair of the Department of Political Science (1981-1992), chair of the Department of Economics (1987-1989) and as director of the European Studies Program (1991-2003).
Education
PhD, comparative politics, political sociology, Columbia University, 1971
MA, international affairs, Columbia University, 1965
BA, arts and letters, Pennsylvania State University, 1963
Recent Publications
Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885-1910. St. Martin's Press, 1996.
"Democracy, Fascism and Civil Society," in Rescuing Democracy: The Lure of the Associative Elixir, Sigrid Roteutscher, Ed. Studies in European Political Science, 2005.
"Votes and Votive Candles: Modernization, secularization, Church organization and the vote for the DC in Italy (1953-1992). Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming. (With Piero Ignazi)
"Dove vince La Lega" L'Expresso, 25 Marzo, 2010. (With Piero Ignazi)