• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 1992, Political Science
• M.A., University of California, San Diego 1990, Political Science
• M.A., Bowling Green State University, Ohio 1986, Political Science

Markus M. L. Crepaz is a Professor of Political Science and the current Head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California, San Diego. He has widely published in the areas of corporatism, the impact of veto points on a variety of political and economic outcomes, Austrian politics, environmental politics, and how political institutions mediate the effects of globalization. More recently he has turned his attention to issues of immigration, identity and the viability of European welfare states. His research is centered on the question whether publics in modern societies are willing to continue funding the welfare state if they perceive that a large percentage of their tax money is going to people who are different from themselves. His latest work is centered on discriminating between types of interpersonal trust, such as primordial and cosmopolitan trust, the relationships between the two and whether they have predictable and systematic impacts on nativism, civicness, political participation, environmental attitudes, and the provision of public goods in general.

His research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, and the European Journal of Political Research. His Trust Beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies has been published by The University of Michigan Press in 2008. His best-selling European Politics Textbook, European Democracies, is in the 9th edition and published by Routledge. He has given invited presentations at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, at Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Lüneburg in Germany, and at the Science Center in Berlin, among many others. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Policy.

He is the co-director of the UGA Study Abroad Stellenbosch Program in South Africa. Summer 2017 will be the tenth year this program is in existence. This program contains an intensive service learning component in which students are exposed to the daily life of people in a poor South African township and are also active in a school that caters to the children of agricultural workers in rural areas.

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• Politics of Western Europe
• The Welfare State
• Immigration (Europe)
• Political development
• Comparative political economy
• European elections
• Comparative political institutions
• Austrian politics and economics
• Public policy (Europe)
• Electoral engineering
• Social Trust and Social Capital

• University of Georgia Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2017
• Selected as a CTL (Center for Teaching and Learning) Senior Teaching Fellow for 2014-15 academic year
• Winner of the 2007 School of Public and International Affairs Teaching Award, UGA
• Member of UGA Teaching Academy
• CTL Teacher of the Week (October 10, 2016)

• European Politics
• Comparative Political Economy
• Immigration, Trust, and the Welfare State
• Research Design
• Political Institutions and their impact on a variety of social outcomes
• Political Development

Books:

• Crepaz, Markus M. L. (2017) European Democracies. 9^th Edition,  Routledge.
• Crepaz, Markus M. L. (2008). Trust Beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State and Identity in Modern Societies. The University of Michigan Press.
• Crepaz, Markus M. L., Tom Kölble, & David Wilsford (eds)(2000).  Democracy and Institutions – The Life Work of Arend Lijphart. The University of Michigan Press.

Articles:

• Kolbe, Melanie and Markus M. L. Crepaz (2016). The Power of Citizenship. How Immigrant Incorporation Affects Attitudes Towards Social Benefits. Comparative Politics 49:105-124.
• Crepaz, Markus M.L., Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri, & Jon Polk (2016). What’s Trust Got to Do With It? The Effects of In-Group and Out-Group Trust on Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation. Social Science Quarterly: doi:10.1111/ssqu.12271
• Crepaz, Markus M.L., Ryan Bakker, Jonathan Polk, & Shane Singh (2014). Trust Matters: the Impact of In-Group and Out-Group Trust on Nativism and Civicness. Social Science Quarterly 95: 938-959.
• Crepaz, Markus M. L. & Regan Damron (2009). Constructing Tolerance: How the Welfare State shapes Attitudes about Immigrants. Comparative Political Studies 42: 437-463.
• Crepaz, Markus M.L. & Nicole Crepaz (2004). “Is equality good medicine? A curvilinear explanation of the impact of income inequality on longevity”.  Journal of Public Policy 24: 275-298.