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John Medearis
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Office: Watkins 2226
Phone: 951-827-4345
E-mail: john.medearis@ucr.edu

John Medearis (Assistant Professor) received his Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles and joined the UCR faculty in 2001. His teaching and research interests include: political theory (especially modern and contemporary); democratic theory; social movements and policy; social science methodology and philosophy. Professor Medearis is the author of Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy, for which he was awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press (2000). His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review and British Journal of Political Science.