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Nationality | American |
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Thesis | Politics, and Political Party Development in New Democracies: The Cases of Estonia, Latvia, and Czechoslovakia (1992) |
John Toaru Ishiyama (born 1960) is an American political scientist. He is a University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, and Chairperson of the Department of Political Science. He is also the Piper Professor of Texas at the University of North Texas. He studies comparative politics, particularly the party structure and democratization of Post-Soviet states, as well as the politics of Ethiopia. He is immediate past President of the American Political Science Association.