Judith Kelley


Judith Green Kelley is a Danish-born American political scientist.
Judith Green Kelley is Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and, since January 2018, Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She received her BA from Stanford University in 1995, her MPP in Public Policy from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government in 1997, and her Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University in 2001. She studies democracy promotion, human rights, and international influences on domestic politics. She is well known for her early work on conditionality and socialization, particularly the area of ethnic minority policies in connection with EU enlargement. More recently, she has pioneered research on election monitoring, producing new data and analysis that raises questions about its usefulness and effectiveness. Her newest work focuses on new tools of influence such as global governance indicators.

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