{"id":1869,"date":"2026-04-09T13:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1869"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:42:38","slug":"robert-moser","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/speaker\/robert-moser\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Moser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Associate Dean for Instructional Technology and Facilities; Professor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Moser specializes in the study of electoral systems, political parties, ethnicity and elections, women\u2019s and minority representation, and Russian politics. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on democratization, elections, and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His articles have appeared in\u00a0<em>World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Post- Soviet Affairs<\/em>. His research has been funded by SSRC, IREX, and the Ford Foundation.<br><br>He is the author of\u00a0<em>Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia<\/em>\u00a0(2001) and co-editor, with Zoltan Barany, of\u00a0<em>Russian Politics: Challenges of Democratization<\/em>\u00a0(2001), <em>Ethnic Politics after Communism<\/em>\u00a0(2005), and\u00a0<em>Is Democracy Exportable?\u00a0(2009)<\/em>. His latest book, co-authored with Ethan Scheiner, is\u00a0<em>Electoral Systems and Political Context<\/em>\u00a0(2012)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1870,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1869","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Dean for Instructional Technology and Facilities and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Moser","speaker_classification":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1869\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}