Political Science

Faculty

Robert S. Berg

Associate Professor, Political Science, received his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and J.D. degree from the Detroit College of Law. He is an advisor for the Legal Administration bachelor's degree and Legal Assistant certificate programs. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the UDM School of Law, where he teaches a course in commercial real estate. Berg was the recipient of the President's Award for Academic Excellence in 1995. He joined the University in 1985.

Donald Burkholder

burkholdr@udmercy.edu
(313)993-1089

Associate Professor of Political Science, teaches public administration, American Politics, politics and the media, and government and the economy. He serves as the University's Truman Scholarship representative and is a labor arbitrator and fact-finder primarily in disputes between local or state government and public employee labor organizations. His research interests include dispute resolution, organizational change, and structural-behavioral similarities between consolidating governmental units and institutions of higher education. Burkholder holds a B.A. degree from the University of Maryland, an M.A. degree from Kent State University and a Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University. He joined the University in 1976.

Stephen Manning

mannings@udmercy.edu
(313)993-1087

Associate Professor of Political Science, teaches comparative and international politics and political theory. Manning's research focuses on political transitions and democratization in communist and post-communist countries. He has written on the cultural, social and economic prerequisites of democracy in Leninist systems, Chinese politics after Deng, contemporary Russian Elections, a bibliographic essay on political fiction, and is currently completing a comparative politics text for the National Science Foundation. Manning holds a B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the University in 1993.

Victoria L. Mantzopoulos

armstrov@udmercy.edu
(313)993-1056

Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, teaches statistics, American government, public policy, and undergraduate law. Mantzopoulos' publications and professional presentations both here and abroad have dealt with public opinion polling. She has published a textbook titled Statistics for the Social Sciences. She is currently doing research in the area of public opinion polling and the relationship between bureaucratization and democratization. Mantzopoulos began her academic career at the University of Athens in Greece. She holds a B.A. degree from Ball State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Wayne State University. She joined the University in 1986.