Kenneth Janda

Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus, received his PhD from Indiana University in 1961, joined Northwestern University's Political Science Department the same year, and retired from teaching in 2002. He taught in a variety of fields, but mostly in American government, political parties, elementary statistics, and computer methods. His books include Political Parties: A Cross National Survey, and Parties and Their Environments: Limits to Reform?  His co-authored American government textbook, The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, is used in hundreds of colleges across the nation and has been translated into Hungarian, Korean, Czech, Georgian, and Russian.  In 1995, Janda co-founded the international journal, Party Politics, which he co-edited until 2015. In 2000, he won a "Lifetime Achievement" award from the American Political Science Association for his research on political parties.  In 2005, he was a co-winner of the APSA Award for Best Instructional Software.  In 2009 he received the APSA’s Frank J. Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the profession. His most recent book was The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire (2018). He is now working on the 15th edition of the Challenge of Democracy, scheduled for publication after the 2020 presidential election.