William Missouri Downs
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American theatre director and writer
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Architecture
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#2019
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#338
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William Missouri Downs's Degrees
- Masters Directing University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Theatre University of California, San Diego
Why Is William Missouri Downs Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Missouri Downs is an American comedy writer, playwright, screenwriter, stage director, and author. Life and career William Missouri Downs started as an actor earning an MFA in acting from the University of Illinois, but a bout with viral encephalitis left him with a slight stammer and ended his acting career. So he moved to New York and studied playwriting at the Circle Rep Theatre under Lanford Wilson and Milan Stitt.
William Missouri Downs's Published Works
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Published Works
- Pariahs in their midst: Belgian and Norwegian parties react to extremist threats (2001) (170)
- Political Extremism in Democracies (2012) (70)
- Accountability Payoffs in Federal Systems?: Competing Logics and Evidence from Europe's Newest Federation (1999) (51)
- Political Extremism in Democracies: Combating Intolerance (2012) (51)
- How Effective is the Cordon Sanitaire? Lessons from Efforts to Contain the Far Right in Belgium, France, Denmark and Norway (2006) (48)
- Decentralisation, Governance and the Structure of Local Political Institutions: Lessons for Reform? (2010) (37)
- COALITION GOVERNMENT, SUBNATIONAL STYLE (2021) (35)
- MODELING PROCEDURES FOR PANEL ZONE DEFORMATIONS IN MOMENT RESISTING FRAMES (2004) (33)
- The 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections in Romania (2006) (24)
- Regionalism in the European Union: Key Concepts and Project Overview (2002) (21)
- Denmark's referendum on the euro: The mouse that roared ... again (2001) (13)
- Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective (2011) (12)
- The 2008 parliamentary election in Romania (2009) (11)
- Revisiting the ‘Moderating Effects of Incumbency’: A Comparative Study of Government Participation and Political Extremism (2009) (11)
- Social Democracy's Strategic Quandary: Responses to Immigration Challenges and Issue Capture in Europe (2011) (6)
- Out with ‘Rainbow Government’ and in with ‘Iraqgate’: The Finnish General Election of 2003 (2005) (5)
- Comparative Federalism, Confederalism, Unitary Systems (2011) (4)
- There Goes the Neighbourhood? The ‘Americanisation’ of Elections, with Evidence from Scotland's Parliament (2012) (4)
- The front national as kingmaker...again: France's regional elections of 15 March 1998 (1998) (4)
- Federalism achieved: The Belgian elections of may 1995 (1996) (3)
- Exit Interview (2012) (3)
- Modeling and Behavior of the Beam/Column Joint Region of Steel Moment Resisting Frames (2002) (3)
- Sub-National Legislatures (2014) (2)
- The Belgian general election of 1995 (1995) (2)
- El Parlament de Catalunya: A Model for Regional Assertiveness in the EU? (2003) (2)
- Constructing a New Scottish parliament for the ‘Europe of regions’: Can institutional engineering assure subsidiarity? (2000) (2)
- A project ‘doomed to succeed’? Informational asymmetries, euroscepticism, and threats to the locomotive of integration (2011) (2)
- Pariahs in Their Midst (2012) (1)
- State Formation, Nation-Building, and Mass Politics in Europe: The Theory of Stein Rokkan. Peter Flora , Stein Kuhnle , Derek Urwin (2001) (1)
- Ignore, Isolate, Co-Opt, Collaborate, or Ban? Mapping Strategic Responses to Pariah Parties (2012) (0)
- Incumbency Effects on Political Extremism: Revisiting the Moderation Thesis in Europe, Africa, and the United States (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- Ban the Bans, but Guard the Threshold? “Lessons” from Old to New Democracies (2012) (0)
- National Identity in Eastern Germany: Inner Unification or Continued Separation?Andreas Staab (1999) (0)
- Executive Decree Authority John M. Carey and Matthew Soberg Shugart, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. xii, 333 (1999) (0)
- Responding to Political Extremism without Succumbing to it (2012) (0)
- APSA-JPSA Exchange: Building Bridges from Boston to Matsuyama (2003) (0)
- Pariahs in Their Midst: Organized Extremism and the Problem of Tolerance in Contemporary Democracies (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (2003) (0)
- The European Union and the Member States: Cooperation, Coordination, and Compromise. Eleanor E. Zeff , Ellen B. PirroConstructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension. Lars-Erik Cederman (2001) (0)
- The Moderating Effects of Incumbency (2012) (0)
- Determinants of Democratic Defensiveness (2012) (0)
- Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe – By M. Berezin (2009) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- Is the Cordon Sanitaire Effective (2012) (0)
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