Jason Sorens
Jason Sorens, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at AIER. He is also Principal Investigator on the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas. Jason was formerly the director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College. He has researched and written more than 20 peer‐reviewed journal articles, a book for McGill‐Queens University Press titled Secessionism, and a biennially revised book for the Cato Institute, Freedom in the 50 States (with William Ruger).
His research is focused on housing policy and land-use regulation, U.S. state politics, fiscal federalism, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University at Buffalo and twice won awards for best teaching in his department. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.
Articles by Jason Sorens
Research Publications by Jason Sorens
Title: Globalization and Ethnic Discrimination
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Palmer House …, 2007
Title: Why are separatists more rebellious than other ethnic groups?
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 2007
Title: The cross-sectional determinants of secessionism in advanced democracies
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Comparative political studies 38 (3), 304-326, 2005
Title: Explaining Regional Ideological Differences
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portsmouth, NH, 2004
Title: Globalization, secessionism, and autonomy
Authors: J Sorens
Publication: Electoral Studies 23 (4), 727-752, 2004
Title: The political economy of secessionism: Regional responses to globalization
Authors: JP Sorens
Publication: Yale University, 2003
