Alan S. Zuckerman is professor of political science and Judaic studies and director of the social science data center at Brown University. He has also served as Fulbright professor of political science at Tel-Aviv University and the University of Pisa and visiting research fellow at the University of Essex. Among his publications are The Politics of Faction: Christian Democratic Rule in Italy and The Transformation of the Jews as well as numerous articles on Jewish communities, the Holocaust of European Jewry, political cleavages, political parties, and electoral behavior.