{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:05:27","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-full alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/files\/Anderson-dept-web-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My work concerns itself with the creation of a more just and humane society, focusing upon the role of average citizens in that process.  My research is on democracy and democratization, with emphases upon popular politics and social movements, elections and electoral studies, social capital and citizen empowerment and upon institutions.  With respect to geographic area, I do fieldwork in Latin America while my research is informed by the study of Western Europe and the United States. My primary research puzzle focuses upon the development of democracy, how and why it develops and why it fails or breaks down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/research\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-iframe\" title=\"Presentaci\u00f3n: 'La democratizaci\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s de las instituciones' de Leslie Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSDL-4IV_gw\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>PhD Political Science, University of Michigan, 1987<\/li>\n<li>MPH\u00a0Masters in Public Health, University of Michigan, 1984<\/li>\n<li>MA Political Science, University of Michigan, 1982<\/li>\n<li>BA Government, Bowdoin College, 1979<\/li>\n<li>Bilingual School for Language and Culture Training, 1980<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:landerso@.ufl.edu\">landerso@.ufl.edu<\/a><br>\nPhone: (352) 485-1971<br>\nMailing address:<br>\nDepartment of Political Science<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. Box 117325<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-7325<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/hobbies\/\">Hobbies<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/favorite-quotes\/\">Favorite Quotes<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/center>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/landerso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}