Barbara Hicks

Barbara Hicks is an American political scientist with a focus on comparative politics. Her current research deals with contemporary politics in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the European Union, as well as the transition from Communist rule in Eastern Europe. Hicks is currently a Professor of Political Science at New College of Florida. Hicks has focused on transnational influences that affect the role of social movements as channels of citizen participation in the post-Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. The author of Environmental Politics in Poland: A Social Movement Between Regime and Opposition (1996), the first book to analyze the development of an environmental movement in Eastern Europe in both the final years of...