Gerhard Loewenberg, a Fellow of the American Ƶ since 2005, is University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus and director of the Comparative Legislative Research Center at the University of Iowa. Among his books are “Parliament in the German Political System” (1967), “Comparative Legislatures” (with S. C. Patterson, 1979), “Handbook of Legislative Research” (with Malcolm E. Jewell and S. C. Patterson, 1985), and “Legislatures: Comparative Perspectives on Representative Assemblies” (with D. Roderick Kiewiet and Peverill Squire, 2002). He is cofounder of the “Legislative Studies Quarterly,” the official journal of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association.
