Gary Marks

About

Gary Marks is the Burton Craige Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Senior Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He was educated in England and earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Marks has been recognized for his significant contributions to political science, receiving the Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) in 2010, the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association in 2017, and the Martha Derthick Award in 2023 for his influential book "Multi-Level Governance and European Integration". In 2024, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Maastricht University for his work on multilevel governance, and in 2025, he received the EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies from the European Union Studies Association. Marks co-founded the UNC Center for European Studies and the EU Center of Excellence in the 1990s, serving as director until 2006. He has held numerous fellowships and visiting professorships at prestigious institutions across Europe and North America, including the University of Amsterdam, the European University Institute, the Free University of Berlin, and the Hoover Institution. From 2021 through mid-2026, he is co-leading an advanced European Research Council grant on political polarization in Western societies, hosted at the Robert Schuman Centre for…

Research topics

• Psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Sociology
• Demography
• Social psychology
• Mathematics education
• Cognitive psychology

Selected publications

• Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data

  UNC Libraries · 2021-11-02 · 35 citations

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  This article addresses the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite salience in party positioning across Europe. It demonstrates that while anti-corruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operates, anti-elite salience is primarily a function of party ideology. Extreme left and extreme conservative (TAN) parties are significantly more likely to emphasize anti-elite views. Through its use of the new 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey wave, this article also…

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• Patterns of regional authority

  UNC Libraries · 2021-11-02 · 5 citations

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  This paper introduces a new dataset on regional authority in 42 democracies for 1950-2006 and formulates five hypotheses. First, an S-curve effect describing a logistic association between the population of a country and its regional authority. Secondly, a heteroskedasticity effect, in which the variance in regional authority among larger countries is greater than that among smaller countries. Thirdly, an identity effect, in which the allocation of authority to a jurisdiction is influenced by th…

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• Highly active antiretroviral therapy and sexual risk behavior: a meta-analytic review

  2024-04-04 · 3 citations

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  <p>[para. 1]: “Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) became available in the United States and other developed countriesin1996. Although HAART regimens may not be effective for all infected persons due to drug-resistant strains of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) and unmanageable adverse effects, many HIV-positive persons receiving HAART have substantially lowered their HIV RNA levels (ie, viral load) through strict adherence to treatment regimens. Consequently, the incidence of…

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• The territorial architecture of government

  UNC Libraries · 2021-11-02 · 3 citations

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  This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension between the drive to reap the functional benefits of sca…

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• Highly active antiretroviral therapy and sexual risk behavior: a meta-analytic review

  2024-04-04 · 1 citations

  reviewOpen accessSenior author

  <p>[para. 1]: “Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) became available in the United States and other developed countriesin1996. Although HAART regimens may not be effective for all infected persons due to drug-resistant strains of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) and unmanageable adverse effects, many HIV-positive persons receiving HAART have substantially lowered their HIV RNA levels (ie, viral load) through strict adherence to treatment regimens. Consequently, the incidence of…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01MH042023

  NIH · $1.2M · 1995

• NIH Grant R01MH057208

  NIH · $1.7M · 2003

Frequent coauthors

• Lytt I. Gardner

  Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

  65 shared

• Thomas P. Giordano

  65 shared

• Tracey E. Wilson

  State University of New York

  54 shared

• Jeanne Keruly

  50 shared

• Lisa R. Metsch

  Columbia University

  49 shared

• Mari‐Lynn Drainoni

  Boston University

  49 shared

• Jean L. Richardson

  University of Southern California

  42 shared

• Nicole Crepaz

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  40 shared

Education

• PhD, Anthropology and Sociology

  University of Queensland

Awards & honors

• Humboldt Research Prize
• Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award
• Martha Derthick Award from the APSA
• Honorary Doctorate from Maastricht University (2024)
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Union Studies A…

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