Johansen, Elaine

Dr. Elaine Johansen was Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut for nearly 20 years, from 1979 to 1996, coming to the university after completing her Ph.D. in 1976 at the Florida State University . Her dissertation at FSU was titled, “Democratic Theory and the Political Socialization of Physicians: The Role, Mode and Significance of Professionalism in a Polity.” At the University of Connecticut, she taught courses in Public Administration and Political Science.

In the early part of the 1980s, Dr. Johansen performed an extensive study on Comparable Worth (an economic concept stressing equal pay for equal work, often applied to concepts of gender-based pay equity), including the collection of data on Comparative Worth initiatives in State legislatures. This work resulted in the publication of Comparable Worth: The Myth and the Movement in 1984. In later years Dr. Johansen took an interest in the subject of political corruption. She spent several years reviewing literature on this subject, writing a book entitled Political Corruption: Scope and Resources: an Annotated Bibliography, which was published in 1990.

Professor Johansen passed away in 1997 after a battle with cancer.