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John H Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor

John H Aldrich
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Office Phone:  919 660 4346
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Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~aldrich/

Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhD, University of Rochester, 1975
MA, University of Rochester, 1971
BA, Allegheny College, 1969
Specialties:

American Politics
Research Interests: Political Behavior, Parties and Institutions

Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science. He specializes in American politics and behavior, formal theory, and methodology. Books he has authored or co-authored include Why Parties, Before the Convention, Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models, and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which, Change and Continuity in the 1996 Elections, is scheduled to appear soon. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, and other journals and edited volumes. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Current projects include studies of various aspects of campaigns and elections, political parties, and Congress.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. with Michael Brady, Scott de Marchi, Ian McDonald, Brendan Nyhan, David W. Rohde, and Michael Tofias, Party and Constitutency in the U.S. Senate, 1933-2004, in Why Not Parties?, edited by Nathan Monroe, Jason M. Roberts, and David W. Rohde (Accepted, 2008), University of Chicago Press .
  2. with Stanley L. Winer, Michael W. Tofias, and Bernard Grofman, Trending Economic Factors and the Structure of Congress in the Growth of Government, 1930 – 2002, Public Choice (Accepted, forthcoming) .
  3. with Keith T. Poole, Statistical Tests of Theoretical Results, in A Positive Change in Political Science: The Legacy of Richard D. McKelvey’s Most Influential Writings, edited by John H. Aldrich, James Alt, and Arthur Lupia (2007), pp. 93-102, University of Michigan Press .
  4. with Paul R. Abramson, Andre Blais, Daniel Lee, Renan Levine, Coalition Considerations and the Vote, in The Elections in Israel, 2006, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir (Accepted, 2007), Israel Demcoracy Institute .
  5. with Paul R. Abramson and David W. Rohde, On Elections, in Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior, edited by Jan Leighley (Accepted, forthcoming), Oxford University Press .