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John H Aldrich, Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science

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):

  • POLSCI 239S.01, AMER MASS POLITICAL BEHAVIOR Synopsis
    Perkins 307, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • POLSCI 304.01, CLASSICS - AMER POLITICS
    Perkins 307, Tu 07:15 PM-10:00 PM
Education:

PhDUniversity of Rochester1975
MAUniversity of Rochester1971
BAAllegheny College1969
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
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Victoria De Francesco Soto  
  • Jason Reifler  
  • Renan Levine  
  • Laura Stevenson  
  • Jennifer Merolla  
  • John Griffin  
  • Jeff Grynaviski  
  • James S. Battista  
  • Elizabeth Zechmeister  
  • Mark Berger  
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, ISBN 13-978-0-472-09986-3
  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
Recent Grant Support

  • EITM Summer Training Institute, NSF, NSF 061854, 2006/08-2007/09.      
  • Support for Democratic Values with Controlled or Open Access to Media, Chiang-Ching Kao Chinese Cultural Foundation, 2003/09-2006/08.      
  • Presidential Donors' First Reactions to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of, NSF, Political Science, 2004/07-2006/06.      
  • EITM Summer Training Institute, Harvard, 2002/05-2006/05.      
  • Doctoral Dissertation research in Political Science: Identity Fluidity in the Voting Booth, NSF, 0519022, 2005/08.      
  • Strategic Votingfor the Israeli Knesset, 2003, NSF, 2001/01.      


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