Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science, David Rohde specializes in American national politics. His research has included various subjects, including the Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, and presidential and congressional elections.
He was editor of the American Journal of Political Science, and chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rohde is the author of Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House (University of Chicago Press, 1991), and coauthor of a series of books each national election since 1980, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2004 and 2006 Elections.
Current projects deal with parties in the House and Senate, congressional elections and districting, and the measurement of congressional roll-call voting.
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The Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science, John Aldrich 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 is Change and Continuity in the 2004 and 2006 Elections.
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 and the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Current projects include studies of various aspects of campaigns and elections, political parties, the political effects of economic globalization, and Congress.