George Rabinowitz, Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, was educated at Hobart College (B.S., 1963) and the University of Michigan (M.A. in Mathematics, 1971, Ph.D. in Political Science, 1973). His principal research interest is in electoral politics with a special emphasis on the role of issues on voter choice and in the structuring of party systems. While his primary focus is on the United States, his work has increasingly led him in a comparative direction. He has contributed articles to The Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and a number of other professional journals. His work on the directional theory of issue voting has won two awards from the American Political Science Association. He was a Fulbright research professor in Norway, and has received both a Marshall fellowship and National Science Foundation support for his research. He is currently working along with his colleague Stuart Elaine Macdonald on a book that attempts to explain the structure and evolution of party systems in democracies.