Thomas
M. Carsey
Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Vita
May, 2007
Thomas M. Carsey
Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
E-mail: carsey@unc.edu
Web: http://www.unc.edu/~carsey/
Phone: 919-962-1207
Fax: 919-962-0432
Education
B.S. Wayne State College , Wayne, NE; 1989
M.A.E. Wayne State College , Wayne, NE; 1990
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington , IN; 1995Dissertation: “Election Dynamics: Candidate Strategy and Electoral Cleavages in United States Gubernatorial Elections.” Winner of APSA’s William Anderson dissertation award, and co-winner of Indiana University’s Greenough dissertation award.
Employment
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Thomas J. Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science, 2006 - Present
Florida State University
Professor of Political Science, 2004 - 2006
Associate Professor of Political Science, 2000 - 2004
Director of Graduate Studies, 2002 - 2006
Faculty Affiliate of the DeVoe L. Moore Center for the Study of Critical Issues in Economic Policy and Government, 2000 - 2006
University of Illinois at Chicago
Associate Professor of Political Science, 1999 - 2000
Director of Graduate Studies, 1999 - 2000
Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1995 - 1999
Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 1998 - 2000
Research Interests
Representation in American Politics
State and Local Politics and Policy
Legislative Institutions
Political Parties
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting Behavior
Research Methods
Publications
Books:
Congress and the Distributive Politics of Military Procurement. University of Oklahoma Press. (2002), with Barry Rundquist.
Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor. University of Michigan Press. (2000).
Articles:
"U.S. Senate Campaigns, Negative Advertising, and Voter Mobilization in the 1998 Midterm Election." Electoral Studies, (2007) 26(1):180-95, with Robert A. Jackson.
"Changing Sides or Changing Minds? Party Identification and Policy Preferences in the American Electorate." American Journal of Political Science, (2006) 50(2): 464-77, with Geoffrey C. Layman.
"Party Polarization in American Politics: Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences." Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 9 (2006), pp. 83-110, with Geoffrey C. Layman and Juliana Menasce Horowitz.
"State Party Context and Norms Among Delegates to the 2000 National Party Conventions." State Politics and Policy Quarterly, (2006) 6(3): 247-71, with John Green, Rick Herrera, and Geoffrey C. Layman.
"Policy Balancing and Preferences for Party Control of Government." Political Research Quarterly, (2004) 57(4): 541-50, with Geoffrey Layman.
"Party Polarization and Party Structuring of Policy Attitudes: A Comparison of Three NES Panel Studies."Political Behavior, (2002) 24(3): 199-236, with Geoffrey Layman.
"Party Polarization and Conflict Extension in the American Electorate." American Journal of Political Science. (2002) 46:786-802, with Geoffrey Layman.
"Group Effects on Party Identification and Party Coalitions Across the United States." American Politics Research (formerly American Politics Quarterly). (2002) 30:66-92, with Robert A. Jackson.
"Misreport of Vote Choice in U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Elections." State Politics and Policy Quarterly, (2001)1:196-209, with Robert A. Jackson.
"Party and Committee in Congressional Policy Making: Evidence from the Domestic Distribution of Defense Expenditures." Journal of Politics, (1999) 61:1156-69, with Barry Rundquist.
"Presidential Voting Across the American States." American Politics Quarterly, (1999) 27:379-402, with Robert Jackson.
"The Reciprocal Relationship Between State Defense Interest and Committee Representation in Congress." Public Choice. (1999) 99:455-463, with Barry Rundquist.
"Group Components of Presidential Voting Across the U.S. States." Political Behavior, (1999) 21:123-51, with Robert Jackson.
"A Dynamic Model of Political Change Among Party Activists." Political Behavior, (1999) 21:17-42, with Geoffrey Layman.
"Council Coalitions and Mayoral Regimes in Chicago." Journal of Urban Affairs, (1999) 21:79-100, with Dick Simpson.
"State and National Factors in Gubernatorial and Senate Elections." American Journal of Political Science. (1998) 42(3):994-1002, and Rejoinder 1008 1011, with Gerald C. Wright.
"Why Do Party Activists Convert? An Analysis of Individual-Level Change on the Abortion Issue." Political Research Quarterly. (1998) 51(3):723-50, with Geoffrey Layman.
"Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions in the Great Plains." Great Plains Research. (1997)7:41-70.
"The Contextual Effects of Race on White Voter Behavior: The 1989 New York City Mayoral Election." Journal of Politics. (1995)57:221-28.
Book Chapters:
"Competition in State Legislative Elections, 1992-2002." in The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics, edited by Michael P. McDonald and John Samples. Brookings Institution Press, (2006) pp27-52, with Richard G. Niemi, Lynda W. Powell, William D. Berry, and James M. Snyder Jr.
"Political Parties and Campaign Finance," in Government and Politics in Florida, 3rd Edition, edited by J. Edwin Benton. University of Florida Press, forthcoming, with James P. Nelson.
Other Publications:
"Public and Private Institutions, Political Action, and the Practice of Local Government." Review of Policy Research. (2006)23(6): 1119-1121, with Charles Barrilleaux and Ron Cheung. (Introduction to a Special Issue edited by the three of us).
"'Conflict Extension' in American Party Politics." VOX POP: Newsletter of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association (2005) 24(1), with Geoffrey C. Layman.
"Race, Prejudice and Policy in Illinois." Policy Forum (2000) Vol.13, No. 3. Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois. With Barry S. Rundquist, Gerald Strom, and Sean Hogan.
"Correlates of State Efforts to Reduce Youth Access to Tobacco." Report to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Smoking and Health. Office of Social Science Research, University of Illinois at Chicago. (1996).
Several Book Reviews
Grants
National Science Foundation Grant (SES-0317924). Awarded, Spring, 2003. "Updating and Cleaning ICPSR's State Legislative Election Returns Data and a Study of State Legislative Redistricting." Co-PI with William Berry. $208,331.
COFRS Grant (FSU). Awarded Fall, 2002. "Preferences for Divided Government and Split-Ticket Voting in the United States." $8,000.
National Science Foundation Grant (SES-0136526, Amendment 001). Awarded, Summer 2002. Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement for "Cleaning ICPSR's State Legislative Election Returns Data and an Application to the Study of Repeat Challengers." Co-PI with William Berry. $6,000.
National Science Foundation Grant (SES-0136526). Awarded, Fall 2001. "Cleaning ICPSR's State Legislative Election Returns Data and an Application to the Study of Repeat Challengers." Co-PI with William Berry. $63,186.
National Science Foundation Grant (SES-9809370). Awarded in 1998. "The Distributive Politics of Problem Solving." Co-PI with Barry Rundquist. $122,554.
Campus Research Board grants, UIC: 2000, 1997, 1995
Office of Social Science Research grants, UIC: 1998, 1997, 1995
Indiana University RUGS Dissertation research grant, 1993
Harvard University Goldsmith Awards Program Grant, 1993
Courses Taught
Graduate
Contextual Effects in American Mass Politics; State Politics and Policy; Representation in American Politics; Legislatures; Advanced Public Policy Workshop; Local Politics (team taught); Data Analysis for Political Science I and II (UIC); Methods III and Methods IV (FSU); Time Series Analysis; Introduction to Formal Models; Advanced Methods; Research Design for Political Science; several independent readings courses.
Undergraduate
Scope of Political Science; State Government; Freshmen Seminar on State Elections; Voting, Elections, and Public Opinion; Introduction to American Government; Race and Religion in American Politics; Methods for Political Science.
Honors and Awards
Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the 2004 Southern Political Science Association Meeting, co-winner with Robert Jackson
Teaching Recognition Program Award winner, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998
Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring, 1998.
American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award for best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations, 1996
Indiana University Greenough Award for best doctoral dissertation in political science, co-winner, 1996
Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1993-94
Indiana University Graduate School Fellowship, 1990-91
Pi Gamma Mu Graduate Student Scholarship, 1990
Departmental/University Service
University of North Carolina
Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, 2006-Present
Member of the Faculty Diversity Initiative Committee, 2006-Present
Member of the Graduate Teaching Award Committee, 2006-7
Member of the Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee, 2006-7
Member of the University Research Council small grant awards committee, 2007-Present
Florida State University:
Director of Graduate Studies, 2002- 2006
Elected Methods Field Representative, 2001-2002
Member of Departmental Graduate Committee, 2001-2002
Member of Eppes Chair search committee, 2000-2001
Elected Member of Departmental Advisory Committee, 2000-2002
Election 2000 Planning Group
Chair, Open field search committee, 2002-2003
Member, American search committee, 2003-2004; 2004-2005
Chair, American search committee, 2005-2006
Member of several dissertation committees
University of Illinois at Chicago:
Director of Graduate Studies, 1999-2000
Director, Political Data Program, 1995-2000
UIC Official Representative to ICPSR, 1995-2000
Social Science Data Archive Committee, 1995-2000; Chair 1999-2000
Numerous Dissertation and Thesis Committees
Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) mentor, Summer 1998
Public Opinion and Public Policy (POPP) Director, 1999-2000
Director of Faculty Speaker Series, IGPA-Chicago, 1999-2000
Chair, Political Methodology Search Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Research, 1999-2000
Member of Departmental IRB committee, 1999-2000
Department liaison on Human Subjects Research, 1999-2000
Member of Governance group, IGPA, 1999-2000
Professional Service
Host of the APSA State Politics Section Web site, 2002-Present
Chair, State Politics & Policy Conference Site Selection Committee, 2001-Present
Chair, APSA William Anderson Award Committee for best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations, 2007.
Chair, Samuel J. Eldersveld Award Committee, Political Organizations and Parties section of APSA, to honor a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field, 2007.
Chair, Political Methodology Annual Summer Meeting Advisory Committee, 2005-Present
Host for the Summer Political Methods Meeting, July 21-23, 2005, held at FSU.
Section Head for "State and Intergovernmental Politics" section, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 19-21, 2001
Panel Organizer for "State Politics" section for the 2003 Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, March 21-22
Panel Organizer for Graduate Student Panels for the 2005 Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, March 12, 2005
Section Head for "State Politics" section, Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, January, 2000
Other Professional Activities
Presented Conference Papers at: Midwest Political Science Association: 2006, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1992; American Political Science Association:2006, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999,1998, 1994; Southern Political Science Association: 2005, 2004, 2001, 1992; Western Political Science Association, 2001; State Politics and Policy Annual Meeting, 2007, 2003, 2001; Midwest Sociological Society, 1990, 1989; Politics and Culture of the Great Plains Symposium, 1996.
Served as a discussant at conferences numerous times and as a reviewer for the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Quarterly, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Social Science Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Publius, Politics and Policy, Polity, Cambridge University Press, the University of Michigan Press, University of Chicago Press, Addison Wesley Longman Press, Wadsworth, and the National Science Foundation.
Professional Memberships/Offices
American Political Science Association
Political Methodology Section of APSA
State Politics Section of APSA
Midwest Political Science Association
Southern Political Science AssociationMember of the APSA State Politics Section Council, 1999-2001
Secretary/Treasurer of the APSA State Politics Section, 2002-Present
Editorial Board Member of State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 1999-Present
Member of APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section Council, 2006-Present