JOHN P. MCIVER (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1985) returned to the
University of Colorado in 1996 after two years as Director of the
Political Science Program of the National Science Foundation.
McIver taught at the University of Houston prior to joining the
University of Colorado faculty in 1987. McIver′s research spans a
number of areas from statistics and research methodology to public
opinion with a major emphasis on the justice system. His work has
been published in the American Political Science Review, American
Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American
Politics Quarterly, Political Methodology as well as in numerous
other journals and books. He is the author of Uni-dimensional
Scaling (with Edward G. Carmines) and Statehouse Democracy: Public
Opinion, Politics, and Policy in the American States with Gerald
Wright and Robert Erikson. He is editor of a special issue of the
Justice System Journal on court-annexed arbitration programs
nationwide. Edward G. Carmines is Warner O. Chapman Professor
of Political Science and Rudy Professor at Indiana University. He
is also the director of the Center on American Politics and the
research director at the Center on Congress at Indiana University.
His research focuses on American politics, especially elections,
public opinion, and political behavior. He has published widely in
the major journals in the discipline including the American
Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,
and Journal of Politics. He is the coauthor of seven books, two of
which, Issue Evolution: Race and Transformation of American
Politics, with James A. Stimson (Princeton University Press 1992),
and Reaching beyond Race, with Paul M. Sniderman (Harvard
University Press 1997), won the American Political Science
Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for best book in the field
of U.S. national policy. Four of his papers presented at academic
conferences have won outstanding paper awards, including the
Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award, the Pi Sigma Alpha
Award, and the Chastain Award.
Professor Carmines was a Visiting Professor at the University of
Oxford in 1998, a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2000-01, and a Fellow
at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton
University in 2006-07. In 1987 he was awarded the AMOCO Award for
Distinguished Teaching from Indiana University.
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