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     Barry Burden


Title: Professor
Website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/bcburden/web/
Affiliated With: La Follette School of Public Affairs
Office: 110G North Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 2-4 or By Appointment
Phone: 608.263.1894
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: bcburden@wisc.edu
Keywords: Congress, Elections, Public Opinion, Representation


Barry Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is author of Personal Roots of Representation, co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government, and editor of Uncertainty in American Politics. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies. He is currently directing the American Politics Workshop.
 


Recent Publications

Barry Burden. "The Dynamic Effects of Education on Voter Turnout."  Electoral Studies 28:540-9.   
Barry Burden, D. Sunshine Hillygus. “Opinion Formation, Polarization, and Presidential Reelection.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 39 (2009):619-35.   
Barry Burden. 2009. “The Puzzle of the Japanese Gender Gap in LDP Support.” In Steven Reed, Kenneth Mori McElwain, and Kay Shimizu , eds., Political Changes in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms. Stanford, CA: Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.   
Barry Burden and D. Sunshine Hillygus. 2009. "Opinion Formation, Polarization, and Presidential Reelection." Presidential Studies Quarterly 39:619-35.   
Barry Burden, Philip Edward Jones: “Strategic Voting in the USA.” In Duverger’s Law of Plurality Voting: The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ed. Bernard Grofman, André Blais, and Shaun Bowler. New York, NY: Springer, 2009.   
Barry Burden: “Representation as a Field of Study.” In The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives, ed. Gary King, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Norman Nie. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.   
Barry Burden: “The Nominations: Rules, Strategy, and Uncertainty.” In The Elections of 2008, ed. Michael Nelson. Washington, DC: CQ Press.   
Barry Burden: "Candidate-Driven Ticket Splitting in the 2000 Japanese Elections.” Electoral Studies 28 (2009):33-40.   
Barry Burden (and Gretchen Helmke):  “The Comparative Study of Split-Ticket Voting.” Electoral Studies 28 (2009):1-7.   
Barry Burden “Multiple Parties and Ballot Regulations.” In Democracy in the States: Experiments in Elections Reform, ed. Bruce E. Cain, Todd Donovan, and Caroline J. Tolbert. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 2008.   
Barry Burden Personal Roots of Representation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

800 - Political Science as a Discipline & Profession

Instructors: Barry Burden      Field: Other