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W Shively

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Specialties

  • elections around the world
  • comparative politics
  • Western Europe
  • democracies

Publications

  • Theory Building and Data Analysis in the Social Sciences. Shively, W Phillips, University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
  • Cross-Level Inference. Shively, W Phillips, Chris Achen, University of Chicago Press, 1995.
  • Who Represents Us Best? One Member or Many?: Shively, W Phillips, John Curtice, Analise Social, 2003.
  • The Asymmetry of Democratization and Democratic Breakdown (Or is it Authoritarianization and Authoritarian Breakdown?): Shively, W Phillips, The Evolution of Political Knowledge, 2003.
  • Contextual Data and the Study of Elections and Voting Behavior: Connecting Individuals to Environments: Shively, W Phillips, Martin Johnson & Robert Stein, Electoral Studies/The Future of Election Studies, 2002.
  • Cross-Level Inference as an Identification Problem: Shively, W Phillips, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Statistical Education, 94-100, 2000.
  • The Craft of Political Research. Shively, W Phillips, Prentice-Hall, 1974.
  • Power and Choice. Shively, W Phillips, McGraw-Hill, 1986.
  • Comparative Governance. Shively, W Phillips, McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Professional Activities

  • Chair, Comparative Study of Electoral Systems database project (www.umich.edu/~cses/): 1998 - 2005
  • Co-Chair (with Kathryn Sikkink) of the 2002 program of the American Political Science Association national meetings: 2002
  • Section chair for comparative politics, American Political Science Association: 1992
  • Member, National Election Study Board of Overseers: 1995 - 2004
  • President, Midwest Political Science Association: 1985 - 1986
  • Editor, American Journal of Political Science: 1975 - 1979
  • Member, Editorial Board, Political Methodology: 1973 - 1984
  • Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science: 1973 - 1982
  • Chair, Political Science Department, University of Minnesota: 1981 - 1984
  • University Faculty Lobbyist, University of Minnesota: 1983 - 1985
  • Chair, Task Force on Second Language Instruction, University of Minnesota: 1990 - 1991
  • Provost for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, University of Minnesota: 1995 - 1997

Awards

  • Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1989
  • 1996 Outstanding Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists for Cross-Level Inference (co-authored with Chris Achen), 1996
  • 2001 Best Comparative Politics Database award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems database, 2001
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