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Department Affiliations
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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