Education

PhD - Political Science (September 2006)
Duke University
Dissertation: Destiny Unbound: Opportunity and Political Choices.
Committee: John Aldrich (co-chair), Michael Munger (co-chair), Scott de Marchi, Georg Vanberg.

MA - Political Science (May 2003)
Duke University

BA - Government (cum laude) and Economics (May 2000)
Cornell University
Thesis: PACing Congress: A Vertical Quality Model for PAC Contributions.
Advisor: Walter R. Mebane, Jr.

Academic Appointment

Assistant Professor - Department of Political Science (Fall 2006 – Present)
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Publications

Winer, Stanley L., Michael W. Tofias, Bernard Grofman and John H. Aldrich. Forthcoming 2008. “Trending Economic Factors and the Structure of Congress in the Growth of Government, 1930-2002.” Public Choice.  ↓ 

Merolla, Jennifer, Michael Munger and Michael Tofias. 2005. “In Play: A Commentary on Strategies in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election.” Public Choice. 123:19-37.  ↓ 

Book Chapters

Aldrich, John, Michael Brady, Scott de Marchi, Ian McDonald, Brendan Nyhan, David Rohde and Michael Tofias. Forthcoming 2008. “Party and Constituency in the U.S. Senate, 1933-2004” in Why Not Parties?: Party Effects in the United States Senate. Nathan Monroe, Jason M. Roberts and David W. Rohde, editors. University of Chicago Press.

Aldrich, John H., David W. Rohde and Michael W. Tofias. 2007. “One D is Not Enough: Measuring Conditional Party Government in 1887-2002” in Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress Volume 2: Further New Perspectives on the History of Congress. David W. Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins, editors. Stanford University Press.  → 

curriculum vitae

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