- Ph.D., University of North Carolina , 1973
- M.A. , University of California, Santa Barbara, 1969
- B.A., California State University, Fullerton, 1967
Gerald Wright
Emeritus Professor, Political Science
- wright1@indiana.edu
Education
About Gerald Wright
Gerald Wright received his Ph.D. in political science in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was on the faculty of Indiana University from 1981 to 2022. Before that he taught at universities in Florida and worked as Program Director for Political Science at the National Science Foundation. He has published over fifty articles and chapters and four books. Most of this work focuses on the relationship between citizens’ preferences and the policy behavior of elected official and governments. His work has been supported with grants from the National Institutes for Mental Health, National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. He has several best paper awards from sections of the American Political Science Association as well as awards for his co-authored book, Statehouse Democracy for a work of enduing impact in both of the subfields of state politics and public opinion and elections. He has the Career Achievement award from the State Politics and Policy section. He is currently writing a book on the changes in the U.S. party system over the last forty years with a focus on the impact of party polarization and party positioning on representation and patterns of economic inequality in both the states and the nation. He is in his second year as chair of the Department of Political Science.
Publications
Two teachers of intellectual hygiene: Norberto Bobbio and Raymond Aron on the role of the intellectuals in modern society
Aurelian Craiutu, Maurizio Griffo
October 27, 2022
Norberto Bobbio: A Life for Democracy on the Battlefield of Ideologies
Aurelian Craiutu, David Ragazzoni
October 27, 2022
Historical memory, democratic citizenship, and political theory: Reconstructing a historical method in Judith Shklar’s writings
Sihang Simon Luo
Jan 14, 2021
No Republican, No Vote: Undervoting and Consequences of the Top-Two Primary System
Colin Fisk
Sep 01, 2020
'Til Death do us Part(isanship): Voting and Polarization in Opposite-Party Marriages
Colin Fisk, Bernard Fraga
Aug 13, 2020
Public Support for Latin American Presidents: The Cyclical Model in Comparative Perspective
Timothy Hellwig, Ryan E. Carlin, Jonathan Hartlyn, Timothy Hellwig, Gregory J. Love, Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo, and Matthew M. Singer
2018
Assessing the Ideological Extremism of American Party Activists
Marjorie Hershey, Nathaniel E. Birkhead
2018
All Crises Are Global: Capital Cycles in an Imbalanced International Political Economy.
Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Thomas Oatley, William Kindred Winecoff
2017
An Empirical Investigation of the Financialization Convergence Hypothesis.
Sylvia Maxfield, William Kindred Winecoff, Kevin Young
2017
Collective Action for Rural Village Development
Defne Jones, Navruz Nekbakhtshoev, Dina Rome Spechler
2017
Fat Politics, Lean Politics: Parties and Elections in Good and Bad Times
Timothy Hellwig, Ernesto Calvo
2017
Knowing What were Getting: Evaluating Research Outcomes on the International Space Station
William T. Bianco, Eric Schmidt
2017
Property Rights, Financial Risk, and the Politics of a Networked Global Financial System.
W. Travis Selmier II, William Kindred Winecoff
2017
Re-conceptualizing the Political Economy of Finance for the Post-Crisis Era.
W. Travis Selmier II, William Kindred Winecoff
2017
The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Elites
Sumit Ganguly, Timothy Hellwig, William R. Thompson
2017
The Promise and Perils of Using Big Data in the Study of Corporate Networks: Problems, Diagnostics and Fixes
Eelke M. Heemskerk, Kevin Young, Frank W. Takes, Bruce Cronin, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Vladimir Popov, William Kindred Winecoff, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Audrey Laurin-Lamonthe
2017
The Valence Gap: Economic Cycles, Perceptions of Competence, and the Party System
Ernesto Calvo, Kiyoung Chang, Timothy Hellwig
2017
Does the Economy Matter? Economic Perceptions and the Vote in Australia
Timothy Hellwig, Ian McAllister
2016
Taking Cues on Multidimensional Issues: The Case of Attitudes toward Immigration
Timothy Hellwig, Yesola Kweon
2016
All Crises Are Global: Capital Cycles in an Imbalanced International Political Economy.
Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Thomas Oatley, William Kindred Winecoff
2017
Policing Us Sick
Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Alana M. W. LeBron, University of California, Irvine, Francisco I. Pedraza, University of California, Riverside
2018
The College of Arts