Department of Political Science

Timothy Hellwig is Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the Europe Gateway at Indiana University. He holds a B.A. from St. Cloud State University, an M.A. from American University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has been a researcher at the International Foundation for Election Systems, on the faculty at the University of Houston, and a visiting researcher at the Australian National University, Gothenburg University, and the University of Essex. He previously served as Director of the Institute for European Studies in Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies. His interests are in comparative political economy, political behavior, European politics, public policy, and research methods. He is a member of the Executive Approval Project, a cross-national effort at compiling and analyzing aggregate public opinion data. He is coauthor of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections after the Great Recession (Oxford University Press), author of Globalization and Mass Politics: Retaining the Room to Maneuver (Cambridge University Press), as well articles in several journals and book chapters, including the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.