Gerald C. Wright Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science 1100 E. Seventh Street Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405

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Office: Room 311 Woodburn Hall Office Phone: (812) 855-6308

Fax: (812) 855-2027 E-mail: wright1@indiana.edu

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Undergraduate Courses  Y103 Introduction to American Politics Y200 Election 2010 Y490 American Politics in an Era of Rising Inequality Y480 Honors Colloquium

Graduate Courses  Y661 Seminar on State Politics and Policy Y661 Seminar on Representation

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Vita   Publications and Research

Recent Research Papers.

• Erikson and Wright, "Voters, Issues and Candidates in Congressional Elections," in Dodd and Oppenheimer, Congress Reconsidered 7th edition, 2001.
• Wright and Schaffner, "The Influence of Party in State Legislatures." APSR, June 2002.
• McIver Erikson, and Wright,  "Public Opinion and Public Policy in Temporal Perspective: A View from the States," Presented at the Texas A&M State Politics Conference and Midwest Political Science Assoc., 2001.
• Wright and Tracy Osborn, "Party and Roll Call Voting in the American Legislature" Midwest Political Science Association, 2002.
• Wright and Jon Winburn. "Patterns of Constituency-Legislator Policy Congruence in the States" Second Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, May 24-25,2002.
• Wright and Jon Winburn. "The Effects of Size and Party on the Dimensionality of Roll Calls" Third Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy, Tucson Arizona, March 14-5, 2003, and Midwest Political Science Association, April 3-5, 2003.
• Wright, “Do Term Limits Limit Representation?” Fourth Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy, Akron Ohio & Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, 2004.
• Wright, Osborn and Winburn, “Parties and Representation in the American Legislatures.” Midwest Political Science Assoc., 2004.
• Erikson, Wright and McIver, “Public Opinion in the States: A Quarter Century of Change and Stability” in Jeffrey Cohen, ed. Public Opinion in the States, Stanford University Press, 2006, Chapter 12.
• Wright and Jennifer Hayes Clark, Parties and Stability in Legislative Voting Coalitions in the American States” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. 2005.
• Winburn, Masket and Wright, The Limits of the Gerrymander: Examining the Impact of Redistricting on Electoral Competition and Legislative Polarization” Presented at the StatePolitics and Policy Conference and the Midwest Political Science Association, 2006.
• Rigby, Elizabeth. and Wright, Gerald. "State Parties, Polarization, and Representation of the Poor" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2007
• Gerald Wright, Tracy Osborn, Jon Winburn, Jennifer Hayes Clark, “Patterns of Representation in the American States and Congress” State Politics and Policy Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, May 22-23, 2009.
• Gerald Wright and Elizabeth Rigby, Income Inequality, Party Polarization, and Representation in the State Legislatures. APSA 2010

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Data

• Representation in the American Legislature Project: Information about the project and access to our roll call collection (in progress).
• NOTICE: Correction for Appendix data to Chap 12 of Public Opinion in State Politics
• Zip file of the CBS/New York Times national polls, ideology party identification, 1976-2003 [Stata 7.0 format].
• State file of the policy variables used in Erikson, Wright and McIver, Statehouse Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Other stuff that may be of interest:

• Political Science at Indiana
• Family reunion

 This page was last updated 9/10/2010
URL: http://www.php.indiana.edu/~wright1
Contact: Gerald Wright