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3414 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Bowler, Shaun

Professor of Political Science
Associate Dean

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Political Science


CHASS Dean's Office


Biography

Shaun Bowler (Professor) received his Ph.D from Washington University, St. Louis and joined the UCR faculty in 1989. Professor Bowler’s research interests include comparative electoral systems and voting behavior. His work examines the relationship between institutional arrangements and voter choice in a variety of settings ranging from the Republic of Ireland to California’s initiative process. Professor Bowler is the author of Demanding Choices: Opinion Voting and Direct Democracy with Todd Donovan, University of Michigan Press (1998) and has published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and American Politics Quarterly.

Former Institution

 Washington University, St. Louis

Degrees

PhD Political Science 1988

Washington University, St. Louis

MA Soviet Government 1982

University of Essex

BSc International Relations 1979

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Awards

2001 Grant Mc Dougall Foundation, Experts Views on Electoral Reform
1999-2000 CDN Canadian Studies Grant
1998 Grant Haynes Foundation, Political Consultants and Initiative Proccess
1989 Grant European Union Survey
1989 Brooks-Cole Award Best Paper by a Graduate Student, Midwest Political Science Association


Research Area

Comparative Electoral Systems; Voting Behavior

Publications

Demanding Choices: Opinion Voting and Direct Democracy with Todd Donovan University of Michigan Press (1998) (paperback edition 2000)

Elections in Australia, Ireland and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote: reflections on an Embedded Institution co-editor with Bernard Grofman University of Michigan press (2000)

Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States co-editor with Todd Donovan and Caroline Tolbert Ohio State University Press (1998 reprinted 2000)

Party Cohesion, Party Discipline and the Organizing of Parliaments co-editor with David M Farrell and Richard Katz Ohio State University Press (January 1998)

Electoral Strategies and Political Marketing co-editor with D M Farrell (1992) MacMillan/St Martin's Press

"Direct Democracy and Attitudes about Citizen Influence on Government" forthcoming British Journal of Political Science (with Todd Donovan)

"Coalition Government and Satisfaction with Democracy: An Analysis of New Zealand's Reaction to Proportional Representation." European Journal of Political Research. (forthcoming) with Jeffrey Karp

"Citizen Opinion and Constitutional Choices" Political Behavior (forthcoming) with David Lanoue and James Wenzel

"Minor parties and Protest Votes in Australia and New Zealand: Locating Populist Politics" (forthcoming) Electoral Studies with David Denemark

"Issues, Economics and the Dynamics of Multi-Party Elections: The British 1987 General Election" American Political Science Review, March 2000 V94 N1:131-149. with R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler