Webpage:
http://www.duke.edu/~aldrich/

Webpage:
http://web.mit.edu/polisci/faculty/S.Ansolabehere.html

Webpage:
http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Brady,H/

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley and Director of UC DATA. Professor Brady received his Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from MIT in 1980. His areas of interest include Quantitative Methodology, American and Canadian Politics, and Political Behavior. He teaches undergraduate courses on political participation and party systems and graduate courses on advanced quantitative methodology. He is former president of the Political Methodology Group of the American Political Science Association. His current research interests include political participation in America, Estonia, and Russia, the dynamics of public opinion and political campaigns, the evaluation of social welfare programs, and the impact of computers on social policy making. Brady has co-authored two books. Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (1992) won the Harold Adams Innis Award for the best book in the social sciences published in English in Canada in 1992-1993. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1995) was featured in an American Political Science Review symposium in 1997. Brady has also authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics.

Webpage:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/faculty/cook/cook.html

Professor Karen Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) at Stanford University. Her research focuses on issues of trust in social relations and networks. She also works on projects related to social justice, power-dependence relations and social exchange theory, in addition to collaborative research on physician-patient trust. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1998-99) and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Webpage:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~eckelc/

Catherine Eckel is Professor of Economics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia. She is President-Elect of the Southern Economic Association. She was Vice President of the Southern Economic Association 2002-2003, North American Vice President of the Economic Science Association 2000-2004, and has served on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association and executive boards of the Southern Economic Association and the Economic Science Association. Dr. Eckel is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, associate editor of the Southern Economic Journal and Experimental Economics, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics and Journal of Economic Psychology.

Eckel's research is in the area of experimental economics and concerns the effect of social interaction on economic exchange. Her work is interdisciplinary, and incorporates concepts from psychology and sociology into economic research. She has published more than 30 papers in journals in economics and other fields. Recent projects include: the effect of subsidies on charitable giving, measuring preferences (risk attitudes, patience, and pro-social orientation) using incentivized tasks, and discrimination by race and gender in games of trust. She also co-directs an ongoing teaching technology project developing interactive exercises for active learning in large classes via system of wireless handheld computers.

Webpage:
http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising/

Ken Goldstein is a Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project and the University of Wisconsin News Lab. Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1996. He is the author of Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America, published by Cambridge University Press, and recently completed a book on the impact of television advertising. He is also at work on a book on the targeting of campaign activity and television advertising in the 2004 campaign. In addition, his research on political communication, news coverage of health issues and unintentional injuries, voter turnout, survey methodology, Israeli politics, and presidential elections has appeared in over 25 refereed journal articles and book chapters.

In addition to his academic training, research, and writing on politics and survey research methods, he also has extensive experience in directing and evaluating survey research in political and other professional settings. He worked for the CBS News Election and Survey Unit from 1987 to 1989 and has consulted for CBS News, and CNN. Goldstein is currently a consultant for the ABC News elections unit and a member of their election night decision team. He has worked on network election night coverage in every contest since 1988. He has appeared numerous times on Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN , and is a frequent contributor on National Public Radio. He is also quoted extensively in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Webpage:
http://research.yale.edu/vote/

Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he has taught since 1989. Since 1996, he has served as director of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, an interdisciplinary research center that emphasizes field experimentation. His research interests span a wide array of topics: voting behavior, partisanship, campaign finance, rationality, research methodology, and hate crime. His recent books include Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters (Yale University Press 2002) and Get Out the Vote!: How to Increase Voter Turnout (Brookings Institution Press 2004).

John Mark Hansen is the Dean of Social Sciences and the Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Yale University. He is the author of two books, Mobilization, Participation and Democracy in America (1993) with Steven Rosenstone and Gaining Access: Congress and the Farm Lobby, 1919-1981 (1991). In 1999, he received the Heinz Eulau Award from the American Political Science Association for the Best Article Published in the American Political Science Review in 1998. He also received the Outstanding Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists for Mobilization, Participation and Democracy in America in 1995. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Hansen's research focuses on public opinion, public budgeting and politicians' inferences from the outcomes of elections.

Vincent Hutchings is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches courses in African American politics, public opinion and voting behavior, and Congress. He published a book on the circumstances under which citizens are attentive to political matters and engage in issue voting entitled Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability (2003), from Princeton University Press. His research also examines the ways in which political candidates structure their political appeals to take advantage of the voters’ sympathies and/or antipathies for particular groups along racial, religious, and gender lines. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Political Science Review, the Annual Review of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Webpage:
http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/kmcgraw/index.htm

Webpage:
http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/wmebane.html

Randall Olsen is Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University, Director of the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) as well as Director of the Initiative in Population Economics at Ohio State. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. He was a post-doc at the University of Minnesota and assistant professor of economics at Yale before coming to Ohio State. His fields are Econometrics, Labor Economics and Economic Demography. He has been the project director of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS) since 1987, overseeing instrument design, field work and data preparation for this group of surveys. He has also overseen the transition of the NLS from legacy data collection systems to an integrated system for handling all phases of survey work from instrument authoring through data dissemination using a software system written at CHRR. He is also involved in several other survey projects being conducted or managed by CHRR.

He has served as an associate editor for Evaluation Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Demography. He is a regular reviewer for NIH as well as for a variety of journals. He has published in Econometrica, Journal Economic Literature, Journal of Human Resources, American Economic Review, Demography, Journal of Labor Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Monthly Labor Review and others. He is interested the problem of design effects in surveys, job mobility and a variety of issues relating to survey data collection.

Richard E. Petty is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in Government and Foreign Affairs in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Ohio State University in 1977. His first position was as Assistant Professor of psychology at the University of Missouri and in 1986 he was appointed to the Frederick A. Middlebush chair. The next year he returned to Ohio State as Professor and Director of the Social Psychology Doctoral Program. He served as OSU psychology department chair from 1998-2002.

Petty's research focuses broadly on the situational and individual difference factors responsible for changes in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.This work has resulted in 7 books and over 200 journal articles and chapters. Petty has received several honors for his work including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2001) and the Society for Consumer Psychology (2000). He is past Associate Editor of Emotion, past editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and former President of the Midwestern Psychological Association.

Vincent Price is the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, where he also served as a Faculty Associate with the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research.  Price earned his doctorate at Stanford University and has published extensively on mass communication and public opinion, social influence processes, and political communication. He served as editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly and on a number of journal editorial boards.  His research on media framing of issues, the measurement of media exposure and political information, social identification processes, and third-person effects of mass communication is widely cited; and his book Public Opinion has been published in five languages. His most recent research, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, focuses on the role of political conversation, particularly Web-based discussion, in shaping public opinion.

Gary M. Segura is an Associate Professor of American Politics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in American Politics and Political Philosophy from the University of Illinois in 1992. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and currently is focusing on the accessibility of government and politics to America’s growing Latino minority, as well as a book-length project on the links between casualties in international conflict and domestic politics. He is also serving as the co-Principal Investigator of the Latino National Survey, a national poll of 8600 Latino residents of the United States being conducted in 2005-2006. Among his recent publications are "The Mobilizing Effect of Majority-Minority Districts on Latino Turnout" in the American Political Science Review (2004), "Racial/Ethnic Group Attitudes Toward Environmental Protection in California: Is "Environmentalism" Still a White Phenomenon?" in Political Research Quarterly (2005), and the edited volume Diversity In Democracy: Minority Representation in the United States, published in 2005 by the University of Virginia Press.

Segura is serving as the General Program Chair of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. He presently serves on the Executive Council of the Western Political Science Association. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Politics, and a former member of the board for PS: Political Science and Politics. In 2004-2005, he served as President of El Sector Latino de la Ciencia Política (Latino Caucus in Political Science), is a past chair of the WPSA's Committee on the Status of Chicanos and a former member of the APSA's Committee on the Status of Latinas y Latinos.

Webpage:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/government/faculty/profiles/Shaw/Daron/

Professor Shaw received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 1994. His most recent book project is A Simple Game, which analyzes the effects of TV advertising and candidate visits on the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. In 2001, Professor Shaw co-edited (along with Professor Roderick P. Hart) Communications in U.S. Elections: New Agendas, a book featuring innovative research in the field of political communication. In addition, Professor Shaw has published articles in several prominent journals.

Before accepting a position at UT, Professor Shaw worked as a survey research analyst in several campaigns, including a stint as senior national data analyst for the 1992 Bush-Quayle campaign. In 1999-2000, he served as director of election studies for the Bush-Cheney campaign. In 2004, he served as a consultant for the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee. Professor Shaw is currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the board of overseers for the National Election Study, a member of the Fox News Decision Team, a member of the advisory board for the Annette Strauss Institute, and a presidential appointee to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. He has also served as a consultant for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and the Texas Poll.

Dr. Smith is a W. P. Carey Professor of Economics at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Since earning his Ph.D. in Economics at Rutgers University in 1970, Dr. Smith has engaged in a variety of public service activities, including service as the first Co-Chair of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board. In the mid-1970s, he was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. In 1989 he received the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists' Distinguished Service Award, in 1992 presented the Frederick V. Waugh Lecture to the American Agricultural Economics Association, and in 2002 he was elected a Fellow of that Association. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Smith's research considers the prospects for linking economic and ecological models to enhance the evaluation of environmental policies. His publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Econometrica, International Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Journal of Transportation and Statistics, as well as in other journals. He co-authored a book with Frank Sloan and Donald Taylor entitled The Smoking Puzzle: Information, Risk Perception, and Choice, published by Harvard University Press in 2003.

Webpage:
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/smithlov

Professor Smith-Lovin is a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology/Social Psychology in 1978 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interest is in the study of identity, action and emotional response - in particular the basic question of how identities affect social interaction. Recent publications include "Gender Identity Recognition and Task Performance" with Allison Wisecup and Miller McPherson in Advances in Group Processes: Social Identification and Groups edited by Shane Thye and Edward Lawler (2005), "Control Theories of Identity, Action and Emotion: In Search of Testable Differences between Affect Control Theory and Identity Control Theory" with Dawn T. Robinson in Control Theories in Sociology edited by Kent McClelland and Thomas Fararo (2004), and "Physiological Measures of Theoretical Concepts: Some Ideas for Linking Deflection and Emotion to Physical Responses During Interaction" with Dawn T. Robinson and Christabel L. Rogalin in Advances in Group Processes (2004).