Education: BA, Saint Xavier College 1984; PhD, University of Iowa 1989

Career: Christopher Wlezien is Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. He joined the faculty from the University of Oxford, UK, where he was Reader in Comparative Government and a Fellow of Nuffield College. While at Oxford, he co-founded the ESRC-funded Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research. Previously, he taught at the University of Houston, where he was founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the Juan March Institute, Madrid, and McGill University, Montreal. His research interests include the development of a ‘thermostatic’ model of public opinion and policy and the dynamic interrelationships between preferences for spending and budgetary policy. A cross-national comparative investigation focusing on the US, the UK, and Canada, broadly entitled ‘Degrees of Democracy’, is in progress. His other major area of research, on ‘The Timeline of Election Campaigns’, addresses the evolution of voter preferences over the course of the election cycle. Both projects have been supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation. Christopher Wlezien is co-editor of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (see url below).

Publications include: numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Political Science, Temple University, 4th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, 1115 West Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089, USA; Tel: +1 215-204-7747; Tel: +1 215-204-7258; Fax: +1 215-204-3770; Email: wlezien@temple.edu ; Website: http://www.temple.edu/polsci/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17457289.asp/ .