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the National Science Foundation (U.S.), the Economics and Social Research Coun-
cil (U.K.), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). He
is currently a principal investigator for the 2009/10 British Election Study and the
2008 Political Support in America Study. Other current research projects include the
2009 Political Support in Germany Study, and the 2008 Political Support in Canada
Study. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as theAmer-
ican Journal of Political Science,the American Political Science Review,the British
Journal of Political Science,theJournal of Politics and Political Analysis.Hismost
recent books arePerformance Politics and the British Voter(Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009),Making Political Choices: Voting in Canada and the United
States(Toronto: University of Toronto Press), andPolitical Choice in Britain(Ox-
ford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Clarke’s teaching interests focus on public
opinion, voting and elections and research methods. He regularly teaches advanced
time series analysis at the Essex Summer School in Data Collection and Analysis
and the Concordia University Spring School.
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Betul Demirkayais a graduate student in political science at Washington Uni-
versity in Saint Louis.
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Leandro De Magalhãesstudied Economics at the University of Brasilia and
received his Ph.D. from Bocconi University. For two years during his Ph.D. he was
a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Assistant
Professor at Bristol University. He has worked on the size of government in the
American states, on Brazilian politics, and is currently working on war financing
and political transitions.
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Jon X. Eguiais an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and affili-
ated to the Department of Economics at New York University. He obtained his Ph.D.
from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. His fields of specialization are
political economy, formal political theory, social choice and public economics. His
work on party formation, voting and elections, and the spatial model of policy pref-
erences has been published in leading political science journals such as theAmer-
ican Journal of Political Scienceand theQuarterly Journal of Political Science
and in economic theory journals such asSocial Choice and Welfare,Games and
Economic Behavior,Economic Theoryand theJournal of Mathematical Economics
among others.
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Bernard Grofmanis the Jack W. Peltason (Bren Foundation) Endowed Chair
at University of California at Irvine (UCI), and Professor of Political Science and
Director of the UCI Center for the Study of Democracy His research deals with
topics such as voting rights and theories of representation and electoral rules. He is
