Edward G. Carmines

Edward G. Carmines is Distinguished Professor, Warner O. Chapman PRofessor of Political Science and Rudy Professor at Indiana University. He is also the director of the Center on American Politics and research director at the Center on Congress at Indiana University. His research focuses on American politics, especially elections, public opinion, and political behavior. He has published widely in the major journals in the discipline including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics.  He is the coauthor of six books, two of which won the American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of U.S. national policy. 

 Professor Carmines was a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford in 1998, a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2000-01 and in the spring semester, 2012, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University in 2006-07.He chaired the Department of Political Science at IU for seven years, from 1990 to 1997. 

 Professor Carmines is currently working on three major research projects, one with Michael Ensley and Michael Wagner that examines the multi-dimensional character of citizens' ideology, attitudes and behavior in an environment of ideological partisan polarization, a second with Michael Wagner and Jessica Gerrity on public evaluations of Congress, and a third with J. Merrill Shanks, Henry Brady, and Douglas Strand on the role that voters' policy preferences have played in their electoral decisions in recent presidential and congressional elections.