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		Irwin L. Morris Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland 3140 Tydings Hall College Park, MD Tel. (301) 405-8633, Email: imorris@gvpt.umd.edu
Research Books Articles Conference Papers		I have been on the faculty at Maryland since the fall of 1998. Prior to that, I was a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. My research focuses on the racial/ethnic and class/economic dynamics of American politics and public policymaking. Though my earlier work tended to focus on either racial dynamics (several articles on the racial/ethnic dynamics of public opinion on immigration issues) or economic dynamics (a book and articles on monetary policymaking and a book on the role of campaign contributions in the Clinton impeachment), a portion of my most recent work (primarily on legislative politics and party development in the South) focuses on the intersection of race and economics. I am currently working on a series of articles on the political transformation of the American South with two former students (Trey Hood and Quentin Kidd) and a series of articles (and possibly a book) on the role of legalized gambling (particularly lotteries) on the rise of income inequality and the social and political forces that have fostered the rise of legalized gambling. This project is also a team effort with a current graduate student, Liz Freund. Methodologically speaking, my work has been primarily formal and/or quantitative in nature. See Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science (a volume Joe Oppenheimer, Karol Soltan, and I recently edited for Stanford University Press) for a concise description of my orientation toward formal theory. The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community . . . that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same. --J. Q. Adams Time and patience are the great warriors. --L. Tolstoy Copyright (2002) University of Maryland, College Park. All rights reserved. Permission to redistribute the contents without alteration is granted to educational institutions for non-profit administrative or educational purposes if proper credit is given to the University of Maryland, College Park as the source.
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