Ken Goldstein
Areas of expertise: Political communication, voter turnout, Israeli politics, presidential elections, campaign advertising, campaign finance
Regions: U.S., Israel
Languages: English, Hebrew
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: goldstei@polisci.wisc.edu
Office: 608-263-2390
Willing to appear in: All Media
Ken Goldstein is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project (www.polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising) and the University of Wisconsin News Lab. Goldstein is currently on the Board of Overseers for the National Elections Study, the premier survey research project on elections conducted in the scholarly community. 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 the country’s top newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Goldstein’s research in Israel focuses on campaigns and elections with a special concentration on the voting behavior of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He conducted large scale national exit polls of such voters in the 1999 and 2003 Israeli elections.
Key Publications:
- Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America (Cambridge, 1999)
- Seeing Spots (Cambridge, forthcoming)
John Coleman
Areas of expertise: Political parties; voting, campaigns, turnout and elections; campaign finance; congressional parties; presidential politics and leadership; president and Congress; trust and cynicism toward government; political participation; social class and politics; American government and politics; federal budget politics; third parties
Regions: U.S.
Languages: English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: coleman@polisci.wisc.edu
Office: 608-265-3680
Willing to appear in: All media
Professor Coleman's teaching and research interests are in the evolution of the American state and the relationship between changes in the political economy of the United States and its party structure. His current research includes projects on campaign spending, congressional political parties, and the politics of income distribution.
Key Publications:
- Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics, and the Fiscal State (Princeton, 1996)
Awards:
- Emerging Scholar Award, 1997, American Political Science Association, Section on Political Organizations and Parties
- Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Madison, 2001
Charles Franklin
Areas of expertise: elections, campaigns, public opinion, polls, campaigns, statistical analysis
Regions: U.S.
Languages: English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Cell: 608-235-1960
Email: chfrankl@wisc.edu
Willing to appear in: Newspapers, periodicals. Prefers not to be contacted after 9 p.m.
Franklin is a specialist elections, campaigns, voting behavior and public opinion. He is also an expert in polling techniques and statistical analysis of polls and election results. He tracks and analyzes trends in American politics on his blog, Political Arithmetik, which can be found at http://politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com.
Barry Burden
Areas of expertise: Elections, public opinion, Congress
Regions: U.S., Japan (elections)
Languages: English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: bcburden@wisc.edu
Willing to appear in: All Media
Burden's research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He has written about partisanship and split-ticket voting, minor party campaigns, public attitudes toward political leaders, congressional politics, candidate strategies, and voter turnout, among other topics.
Key Publications:
- Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government (University of Michigan Press, with David C. Kimball)
- Uncertainty in American Politics (Cambridge University Press, editor)
- Personal Roots of Representation (Princeton University Press, forthcoming)
Awards:
- Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best social science dissertation completed nationwide between 1998 and 2000
- Emerging Scholar Award given by the Political Organizations and Parties section of APSA for significant research by a scholar receiving her or his doctorate within the past seven years
Kathy Cramer Walsh
Areas of expertise: public opinion, civic engagement, citizen participation, race relations
Regions: U.S.
Languages:English
Contact info: (in order of preference)
Email: kwalsh@polisci.wisc.edu
Office: 608-265-3679
Willing to appear in: Newspapers, periodicals. Prefers not to be contacted after 9 p.m.
Key Publications:
- Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
- Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It (with the other members of the American Political Science Association's Task Force on Civic Engagement and Civic Education, Brookings, 2005)
- -Listening to Difference: Race, Community, and the Place of Dialogue in Civic Life (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)