Curriculum Vita

David C. Kimball
Department of Political Science
University of Missouri-St. Louis
347 SSB
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4499
phone: (314)516-6050
fax: (314)516-7236
e-mail: dkimball@umsl.edu

Education

Ph.D., Political Science
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Degree Received: December 1997
Dissertation: The Divided Voter in American Politics
M.A., Political Science
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Degree Received: 1995
B.A., Political Science and Applied Mathematics
Magna cum laude
Degree Received: 1989
Brown University, Providence, RI

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Employment

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2001-present
Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1998-2001.
Staff Member, Summer Institute in Political Psychology, Ohio State University, 1997.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1993-1996.
Environmental Protection Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989-1992.

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Research Interests

Voting behavior, divided government, and ticket-splitting.
Public support for Congress and its members.
Interest group lobbying in Congress.
Election laws and voting technology.

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Publications

Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball. forthcoming. Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Beth L. Leech, Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, and David C. Kimball. forthcoming. "Organized Interests and Issue Definition in Policy Debates." In Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds, Interest Group Politics, 6th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Marie Hojnacki and David C. Kimball. 2001. "PAC Contributions and Lobbying Access in Congressional Committees." Political Research Quarterly 54(March):161-180.

Marie Hojnacki and David C. Kimball. 1999. "The Who and How of Organizations' Lobbying Strategies in Committee." Journal of Politics 61(November):999-1024.

Marie Hojnacki and David C. Kimball. 1998. "Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in Congress." American Political Science Review 92(December):775-790.

Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball. 1998. "A New Approach to the Study of Ticket-Splitting." American Political Science Review 92(September):533-544.

Samuel C. Patterson and David C. Kimball. 1998. "Unsympathetic Audience: Citizens' Evaluations of Congress," in Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s, Herbert F. Weisberg and Samuel C. Patterson, eds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Stephen Nichols, David C. Kimball, and Paul Allen Beck. 1998. "Voter Turnout in the 1996 Election: Resuming the Downward Spiral?" in Re-Election 1996: How Americans Voted, Herbert F. Weisberg and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, eds. New York: Chatham House Publishers of Seven Bridges Press.

David C. Kimball and Samuel C. Patterson. 1997. "Living Up to Expectations: Public Attitudes Toward Congress." Journal of Politics 59(August):701-728.

Herbert F. Weisberg and David C. Kimball. 1995. "Attitudinal Correlates of the 1992 Presidential Vote: Party Identification and Beyond," in Democracy's Feast: Elections in America, Herbert F. Weisberg, ed. Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers.

David C. Kimball and Herbert F. Weisberg. 1995. "Data Analysis Programs for the Undergraduate Classroom." Social Science Computer Review 13:381-388.

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Other Publications

David Kimball. 2001. Interpreting the 2000 Elections (textbook supplement). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball. 2001. "A New Approach to the Study of Ticket Splitting." In Richard G. Niemi and Herbert F. Weisberg, eds, Controiveries in Voting Behavior, 4th ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.

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Working Papers

"Who's Afraid of an Undervote?" (with Chris T. Owens and Katherine McAndrew)

"As Good as it Gets? Public Approval of Congress in a Partisan Climate"

"A Party Salience Theory of Split-Ticket Voting"

"Where's the Party? Eliminating One-Punch Voting" (with Chris T. Owens)
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Teaching Experience

Political Parties and Elections (PS 235), UMSL, Fall 2001

American Political Parties (POLS 319), SIU-C, Spring 2000, Fall 1999

Introduction to Political Science Research Methods (POLS 300), SIU-C, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001

Regression Analysis in Political Science (POLS 500c), SIU-C, Spring 2001

Graduate Seminar in Political Behavior (POLS 516), SIU-C, Fall 1999

Introduction to American Government (POLS 114), SIU-C, Fall 1998, Spring 1999

Political Campaigns and Elections (POLS 318), SIU-C, Fall 1998, Fall 2000

Graduate Pro-Seminar in American Politics (POLS 510), SIU-C, Spring 1999

Introduction to Political Behavior (P.S. 201), OSU, Summer 1995

Techniques of Political Analysis (P.S. 585), OSU, Fall 1995, Winter 1996, Spring 1996

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Conference Participation

“Who’s Afraid of an Undervote?” (with Chris Owens and Katherine McAndrew), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, November 2001.

“A Party Salience Theory of Split-Ticket Voting,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2001.

“Congressional Elections, Strategic Politicians, and Split-Ticket Voting,” (with Barry Burden), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Antonio, March 9, 2001.

“As Good as it Gets? Public Support for Congress in a Partisan Climate,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2000.

“Collaborative Research on Lobbying” (with Frank Baumgartner, Jeff Berry, Marie Hojnacki, and Beth Leech), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 2000.

“Where’s the Party? Eliminating One-Punch Voting” (with Chris Owens), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2000.

“The Timing of Voting Decisions in Presidential Campaigns” (with Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1999.

"Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Explaining Ticket Splitting Within Districts and States." (with Barry Burden), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 1998.

"The Contribution and Lobbying Strategies of PAC Sponsors in Committee" (with Marie Hojnacki), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 1998.

"The Link Between Party Polarization and Divided Government." presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1998.

"Electoral Change and Swing Voters in Congressional Elections" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, VA, November 1997.

"Who Are the Swing Voters in Congressional Elections?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1997.

"Linking Representation and House Member Behavior to Constituents' Voting Behavior" (with Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Katherine Tate), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1997.

"A New Approach to the Study of Ticket-Splitting" (with Barry Burden), poster presented at the 14th Annual Political Methodology Conference, Columbus, Ohio, July 1997.

"Breaking up Isn't so Hard to do: Ecological Inference and Split-Ticket Voting in the 1988 Presidential Election" (with Barry Burden), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1997.

"Organized Interests' Lobbying Strategies in Committee" (with Marie Hojnacki), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1997.

"Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in Congress" (with Marie Hojnacki), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 1996.

"Socialization to Congressional Roles" (with Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Anthony Mughan), presented at the Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians, Oxfordshire, U.K., August 1996.

"Linking Representation and Campaigns to Voting Behavior" (with Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Katherine Tate), presented at the NES Congressional Research and Development Conference on Congressional Elections, Chicago, March 1996.

"Living Up to Expectations: Public Attitudes Toward Congress," (with Samuel C. Patterson), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1995.

"Assessing Congress: The Priming Effects of the Partisan Context and the Electoral Cycle," poster presented at the 12th Annual Political Methodology Summer Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, July 1995.

"Attitudes Toward Congress: To What Extent Do People Make Use of Cues Provided by Current Events and Elite Discourse?", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1995.

"Party Loyalty in the Ohio House of Representatives" (with Laura W. Arnold, Rosalee A. Clawson, and Zoe M. Oxley), presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, November 1994.

"The 1992 Election: Party Identification and Beyond," (with Herbert F. Weisberg), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, September 1993.

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Awards & Grants

Small Grants Award, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Office of Research Administration ($917), October 2001

National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Lobbying and Issue Definition," with Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, and Beth L. Leech, SES-0111224 ($235,930), 2001

National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Collaborative Research on Lobbying," with Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, and Beth L. Leech, SBR-9905195 ($80,569), 1999

Henry R. Spencer Award (given annually by the Ohio State University Political Science department for the outstanding doctoral dissertation), 1998

Francis R. Aumann Award (given annually by the Ohio State University Political Science department for the best conference paper written by a graduate student) with Barry C. Burden, 1997

Jacobina Aman Award (given annually by the Ohio State University Political Science department for the best seminar paper written by a graduate student), 1996

Invited participant, Political Methodology Section annual meeting, 1995, 1997, and 1998

Multiple Year University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1992-93 & 1996-97

Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University, 1989

Sigma Xi, Brown University, 1989

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Professional Activities

Referee: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Political Behavior, Policy Studies Journal, Illinois Political Science Review

Book manuscript review: A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem, Gary King (1997).

Review of Interest Groups in American Campaigns (by Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox) for Social Science Quarterly, December 2000

Panel Discussant: 2000 MPSA conference, 2001 MPSA conference

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References

Paul Allen Beck (614-292-2880)
Herbert F. Weisberg (614-292-6572)
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (614-292-9642)

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