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Born | 1968 (age 54–55) |
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Alma mater | Texas A&M University (B.A.) University of Rochester (M.A., Ph.D) |
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Institutions | Rice University,Houston,Texas |
Website | www |
Randolph T. Stevenson is an American political scientist and professor at Rice University [1] in Houston,Texas. [2]
Stevenson’s research focuses on mass political behavior,cabinet formation,and institutional design in Western democracies. His book,The Economic Vote:How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results (co-authored with Raymond Duch),was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press and won the Gregory M. Luebbert award for the best book in comparative politics in 2007 or 2008. [3] His current research projects include book projects exploring the sources of cross-national differences in political knowledge,political interest,and strategic voting. Stevenson has taught graduate-level courses in applied statistics and data science at Rice University,Oxford University,the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis,and the IPSA Summer Schools for Social Science Research Methods at the National University of Singapore and the University of Sao Paulo. [4]
Stevenson attended Brook Hollow Christian High School in Dallas,Texas. In 1991,he completed a bachelor of arts in political science,magna cum laude,at Texas A&M University . He earned a master of arts in political science in 1993 from the University of Rochester and in 1996 a Ph.D in political science,with concentrations in comparative politics,international relations,political methodology,and game theory. He is a member of the Texas A&M chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. [5]
Stevenson was a visiting researcher at the University of Haifa in Israel in 1993,The European University Institute in Florence,Italy in 1994,and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1995. He was an assistant professor of political science at Rice university from 1996-2001,an associate professor from 2001-2008,and has been a full professor since 2008. [6] He served on the board of the American National Election Studies from 2015-2019 and on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science,Political research Quarterly,and Cognition,Psychology,and Behavior. [7] Stevenson's work has been supported by numerous grants from the National Science Foundation. [8] [9] [10]
Stevenson has been a statistical consultant on redistricting cases for the State of Texas,Spring Branch ISD,Islip New York,Ramapo New York,Eastpoint Michigan,the State of Georgia,Gwinnett County Georgia,Richardson ISD,Yakima,Washington,Houston ISD,Grand Prairie ISD,Irving Texas,Farmers Branch Texas,St Gabriel Louisiana,Terrebonne Louisiana,the state of South Carolina,and the state of Arkansas. He is also a founding partner of Workplace Analytics, [11] which was acquired by Russell Reynolds Associates in 2020. [12] Stevenson also played a key role in developing the Impact Genome Project,which is a data analytic platform for evaluating the differential impact of social programs. [13]
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