Guy D. Whitten

Texas A&M University Phone: (979) 845-2511 Department of Political Science Fax: (979) 847-8924 TAMUS 4348 Email: [email protected] College Station, TX 77843

Current Positions Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts, A&M University. September 2018– Cornerstone Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. September 2015– Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. September 2013– Director, European Union Center, Texas A&M University. April 2008– Previous Positions Cornerstone Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. September 2015–2018. Director, Program in Scientific Political Methodology, Texas A&M University. 2013-2017. Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. 2016-17. Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2013, 2014, 2015. Visiting Professor, Sciences-Po/LIEPP, Paris, Summer 2014. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. 2000-2013. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. 2008-11. Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. 2007-8. Interim Director, European Union Center, Texas A&M University. 2007-8. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. 1994-2000. Co-director, James Earl Rudder Normandy Program, Texas A&M University. Summer 1999. Visiting Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. Spring 1998. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA. 1993-4. Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. 1991-3. Research Assistant and Campaign Staff Member for John Cartwright, MP for Woolwich, UK, 1987.

Academic History Ph.D., Political Science, University of Rochester. 1994. M.A., Political Science, University of Rochester. 1991. B.A., Political Science and History, Magna Cum Laude, University of Rochester. 1988.

1 Selected Works in Progress Books Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, and Guy D. Whitten. The Politics of Budgets: Getting a Piece of the Pie. Under contract with Cambridge University Press. Kellstedt, Paul M. Guy D. Whitten, and Steven Tuch. The Fundamentals of Social Research. Under contract with Cambridge University Press. Notes on Works in Progress and Publications The order of authors’ names does not indicate the relative contribution of the different authors. Underlined names identify my co-authors who were graduate students at the start time of a project.

Peer Reviewed Publications Book Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2009, 2013, 2018. The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge University Press. Portuguese Translation Kellstedt, Paul M. and Guy D. Whitten. 2015. Fundamentos da Pesquisa em Ciêncía Politica. São Paulo: Blucher. Journals Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. Forth- coming. “Comparing Dynamic Pies: A Strategy for Modeling Compositional Variables in Time and Space.” Political Science Research and Methods Wimpy, Cameron and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “What Is and What May Never Be: Economic in Developing Democracies.” Social Science Quarterly. 98:1099-1111. Goidel, Kirby, Keith Gaddie and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “The New World of Comparative Political Communication.” (Preface to special edition) Social Science Quarterly. 98:779-785. Foucault, Martial, Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “Good times, bad times: Taxation and electoral accountability.” Electoral Studies. 45:191-200. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “The Effects of Immi- gration and Integration on European Budgetary Trade-offs.” Journal of European Public Policy. 24(6):912-930. Breunig, Christian, Christine S. Lipsmeyer, and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “Introduction: Polit- ical Budgeting from a Comparative Perspective.” (Preface to special edition) Journal of European Public Policy. 24(6):789-791. Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “Merkwürdig oder nicht? What Economic Voting Models and the 2013 Bundestag Have to Say about Each Other.” German Politics. 26(1):65-82. Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “Dynamic Pie: A strategy for modeling trade-offs in compositional variables over time.” American Journal of Political Science. 60:268-283.

2 Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “Dynsimpie: A Program to Examine Dynamic Compositional Dependent Variables.” Stata Journal. 16(3):662-677. Williams, Laron K., Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do: The Influence of Economic Conditions and Spatial Competition on Party Strategy.” Political Science Research and Methods. 4(1):47-63. Whitten, Guy D. 2016. “Spatial Models of Politics.” (Preface to special edition) Political Science Research and Methods. 4(1):3-4. Gandrud, Christopher, Laron K. Williams and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “Visualize Dynamic Sim- ulations of Autoregressive Relationships in R”, The Political Methodologist. Spring 2016: 6-10. Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. 2015. “The Dynamic Battle for Pieces of Pie–modeling party support in multi-party nations.” Electoral Studies. 39:264-274. Williams, Laron K. and Guy D. Whitten. 2015. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition.” American Journal of Political Science. 59(2):309-325. Lewis-Beck, Michael S. and Guy D. Whitten. 2013. “Economics and elections: effects deep and wide.” (Preface to special edition) Electoral Studies, 32(3):393-395. Palmer, Harvey D., Laron K. Williams, and Guy D. Whitten. 2013. “Who Should be Chef? The dynamics of valence evaluations across income groups during economic crises.” Electoral Studies, 32(3):425-431. Clarke, Harold D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2013. “Hard Choices in Hard Times: Valence Voting in 2009.” Electoral Studies, 32(3):445-451. Williams, Laron K. and Guy D. Whitten. 2012. “But Wait, There’s More! Maximizing Substantive Inferences from TSCS Models.” Journal of Politics, 74(3):685-693. Williams, Laron K. and Guy D. Whitten. 2011. “Dynamic Simulations of Autoregressive Relation- ships.” Stata Journal, 11(4):577-588. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2011. “Through Thick and Thin? The dynamics of gov- ernment support across income groups during economic crises.” Electoral Studies, 30(3):427- 437. Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C. and Guy D. Whitten. 2011. “The Politics of Economic Crisis.” (Preface to special edition) Electoral Studies, 30(3):387-388. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams. 2011. “Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science, 55(1):117-134. Mitchell, Neil J., Kerry G. Herron, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, and Guy D. Whitten. 2007. “Elite Beliefs, Epistemic Communities, and the Atlantic Divide: Foreign and Domestic Policy Preferences in the and European Union” British Journal of Political Science, 37:753-764. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2003. “Ignorance Is No Excuse: Data Mining versus Theoretical Formulation of Hypotheses.” British Journal of Political Science, 33:159-160.

3 Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2003. “Questionable Analyses with No Theoretical Innovation: A Response to Royed, Leyden, and Borrelli.” British Journal of Political Science, 33:139-149. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2000. “Government Competence, Economic Performance and Endogenous Dates.” Electoral Studies, 19:413-426. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 1999. “The Electoral Impacts of Unexpected Inflation and Economic Growth.” British Journal of Political Science, 29:623-639. Whitten, Guy D. and Harvey D. Palmer. 1999. “Cross National Analyses of Economic Voting.” Electoral Studies, 18:49-67. Gabel, Matthew and Guy D. Whitten. 1997. “Economic Conditions, Economic Perceptions, and Public Support for European Integration.” Political Behavior, 19:81-96. Whitten, Guy D. and Henry Bienen. 1996. “Political Violence and Time in Power.” Armed Forces and Society, 23:209-234. Whitten, Guy D. and Harvey D. Palmer. 1996. “Heightening Comparativists’ Concern for Model Choice: Voting Behavior in Great Britain and the Netherlands.” American Journal of Political Science, 40:231-260. Franklin, Mark, Richard Niemi and Guy D. Whitten. 1994. “The Two Faces of Tactical Voting.” British Journal of Political Science, 24:549-556. Niemi, Richard, Guy D. Whitten, and Mark Franklin. 1993. “People Who Live in Glass Houses... Evans and Heath’s Critique of our Note on Tactical Voting.” British Journal of Political Science, 23:549-552. Powell, G. Bingham and Guy D. Whitten. 1993. “A Cross-National Analysis of Retrospective Vot- ing: Integrating Economic and Political Variables.” American Journal of Political Science, 37:391-414. Niemi, Richard, Guy D. Whitten, and Mark Franklin. 1992. “Constituency Characteristics, Indi- vidual Characteristics, and Tactical Voting in the 1987 British General Election.” British Journal of Political Science, 22:229-239.

Book Chapters Silva, Thiago, and Guy Whitten. 2017. “Clarity of Responsibility and Vote Choice.” In The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour, ed. Kai Arzheimer, Jocelyn Evans, and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Samuelson, Charles D. Arnold Vedlitz, Guy D. Whitten, Marty Matlock, Letitia T. Alston, Tarla Rae Peterson, and Susan J. Gilbertz. 2005. “Citizen Participation and Representation in Collaborative Engagement Processes.” in Swimming Upstream: Collaborative Approaches to Watershed Management, edited by Paul A. Sabatier, Will Focht, Mark Lubell, Zev Tra- chtenberg, Arnold Vedlitz, and Marty Matlock. The MIT Press. Whitten, Guy D. 2004. “Could there possibly have been economic voting?” in The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections, edited by Michael Lewis-Beck. Palgrave Macmillan. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. 2002. “Economics, Politics, and the Cost of Ruling in

4 Advanced Industrial Democracies: How Much Does Context Matter?” in Economic Voting, edited by Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor. Routledge.

Other Whitten, Guy D. 2011. “Misspecification,” in the International Encyclopedia of Political Science, eds. Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino. Sage. Whitten, Guy D. 2003. “Contingent Effects,” in the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Meth- ods, eds. Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan E. Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao. Sage.

Teaching Undergraduate Courses Introduction to Political Science Research Public Opinion and Voting Behavior British Politics West European Politics Politics of the European Union Advanced Pluralist Democracies Contemporary Political Problems and Issues–West Europe

Graduate Courses Comparative Political Economy Comparative Political Systems Components of Political Inquiry Quantitative Political Analysis I & II Modern Regression Time Series Applications and Advances Modeling Politics in Time & Space I & II

International Graduate Teaching Instructor, International Political Science Association Summer School for Concepts, Methods, and Techniques in Political Science, Mexico City, Mexico. 2016–. Instructor, International Political Science Association Summer School for Concepts, Methods, and Techniques in Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2010–. Instructor, International Political Science Association Summer School for Concepts, Methods, and Techniques in Political Science, National University of Singapore. 2012–. Instructor, Workshops on Social Science Research, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. 2012– 2014, 2017–. Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2015. Co-taught “Economics and Politics” with Lorena G. Barberia. Instructor, Essex School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex, UK. 2000–2014. Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2014. Taught a short course titled “Research Design and Methodology in Comparative Political Economy.” Instructor, ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. 2014. Instructor, Short course on “Fundamentals of Political Science Research,” Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia. 2014.

5 Visiting Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2013. Taught a short course titled “Comparative Political Economy.” Instructor, Concordia School in Social Science Data Analysis, Montreal. Summer 2009.

Doctoral Advising (Current Appointments in Parentheses) Chair: Thiago Silva, PhD candidate. Chair: Andrew Philips, 2017 (University of Colorado). Chair: Katsunori Seki, 2015 (University of Mannheim, Germany). Chair: Cameron Wimpy, 2014 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Chair: Laron K. Williams, 2008 (University of Missouri, Columbia). Co-chair: Joe Clare, 2006 (Louisiana State University). Co-chair: Melissa Scheier, 2003 (Georgetown College). Member: Seung-Ho An, PhD candidate. Member: Mallory Compton, 2017 (University of Utrecht, Netherlands). Member: Nathan Favero, 2017 (American University). Member: Ohbet Cheon, 2016, Texas A&M University Health Science Center. Member: Amanda Rutherford, 2015 (Indiana University). Member: Carla Flink, 2014 (American University). Member: Erica Socker, 2013 (Brookings Institute). Member: Han Soo Lee, 2009 (University of Iowa). Member: Douglas W. Kuberski, 2009 (Florida State College). Member: David Rossbach, 2008 (Chatham University). Member: Holly Goerdel, 2007 (University of Kansas). Member: Renat Shaykhutdinov, 2007 (Florida Atlantic University). Member: Tetsutya Matsubayashi, 2007 (University of North Texas). Member: Riad Attar, 2006 (Miami University, Ohio). Member: Belinda Bragg, 2006 (Texas A&M University). Member: Eric Gonzalez Juenke, 2004 (Michigan State University).

Grants and Fellowships Principal Investigator, “Getting to Know Europe.” Sponsored by the European Commission. 2008- 2009. $134,852. Co-Principal Investigator, “Development of an Urban Watershed Rehabilitation Method using Stakeholder Feedback to Direct Investigation and Restoration Planning.” Jointly spon- sored by the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and the U.S.

6 Department of Agriculture. 1998-2001. $838,767. Co-Principal Investigator, “Democratization, Economics, and Party Competition in Post-Communist Albania,” 1996-1997. National Science Foundation Grant 9612749. $4,965. Co-Principal Investigator, “Economics and Party Competition in Post-Communist Europe,” Texas A&M University Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant. 1996. British Politics and Society, 1996. Texas A&M University Honors Curriculum Development Grant. Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1991-93. University Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1988-91.

Recent Invited Presentations “Clarity Far and Wide” delivered at the Special Workshop on Coalitions in Presidential Regimes and Clarity of Responsibility in Latin America at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, January 20, 2018. “The Dynamic Pie Project: theory↔methods with dynamic compositional data,” Delivered at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, January 19, 2018. “The Dynamic Pie Project: theory↔methods with dynamic compositional data,” Delivered at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, January 19, 2018. “Dividing government pies: a dynamic compositional approach to political budgeting,” School of Government & Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, November 10, 2017. “A Compositional Methods Approach to CAP Data,” with Christine S. Lipsmeyer, Data and Methods Plenary Session at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Comparative Agen- das Project (CAP), Edinburgh, UK. June 17, 2017. “An Introduction to LATEXfor making scientific documents and presentations,” University of Texas- Dallas, December 12, 2016. “What about the rest of the pie? A dynamic compositional approach to modeling inequality.” With Alyssa Conley and Andrew Philips. Presented at the conference on “Social and Political Inequality,” Vienna University of Economics, September 23-24, 2016. “A New Approach to the Politics of Budgets: Getting a Piece of the Pie” With Christine S. Lipsmeyer. University of Texas, September 14, 2016. “Writing and Publishing Strategies,” National University of Singapore, July 7, 2016. “Writing and Publishing Strategies,” FLACSO Mexico City, June 8, 2016. “Pie in the Sky: testing theories about compositional variables in time and space,” University of Essex, January 15, 2016. “Pie in the Sky: testing theories about compositional variables in time and space,” Washington University, St. Louis, December 15, 2015. “Comparing Dynamic Pies: Modeling the Dynamics of State Expenditures,” Delivered at the Uni- versity of São Paulo, Brazil, August 13, 2015.

7 “Writing and Publishing Strategies,” National University of Singapore, June 17, 2015. “Spatial Meets Spatial: Examining the Role of Party Placement in Economic Voting,” McGill University, April 10, 2015. “Recent Trends in Research on Economic Voting: Lessons Learned and an Agenda for Developing Democracies,” Opening talk at the “Workshop on Economic Voting in Developing Democ- racies,” University of São Paulo, Brazil, February 7, 2015. “Exploring Spatial Robustness,” conference on “Robustness Testing and the Empirical Analysis of Observational Data” Köln Center for Comparative Politics, September 24, 2014. “Let them eat pie–a strategy for modeling dynamic compositions,” National University of Singapore, July 4, 2014. “Dynamic pie: A rich menu of research possibilities,” University of São Paulo, Brazil, May 15, 2014. “The Dynamic Pie Project—A Strategy for Modeling Dynamic Political Tradeoffs,” Instituto de Estudos Socias e Politicos, Rio de Janeiro, May 5, 2014. “Dynamic Battles for Pieces of Pie—A Strategy for Modeling Political Competition,” University of Georgia, April 11, 2014. “Writing and Publishing Strategies,” National University of Singapore, July 17, 2013. “Using Political Methodology To Say Something About Politics,” University of São Paulo, Brazil, March 21, 2013. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition,” Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil, March 15, 2013. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition,” Rice University, December 6, 2012. “Strategic Elites and Economic Voting,” University of São Paulo, Brazil, January 31, 2012. “The Business of Political Science,” “1er Seminario Internacional: Perspectivas empresariales de la Ciencia Política en Colombia” (1st international seminar on business perspectives of political science in Colombia). Organized by the Cifras & Conceptos, Bogotá, Colombia, October 21, 2011. “Hard Choices in Hard Times: Valence Voting in Germany 2009,” conference on “European Re- sponses to Economic Crisis: Lessons for the US,” Indiana University, Bloomington. April 7-8, 2011. “The quest for causal inference - recent developments in the social sciences.” Delivered at the 2nd Annual International Political Science Association Summer School for Concepts Methods and Techniques in Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil, February 8, 2011. “Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” Delivered in the States and Markets Series in the Political Science Depart- ment at the University of Buffalo, NY, October 28, 2010. “But Wait, There’s More! Maximizing Substantive Inferences from TSCS Models.” Delivered at the St. Louis Area Methodology Meetings, Missouri, April 16, 2010.

8 “Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” Delivered at the 1st Annual International Political Science Association Sum- mer School for Concepts Methods and Techniques in Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil, February 3, 2010. “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Maximizing Theoretical Inferences from Empirical Models of Pooled Time Series.” Presented to the Workshop on Social Science Research at Concordia University. Montreal, Canada. 2008. “Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies.” Presented to the Department of Political Science at Rice University, October 26, 2006. “Should we talk about the weather? The influence of economics on campaign messages in parliamen- tary democracies.” Invited Lecture at the University of Texas at Dallas, November 15, 2005.

Conference Presentations Lipsmeyer, Christine, Andrew Philips, and Guy Whitten. “Both sides of the Ledger.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2017. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, Guy Whitten, and Laron K. Williams. “Look Over There. Where? A Compositional Approach to the Modeling of Public Opinion on the Most Important Problem.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2017. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Janica Magat, Andrew Q. Philips, Guy Whitten. “Revenue Tradeoffs in Developing Democracies,” Paper presented at the St. Louis Area Methods Meeting, Columbia, MO, April 2017. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, Guy Whitten, and Laron K. Williams. “Look Over There. Where? A Compositional Approach to the Modeling of Public Opinion on the Most Important Problem.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwestern Political Science Association, 2017. Philips, Andrew Q., Flavio Souza, and Guy D. Whitten. “Federalism and Inequality in Time and Space.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2017. Philips, Andrew Q. and Guy D. Whitten. “Being smarter about the dumbest of dummy variables.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2017. Conley, Alyssa, Andrew Philips, and Guy D. Whitten “What about the rest of the pie? A dynamic compositional approach to modeling inequality.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2016. Lipsmeyer, Christine, Andrew Philips, and Guy Whitten. “Both sides of the Ledger.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2016. Conley, Alyssa, Andrew Philips, and Guy D. Whitten “What about the rest of the pie? A dynamic compositional approach to modeling inequality.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2016.

9 Lipsmeyer, Christine, Andrew Philips, and Guy Whitten. “The Effects of Immigration and In- tegration on European Budgetary Trade-offs.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwestern Political Science Association, 2016. Philips, Andrew and Guy D. Whitten. “Spilling Over Every Side: Economic Voting in Space and Time.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2015. Lipsmeyer, Christine, Andrew Philips, and Guy Whitten. “Taxman, Mr. Wilson, Taxman, Mr. Heath: The Political Economy of Tax Trade-offs.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2015. Foucault, Martial, Katsunori Seki, and Guy D. Whitten. “Good Times, Bad Times: Taxation and Electoral Accountability.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2015. Clark, William R., Vincent Arel-Bundock, Paul M. Kellstedt, and Guy D. Whitten. Does Partisan Bias at the Fed Explain ’The Republican Advantage’? Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, 2015. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Philips, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. “Here, There, Everywhere: Modeling the Dynamics of State Expenditures.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2015. Philips, Andrew and Guy D. Whitten. “Spilling Over Every Side: Benchmarking in Both Space and Time.” Presented at the conference on “Innovations in Comparative Political Methodology,” Texas A&M University, 2015. Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. “Comparing Dynamic Pies.” Pre- sented at the conference on “Innovations in Comparative Political Methodology,” Texas A&M University, 2015. Whitten, Guy D., Cameron Wimpy, and Laron Williams. “X marks the spot: exploring spatial robustness.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2015. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Philips, and Guy D. Whitten. “Dynamic Pie: Modeling Budgetary Tradeoffs Over Time.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2014. Foucault, Martial, Katsunori Seki, and Guy D. Whitten. “Electoral Accountability in European Hard Times.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2014. Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. “The Dynamic Battle for Pieces of Pie: Modeling Party Support in Multi-party Nations.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2014. Wimpy, Cameron and Guy D. Whitten. “What Is and What May Never Be: Economic Voting in Developing Democracies.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2014. Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. “The Dynamic Battle for Pieces of Pie: Modeling Party Support in Multi-party Nations.” Presented at the conference on

10 “Conference on Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elections in Europe & Beyond,” Texas A&M University, 2014. Foucault, Martial, Katsunori Seki, and Guy D. Whitten. “Electoral Accountability in European Hard Times.” Presented at the EUDO Meetings, Florence, Italy, 2013. Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Philips, and Guy D. Whitten. “Whom to Please and How to Do it: the influence of government supporters on tradeoffs in public spending.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2013. Lipsmeyer, Christine S. and Guy D. Whitten. “Whom to Please and How to Do it: the influence of government supporters on public spending.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, Spain, 2013. Seki, Katsunori and Guy D. Whitten. “Clarity in Chaos? Economic Voting in Transitional Polities.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2013. Wimpy, Cameron and Guy D. Whitten. “To Have and to Have Not: Patrimonial Voting in Africa” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2013. Williams, Laron K., Katsunori Seki, and Guy D. Whitten. “The Final Frontier? The Spatial Dynamics of Party Competition.” Presented at the conference on “Spatial Models of Politics in Europe and Beyond,” Texas A&M University, 2013. Harvey D. Palmer, Laron K. Williams, Guy D. Whitten. “Politics between the Polls: Economic Performance and Group Dynamics.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2012. Harvey D. Palmer, Laron K. Williams, Guy D. Whitten. “Politics between the Polls: Economic Performance and Group Dynamics.” Presented at the Shambaugh conference on “The New Economic Voter,” University of Iowa, March 23, 2012. Harvey D. Palmer, Laron K. Williams, Guy D. Whitten. “Group Dynamics and Valence Voting.” Presented at the conference on “Valence Politics and the Continuing Economic Crisis in Comparative Perspective,” March 3, 2012. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams.“Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition.” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2011. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams.“Spatial Economic Voting: Ideological Proximity and Spatial Contagion Effects.” Presented at the annual meetings of the European Political Science Association Meetings, Dublin, Ireland, 2011. Clarke, Harold and Guy D. Whitten. “W ahlen Sie Valenz? Extending the Valence Model of Voting Behavior to a Multiparty Context-Germany 2009.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2010. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Ideology and Macroeconomic Management in Parliamen- tary Democracies.” Presented at the conference on “Democracy, Policy, and Governance: A European Perspective,” Texas A&M, July 23-24, 2010. Clarke, Harold and Guy D. Whitten. “Hard Choices in Hard Times: Valence Voting in Germany 2009.” Presented at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2010.

11 Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Through Thick and Thin? The dynamics of government support across income groups during economic crises.” Presented at the conference on “The Politics of Economic Crisis in Europe and Beyond” at Texas A&M, May 1-2, 2009. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Satisfying the core or campaigning to score: exam- ining multiple economic voting dynamics in the same electorate.” Presented at the Euro- pean Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference in Potsdam, Germany, September 10-12, 2009. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Satisfying the core or campaigning to score: examining multiple economic voting dynamics in the same electorate.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2008. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams. “But wait, there’s more! Making more out of pooled time series models.” Presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2007. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams. “Guns and/or/nor Butter: government ideology, inter- national conflict, and military spending in a relatively secure international environment.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2006. Whitten, Guy D. and Laron K. Williams. “Guns and/or/nor Butter: government ideology, inter- national conflict, and military spending in a relatively secure international environment.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2006. Mitchell, Neil J., Kerry G. Herron, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, and Guy D. Whitten. “International Threat Profiling: How do Scientific Elites Make Assessments?” Paper presented atthe annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2006. Stevenson, Randoph and Guy D. Whitten. “Should we talk about the weather? The influence of economics on campaign messages in parliamentary democracies.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 2005. Stevenson, Randolph and Guy D. Whitten. “Promises, Policies, and Voter Responses in an Open Economy.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Asso- ciation, 2005. Stevenson, Randolph and Guy D. Whitten. “Framing the Economy: The Impact of Economic Circumstances, Ideology, and Incumbency on Party Manifestos.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Political Science Association, 2005. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Government Ideology, Economic Performance, and Macropartisanship.” Paper presented at the annual meetings American Political Science Association, 2004. Brookhart, Alan, Guy D. Whitten, and Edward Yang. “How Much Have the Frozen Cleavages Thawed in Western Europe?” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2004. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Government Ideology, Economic Performance, and Macropartisanship.” Paper presented at the International Social Science Methodology Meet- ings, Cologne, Germany. 2000. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Economic Institutions, Politics, and Retrospective Voting

12 in Advanced Industrial Democracies: How Much Does Context Matter?” Paper presented at the Special Conference on Institutions and Economic Voting, Trondheim, Norway, April 9-12, 2000. Pacek, Alex, Melissa Scheier, and Guy D. Whitten. “Economics, Politics, and Party Choice in a Highly Complex Environment.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1999. Pacek, Alex, Melissa Scheier, and Guy D. Whitten. “Individual-Level Variations in Economic Voting in Central Europe.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1999. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Voter Rationality and the Effects of Unexpected Inflation and Unexpected Growth: Party Support among European Union Citizens from 1976-1992.” Paper presented at the European Community Political Research Workshop, Mannheim, Germany, 1999. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Voter Rationality and the Effects of Unexpected Inflation and Unexpected Growth: Party Support among European Union Citizens from 1976-1992.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1998. Brookhart, Alan M., Harvey D., and Guy D. Whitten. “A Tree-Structured Model of the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1998. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Government Competence, Economic Performance and Endogenous Election Dates.” Paper presented at the conference on “Economics and Elec- tions,” Sandjerg Slot, Denmark, 1998. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “The Influence of Expected and Unexpected Inflation and Growth on Elections.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1997. Bohrer, Robert and Guy D. Whitten. “Party Positions and Citizen Support for European Union in the United Kingdom, 1973-1992.” Paper presented at the workshop on “Change in the Relationship of Parties and Democracy”, Texas A&M University, 1997. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “The Role of Institutional Arrangements, Ideology, and Political Dynamics in Determining Economic Outcomes.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1997. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Cross National Analyses of Economic Voting.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1996. Gabel, Matthew, Harvey D. Palmer and Guy D. Whitten. “Regional Economic Differences and Public Support for European Integration.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, 1996. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Economic Conditions and Endogenous Election Dates: An Econometric Analysis Derived from a Formal Model.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1995. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “A Further Analysis of Cross National Economic Voting: Extending the Powell and Whitten Model.” Paper presented at the European Community

13 Political Research Workshop, Bordeaux, France, 1995. Gabel, Matthew and Guy D. Whitten. “Economic Conditions, Economic Perceptions, and Public Support for European Integration.” Paper prepared for the workshop on “The Economy and Political Behavior” jointly hosted by Rice University and the University of , 1995. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Voting in a Multi Dimensional, Multi Party Environment: Political Behavior in the Netherlands 1967-1989.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1995. Palmer, Harvey D. and Guy D. Whitten. “Heightening Comparativists’ Concern for Model Choice.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1994. Bienen, Henry and Guy D. Whitten. “Political Violence and Time in Power.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1993. Franklin, Mark, Richard Niemi, and Guy D. Whitten. “Constituency Characteristics, Individual Characteristics, and Tactical Voting in the 1987 British General Election. ” Paper pre- sented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1991.

Service and Activities Professional Co-Editor (with Paul M. Kellstedt), “Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences” book series, Cambridge University Press, 2015–. Member, Editorial Board of American Journal of Political Science, 2014–. Member, Editorial Board of Electoral Studies, 2004–. Member, Editorial Board of Political Science Research and Methods, 2012–. Co-organizer, conference “Political Budgeting Across Europe.” December 10-11, 2015. Texas A&M University. (Also, co-editor of a corresponding 2017 special edition of the Journal of Euro- pean Public Policy.) Co-organizer, conference, “Innovations in Comparative Political Methodology” sponsored by the European Union Center, The Program in Scientific Political Methodology, and the Depart- ment of Political Science, Texas A&M University. March 26-27, 2015. Co-organizer, conference, “Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elections in Europe & Beyond” sponsored by the European Union Center, The Program in Scientific Political Methodology, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. February 20-21, 2014. Co-organizer, conference, “Foreign Direct Investment and Labor” sponsored by the European Union Center, The Program on International Conflict and Cooperation, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. May 7-8, 2013. Co-organizer, conference, “Spatial Models of Politics in Europe and Beyond” sponsored by the European Union Center and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. February 21-23, 2013.

14 Member, John T. Williams Dissertation Prize Committee, The Society for Political Methodology. 2009–2013. Chair, John T. Williams Dissertation Prize Committee, The Society for Political Methodology. 2009-2011. Co-organizer, conference, “New Developments in the Cross-National Study of Political Economy and Public Policy” sponsored by the European Union Center, the Project for Equity, Rep- resentation, and Governance, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M Univer- sity. November 1-2, 2012. Co-organizer, conference, “Informal Politics in Multilateral Institutions” sponsored by the European Union Center, The Program on International Conflict and Cooperation, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. October 26-27, 2012. Co-organizer, conference, “Reexamining the ‘Second Image Reversed’: A conference Linking In- ternational and Domestic Politics Focusing on Europe and the West” sponsored by the European Union Center, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. June 8-10, 2012. Co-organizer, conference, “Valence Politics and the Continuing Economic Crisis in Comparative Perspective,” sponsored by the European Union Center, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. March 2-3, 2012. Co-organizer, conference, “Democracy, Policy, and Governance: A European Perspective,” spon- sored by the European Union Center, The Project for Equity, Representation and Gov- ernance, The Program in the Cross-National Study of Politics, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. July 23-25, 2010. Co-editor, The Political Methodologist, the newsletter for the Political Methodology section of the American Political Science Association. 2007-2010. Co-organizer, conference, “The Politics of Economic Crisis in Europe and Beyond,” sponsored by the European Union Center, The Program in the Cross-National Study of Politics, and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. May 1-2, 2009. Participant, National Science Foundation’s “Workshop on the Integration of Emerging Formal and Empirical Methods and Tools to Enhance Social Scientific Development,” Washington, DC. October 29, 2009. Member, Publications Committee for the Political Methodology section of the American Political Science Association. 2007-2009. Member, Regional Screening Committee for the US State Department’s Fulbright-Hays Program for the United Kingdom. 2004, 2008, 2009. Discussant, ”Roundtable: Impact of Objective Economic Conditions and Subjective Economic Evaluations on Individual-Level Voting Choice Cross-Nationally,” American Political Sci- ence Association Meeting, August, 2008. Organizer, conference, ”Analyzing European Politics in the 21st Century,” sponsored by the Euro- pean Union Center and the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University. July 27-30, 2008.

15 Organizer, “Comparative Industrial Democracies” section of the Southern Political Science Associ- ation annual meetings, 2008. Member, Editorial Board of Political Research Quarterly, Fall 2000-Fall 2006. Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Politics, Fall 2000-Fall 2004. Co-organizer, conference, ”Innovations in Comparative Political Methodology,” sponsored by the Department of Political Science and The Program in the Cross-National Study of Politics, Texas A&M University. 1999. Organizer, “Mass Political Behavior” section of the annual meetings of the Southwest Political Science Association, 1998. Reviewer for: the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Armed Forces and Society, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Elec- toral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, National Sci- ence Foundation, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Prentice Hall, Sage Publications, Western European Politics, and World Politics.

College and University Member, College of Liberal Arts Committee for the Strengthening Democracy Initiative, Texas A&M University. 2014–. Member, Texas A&M University Press Faculty Advisory Committee. 2011–. Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. 2008–. Member, Search Committee for Public Policy Research Institute Professorship. 2013-2014. Member, Search Committee for Political Science Department Head (Internal Focus, Spring 2013). Member, International Programs Enhancement and Coordination Committee. 2007-2011. Member, College of Liberal Arts, Graduate Instruction Committee. 2008-2011. Member, International Programs Office Executive Management Team. 2007-2009.

Department of Political Science Mentor for Junior Faculty, 2007–. Co-Chair, Omnibus Search Committee, 2015-2016. Chair, Political Methodology Search Committee, 2014-2015. Member, Promotion Committee for Paul Kellstedt. 2014-2015. Member, Political Methodology Search Committee, 2013-2014. Member, Promotion Committee for Alex Pacek. 2013-2014. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee for Elena McLean. 2013-2014.

16 Member, American Politics Search Committee, 2010-2011. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Political Science. 2005-2011. Chair, Comparative Politics Search Committee. 2009-2010. Member, International Relations Search Committee. 2005-2006. Member, Heads Advisory Committee, Department of Political Science. 2005-2006. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee for Paul Kellstedt. 2005-2006. Chair, Comparative Political Behavior Search Committee, 2003-2004. Member, Political Behavior Search Committee, 2002-2003. Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee for Vesna Danilovic. 2001-2002.

Language Skills English: native language. French: near-fluent speaker and competent reader. German: near-fluent speaker and competent reader. Portuguese: beginner. Spanish: beginner.

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