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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian J. Gaines

Brian J. Gaines

Associate Professor
265 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-4367
bjgaines@illinois.edu

Director Graduate Placement
265 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-4367
bjgaines@illinois.edu


Ph.D., Stanford University (1995)

research interests:

  • Elections and voting
  • Political behavior
  • Statistical methods
  • Public Opinion
  • Canadian politics

Major Consulting Activities

  • Occasional Commentator/Political Analyst: WCIA TV 3; WILL TV 12; WICD TV 15; 580 WILL Radio, Urbana-Champaign, IL; WEUI TV 51, Charleston, IL

Chapters in Books

  • "Gubernatorial Incapacity and Succession Provisions" (with Brian D. Roberts). 2005. In The Book of the States 2005 (Vol. 37), Keon S. Chi, ed. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments, 208–214.

  • "Does the United Kingdom Obey Duverger's Law?" 2009. In Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting: The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, Bernard Grofman, André Blais, and Shaun Bowler, ed.s. New York, NY: Springer, 115-134.
  • "Compact Risk: Some Downsides to Establishing National Plurality Presidential Elections." 2009. In Electoral College Reform: Challenges and Possibilities. Gary Bugh, ed. Aldersthot, UK: Ashgate. (forthcoming)

Journal Articles

  • Reassessing the Study of Split-Ticket Voting (with Wendy K. Tam Cho). American Journal of Political Science 48, 1 (January 2004): 152-171.
  • Another Look at Connections Across German Elections (with Christophe Crombez). Journal of Theoretical Politics 16, 3 (July 2004): 289-319.
  • The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined (with James H. Kuklinski and Paul J. Quirk). Political Analysis 15, 1 (Winter 2007): 1-20.
  • Breaking the (Benford) Law: Statistical Fraud Detection and Campaign Finance (with Wendy K. Tam Cho). The American Statistician 61, 3 (August 2007): 218-223.
  • Interpreting Iraq: Partisanship and the Meaning of Facts (with James H. Kuklinski, Paul J. Quirk, Buddy Peyton, and Jay Verkuilen). Journal of Politics 69, 4 (November 2007): 957-974.
  • Typing Together? Clustering of Ideological Types in Online Social Networks (with Jeffery J. Mondak). Journal of Information Technology & Politics 6, 3-4 (July-December 2009): 216-231.
  • The Effect of Local Political Context On How Americans Vote (with Joshua J. Dyck and Daron R. Shaw). American Politics Research 37, 6 (November 2009): 1088-1115.
  • Apportionment Matters: Fair Representation in the US House and Electoral College (with Jeffery A. Jenkins). Perspectives on Politics 7, 4 (December 2009): 847-855.