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About

Professor Kimball teaches courses in American government, political behavior, parties and elections, interest groups, and research methodology. His research interests include voting behavior, election administration, public opinion, and interest group lobbying. He has participated as an expert in several court cases on election administration, voting rights, and redistricting. He is the co-author of three books: Helping America Vote, Lobbying and Policy Change, and Why Americans Split Their Tickets. He is co-editor of Controversies in Voting Behavior.

Contact Information

Phone: 314-516-6050
Fax: 314-516-7236

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Education/Academic qualification

Political Science, PhD, The Ohio State University

19921997

Political Science, Applied Mathematics, BA, Brown University

19851989

Research Interests

  • American Elections and Voting
  • Campaign Development
  • Election Administration
  • Interest Group Lobbying
  • Lobbying
  • Missouri and St. Louis Politics
  • Public Opinion
  • Campaign Development
  • Data/Institutional Repository: Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Longitudinal Data Collection and Analysis
  • Public Data Sets: American National Election Studies (ANES), Cooperative Congressional Election Survey (CCES), Current Population Survey (CPS), Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), and General Social Survey (GSS)
  • Statistical Methods: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Limited Dependent Analysis, and Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Software Applications: R, STATA
  • Survey Design
  • Visual Representation of Data

Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • American Politics