Curriculum Vitae - the Department of Political Science!

October 2009
ROBERT HUCKFELDT
ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS
Office: Department of Political Science Home: 4009 Crondall Drive
University of California at Davis Sacramento, California 95864
Davis, California 95616 (916) 486-8894
(530) 752-0975
email: rhuckfeldt@ucdavis.edu
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Elementary and Secondary Education: Los Angeles, California
Marital and Family Status: married with three adult children
HIGHER EDUCATION
Concordia College
Seward, Nebraska
B.S., 1973
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
Chicago, Illinois
M.A., 1974
Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
Ph.D., 1977
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
American politics
networks and contexts in politics
voting, elections, and public opinion
urban politics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Director, Institute of Government Affairs, University of California, Davis, 2009 to present
Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, 2006 to 2009
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis, 2003 to present
Endowed Professor of Human Studies, Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of
Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, 1984 to 2002

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Research Director, Center on Congress, Indiana University, 2001 to 2003
Director, Center for the Study of Participation and Citizenship, Indiana University, 2000 to 2003
Guest Professor, Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim, Germany,
Summer, 2002.
Chair, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1997-2000
Rudolph Wildenmann Guest Professor, Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen,
Mannheim, Germany, Summers of 1998 and 1999
Visiting Scholar, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Summer, 1995
Professor, Department of Political Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New
York, 1994-95
Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, 1991-92
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, 1987 to 1990
Guest Professor, Zentrum fuer Umfragen Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim, Summers, 1986
and 1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1981 to 1984
Associate Director, Institute of Government Research, Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, 1981
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, 1979-1981
Assistant Faculty Fellow and Director of Social Science Data Achive, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana, 1977-1979
Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri, 1975-1977
Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at
Chicago Circle, Chicago, Illinois, 1973-1974
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Chair, Political Networks Section, American Political Science Association, 2009-2010
President, American Political Science Association Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and
Voting Behavior, 2006-2008
Program Director, Decision-Making, Communication, and Uncertainty. Institute of Government
Affairs, UC Davis. 2005-2009
Vice President, American Political Science Association Section on Elections, Public Opinion,
and Voting Behavior, 2004-2006
Editorial board, Journal of Politics, 1988-1993, 2005-2007, 2009-
Editorial board, American Journal of Political Science, 1985-1988, 2002-2005
Editorial board, Political Behavior, 2005-
Board of Overseers, National Election Studies, 1997-2004
Midwest Political Science Association, 1999-2002: Member of Council, President-Elect,
President, and Past President (Presidential term was 2000-2001)
Member of Committee of Visitors for the Review of the National Science Foundation's Political
Science Program, April, 2000
Chair of Planning Committee for the 2000 National Election Study
Chair of Converse Book Award Committee, APSA section on Voting, Elections, and Public
Opinion, 1998
Section Head for Elections, Voting, and Participation at the Midwest Political Science
Association Convention, Chicago, April 1998.
Political Science Panel, National Science Foundation, 1993-95
Long Range Planning Committee, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research,
1993-95
Section Head for Voting and Participation at the Midwest Political Science Association
Convention, Chicago, April, 1991.
Council member, Midwest Political Science Association, 1985-88
Section Head for Analytic Theory and Methods at the Midwest Political Science Association
Convention, Chicago, April, 1985.
Section Head for Parties, Voting, and Elections at the Midwest Political Science Association
Convention, Chicago, 1983.

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ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduated with Distinction, Concordia College, 1973
University Fellowship, Washington University, 1974-1975
1979 E.E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association for the Best
Doctoral Dissertation in American Politics
Award for Best Paper in the Elections and Public Opinion Sections of the 1999 American
Political Science Association Meetings
Rudolph Wildenmann Guest Professor, Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen,
Mannheim, Germany, Summers of 1998 and 1999
Doctor of Letters, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska, 2004
Finalist for the Undergraduate Social Science Teaching Award of the Associated Students of
the University of California at Davis, 2004 and 2008
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Political Behavior and the Social Context of Urban Neighborhoods
EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH
C. L. Johnson and R. Huckfeldt. Bishop's Task Force on Secondary Education, Cleveland
Diocese of the Catholic Church, 1978-1979.
R. Huckfeldt. Technical Assistance Group for Legislative Redistricting, Louisiana House of
Representatives, 1981.
R. Huckfeldt. "Political Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Contexts," National Science
Foundation, 1981-1983. Amount: $94,056 to Lousiana State University and University of
Notre Dame.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. "Collaborative Research on Social Influence in an Election
Campaign," National Science Foundation, 1984-1987. Amount: $150,411 to University
of Notre Dame and Indiana University.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. "Collaborative Research on Social Influence in an Election
Campaign," National Science Foundation, 1987-1991. Amount: $77,778 to Indiana
University
R. Huckfeldt. 1990. "A Conference on the Cross-National Election Project," Funded by the
German Academic Exchange Service and Indiana University.
P. Beck, R. Dalton, and R. Huckfeldt. "Collaborative Research on the Intermediation Process
and Political Decisionmaking," National Science Foundation, 1992-1994. Amount:
$124,999 to Indiana University.

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R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. “Political Information and Communication among Citizens: Human
Capital in an Election Campaign,” National Science Foundation, 1996-1999. Amount:
$299,869 to Indiana University.
PUBLICATIONS
R. Huckfeldt. 1979. "Political Participation and the Neighborhood Social Context," American
Journal of Political Science (August): 579-592.
R. Huckfeldt. 1980. "Variable Responses to Neighborhood Social Contexts: Assimilation,
Conflict, and Tipping Points," Political Behavior, Vol. 2, No. 3: 231-257.
R. Huckfeldt. 1981. "The Dynamics of Political Mobilization, I: A Model of the Mobilization
Process." Newton, Massachusetts: Education Development Center by Birkhauser, Boston.
R. Huckfeldt. 1981. "The Dynamics of Political Mobilization, II: Deductive Consequences and
Empirical Application of the Model." Newton, Massachusetts: Education Development
Center by Birkhauser, Boston.
R. Huckfeldt, C.W. Kohfeld, and Thomas W. Likens. 1982. Dynamic Modeling: An Introduction.
Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Series no.
07-027. Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1982.
R. Huckfeldt. 1983. "The Social Contexts of Ethnic Politics: Ethnic Loyalties, Political Loyalties,
and Social Support," American Politics Quarterly (January): 91-123.
R. Huckfeldt. 1983. "Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Urban Neighborhoods:
Environmental Constraints upon Friendship Choice," American Journal of Sociology
(November): 651-669.
R. Huckfeldt. 1983. "The Social Context of Political Change: Durability, Volatility, and Social
Influence," American Political Science Review (December): 929-944.
R. Huckfeldt. 1984. "Political Loyalties and Social Class Ties: The Mechanisms of Contextual
Influence," American Journal of Political Science (May): 399-417.
R. Huckfeldt. 1986. Politics in Context: Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Neighborhoods. New
York: Agathon Press, 1986.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1987. "Networks in Context: The Social Flow of Political
Information," American Political Science Review (December): 1197-1216.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1988. "Choice, Social Structure, and Political Information: The
Informational Coercion of Minorities," American Journal of Political Science (May): 467-482.
R. Huckfeldt and C.W. Kohfeld. 1989. Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
R. Huckfeldt. 1989. "Noncompliance and the Limits of Coercion: The Problematic Enforcement
of Unpopular Laws," in P.E. Johnson, ed., Formal Theories of Politics: Mathematical

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Modelling in Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 4/5 of Mathematical and Computer Modelling:
533-546.
R. Huckfeldt. 1990. "Structure, Indeterminacy, and Chaos: A Case for Sociological Law,"
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2: 413-433.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1990. "Social Order and Political Chaos: The Structural Setting of
Political Information," chapter 2 in John Ferejohn and James Kuklinski, eds. Information and
Democratic Processes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Pp. 23-58.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1991. "Discussant Effects on Vote Choice: Intimacy, Structure,
and Interdependence," Journal of Politics 53 (May): 122-158.
R. Huckfeldt and C.W. Kohfeld. 1992. "Electoral Stability and the Decline of Class in
Democratic Politics," Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling 16: 223-239.
E. Carmines and R. Huckfeldt. 1992. "Party Politics in the Wake of the Voting Rights Act," in B.
Grofman and C. Davidson, eds. Controversies in Minority Voting. Washington, D.C.:
Brookings.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1992. "Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization: Political
Structure, Social Structure, and the Party Canvass." American Political Science Review
(March): 70-86.
R. Huckfeldt, E. Plutzer, and J. Sprague. 1993. "Alternative Contexts of Political Behavior:
Churches, Neighborhoods, and Individuals," Journal of Politics (May): 365-381.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1993. "Citizens, Contexts, and Politics," in A.W. Finifter (ed.),
Political Science: The State of the Discipline II. Washington, D.C.: American Political
Science Association. Pages 281-303.
R. Huckfeldt and P. Beck. 1994. "Contexts, Intermediaries, and Political Behavior," in L.C. Dodd
and C. Jillson, eds. The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations.
Boulder: Westview Press .
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1995. Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information
and Influence in an Election Campaign. New York: Cambridge University Press.
E. Carmines, R. Huckfeldt, and C. McCurley. 1995. “Mobilization, Counter Mobilization, and the
Politics of Race," Political Geography 14: 601-619.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, R. Dalton, and J. Levine. 1995. “Political Environments, Cohesive Social
Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion,” American Journal of Political Science
39: 1025-1054.
J.J. Mondak, D.C. Mutz, and R. Huckfeldt. 1996. “Persuasion in Context: The Multilevel
Structure of Economic Evaluations,” in D.C. Mutz, P.M. Sniderman, and R.A. Brody (eds.),
Political Persuasion and Attitude Change (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), pp. 249-
266.

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E.G. Carmines and R. Huckfeldt. 1996. “Political Behavior: An Overview,” in R.E. Goodin and
H.-D. Klingemann (eds.), A New Handbook of Political Science (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996), pp. 223-254.
J. Williams and R. Huckfeldt. 1996. "Empirically Discriminating between Chaotic and Stochastic
Time Series." Political Analysis 6: 125-149.
P.A. Beck, R.J. Dalton, A. Haynes, and R. Huckfeldt. 1997. “Presidential Campaigning at the
Grass Roots,” Journal of Politics 59: 1264-1275.
J. Levine, E.C. Carmines, and R. Huckfeldt. 1997. "The Rise of Ideology in the Post-New Deal
Party System, 1972-92," American Politics Quarterly 25: 19-34.
R. Huckfeldt, P.A. Beck, R.J. Dalton, J. Levine, and W. Morgan. 1998. "Ambiguity, Distorted
Messages, and Nested Environmental Effects on Political Communication," Journal of
Politics 60: 996-1030.
R. Dalton, P.A. Beck, and R. Huckfeldt. 1998. "Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows
in the 1992 Presidential Election," American Political Science Review 92: 111-126.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Levine, W. Morgan, and J. Sprague 1998. “Election Campaigns, Social
Communication, and the Accessibility of Discussant Preference,” Political Behavior 20: 263-
294.
R. Lake and R. Huckfeldt. 1998. "Social Networks, Social Capital, and Political Participation,"
Political Psychology 19: 567-584.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Levine, W. Morgan, and J. Sprague. 1999. "Accessibility and the Political Utility
of Partisan and Ideological Orientations," American Journal of Political Science 43: 888-911.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Sprague, and J. Levine. 2000. "The Dynamics of Collective Deliberation in the
1996 Election: Campaign Effects on Accessibility, Certainty, and Accuracy," American
Political Science Review 94: 641-651.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 2000. "Political Consequences of Inconsistency: The Accessibility
and Stability of Abortion Attitudes," Political Psychology 21: 57-79.
R. Huckfeldt, K. Ikeda, and F. Pappi. 2000. "Political Expertise, Interdependent Citizens, and
the Value Added Problem in Democratic Politics," Japanese Journal of Political Science 1:
171-195
R. Huckfeldt. 2001. "The Social Communication of Political Expertise," American Journal of
Political Science 45: 425-438.
K. Ikeda and R. Huckfeldt. 2001. "Political Communication and Disagreement among Citizens
in Japan and the United States," Political Behavior 23: 23-52.
P. Beck, R. Dalton, S. Greene, and R. Huckfeldt. 2002. “The Social Calculus of Voting:
Interpersonal, Media, and Organizational Influences on Presidential Choices,” American
Political Science Review 96: 57-74.

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R. Huckfeldt, P.E. Johnson, and J. Sprague. 2002. "Political Environments, Political Dynamics,
and the Survival of Disagreement," Journal of Politics 64: 1-21.
B. Braybeck and R. Huckfeldt. 2002. "Urban Contexts, Spatially Dispersed Networks, and the
Diffusion of Political Information," Political Geography 21: 195-220.
B. Braybeck and R. Huckfeldt. 2002. “Spatially Dispersed Ties Among Interdependent Citizens:
Connecting Individuals and Aggregates,” Political Analysis 10: 261-275.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Johnson, and J. Sprague. 2004. Political Disagreement: The Survival of
Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks. New York: Cambridge University Press.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Morehouse, and T. Osborn. 2004. “Disagreement, Ambivalence, and
Engagement: The Political Consequences of Heterogeneous Networks,” Political Psychology
26: 65-96.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Mondak, M. Craw, and J. Mendez. 2004. “Terms and Conditions of Candidate
Choice: Partisan versus Ideological Heuristics.” In Christian H.C.A. Henning and Christian
Melbeck (eds.), Interdisziplinäre Sozialforschung: Theorie und Empirische Anwendungen.
Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Franz Urban Pappi. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus
Verlag.
R. Huckfeldt, P.E. Johnson and J. Sprague. 2005. " Individuals, Dyads and Networks:
Autoregressive Patterns of Political Influence," in Alan S. Zuckerman (ed.), The Social Logic
of Politics: Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press.
P.E. Johnson and R. Huckfeldt. 2005. " Agent-Based Explanations for the Survival of
Disagreement in Social Networks," in Alan S. Zuckerman (ed.), The Social Logic of Politics:
Personal Networks as Contexts for Political Behavior. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Mondak, M. Craw, and J. Mendez. 2005. "Making Sense of Candidates:
Partisanship, Ideology, and Issues as Guides to Judgment," Cognitive Brain Research
23:11-23.
R. Huckfeldt, K. Ikeda, and F.U. Pappi. 2005. “Patterns of Disagreement in Democratic Politics:
Comparing Germany, Japan, and the United States,” American Journal of Political Science
49: 497-514.
J. Mondak and R. Huckfeldt. 2006. “The Accessibility and Utility of Candidate Character in
Electoral Decision Making,” Electoral Studies 25: 20-34.
J. Mondak, E. Carmines, R. Huckfeldt, D. Mitchell, S. Schraufnagel. 2007. "Does Familiarity
Breed Contempt: The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes Toward Congress," American
Journal of Political Science 51:34-48.
R. Huckfeldt. 2007. "Information, Persuasion, and Political Communication Networks," in R
Dalton and H.-D. Klingemann (eds.), Oxford, UK: Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior.
R. Huckfeldt, E.G. Carmines, J.J. Mondak, and E. Zeemering. 2007. "Information, Activation,

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and Electoral Competition in the 2002 Congressional Elections," Journal of Politics 69: 798-
812.
R. Huckfeldt. 2007. "Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion," American
Journal of Political Science 51: 978-995.
R. Huckfeldt and J.M. Mendez. 2008. "Moths, Flames, and Political Engagement: Managing
Disagreement within Communication Networks," Journal of Politics 70: 83-96.
M. Buttice, R. Huckfeldt and J.B. Ryan. 2008. "Polarization, Attribution, and Communication
Networks in the 2006 Congressional Elections," Chapter 3 in Jeffrey Mondak and Dona-
Gene Mitchell, eds., Fault Lines: Why the Republicans Lost Congress. New York:
Routledge.
R. Huckfeldt. 2009. "Citizenship in Democratic Politics: Density Dependence and the Micro-
Macro Divide," in Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (eds.), Comparative Politics:
Rationality, Culture, and Structure, 2nd edition, forthcoming.
R. A. Jackson, J.J. Mondak, and R. Huckfeldt . 2009. "Examining the Possible Corrosive Impact
of Negative Advertising on Citizens' Attitude toward Politics," Political Research Quarterly
62: 55-69.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, A.K. Mayer, and J.B. Ryan. 2010. "Politics, Expertise, and
Interdependence within Electorates in Jan E. Leighley (ed.), Oxford Handbook of American
Elections and Political Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
DELIVERED PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
R. Huckfeldt, "The Dynamics of Political Mobilization." Shambaugh Conference on
Mathematics and Undergraduate Political Science Instruction, University of Iowa, December
1977.
C. Sterling and R. Huckfeldt, "The Limits to Legislative Enactment of Higher Voter Participation
in the United States." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
April 19-21, 1979.
C. Sterling and R. Huckfeldt, "Voter Participation: Public Policy and Public Response." Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, August 31 - September
1, 1979 (coauthor with Carleton Sterling).
R. Huckfeldt, "Political Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Neighborhoods: Social Contexts and
Tipping Points." Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Gatlinburg,
Tennessee, November 1-3, 1979.
R. Huckfeldt, "Neighborhood Influence on White Flight and Residential Satisfaction." Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 24-26, 1980.
R. Huckfeldt, "The Social Context and Individual Political Change: Dynamic Models of
Contextual Influence." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Cincinnati, April 16-18, 1981.

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R. Huckfeldt, "Social Contexts, Social Networks, and Politics." Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, New York City, September 1-6, 1981.
R. Huckfeldt and L.C. Marsh, "Worker Dissatisfaction in the Coal Mines: Explaining the 1981
UMWA Vote on Contract Ratification." Annnual Meeting of the Midwest Economics
Association, Chicago, April 1-3, 1982.
R. Huckfeldt, "The Social Context and Political Change: Is Stability the Source of Volatility?"
Invited Lecture, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 15,
1982.
R. Huckfeldt, "Ethnic Neighborhoods, Social Support, and the Persistence of Ethnic Politics."
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, April 29 - May 1,
1982.
R. Huckfeldt, "Social Influence and the Durability of Political Preferences." Annual Meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, October 28-30, 1982.
R. Huckfeldt, C. W. Kohfeld, and D. Stabrowski, "Machine Politics and the Interdependence of
Competing Support Groups." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, April 20-23, 1983.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Social Contexts, Political Environments, and the Dynamics of
Voter Preference." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago,
September 1-4, 1983.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Social Order and Political Chaos." Annual Meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, November 1-3, 1984.
R. Huckfeldt, "The Dynamic Logic of Electoral Competition: Party Coalitions and Racial
Hostility." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 18-
20, 1985.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Social Influence in an Election Campaign." Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 29-September 1, 1985.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Social Order and Political Chaos: The Structural Setting of
Political Information." Conference on Information and Democratic Politics, Urbana, Illinois,
March, 1986.
R. Huckfeldt and C.W. Kohfeld, "Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics." Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1986.
R. Huckfeldt, a series of seven lectures and workshops concerned with contextual analysis and
dynamic models at Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden, und Analysen in Mannheim during
May and June of 1986.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Networks in Context: Problems and Method." Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1986.

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R. Huckfeldt and C.W. Kohfeld, "Empirical Evidence Regarding Race and the Decline of Class
in Electoral Politics." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
April, 1987.
R. Huckfeldt, "Political Networks and Social Contexts." A lecture delivered at Zentrum fuer
Umfragen, Methoden, und Analysen in Mannheim, West Germany, June 1, 1987.
R. Huckfeldt, "Electoral Stability and the Decline of Class in Western Democracies." A lecture
delivered at the University of Cologne, West Germany, June 4, 1987.
R. Huckfeldt, "Noncompliance and the Limits of Coercion: The Problematic Enforcement of
Unpopular Laws." A lecture delivered at the University of Giessen, West Germany, June 11,
1987.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "One-Stage Snowball Sampling: An Experiment in an Election
Campaign." Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Chicago, September, 1987.
R. Huckfeldt, "Measurement Issues in Contextual Research." Prepared for delivery at the first
meeting of the Cross-National Election Project, on March 10-13, 1988, Wakulla Lodge, near
Tallahassee, Florida.
Bettina Brickell, R. Huckfeldt, and J. Sprague, "Gender Effects on Political Discussion: The
Political Networks of Men and Women." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago Hilton and Towers, April 14-16, 1988.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Discussant Effects on Vote Choice: The Political
Interdependence of Discussion Partners." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington Hilton, September 1-4, 1988.
R. Huckfeldt, "Structure, Indeterminacy, and Chaos: A Case for Sociological Law." Paper and
lecture delivered at the University of Cologne, April 4, 1989.
R. Huckfeldt, "Identifying the Political Net." Prepared for delivery at the third meeting of the
Cross-National Election Project, Hotel Watzenhof, Hemsbach, West Germany, April 6-8,
1989.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague, "Social, Political, and Behavioral Bases of Partisanship: The
Relationships Between Parties and Citizens." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2, 1989.
R. Huckfeldt, E. Plutzer, and J. Sprague, "Alternative Contexts of Political Behavior." Prepared
for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
April, 1990.
E. Carmines and R. Huckfeldt, "The Racial Transformation of American Politics: Party Politics in
the Wake of the Voting Rights Act." Prepared for delivery at a meeting of the New England
Historical Association, Newton, Massachusetts, May, 1990.

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R. Huckfeldt, C. Kohfeld, and J. Sprague, "A Dynamic Model of Campaign Information Flow."
Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
San Francisco, September, 1990.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. "Primary Elections, Partisan Contexts, and Strategic Voting: A
Behavioral Evaluation." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, April, 1991.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. "Conversations Among Citizens: Information and Cross Pressures
in an Election Campaign." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1991.
R. Huckfeldt. "One-Party Politics and the Voter Revisited: Strategic and Behavioral Bases of
Partisanship." A lecture delivered at the Merriam Laboratory for Analytic Political Research,
University of Illinois, November 8, 1991.
P. Beck and R. Huckfeldt. "Contexts, Intermediaries, and Political Activity." A paper delivered at
a conference on "The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations,"
sponsored by the Center for the Study of American Politics and the Department of Political
Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, February 20-22, 1992.
T. Carsey and R. Huckfeldt. "Race, Class, and Electoral Behavior: Individual and Contextual
Effects in New York City." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1992.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. "Social Influence and Political Dynamics in an Election
Campaign." Prepared for delivery for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, September, 1992.
E. Carmines, R. Huckfeldt, and C. McCurley. "Mobilization, Counter Mobilization, and the
Politics of Race." Prepared for delivery at a conference on spatial and contextual models of
political behavior, hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis,
State University of New York, Buffalo, October, 1992.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Williams. "Empirically Discriminating between Chaotic and Stochastic Time
Series." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1993.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, and R. Dalton. "Information, Communication, and Politics: The
Intermediation Process in the 1992 Presidential Election." Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1993.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, R. Dalton, and J. Levine. “Political Environments, Cohesive Social
Groups, and the Communication of Public Opinion,”Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1994.
R. Huckfeldt and E. Carmines. “Citizenship Challenges and Intellectual Convergence in the
Study of Political Behavior.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the International
Political Science Association, Berlin, August, 1994.

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R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, and R. Dalton. "Partisan Mobilization in the 1992 Presidential Election.”
Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
New York City, September, 1994.
R. Huckfeldt. “Social Networks, Social Capital, and Human Capital.” Presenter and group leader
at a conference on Geographic Information Analysis and Human Capital Research, Boulder,
Colorado, July 9-12, 1995. Hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and
Analysis, SUNY-Buffalo.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, R. Dalton, and A. Gunnthorsdottir. “Marriage and Gender Effects on
Political Communication.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1995.
R. Huckfeldt, E. Carmines, and C. McCurley. “Successes and Failures of Biracial Coalitions.”
Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, September, 1995.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Beck, and R. Dalton. 1995. “Disagreement, Distorted Messages, and
Environmental Effects on Political Communication.” Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1995.
R. Huckfeldt. 1996. Political Expertise Among Interdependent Citizens. Lecture delivered at the
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, January 19, 1996.
R. Huckfeldt. 1996. “Political Communication in the 1996 Election: Notes from the Field.”
Lecture delivered at the Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri, March 30, 1996.
R. Huckfeldt and F. Pappi. 1996. “Political Expertise Among Interdependent Citizens: The Value
Added Problem in Democratic Politics.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1996.
R. Huckfeldt. 1996. “The Nature of Political Interdependence Among Citizens.” Lecture
delivered at the Departments of Political Science and Communication Studies, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, October 30, 1996.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Levine, W. Morgan, and J. Sprague. 1997. "The Accessibility of Political
Attitudes, Perceptions, and Opinions: Measuring Response Latencies in Survey Research."
Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, April, 1997.
R. Huckfeldt. 1997. "Campaign Effects on Political Communication among Citizens: The
Dynamics of Collective Deliberation in the 1996 Election. Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1997.
R. Huckfeldt. 1997. "The Dynamics of Collective Deliberation." Lecture delivered at the Center
for Political Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 30, 1997.

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R. Huckfeldt. 1997. "Accessibility, Dynamics, and Judgment." Lecture delivered at the
Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, November 7, 1997.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1998. “Extremity, Accessibility, and Certainty: The Role of
Ambivalence Regarding Abortion Rights.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1998.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1998. "Sources of Ambivalence in Public Opinion: The Certainty
and Accessibility of Abortion Attitudes." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
International Society for Political Psychology, Montreal, July, 1998.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Levine. 1998. “Political Majorities, Political Minorities, and Persuasive
Messages in the 1996 Election." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting American
Political Science Association, Boston, September, 1998.
R. Huckfeldt. 1998. "The Collective Consequences of Political Communication and Influence in
Small Groups." Keynote address at the 1998 meetings of the Kansas Political Science
Association, Lawrence, Kansas, November 13, 1998.
R. Huckfeldt. 1999. "The Social Communication of Political Expertise: Individual Judgments
Regarding Political Informants." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1999.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 1999. "Political Environments, Micro-Environments, and the
Dynamics of Political Preference. Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting American
Political Science Association, Atlanta, September, 1999.
B. Baybeck and R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Urban Networks, Urban Contexts, and the Diffusion of
Political Information." Prepared for delivery at a meeting on New Methdologies for the Social
Sciences: The Development and Application of Spatial Analysis for Political Methodology,
Boulder, Colorado, March 10-12.
B. Baybeck and R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Urban Contexts, Spatially Dispersed Networks, and the
Diffusion of Political Information." Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, April, 2000.
R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: What We Have Learned About
Citizen Interdependence in Democratic Politics." Ninth Annual Thomas H. Eliot Memorial
Lecture, Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis. April 24.
R. Huckfeldt, P. Johnson, J. Sprague, and M. Craw. 2000. Influence, Communication, and the
Survival of Political Disagreement among Citizens." Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, September, 2000.
R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Political Activation and the Survival of Disagreement." Lecture delivered at
the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, October 9.
R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Homogeneity, Conformity, and Disagreement in Democratic Politics."
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R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "The Social Communication of Political Expertise." Lecture delivered at the
Department of Social Psychology, University of Tokyo, October 25.
R. Huckfeldt. 2000. "Political Majorities, Political Minorities, and the Dynamics of Electoral
Politics." Sam Clarke Memorial Lecture in Political Science, Western Michigan University,
November 16, 2000.
R. Huckfeldt. 2001. "Avoiding Discomfort vs. Obtaining Useful Information: What Should We
Expect from Political Communication?" Lecture delivered at the Department of Political
Science, Brown University, February 5, 2001.
R. Huckfeldt. 2001. "Political Divergence within Communication Networks: Complexity, Density,
and Spatial Dispersion." Lecture delivered at the Department of Political Science, University
of Pittsburgh, April 13, 2001.
R. Huckfeldt, M. Craw, J. Morehouse. 2001. Accessibility and the Competing Bases of Political
Judgment," Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, April 21, 2001.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Morehouse, and T. Osborn. 2001. Disagreement, Ambivalence, and
Engagement: The Political Consequences of Heterogeneous Networks." Prepared for
delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
September 1, 2001.
R. Huckfeldt. "Political Heterogeneity within Communication Networks: How Much Difference
Does Disagreement Make?" Lectures presented at Princeton University on October 11, 2001
and Columbia University, October 12, 2001.
R. Huckfeldt and P. Johnson. 2002. “Autoregressive Influence and the Durability of Political
Disagreement.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, April 29, 2002, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Sprague. 2002. “Individuals, Dyads, and Networks: Autoregressive Patterns
of Political Influence.” Prepared for delivery at A Conference on the Social Context of
Politics, Brown University, June 2, 2002.
P. Johnson and R. Huckfeldt. 2002. “Agent Based Explanations for the Survival of
Disagreement in Social Networks.” Prepared for delivery at A Conference on the Social
Context of Politics, Brown University, June 3, 2002.
R. Huckfeldt. 2002. “Autoregressive Influence and the Durability of Political Disagreement.”
Lecture presented at Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, Mannheim,
Germany, July 29, 2002.
R. Huckfeldt, J. Mondak, M. Craw, and J. Morehouse. 2002. “Terms and Conditions of
Candidate Choice.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, August 29, Boston.
R. Huckfeldt. “The Durability of Disagreement in Democratic Politics.” Lecture presented at the
University of Illinois on September 13, 2002.

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B. Baybeck, R. Huckfeldt, J. Leighley. 2003. “Politics, Geography, and the Locus of Political
Engagement: What Are the Consequences of Spatially Dispersed Communities?” Prepared
for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April, 2003.
R. Huckfeldt, K. Ikeda, F.U. Pappi. 2003. Agreement and Disagreement in Democratic Politics:
Deliberation Among Citizens in Germany, Japan, and the United States. Prepared for
delivery at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, September,
2003 and the European Consortium for Politcial Research, September 2003.
R. Huckfeldt, E. Carmines, J. Mondak. 2004. “Information, Activation, and Electoral Competition
in the 2002 Congressional Election.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association Convention, January, 2004.
R. Huckfeldt and J. Morehouse Mendez. 2004. “Managing Political Heterogeneity: Persistent
Disagreement within Communication Networks.” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association, April, 2004.
R. Huckfeldt. 2005. “Unanimity, Discord, and the Diffusion of Public Opinion: How Opinion
Variance Affects Communication among Citizens.” Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Convention.” Prepared for delivery at
the annual meeting of the Midwest Politcial Science Association, April, 2005.
R. Huckfeldt. 2005. “Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion.” Lectures
delivered at Florida State University and the University of Washington, April, 2005.
R. Huckfeldt, E.G. Carmines, J.J. Mondak and C. Palmer. “Blue States, Red States, and the
Problem of Polarization in the American Electorate.” Prepared for delivery at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2005.
R. Huckfeldt. “Individuals, Groups, and Political Engagement.” Lectures delivered at Oxford
University and Princeton University. November and December, 2005.
R. Huckfeldt. "Unanimity, Discord, and the Diffusion of Public Opinion: Why Do People
Disagree, and Why Does It Matter?" Lecture delivered at the University of California, San
Diego. February 2006.
R. Huckfeldt, C. Palmer, and J. Ryan. 2006. "Political Innovation, Novel Appeals, and Patterned
Responses: Political and Cognitive Roots of Political Uncertainty," Prepared for delivery at
the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2006.
R. Huckfeldt. "Network Heterogeneity and the Diffusion of Public Opinion." Lecture delivered at
the Mitre Corporation Conference on Cognitive and Mind Sciences, Holiday Inn, Tysons
Corner, Virginia.
R. Huckfeldt. "Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion." Lecture
delivered at Stanford University, May 2006.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, and J.B. Ryan. 2006. "Information Costs, Information Sources, and the
Implications for Democratic Politics." Prepared for delivery at the meetings of the American

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Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.
R. Huckfeldt. "Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion. Lecture delivered
at University of California, Riverside, January 2007.
R. Huckfeldt. "Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion. Lecture delivered
at University of California, Berkeley, February 2007.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, and J.B. Ryan. " Political Expertise, Shared Biases, and Patterns of
Political Communication." Prepared for delivery at the meetings of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, and J.B. Ryan. "Political Judgment, Informational Asymmetries, and
Influence among Citizens." Prepared for delivery at the meetings of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, April 2007.
R. Huckfeldt. “Political Expertise and the Level of Analysis Problem,” and “Unanimity, Discord,
and Endogeneity in Political Communication.” Lectures delivered at the Summer Program
in Political Psychology. Stanford University, July 2007.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, and J.B. Ryan. "Networks, Groups, and Contextual Constraints on
Political Communication." Prepared for delivery at the meetings of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, September 2007.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, and J.B. Ryan. 2008. "Communication, Influence, and Informational
Asymmetries among Voters." Prepared for delivery at the Conference on Social Dilemmas
sponsored by the Research Group for Experimental Social Science at Florida State
University, February 22-23.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, Alex K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan. 2008. "Political Experts and the
collective Enhancement of Civic Capacity." Prepared for delivery at meetings of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2008.
R. Huckfeldt. 2008. "Communication, Influence, and Informational Asymmetries among Voters."
Lecture delivered at the Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, April
2008.
R. Huckfeldt. "Interdependence, Density Dependence, and Networks: Observational
Challenges for Political Analysis." Keynote address at the Networks in Political Science
Conference, Harvard University, June 2008.
R. Huckfeldt. “Political Expertise and the Level of Analysis Problem,” and “Communication,
Influence, and Informational Asymmetries among Voters.” Lectures delivered at the
Summer Program in Political Psychology. Stanford University, July 2008.
T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, Alex K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan. 2008. "Availability and the Centrality
of Experts in the Communication of Political Information." Prepared for delivery at
meetings of the American Political Science Association, Boston, August 2008.
R. Huckfeldt, T.K. Ahn, M. Pietryka, and J. Reilly. 2009. "Self- Reliance, Noisy Information, and
Social Communication in Politics." Prepared for delivery at the annual meetings of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2009.

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T.K. Ahn, R. Huckfeldt, A.K. Mayer, and J.B. Ryan. 2009. Political Experts, Communication
Dominance,and Patterns of Political Bias." Prepared for delivery at the annual meetings of
the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2009.
R. Huckfeldt and S. McClurg. 2009. “The Contradictory Consequences of Ambivalence for
Political Engagement. “ Prepared for delivery at the annual meetings of the American
Political Science Association, Toronto, September 2009