Faculty

Luskin, Robert
Associate Professor

Office: BAT 3.148
Phone: 512-232-7230
rcluskin@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Luskin received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Research interests:
Professor Luskin has taught at the University of Alabama, Indiana University, and Princeton University, as well as in the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan, the ECPR Summer School at the University of Essex, and the Summer School on Advanced Methods in the Social Sciences at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana; has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Chercheur Associe at the Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique Francaise in Paris; and is currently Chercheur Associe at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, Research Advisor at the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Deliberative Opinion Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been particularly interested in the effects of political information on the texture and outcomes of representative democracy. Among other projects, he is using Deliberative Polls in the U.S. and abroad to examine the empirical dimensions of deliberative democracy and is working on a study of political information in France. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Texas Poll and of the Editorial Boards of Political Analysis and the American Political Science Review.

Field(s) of Study: Methodology; Comparative Politics; American Politics

Recent Publications:
His general interests include public opinion, voting behavior, political psychology, and statistical methods, and he has published papers on these and other topics in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, and other scholarly journals.