The Mechanics of Election Reform:
Speaker Biographies
Speakers
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alphabetical order):
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Rodolfo O. de la Garza is the Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs University of Texas at
Austin & Vice President for Research Tomas Rivera Policy Institute. His recent work has focused on
political attitudes and participation with particular emphasis on factors affecting voting turnout.
Overall, he is especially interested in the impact that ethnicity, and Latino ethnicity in
particular, has on individual political involvement. His publications include a six volume
series on Latino political attitudes and electoral participation that include: Awash in the
Mainstream: Latinos and the 1996 Elections; Ethnic Ironies: Latinos and the 1992 Elections;
Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics; and Barrio
Ballots: Latinos and the 1990 Elections. He has also published numerous articles related to
electoral participation and public policy in leading professional journals. Currently he is
directing studies on immigrant incorporation, Latinos and U. S. hemispheric integration and
Latino electoral behavior. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Arizona.
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Charles H. Stewart,
III
is Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is currently on the team of political scientists and
technology experts from MIT and Cal Tech who are collaborating on
developing an easy-to-use, reliable, affordable, and secure United
States voting machine. Stewart has been a National Fellow at the
Hoover Institution. He directs the MIT Washington Summer Intern
Program. His many publications focus on the history of the House of
Representatives including Budget Reform Politics: The Design of the Appropriations
Process in the House, 1865-1921 and "The Evolution of the Committee
System in Congress", published in Congress Reconsidered,
7th Edition, Lawrence Dodd and Bruce Oppenheimer, eds. He has a
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Michael W. Traugott is Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science and Chair of
the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests include
politics and the mass media, campaigns and elections, and survey methodology. He is currently
extending previous research on voting-by-mail in Oregon, and he was a participant in an National
Science Foundation conference in October sponsored by the Internet Policy Institute on electronic
voting. The author of 9 books and more than 40 articles and book chapters, his most recent work
focused on a revised edition of The Voter's Guide to Election Polls and an edited volume, Election
Polls, the News Media, and Democracy, both with Paul Lavrakas. He just completed a term as
President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He has consulted for a number
of media and news organizations on their coverage of elections, including networks, newspapers,
and the Voter News Service, the national exit poll operation. A political scientist by training,
he received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of
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David Woods is Professor in the Institute
for Ergonomics at the Ohio State University. He is Immediate Past
President (1998-1999) and Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomic
Society as well as Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and
the American Psychological Association. He has received the Ely
Award for best paper in the journal Human Factors (1994) and a
Laurels Award from
Aviation Week and Space Technology (1995) for research on the human
factors of highly automated cockpits. He has been an advisor to
various government agencies and other organizations on issues
pertaining to human performance and error including the Federal
Aviation Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the
National Patient Safety Foundation, Veterans Health Administration,
several National Research Council panels, and the National Science
Foundation. He is co-author of Behind Human Error, and has
written extensively on human performance, error, and human-computer
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Catherine E. Rudder
(Moderator) is Executive Director of the American Political Science Association.
Prior to this appointment, she was Associate Director of APSA, directing the Congressional Fellowship
Program and editing PS: Political Science and Politics. She joined APSA after serving as
Administrative Assistant to Representative Wyche Fowler of Georgia. She currently serves
as Chair of the National Humanities Alliance. Rudder received her Ph.D. in political
science from Ohio State University and her B.A. from Emory University. She has served on
the Emory Board of Trustees and received the Emory Medal for outstanding university alumni
in 1990. In recent years she has been a Public Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University and a Robert Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
Her areas of expertise are Congress, tax policy making, and nonprofit
institutions.
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The Mechanics of
Election Reform briefing was jointly sponsored by the American Political Science
Association, the
American Psychological Association, and the Consortium of
Social Science Associations in support of the Decade of Behavior theme of
Democracy.
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