Robert S. Erikson is a political scientist who specializes in American politics. He is a professor of political science at

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Biography

Erikson received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

. He joined the faculty of

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before moving to the

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in 1978. He was appointed Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Houston in 1991 and joined the Columbia University faculty in 1999. He was also a visiting professor at

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and the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

. Erikson's research focuses on political behavior and elections and quantitative methodology. He is the author of the popular textbook ''American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content, and Impact'' and ''The Macro Polity,'' which provided the first comprehensive model of American politics at the system level. Erikson was editor of the ''

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'' from 1982 to 1984. Erikson was elected a fellow of the

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in 2007.

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