Randy Stevenson

Course: Categorical Data Analysis (2016)

Randy T. Stevenson is Professor of Political Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University and received both his MA and PhD from the University of Rochester. He is the co-author of The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results (2008), which won the American Political Science Association's Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Politics. His research focuses on political behavior, comparative political economy, the design of democratic institutions, and methodology. It has been published in such leading academic journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, and Public Choice and repeatedly been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. In addition to teaching the graduate statistics sequence in the Department of Political Science at Rice University, he has previously taught how to analyze categorical data at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and the IPSA Summer School at the University of São Paulo.