Dr. Harvey Palmer

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
The University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677-1848
Phone: (662) 915-7415
Fax: (662) 915-7808
Email: hpalmer@olemiss.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1999
B.A., University of Virginia, 1988

Curriculum Vita

Current Semester Syllabi

Teaching and Research Interests:

American Political Parties and Elections
Comparative Political Behavior
Econometrics
Public Opinion and Political Sophistication
International Political Economy

Journal Publications:

"It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Play the Game: Self-Interest, Social Justice, and Mass Attitudes toward Market Transition," with Raymond M. Duch, American Political Science Review (forthcoming).
"Questionable Analyses with No Theoretical Innovation: A Response to Royed, Leyden, and Borrelli," with Guy D. Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (2003).
"Ignorance is No Excuse: Data Mining versus Theoretical Formulation of Hypothesis," with Guy D. Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (2003).
"Strategic Voting in Post-Communist Democracy?" with Raymond M. Duch, British Journal of Political Science (2002).
"Do Surveys Provide Representative or Whimsical Assessments of the Economy?" with Raymond M. Duch, Political Analysis (2001).
"Heterogeneity in Perceptions of National Economic Conditions," with Raymond M. Duch and Christopher J. Anderson, American Journal of Political Science (2000).
"Government Competence, Economic Performance and Endogenous Election Dates," with Guy D. Whitten, Electoral Studies (2000).
"The Electoral Impacts of Unexpected Inflation and Economic Growth," with Guy D. Whitten, British Journal of Political Science (1999).
"Cross-National Analyses of Economic Voting," with Guy D. Whitten, Electoral Studies (1999).
"Consumer Racial Discrimination: A Reassessment of the Market for Baseball Cards," with Joseph McGarrity and Marc Poitras, Journal of Labor Research (1999).
"Heightening Comparativists' Concern for Model Choice: Voting Behavior in Great Britain and the Netherlands," with Guy D. Whitten, American Journal of Political Science (1996).
"Political Opportunity for Federal Appointment: The Case of Departing Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1961-1992," with Ronald J. Vogel, Journal of Politics (1995).
"Effects of Authoritarian and Libertarian Values on Conservative and Labour Party Support in Great Britain," European Journal of Political Research (1995).
"Understanding Variation in Public Support for European Integration," with Matthew Gabel, European Journal of Political Research (1995).

Recent Contributions to Edited Volumes:

"Conditional Likelihood Ratio Test," "Conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimation," and "Stochastic," entries int he Encyclodpedia of Social Science Research, eds. M. Lewis-Beck, A. Bryman, and T. Futing Liao (London: Sage, 2003).
"The Context of Economic Voting: An Introduction," with Han Dorussen, chapter 1 in Economic Voting, eds. H. Dorussen and M. Taylor (New York: Routledge 2002).
"Economics, Politics, and the Cost of Ruling in Advanced Industrial Democracies: How Much Does Context Matter?" with Guy D. Whitten, chapter 4 in Economic Voting, eds. H. Dorussen and M. Taylor (New York: Routledge 2002).
"Heterogenous Perceptions of Economic Conditions in Cross-Natonal Perspective," with Raymond M. Duch, chapter 7 in Economic Voting, eds. Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor (New York: Routledge 2002)

Recent Conference Papers:

"Improving the Elazar Measure of POlitical Culture: A First Step," with Robert Brown, presented at the 2003 American Political Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
"Investigating Heterogeneity in the Impact of Black Empowerment on Participation," with L. Marvin Overby, presented at the 2003 Southwestern Political Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
"Accounting for Temporal Trends in Party Affect: Negativity versus Neutrality," with Justin Wedeking, presented at the 2002 Southern Political Science Association Meetings, Savannah, GA, and at the 2002 Southwestern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
"Stability of National Economic Evaluations: The Cross-Nation Evidence," with Raymond M. Duch, presented at the 2002 Southern Political Science Association Meetings, Savannah, GA.
"Racial Attitudes, Issue Voting, and Realignment in the South, " with Harold Stanley, presented at the 2002 American Political Science Association Meetings, Boston, MA.
"Government Ideology, Economic Performance, and Macro-Partisanship," with Guy D. Whitten, presented at the 2002 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
"Heuristics, Hillary Clinton, and Health Care Reform: Bivariate Ordered Probit Analysis of Public Attitudes on Health Care Policy," with Chris Lawrence, presented at the 2002 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
"Understanding Temporal Trends in Party Affect: Negativity versus Neutrality," with Justin Wedeking, presented at the 2002 Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
"The European Union: Understanding Issues of Legitimacy and Individual-Level Support for the EU," with Erik Gobel, presented at the 2002 Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
"Modern-Day Robin Hoods or Election-Minded Politicians? Income Redistribution, Pork-Barrel Politics, and Differential Turnout," with Raymond M. Duch, presented at the 2001 Southern Political Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA.
"It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Play the Game: Self-Interest, Social Justice, and the Development of Market Reasoning," with Raymond M. Duch, presented at the 2001 American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
"Sophisticated or Dazed Economic Voters? An Investigation of the Impact of Inflation in Latin America," with Holly T. Reynolds and Timothy Nordstrom, presented at the 2001 American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
"Non-Attitudes or Noisy Measures? A Preliminary Investigation of the Lack of Individual-Level Evidence for the Balancing Model of Ticket Splitting," presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Antonio, TX.
"The Politics of Welfare: A Political-Economic Model of AFDC Benefits," with Ronald J. Vogel, presented at the 2000 American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC.
"Are Ticket Splitters Fools? Evidence of Issue-Oriented Ticket Splitting in U.S. Presidential Elections," presented at the 2000 American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC.
"Making Sense of the Noise in Pocketbook Evaluations: Applying an Adapted Rivers-Vuong Estimator to Account for Distinct Correlated Measurement Error," presented at the 2000 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
"Fact or Fiction? Group Differences in the Accuracy of National Economic Perceptions," with Raymond M. Duch, presented at the 2000 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Awards

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper delivered at the 2002 Southwestern Political Science Association meeting.
Robert H. Durr Award for the best paper delivered at the 2001 Midwest Political Science Association meetings applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem.
Faculty Summer Support Grant, Office of Research, University of Mississippi, 2001.
Herbert H. Lehman Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences and International Affairs from the New York State Education Department, 1988-1992.

Associations and Offices:

Director, Public Policy Research Center, University of Mississippi
Director, Social Science Research Laboratory, University of Mississippi.

Member of:

American Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Society for Political Methodology

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