Department of Political Science and Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Email: smith@polsci.ucsb.edu
Education:
| A.B. | University of California, Berkeley | 1975 |
| M.A. | University of California, Berkeley | 1976 |
| Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley | 1982 |
Positions:
| 1990-present | Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1986-1990 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1982-1986 | Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 1982 | Lecturer in Politics, Brandeis University |
Selected Publications:
Smith, E.R.A.N. How Political Activists See Offshore Oil Development: An In-depth Investigation of Attitudes on Energy Development. Final Study Report to the Minerals Management Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, July, 1998.
Smith, E.R.A.N. What is public opinion? Critical Review.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and S. Garcia. Californians' attitudes toward energy policy.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and S. Woodlief. Problems with the single peaked preference assumption in the spatial theory of elections.
Fox, R.L. and E.R.A.N. Smith. 1998. The role of candidate sex in voter decision-making. Political Psychology 19:405-419.
Smith, ERAN. 1997. Book Review: What Americans know about politics and why it matters, by M.X.D. Carpini, S. Keeter. Political Science Quarterly 112:314-315.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1996. Book Review: The two majorities - the issue context of modern American politics, B.E. Shafer and W.J.M. Claggett. American Political Science Review 90:438-439.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1996. Book Review: The changing American mind - how and why American public opinion changed between 1960 and 1988, W.G. Mayer. Critical Review 10:95-105.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1996. Book Review: The rational public - fifty years of trends in American policy preferences, B. Page and R. Shapiro. Critical Review 10:95-105.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1996. Book Review: Public opinion in America - moods, cycles and swings, J.A. Stimson. Critical Review 10:95-105.
Squire P. and E.R.A.N. Smith 1996. A further examination of challenger quality in Senate elections. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 421:235-248.
Herrera, R., T. Epperlein and E.R.A.N. Smith. 1995. The stability of congressional roll-call indexes. Political Research Quarterly 48:403-416.
Smith, E.R.A.N., and S.R. Garcia. 1995. Evolving California opinion on offshore oil development. Ocean and Coastal Management 26:41-56.
Squire, P., E.R.A.N Smith, J. Lindsay and C. Covington. 1995. Dynamics of Democracy. Brown-Bennchmark, Madison, Wisconsin. 596p.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1992. Changes in the Public’s political sophistication. In: Controversies in Voting Behavior, 3rd edition, R.G. Niemi and H.F. Weisberg, eds. Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington, D.C. (reprinted from The Unchanging American Voter).
Smith, E.R.A.N., R. Herrera and C.L. Herrera. 1992. Public opinion and congressional representation. Public Opinion Quarterly 56:185-205.
Smith, E.R.A.N., R. Herrera and C.L. Herrera. 1990. The measurement characteristics of congressional roll call indexes. Legislative Studies Quarterly 15:283-295.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and P. Squire. 1990. The effects of prestige names in question wording. Public Opinion Quarterly 54:97-116.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1989. The Unchanging American Voter. The University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and P. Squire. 1988. The effect of partisan information on voters in non-partisan election. J. Politics 50:169-79.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and P. Squire. 1987. State and National Politics in the Intermountain West. In: The Politics of Realignment: Partisan Change in the Intermountain West. Peter Galderisi et al., eds. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and P. Squire. 1987. Direct election of the president and the power of the states. Western Political Quarterly 40:29-44.
Smith, E.R.A.N. and P. Squire. 1984. Repeat challengers in congressional elections. American Politics Quarterly 12:51-70.
Tannenbaue, P., L. Kostrich, E.R.A.N. Smith and M. Berg. 1983. Turned-on television and turned off voters: Policy options for election projections. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, CA.
Smith, E.R.A.N. 1981. "Reply." American Political Science Review 75:152-55.
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