Robert Huckfeldt

Robert Huckfeldt is a Professor for Political Science at the University of California at Davis. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of electoral politics, urban politics, political participation, political communication, and public opinion. He is particularly concerned with the networks and contexts that connect individual citizens to one another, to politically relevant groups, and to the communities where they live. His research focuses on the political implications of these networks and contexts for political engagement and participation, political expertise, civic capacity, political preferences and opinions, and for the choices that citizens make.

B.S. Concordia College, Seward, Nebraska 1973
M.A. University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 1974
Ph.D. Washington University, 1977

More at Robert Huckfeldt's web page: http://psfaculty.ucdavis.edu/huckfeldt/

Robert Huckfeldt will be talking on "Unanimity, Discord,
and the Communication of Public Opinion" on May 31 2006, 12-1.30 pm.