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Irwin L. Morris
Senior Research Fellow
Email: imorris@gvpt.umd.edu
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/imorris/
Irwin L. Morris has been on the faculty at Maryland since the fall of 1998. Prior to that, he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.
Morris' research focuses on the racial/ethnic and class/economic dynamics of American politics and public policymaking. Though his earlier work tended to focus on either racial dynamics (several articles on the racial/ethnic dynamics of public opinion on immigration issues) or economic dynamics (a book and articles on monetary policymaking and a book on the role of campaign contributions in the Clinton impeachment), a portion of his most recent work (primarily on legislative politics and party development in the South) focuses on the intersection of race and economics.
Morris am currently working on a series of articles on the political transformation of the American South with two former students (Trey Hood and Quentin Kidd) and a series of articles (and possibly a book) on the role of legalized gambling (particularly lotteries) on the rise of income inequality and the social and political forces that have fostered the rise of legalized gambling. This project is also a team effort with a current graduate student, Liz Freund. Methodologically speaking, his work has been primarily formal and/or quantitative in nature. See Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science (a volume co-authored with Joe Oppenheimer and Karol Soltan, recently edited for Stanford University Press) for a concise description of Morris' orientation toward formal theory.
   
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