Gary King (political scientist)
- Gary King (political scientist)
Gary King is a published political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is currently the David Florence Professor of Government and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
Biography
In 1980, King graduated "" with a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He earned an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison the next year. He continued graduate studies at UW and received a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1984.
King's career in academia began in 1984, when he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. He joined the faculty of Harvard's Department of Government in 1987 and has taught there since. To date, he has authored or coauthored seven books (six published and one forthcoming) and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters.
elected publications
*"Demographic Forecasting" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, forthcoming), with Federico Girosi
*"Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), edited with Ori Rosen and Martin A. Tanner
*"A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997)
*"" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), with Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba
*"Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference" (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989; reprinted Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998)
*"The Elusive Executive: Discovering Statistical Patterns in the Presidency" (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1988), with Lyn Ragsdale
*"The Presidency in American Politics" (New York and London: New York University Press, 1989), with Paul Brace and Chrstine Harrington
References
*King, Gary. 2006. "Gary King." "Harvard University". Accessed December 4, 2006: http://gking.harvard.edu/homepage.html.
*King, Gary. 2006, November 30. "Curriculum Vitae." "Harvard University". Accessed December 4, 2006: http://gking.harvard.edu/vitae/vitae.pdf.
ee also
*Ecological validity
*Quantitative research
External links
* [http://gking.harvard.edu/homepage.html Gary King's homepage at Harvard University]
* [http://www.iq.harvard.edu/ IQSS: The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University]
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