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Robert Kirby Goidel

Director of Public Policy Research

Phone: 225-578-7588

Office: 222B Journalism Bldg
 

 

:: Ph.D., 1993, University of Kentucky

 

Robert Kirby Goidel joined the faculty of the Manship School in August 2002 as the Director of Public Policy Research. He earned his doctorate at the University of Kentucky in 1993 and has taught previously at the University of Lousiana at Lafayette and Indiana State University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and worked as an editorial columnist for the Terre Haute Tribune-Star. His research interests include political participation, elections and campaign finance, public opinion, and the media and politics.

 

Selected works:

 

Goidel, K. & Chambers, M. (2004). The post-Cold War presidency and public opinion beyond the water's edge. White House Studies.

Maule, Linda S. and Goidel, Robert K. (2003). Adultery, Drugs, and Sex: An Experimental Investigation of Individual Reactions to Unethical Political Behavior by Public Officials, Social Science Journal.

Gross, Donald A. and Robert K. Goidel. (2003). The States of Campaign Finance Reform.  Ohio State University Press.

 

Gross, Donald A., Robert K. Goidel, and Todd G. Shield. (2002).  "State Campaign Finance Regulations and Electoral Competition," American Politics Research 30: 143-165.

 

Gross, Donald A. and Robert K. Goidel. (2001). "The Impact of  State Campaign Finance Laws."  State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 1: 453 - 623.

 

Goidel, Robert K. & Maule, L. (2001). Washington's Fifth Congressional District. in Sunil Ahuja & Robert Dewhirst, eds., The Elections of 2000.
 
Goidel, Robert K. (2000). "If You Report It, Will They Care?" in Tony Eksterowicz and Robert Roberts, eds., Public Journalism and Political Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Shields, Todd G. and Robert K. Goidel.  (April 2000). "Who Contributes? Checkbook Participation, and the Impact of Legal Reforms, 1952-1994." American Politics Quarterly 28: 216-234.

 

Shields, Todd G. and Robert K. Goidel.  (April 2000). "Who Contributes? Checkbook Participation, and the Impact of Legal Reforms, 1952-1994." American Politics Quarterly 28: 216-234.

 

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