Michael M. Gant, Ph.D.

Director, Social Science Research Institute
209 UT Conference Center Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-0410 
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Education

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1980.

M.A., Michigan State University, 1976.

A.B., Marshall University, 1972.

 

Research/Teaching Interests

Public Opinion; Political Behavior; Research Methodology

 

Selected/Recent Publications

American Electoral Behavior: 1952-1992, 2nd edition, 1994, F. E. Peacock (with Norman R. Luttbeg).

"Motivations for negative Voting in the 1992 Presidential Election," Southeastern Political Review, 1994, 22(3) (with Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr.).

"A Simple Model of the Determinants of Policy-Based Voting," Southeastern Political Review, 1993, 21(4).

"The Implications of Non-Voting for Democratic Theory," American Politics Quarterly, 21(1) (with William Lyons).

"Presidential Performance, The Expectations Gap, and Negative Voter Support, in Richard W. Waterman (ed.), The Presidency Reconsidered, 1993, F. E. Peacock (with Lilliard E. Richardson, Jr.).

"Partisan Issue Preferences and Partisan Change," Political Behavior, 1990, 12(3) (with Michael D. Martinez).

 

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