about dr. poole

Keith T. Poole
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Social Sciences Building, Room 301
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0521
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521

Send E-Mail To: KPoole@ucsd.edu

Ph.D. University of Rochester
Vitae

His research interests include American Political-Economic History, Congress, Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship, and the Political-Economic History of Railroads. He is the author or coauthor of over 40 articles as well as the author of Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a coauthor of Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (forthcoming, MIT Press 2006), Ideology & Congress (forthcoming, Transaction Press 2006), and of Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie-Bosch Foundation, and the Center for Political Economy.