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وليام بيانكو

Visiting Professor
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Introduction

William Bianco is Visiting Professor at Zayed University and Professor of Political Science at Indiana University – Bloomington.  He received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1987, and has held tenured positions at Indiana, Pennsylvania State University, and Duke University, and visiting positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, and The Brookings Institution. His research is primarily in American politics, particularly legislative politics, in addition to work on comparative legislative institutions and space policy.  He is the author of Trust: Representatives and Constituents as well as numerous scholarly articles, and was PI or Co-PI on six National Science Foundation grants.  He was Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia during 2011-2. 

Research and Professional Activities


Research Interests

  • Managing Innovation 
  • Legislative Institutions
  • Majority Rule

Current Projects

  • Selling Science: Basic Research Meets Partisan Polarization And Pork Barrel Politics
  • Local Compliance with Federal Immigration Directives (with Vanessa Cruz-Nichols and Edan Gomez)
  • Valuing What We Measure, or Measuring What We Value?  How to Build Better Knowledge Indicators (with Donald Gerhart and Sean Nicholson-Crotty)
  • Polarization in Multi-Party Systems (with Christopher Kam, Indridi Indridason, Gyung-Ho Jeong, and Regina Smyth)
  • The Art of the Possible: Majority Rule and the Crises of Modern Democracy (with Christopher Kam, Itai Sened, and Regina Smyth)

 

 

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • POLS 227: Introduction to Political Science 
  • HSS 466: Applied Research Methods 
  • HSS 490: Internship
  • ANT 430: The Americas 

 

 

Bianco, William, Kwok Nok Chan, and Regina A. Smyth.  2018. “Authoritarian Democracy in Practice: Hong Kong's Legislative Council.” Journal of Politics

Bianco, William, Donald Gerhart, and Sean Nicholson-Crotty.  2017. “Waypoints for Evaluating Big Science.” Social Science Quarterly.

Bianco, William, and Eric Schmidt.  2017. “Knowing What We’re Getting: Evaluating Scientific Research on the International Space Station.” Social Science Quarterly

Bianco, William, and David Canon.  2018.  American Politics Today (6th Edition), New York: W. W. Norton.