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John Aldrich CV

Pfizer, Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Political Science
Box 90209, Durham, NC 27708-0289
404B Old Chemistry, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0289
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Overview


The Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science, John Aldrich specializes in American politics and behavior, formal theory, and methodology.

Books he has authored or co-authored include Why Parties; Why Parties Matter; Before the Convention; Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models; Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-based Academy and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2020 Elections.

His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, and other journals and edited volumes.

He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He has served as President of the Southern Political Science association, Midwest Political Science Association, and the American Political Science Association.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Pfizer, Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science · 2024 - Present Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Political Science · 2024 - Present Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Recent Publications


The fundamental voter: American electoral democracy, 1952-2020

Book · June 20, 2024 This book asks three questions. How have American national elections changed in the last seventy years? Why have they changed as they did? What are the consequences of these changes for democracy in America? Chapter 1 shows that elections up through 1984 d ... Full text Cite

Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels

Journal Article Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy · February 21, 2024 We have two goals in this paper. First, we provide a unified account of several prominent institutional theories of the Congress, but especially present a model that is consistent with both the Cox-McCubbins theory of party cartels (2005; 2007) and the Ald ... Full text Cite

Duncan Black: Heir to Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Journal Article National Institute Economic Review · November 3, 2023 Duncan Black, like Adam Smith before him, was trained at, and taught at, the University of Glasgow. Like Smith, Black followed the Enlightenment in appreciating the importance of theory and of its empirical applications. Black sought to apply the ideas of ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


DDRIG: The Political Consequences of Loneliness

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Political Science Association · 2024 - 2025

Preparing for the Future of Survey Research

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2021

2019 Jiangsu College Student Summer Camp at Duke

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jiangsu Education Services for International Exchange · 2019 - 2019

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Rochester · 1975 Ph.D.