Barry Burden
Position title: Lyons Family Professor: American Politics | Political Methodology
Email: bcburden@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-6351
Address:
Office: 101A/B North Hall
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Affiliated with La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Education:
Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1998
B.A. Wittenberg University, 1993
Research Interests:
Civic Engagement, Congress, Election Administration, Elections, Gender, Political Parties, Public Opinion, Representation, Voting Behavior
Biography:
Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Elections Research Center and is the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics.
His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, author of Personal Roots of Representation, and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies.
Burden is affiliated with the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, and the Election Administration Project.
Courses:
PS 989: American Politics Workshop Spring 2023
PS 873: American Political Parties Spring 2023
PS 601 Election Reform in America Spring 2018-2019
PS 305 Elections and Voting Behavior Fall 2018-2019
PS 699 Directed Study Summer 2018
PS 873 American Political Parties Fall 2018-2019
PS 989 American Politics Workshop Spring 2017-2018
PS 311 United States Congress Spring 2017-2018
PS 817 Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry Fall 2017-2018
PS 821 Mass Political Behavior Spring 2016-2017
PS 601 Election Reform in America Fall 2016-2017
PS 467 Elections and Voting Behavior Fall 2016-2017
PS 873 American Political Parties Spring 2015-2016
PS 467 Elections and Voting Behavior Spring 2015-2016
PS 817 Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry Fall 2015-2016
PS 426 The U.S. Congress Fall 2015-2016
Awards:
2017-2018
Political Research Quarterly’s Top 20 Outstanding Reviewers of 2017.
2015-2016
Honored Instructor Award, Univeristy Housing.
Vilas Associate Award
Best Paper Award for “How Different Forms of HEalth Matter to Political Participation: The Roles of Cognitive Physical, and General Health.”
Won the Jewell-Loewenberg Prize for the best article published in Legislative Studies Quarterly in 2014.
2014-2015
Vilas Associate Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
2013-2014
Co-author, Robert H. Durr 2013 Award for the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in political science Midwest Political Science Association
Hear from Professor Burden on these episodes of the 1050 Bascom Podcast!