Paul Allen Beck
Professor of Political Science
Office: 1010 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) 292-7689
email: beck.9@osu.edu
Paul Allen Beck
Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor Beck has has research and teaching interests in political parties, public opinion, and voting behavior. His current research, initially funded with a grant from the National Science Foundation, focuses on the mass media, interpersonal discussion networks, and secondary organizations as intermediaries in elections in modern democracies, including the United States. He is co-PI of a national survey study of the 2004 electorate, which will continue this research program, and a member of the Comparative National Election Project, which brings the US into comparison with over a dozen other democracies. His many articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, and other leading journals. Among other books, he is co-author of Party Politics in America (2003) and of Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1984). He has served in many leadership positions in the discipline, including Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Strategic Planning Committee and of its section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior; Program Chair for annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association; Council Chair of the University Consortium for Political and Social Research; and Vice-President of the Midwest Political Science Association. Beck was honored by the Ohio State University in 2004 as a Distinguished Scholar and has received the American Political Science Association’s 2005 Goodnow Award. He is currently Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Selected Publications:
2002. “The Social Calculus of Voting: Interpersonal, Media, and Organizational
Influences on Presidential Choices.” American Political Science Review 96:57-73. (with Russell Dalton, Steve Green and Robert Huckfeldt)
1998. “Partisan Cues and the Media: Information Flows in the 1992 Presidential Election.” American Political Science Review 92:111-26. (with Russell Dalton and Robert Huckfeldt)
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
