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George Franklin Bishop

Professor
Political Science - Tenure-Track Faculty
1103 Crosley Tower
513-556-5078
george.bishop@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Professor of Political Science;Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Public Opinion and Survey Research; Director of the Internet Public Opinion Laboratory; author of numerous articles and book chapters on public opinion, political attitudes, beliefs about God & human origins; and survey research methods;recent publications include The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), article on "Rational Public Opinion or Its Manufacture?" Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society, 2008, Vol. 20:141-157;

Articles in Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion (Greenwood Press,2005) and The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (Sage Publications,2003);and multiple chapters in Survey Questionnaires. Sage Benchmarks Series in Social Research Methods Series (Sage Publications,2004).

Education

Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1973 (Personality & Social Psychology).

Research Interests

Current Projects: 1. Book project with Stephen Mockabee on Taking the Pulse of the Nation (New York:Springer, in preparation); 2. Research project on The Year of Darwin: Americans’ Scientific Knowledge & Beliefs about Human Evolution (to be presented at AAPOR Conference in May); 3. Research paper with Stephen Mockabee on . “Evolution, Religion, and the Culture War in American Politics" (submitted for publication).

Book Chapters

Bishop, George F. “Experiments with the Middle Response Alternative in Survey Questions.” In Caroline Roberts and Roger Jowell (Eds.), Attitude Measurement. Sage Benchmarks Series in Social Research Methods Series, Sage Publications (in press, June 2008)

Bishop, George F., et al., “Opinions on Fictitious Issues: The Pressure to Answer Survey Questions.” In Caroline Roberts and Roger Jowell (Eds.), Attitude Measurement. Sage Benchmarks Series in Social Research Methods Series, Sage Publications (in press, June 2008).

Bishop, George F. “The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls”: Excerpts from the Book, Part I. Political Management 2007 Vol. 1 (22), pp. 3-9. Published by Ukranian Center for Political Management, Kiev, Ukraine

Bishop, George F. “The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls”: Excerpts from the Book, Part II. Political Management 2007 Vol. 5 (26), pp. 3-12. Published by Ukranian Center for Political Management, Kiev, Ukraine

Bishop, George F. “The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls”: Excerpts from the Book, Part III. Political Management 2007 Vol. 6 (27), pp. 22-36. Published by Ukranian Center for Political Management, Kiev, Ukraine.

Bishop, George. “Question Order and Context Effects.” In Samuel Best and Benjamin Radcliff (Eds.), Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, Greenwood Press,
2005

Electronic Journal Articles

Bishop, George F. “Polls Apart on Human Origins.” www.publicopinionpros.com August 2006

Newspaper Articles

Bishop, George. “Why We Keep Getting Snowed by the Polls.” Washington Post, Sunday Outlook, February 3, 2008; B03 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102915.html)

Other Publications

Bishop, George F. “Foreword” to Chunhou Zhang and Michael Margolis. A New Theory of American Electoral Psychology: Beyond Partisanship and Rational Choice. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006