Morris P. Fiorina:
· Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Hoover InstitutionStanford University · Political Economy
Active 1971–2023
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About
Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree from Allegheny College and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 1972, after completing his M.A. in the same field in 1971. Fiorina has taught at Caltech and Harvard before joining Stanford in 1998. His research focuses on American politics, with particular emphasis on the study of representation, public opinion, and elections. He has authored or edited thirteen books and numerous articles on these topics, contributing significantly to the understanding of American political processes. Fiorina has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals across Political Science, Political Economy, Law, and Public Policy, and held leadership roles such as Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. Throughout his career, Fiorina has received several awards, including Career Achievement Awards from the American Political Science Association’s Organized Sections on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior, and Political Organizations and Parties.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Law
- Chemistry
- Epistemology
- Public administration
- History
- Philosophy
- Psychology
Selected publications
America's Polarized Politics: Causes and Solutions
Perspectives on Politics · 2013-09-01 · 24 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingCommentary on contemporary American national politics is almost universally critical. Gridlock reigns: Politics is polarized, government is dysfunctional, and public policy is stalemated. Elected officials barely avoid one cliff only to find themselves on the brink of another. Credit downgrades, debt crises, national bankruptcy, climate catastrophe, and other forms of Armageddon loom. The system is broken.
How to Cure the Ills of Contemporary American Democracy? A Review Essay
Political Science Quarterly · 2021 · 12 citations
1st authorCorrespondingParty Sorting: The Foundations of Polarized Politics
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2015-11-06 · 8 citations
book-chapterSenior author• Whether one looks at partisan, ideological, or issue cleavages, the American electorate shows no evidence of polarization; the middle has not shrunk.
Group Concentration and the Delegation of Legislative Authority
University of California Press eBooks · 2023 · 6 citations
1st authorCorrespondingDivided Government in the States
2019-07-11 · 6 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingDivided government has been defined and discussed primarily in national terms: The Republicans consistently win the presidency while the Democrats win Congress or at least the House of Representatives. Election postmortems in the 1980s regularly emphasized the shallowness of Republican victories. Not only did the Republicans fail to crack the House of Representatives but, in state elections, the Democrats typically captured more than 60 percent of the governorships and legislative seats. The Mic…
Frequent coauthors
- 63 shared
John Ferejohn
- 26 shared
John Turner
- 26 shared
Robert E. Goodin
Australian National University
- 25 shared
Baratz Debnam
University of Westminster
- 25 shared
Gerald A. Strom
Case Western Reserve University
- 25 shared
Lawrence S. Mayer
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- 25 shared
Kenneth M. Roberts
Cornell University
- 25 shared
Gordon Tullock
George Mason University
Education
B.A.
Allegheny College
Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Awards & honors
- Career Achievement Awards from the American Political Scienc…
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