Herb Weisberg
Professor
Political Science
2140 Derby Hall
614.292.6572
weisberg.1@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Political Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota (1963)
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan (1968)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Weisberg’s research and teaching interests include voting behavior, legislative behavior, and research methods, with a focus on survey research methods and scaling techniques.
Selected Publications
The American Voter Revisited, with Micahel Lewis-Beck, William Jacoby, and Helmut Norpoth (University of Michigan Press, 2008)
"The Methodological Strengths and Weaknesses of Survey Research," in Handbook of Public Opinion Research, ed. by Donsbach and Traugott (Sage, 2008)
"Electoral Democracy during Wartime: The 2004 U.S. Election" (introduction to special guest-edited issue of Political Behavior, 2007)
"Changing Horses in Wartime? The 2004 Presidential Election," with Dino Christenson (Political Behavior, 2007)
"Understanding the Methodological Strengths and Weaknesses of Survey Research," in Handbook of Public Opinion Research, ed. by Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott (Sage, 2007)
"The U.S. Presidential and Congressional Elections, November 2004" (Electoral Studies, 2005)
The New Science of Survey Research: The Total Survey Error Approach (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
"The Structure and Effects of Moral Predispositions in Contemporary American Politics" (Journal of Politics, 2005)
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election, ed. with Clyde Wilcox (Stanford University Press, 2004)
Controversies in Voting Behavior, with Richard G. Niemi (W.H. Freeman, 1976; 2nd ed., CQ Press, 1984; 3rd ed., CQ Press, 1992; 4th ed., Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001)
Reelection 1996: How Americans Voted, ed. with Janet Box-Steffensmeier (Chatham House, 1999)
Classics in Congressional Politics, ed. with Eric. S. Heberlig and Lisa M. Campoli (Longman, 1999)
Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s, with Samuel C. Patterson (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis, with Jon A. Krosnick and Bruce D. Bowen (W.H. Freeman, 1977; 2nd ed., Scott, Foresman, 1989; 3rd ed., Sage, 1996)
Democracy’s Feast: Elections in America (Chatham House, 1995)
Classics in Voting Behavior, ed. with Richard G. Niemi, (Congressional Quarterly Press, 1992)
Political Science: The Science of Politics (Agathon Press, 1986)
Theory Building and Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, ed. with Herbert B. Asher, W. Phillips Shively and John H. Kessel (University of Tennessee Press, 1984)
Introduction to Data Analysis, with Bruce D. Bowen (W.H. Freeman, 1980)
Probability Models of Collective Decision Making, with Richard G. Niemi (Charles E. Merrill, 1972)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Chair, Political Science Department, The Ohio State University (2005-)
Interim Director, Center for Survey Research, The Ohio State University (2004-05)
President, Midwest Political Science Association (2001-02)
National Science Foundation, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Facility (1997-99)
National Science Foundation, Summer Workshop for Data Analysis for Undergraduate Faculty (1993)
Dirksen Center for Congressional Studies, “Senate Voting on Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices” (1987-88)
Who’s Who in America, 44th ed. (1986-87 on)
National Science Foundation grant for “Partisanship and Voting” (1983-85)
Co-editor, American Journal of Political Science (1979-82)
Mershon Projects
The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: The Election that Rebranded the U.S. Abroad (2009-10)
Electoral Democracy During Wartime: The 2004 U.S. Election (2005); six papers published in special issue of Political Behavior (June 2007)
Assessing the Vitality of Electoral Democracy in the United States: The 2000 Election (2001)
Mershon Center Oversight Committee
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