Gateways to Democracy, Integrated - Softcover

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John G. Geer (PhD, Princeton University) is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, and Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organization at Peabody College at Vanderbilt. He has taught political science at Arizona State University, was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, and a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. A former editor of THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, he has published numerous articles and several books, including IN DEFENSE OF NEGATIVITY: ATTACK ADVERTISING IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS (2006), PUBLIC OPINION AND POLLING AROUND THE WORLD (2004), and FROM TEA LEAVES TO OPINION POLLS (1996). Dr. Geer's undergraduate teaching interests include Introduction to American Government, Public Opinion, Campaigns and Elections, and the Presidency. In 2004, he received the Department of Political Science's Robert Birkby Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. In 2005, he won The College of Arts and Sciences' Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 2009, he won Vanderbilt University's Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching.