Leonard Ray
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Political Science, 1998

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Politicizing Europe: Political Parties and the Changing Nature of Public Opinion about the EU.
Dissertation Committee Chair: Gary Marks
Readers: George Rabinowitz, John Stephens, Francois Nielsen, Marco Steenbergen.

MA Political Science, 1992

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis Title: The Determinants of Political Party Structure: A Dialogue between Theory and Cases.

BA Political Science and French, 1990

Tulane University
Honors Thesis Title: Political Underdevelopment and Military Intervention in Politics.

Refereed Publications

2000.   Ray, Leonard and Hanne Marthe Narud. "Measuring the Issue Positions of Norwegian Parties: Results from an Expert Survey," Party Politics. Forthcoming.
1999.   Ray, Leonard. "Measuring Party Positions on European Integration: Results from an Expert Survey." The European Journal of Political Research. Forthcoming.
1998.   Ray, Leonard. "Why We Give: Testing Economic and Social-Psychological Accounts of Altruism." Polity. 30:383-415.

Submissions and Working Papers

• Bratton, Kathleen and Leonard Ray. "Descriptive Representation and Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Municipal Day Care Coverage" Under revision for resubmission to the American Political Science Review.
• Ray, Leonard. "Explaining Party-Electorate Agreement: A Model of the Party-Voter Connection" Resumbitted to Political Behavior.
• Rorie Spill, Michael Licari, and Leonard Ray. "State Attorneys General as Policy Entrepreneurs: An Event History Analysis of the Tobacco Litigation" Under revision for resubmission to Political Research Quarterly.

Teaching Interests

Graduate Comparative Politics Party Systems International Organizations Research Design Bivariate and Multivariate Statistics Formal Theory

Undergraduate European Politics Politics of the European Union French Politics International Relations Constitutions and Electoral Systems International Organizations

Grants and Awards