Lupton, Robert

Bob Lupton's teaching and research interests focus on American politics, specifically public opinion and political and electoral behavior. He has taught courses on the American Presidency, and has assisted in teaching courses on American Government, Congress, Bureaucracy and Introduction to Methods of Political Analysis. He has presented his work at the conference of the Southern Political Science Association. He has also served as Vice-President of the Graduate Student Association. His dissertation focuses on the structure of elite attitudes. The project, which examines elite attitudes over an eighteen-year period, demonstrates their cumulative structure and shows that differences between elite and mass attitudes have consequences for our understanding of public opinion and policy processes. More broadly, his work focuses on the role of sophistication in a wide variety of political attitudes and behaviors. Dissertation Committee: William G. Jacoby (Chair), Paul R. Abramson and Saundra K. Schneider.