Leonard Ray
Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Department of Political Science
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Voice: (225) 578-2542
Fax: (225) 578-2540

Email:[email protected]

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

Ray, Leonard and Hanne Marthe Narud. "Measuring the Issue Positions of Norwegian Parties: Results from an Expert Survey," Party Politics. Forthcoming.
Ray, Leonard. "Measuring Party Positions on European Integration: Results from an Expert Survey." The European Journal of Political Research. Forthcoming.
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

1999 Norwegian Marshall Fund research grant
1997-1998 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
1997 James W. Prothro Award for Outstanding Research

Leonard Ray Curriculum Vitae

Leonard Ray
Curriculum Vitae