David Bateman is Assistant Professor of Government. His research focuses on American politics, often from a comparative or historical perspective. His current projects include a manuscript on the development of voting rights in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, with particular at...
David Bateman is Assistant Professor of Government. His research focuses on American politics, often from a comparative or historical perspective. His current projects include a manuscript on the development of voting rights in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, with particular attention to periods of disfranchisement; analyses of preference formation, change, and measurement in the U.S. Congress; the collection and analysis of legislative behavior in 19th and early 20th century American states; a study of the development of American state constitutions and their formation in constitutional conventions, referenda, and state legislatures; and a co-authored book manuscript assessing the role of the South in American Political Development. The projects aim to integrate literatures on American political institutions with a close attention to the substance of political conflicts and the meanings that have been conferred on these by participants.