William J. Crotty

William J. Crotty is the Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Public Life and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. His teaching and research interests include political parties; electoral behavior, political behavior and representation; American politics; presidential nominating systems and procedures; comparative public policy; and democratization processes and development. He has been a recipient of the Samuel J. Eldersveld Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Political Science Association's Political Organization and Parties Section, is a past president of the Policy Studies Organization and of the Midwest Political Science Association. Among his publications are Winning the Presidency 2012 (Paradigm Publishers, 2013); The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance (2012); Winning the Presidency 2008 (Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, 2009), editor/author; and Handbook of Party Politics (London: Sage Publications, 2006) (with Richard S. Katz). He is currently developing the 2012 edition of Winning the Presidency and has a book forthcoming, The Consequences of Polarization: Parties, Politics and Policy (TBA).

His current research agenda includes the following: Research agenda: 1) polarization in politics and its impact on social policy, economics, aging, national health care, minority group interests, and other areas of policy concern; 2) adaption to peace processes in advanced democratic countries with histories of religious ethnic and economic conflict; 3) processes of political and party change over time; 4) presidential agendas and campaign issue positions.