David L. Wiltse PhD Briar Cliff University 3303 Rebecca St. Sioux City IA 51104 USA Phone: 712-279-5480 david [dot] wiltse [at] briarcliff.edu EDUCATION PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst, Political Science 2006. MA California State University Fullerton, Political Science, 1996. BA Montana State University, Political Science, 1993. OTHER TRAINING Intercollegiate Consortium of Political and Social Research Summer Program, University of Michigan, 2001. Trans Atlantic Summer Academy, University of Bonn, Germany 1995. A summer institute on European Integration offered to American and European graduate students. ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2013-present Associate Professor Briar Cliff University 2010-2013 Assistant Professor Briar Cliff University 2012 (summer) Visiting Assistant Professor TOBB Economic and Technical University-Ankara, Turkey 2006-2010 Doctor Lecturer Hacettepe University- Ankara, Turkey 2004-2006 Assistant Professor Shippensburg University AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTEREST American National Government, Political Parties, Campaign Finance, American Political Thought and Development, African Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics of Film, and Quantitative Research Methods. COURSES OFFERED American Government, The Presidency, Congress, Political Parties, Elections, American Political Thought, Research Methods, State and Local Government, Comparative Politics, European Politics, African Politics, American Foreign Policy, Politics of Film, and Introduction to Political Science. PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Don t Blame Donors for Ideological Polarization of Political Parties: Ideological Change and Stability Among Political Contributors, 1972-2008. 2012. American Politics Research 40 (3): 499-528
(with Raymond J. La Raja). The Congressional Elections of 2010 and Turkish Interests in the Congress. 2011. Insight Turkey 13 (1): 27-36. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2008 Elections: How much Change Can the Candidate of Hope Bring? 2009. Birikim No 236-7. US Politics after the November Elections 2006. Birikim No. 212 December (with Evren Celik Wiltse). The Electorate s Message to Bush on Iraq 2006. Cumhuriyet-Strateji, November 20. Campaign Finance in America: Reforms, Myths, and Realities 2005. Birikim No. 189, January. WORKING PAPERS Partisan Loyalty? Final preparations being made to submit for publication, most likely to Polity or American Politics Research (with Raymond J. La Raja). CURRENT PROJECTS Ideal point estimation (in two-dimensional ideological space) of roll call votes in the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM), with Emre Erdogan. This work addresses the absence of a consistent, reliable, and Turkish framework to describe political and partisan cleavages in Turkey. Arrested Democratic Development, with Evren Celik Wiltse. An edited volume that discusses the failure of Turkish democracy to consolidate beyond a decidedly illiberal state from a variety of perspectives: political culture, party structures, polarization, civilmilitary relations, and voting behavior. The Endorsement Calculus. Utilizing the general framework established by candidate emergence literature and the data aggregated by Cohen, Karol, Noel, and Zaller (heavily appended), I am modeling the internal calculus that incumbent members of congress and governors use to decide whether or not to endorse a candidate in their party s presidential nomination contest. CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS Partisan Loyalty? Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2013, Chicago IL (with Raymond J. La Raja). Partisan Loyalty? Presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association [in a manner of
speaking, conference cancelled by Hurricane Isaac], September 2012, New Orleans LA (with Raymond J. La Raja). Globalists vs Defensive Nationalists: Testing the Viability of a New Model of Voter Realignment in Turkey. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2011 Chicago IL (with Evren Celik Wiltse). The Turkish-American Relationship: Trouble at the Grass Roots. Invited presentation at The Global Leadership Forum, Bahcesehir University, June 6, 2010 Istanbul. Don t Blame Donors for Partisan Polarization: Ideological Stability Among Political Contributors 1972-2008. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2010 San Francisco, CA (with Raymond La Raja). Rookie Contributors in the 2004 Presidential Elections. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2009 Chicago IL. Brother can you Spare a Dime? Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2008 Chicago IL. Competition and Contributors. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2007 Chicago IL. Creating a Culture of Political Giving: State Campaign Finance Regimes and Individual Contribution Behavior Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2006 Chicago IL. A Culture of Political Giving: Do Campaign Finance Regulations Foster or Inhibit Political Contribution? Presented to the Western Political Science Conference, March 2005 Oakland CA. Mexican Civil Society in the New Era of Globalization. Presented to the Western Political Science Conference, March 2004 Portland OR (with Evren Celik Wiltse). Codetermination and Corporatist Thought in Germany. Presented to the Southwestern Political Science Conference, April 2003 San Antonio TX. Individual vs. Collective Motives in the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002. Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003 Chicago IL (with Vincent G. Moscardelli and Moshe Haspel). Soft Money Strategies. Presented to the Southwestern Political Science Conference, March 2002 New Orleans LA (With Alison Dagnes). Loose Shekels: Campaign Spending in the 2000 Presidential Election. Presented to the Northeastern Political Science Conference, November 2001 Philadelphia PA (With Alison Dagnes).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Editor, African Journal of Political Science and International Relations. 2013-present. Reviewer, American Politics Research and African Journal of Political Science and International Relations. 2013. Vice President, Great Plains Political Science Association. Book proposal reviewer, Continuum International Publishing. Sex Scandals in American Politics. August 2010. Editor, Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division of Policy Planning. 2010. Copy Editor, Perceptions. 2007-2009 and 2011-2012. Advisory Editor (referee), Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, Volume 23:1 Spring 2006 (on Globalization) and volume 23:2 Fall 2006 (on Judaism, Islam, and Christianity). GRADUATE COURSEWORK American Political Thought Political Parties The Presidency The American Founding American Politics Proseminar Politics of Divided Government Modern Political Theory (empirical theory) Ancient Political Thought Modern Political Thought (normative theory) Comparative Politics Proseminar Comparative Political Development European Politics Graduate Statistics I, II, III (Dept. of Sociology) Regression Analysis (ICPSR) Categorical Data Analysis (ICPSR) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Political Science Association Great Plains Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association Western Political Science Association REFERENCES Raymond LaRaja (Dissertation Chair) Associate Professor, Department of Political Science UMass Amherst Amherst MA 01003 413-545-6182 laraja [at] polsci.umass.edu Jeffrey Sedgwick Professor Emeritus, UMass
Sedgwick [at] polsci.umass.edu William Prigge Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science Briar Cliff University 3303 Rebecca St. Sioux City IA 51104 712-279-5473 will.prigge [at] briarcliff.edu C. Nielsen Brasher Professor, Department of Political Science Shippensburg University Shippensburg PA 17257 717-477-1718 cnbras [at] ship.edu