David B. Magleby
Kelly D. Patterson
Kenneth M. Goldstein
Charles H. Franklin

David B. Magleby

David B. Magleby is nationally recognized for his expertise on direct democracy, voting behavior, and campaign finance.  He received his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1973 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently a Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, and Dean of the College of Family Home and Social Science at Brigham Young University, Professor Magleby has also taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Virginia. 

From 1982 to 2000, Professor Magleby organized and directed the KBYU-Utah Colleges Exit Poll, a statewide poll involving the coordinated efforts of more than 600 students from eight Utah colleges and universities.  Most recently, he has directed several major national studies of soft money and interest group issue advocacy in federal elections.   During the 1998, 2000, and 2002 election cycle he worked with a consortium of scholars to monitor some of the most competitive U.S. House and Senate races.  That research is summarized in his edited books, Outside Money: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 1998 Congressional Elections (2000), The Other Campaign: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections (2003), and The Last Hurrah?: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2002 Congressional Elections (Forthcoming).  He has recently been awarded a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to conduct similar research in 2004. 

Professor Magleby’s other publications include Direct Legislation (1984), The Money Chase: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform (1990), The Myth of the Independent Voter (1992), and several editions of an American government textbook, Government by the People. A past-president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, he has also published numerous articles in political science journals.

Professor Magleby lives in Provo, Utah with his wife, Linda. They are the parents of four children.
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Kelly D. Patterson

Kelly Patterson is the Director of the Center for the Study of Elections Democracy and former chair of the department of political science at Brigham Young University. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. After teaching at Franklin & Marshall College from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Patterson came to Brigham Young University, where his research and teaching activities focus on American politics, political parties, Congress and elections, public opinion, quantitative methods, and political theory.

He is a co-investigator on the 2004 CSED projects monitoring soft money and issue advocacy in competitive federal elections and will also be directing the KBYU-Utah Colleges Exit Poll. He is the author of Political Parties and the Maintenance of Liberal Democracy (Columbia University Press) and the editor of Contemplating the People’s Branch: Legislative Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century. His research articles have appeared in Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, and other research journals in political science. He is a former Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association.

Dr. Patterson and his wife, Jeanene, live in Salt Lake City with their two children, Andrew and Kate.
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Kenneth M. Goldstein

Ken Goldstein is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project (www.polisci.wisc.edu/tvadvertising) and the University of Wisconsin News Lab. Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and combines his academic training with an ear for real politics and an impressive set of political contacts and experience. He is the author of Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America, published by Cambridge University Press, and is also currently at work on a book project on television advertising called Seeing Spots, also under contract with Cambridge University Press. In addition, his research on political advertising, turnout, survey methodology, Israeli politics, and presidential elections has appeared in numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters.

Goldstein’s reputation for unbiased and non-partisan analysis has made him a favorite source for politicians and the news media alike. He has appeared numerous times on Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, and is a frequent contributor on National Public Radio. He is also quoted extensively in the country’s top newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Goldstein is currently a consultant for the ABC News elections unit and has worked on network election night coverage since 1988. Goldstein’s work on television advertising was used extensively in the congressional debate and litigation revolving around the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and was cited in the Supreme Court’s decision.

Goldstein lives in Middleton, Wisconsin with his wife, Amanda, daughter, Samantha, son, Nathaniel, and yellow lab, sunny.
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Charles H. Franklin

Charles H. Franklin is Professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research on U.S. Senate campaigns, partisanship and the impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on public opinion has appeared in leading political science journals and books. He also specializes in the application of statistical methods in political analysis. His current research focuses on the accuracy of polling and the impact of campaign events and advertising on vote choice.

Franklin is an election night consultant for ABC News and has previously consulted on statistical methods for election night exit polls for Voter News Service. As a speaker for the U.S. State Department he has given over a dozen talks in Germany on U.S. elections. Other consulting has included assessing the validity of polls for the Wisconsin Attorney General's office and providing advice on legislative redistricting.

Franklin is an internationally recognized teacher. At Wisconsin he teaches undergraduate courses on elections, electoral systems and quantitative reasoning. His graduate level courses in statistical methods are taught at Wisconsin, the University of Michigan's ICPSR Summer Program, the University of Oxford's Spring School, the University of Essex's Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Duke University's Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models summer program.

Franklin is past president of the Society for Political Methodology. He served two terms on the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study, the leading academic survey of elections in the United States. He is currently a member of the Council of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest archive of social science data. He is currently a member of the Executive Council of the Midwest Political Science Association and a member of the University of Oxford's Spring School Steering Committee.

Franklin is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is married to Dr. Liane C. Kosaki and they have a four year-old daughter, Anna.