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Doug Roscoe

faculty

Douglas Roscoe, PhD

Professor

Political Science

Contact

508-999-8519

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Spruce Hall 0179

Education

2000Loyola University ChicagoPhD

Teaching

  • American politics

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Students will learn how to be an informed consumer of information and make more informed decisions. Topics include distinguishing good arguments from bad ones, interpreting the likelihood of outcomes, understanding the psychology underlying cognitive bias and error, recognizing our own biases and blind spots, and understanding how statistics and illustrations are used to sway opinion. 

Available topics seminar in the field of American politics. Repeatable with change in content.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Available topics seminar in the field of American politics. Repeatable with change in content.

Research

Research interests

  • Political parties and interest groups
  • Elections and political behavior
  • Congress and the legislative process

Select publications

  • Douglas D. Roscoe and Shannon Jenkins (2016).
    Local Party Organizations in the 21st Century

Prof. Roscoe’s academic interests center upon American politics, with a focus on Congress, the president, interest groups, and political parties. He is especially interested in the dynamics of the electoral process and how interest groups and parties shape lawmaking and public policy through electoral politics. Prof. Roscoe is author of the book The Promise of Democratic Equality in the United States (Routledge Press) and co-author of the book Local Party Organizations in the 21st Century (SUNY Press).  His work has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Publius.  Prof. Roscoe has been a co-investigator in a long-running study of local political parties.  In 2011 Prof. Roscoe was a Fulbright Scholar at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China.