Faculty
Faculty
International Relations and Quantitative Methodology
International migration, transnational terrorism, human trafficking and organized crime, quantitative methods
Areas of interest: U.S. Politics, Racial/Ethnic Minority Political Behavior, Latino Politics, Women and Politics, Political Psychology
Gender and Politics, African Politics, Feminist Theory and Methodology, Comparative Politics
Terrorism and counterterrorism, interstate conflict and security studies, political methodology
Public policy, American politics, public opinion, criminal justice, civil rights, terrorism
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1988
American Politics; interest group politics; Methodology; statistics; agent-based modeling; social choice & game theory; programming; Mathematics
American Politics, Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, Research Methods
American politics, Congress, Interest groups, State legislatures
Loomis works with the Topeka & DC Internships
Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Elections and Voting Behavior, Political Communication, Racial Politics, Survey and Experimental Methods
American Politics, Public Policy, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Research Methods
Security Policy, State Security and Human Rights, Human Rights Law, Non-governmental Actors of World Politics
Comparative politics, political institutions, democratization, Latin American politics
Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished Professor of International Public Opinion and Survey Research.
Comparative Public Opinion, political parties, democratic representation in western and Central-Eastern Europe
PhD Political Science/Political Psychology University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1978
Post-Doc Exchange Fellow, Jury Psychology & Decision Making, Univ. of KS, 1988
Urban Politics, Public Policy, Public Opinion and Public Policy
Foreign Policy, International Political Economy, Financial Markets, Research Methods
Teaching and Research Interests:
Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Parties and Party Systems, Electoral Behavior, Religion and Politics, Nationalism and Politics
History of modern Israel, Israeli politics, Middle-Eastern politics, ethnic politics, urban affairs and local governments, public opinion.
Instructors and Affiliates
International Relations, International Political Economy, American Foreign Policy, the American Presidency, and Political Behavior
Political Campaign Communications
Influence of Gender in Campaigns
public opinion, media, political behavior, political psychology
Rhetoric and Political Communication
Public Sphere Theory
Deliberative Democracy
Civic Engagement
Presidential Rhetoric
Religion, political thought, literary culture, historiography and politics in Britain from 1660–1832.
Environmental Policy, Hazardous Waste, State Politics, Urban Redevelopment
Constitutional Law
Sir Robert is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). In 2005 he was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of the “outstanding services rendered to political, social and economic research and for contribution to government policy and programmes.”
