Andrew Dowdle

Andrew J. Dowdle is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Arkansas, Clinton Project coordinator in the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, and editor of The American Review of Politics. His research interests include the institutional evolution of the Presidency, the Presidential nomination process, U.S. parties and elections, and U.S. national government. Using data from the Federal Election Commission, Dowdle has studied the pre-primary period for the past eight Presidential elections. His recent publications include scholarly articles on the proto-modern Presidency, Presidential nomination forecasting, and the "New Hampshire effect" in Presidential primaries. He is currently at work on a book about the Presidential nomination process leading up to the Iowa caucuses. Dowdle received his doctorate in political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and has been with the University of Arkansas since 2003.