Schumaker, Paul

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SCHUMAKER, Paul

SCHUMAKER, Paul. American, b. 1946. Genres: Politics/Government. Career: University of Kansas, Lawrence, assistant professor, 1971-78, associate professor, 1978-90, professor of political science, 1990-, department head, 1981-85, 1998-2003, director of Division of Government, 1984-85, 1998-2003. Publications: (with R. Getter and T. Clark) Policy Responsiveness and Fiscal Strain in Fifty-One American Communities: A Manual for Studying City Politics Using the NORC Permanent Community Sample, 1979, rev. ed., 1983; Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power, 1991; (with D. Kiel and T. Heilke) Great Ideas/Grand Schemes: Political Ideologies in the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1995; (with B. Loomis) Choosing a President: The Electoral College and Beyond, 2001. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to political and social science journals. Address: Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A. Online address: schu@ku.edu

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