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Larry M. Bartels is a professor of politics and public affairs and the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton Woodrow Wilson School.
Bartels has published numerous articles on electoral politics, public opinion, the mass media, and political methodology in The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and other leading scholarly journals, and in a variety of edited volumes. His current research projects focus on the American electoral process, the political economy of inequality, and democratic theory.
Bartels's newest book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, will be published in 2008 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation. His first book, Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (Princeton University Press, 1988), received the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the year's best book on government, politics, or international affairs. He has also received the APSA's Franklin L. Burdette and E. E. Schattschneider Awards and the Best Paper Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section (three times), as well as major grants and fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.
Bartels served as chair of the national task force that produced the volume Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence (co-edited with Lynn Vavreck, University of Michigan Press, 2000). In 2001 he served as the pivotal non-partisan member of the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission and was a defendant in a major federal voting rights case, Page v. Bartels. He has also served as chair of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies, president of the Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, and chair of the Princeton University Committee on Public Lectures, and on a variety of other departmental, university, and professional boards and committees.