MembersTimothy Nokken
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Houston
447 PGH
Houston, TX 77204-3011
Tel: 713-743-3894
Fax: 713-743-3927
Email: tnokken@mail.uh.edu
Professional Preparation
| B.A. | 1992 | Minnesota State University Moorhead | Political Science and Economics |
| M.A. | 1994 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Political Science |
| Ph.D. | 2009 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Political Science |
Appointments
| 1999-date | Assistant Professor, University of Houston |
| 2002-2003 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program in Political Institutions and Public Choice and Department of Political Science, Michigan State University |
Publications: directly related
Nokken, Timothy P. and Keith T. Poole. 2003. “Congressional Party Defection in American History.” Revise and Resubmit, Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Nokken, Timothy P. 2000. “Dynamics of Congressional Loyalty: Party Defection and Roll Call Behavior, 1947-1997.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 25:417-444.
Jenkins, Jeffrey A. and Timothy P. Nokken. 2000. “The Institutional Emergence of the Republican Party: A Spatial Voting Analysis of the House Speakership Election of 1855-56.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 25:101-130.
Nokken, Timothy P. and Brian R. Sala. 2000. “Confirmation Dynamics: A Model of Presidential Appointments to Independent Agencies.” Journal of Theoretical Politics. 12:91-112.
Nokken, Timothy P. 2003. “Ideological Congruence Versus Electoral Success: Distribution of Party Organization Contributions in Senate Elections 1990-1998.” American Politics Research. 31:3-26.
Publications: other significant
Nokken, Timothy P. 2003. “Roll Call Votes as Exercises in Position Taking: Congressional Reactions to Normal Trade Relation Status for China, 1990-1999.” Congress and the Presidency. Forthcoming, Fall.
Collaborators & Other Affiliations
Collaborators and Co-Editors
William Bernhard, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian Gaines, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Craig Goodman, Department of Political Science University of Houston & Rice University
Jeff Jenkins, Department of Political Science Northwestern University
Keith Poole, Department of Political Science University of Houston
Brian Sala, Department of Political Science University of California – Davis
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Brian Gaines, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Kuklinski, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Nardulli, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian Sala, Department of Political Science University of California – Davis