Brad Lockerbie

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Brad Lockerbie is professor of political science at East Carolina University. Prior to joining the faculty at East Carolina, he was on the faculty at the University of Georgia.

He is author of Do Voters Look to the Future? Economics and Elections published by SUNY Press. He is also author, along with many others, of Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Democracies published by Cambridge University Press. This volume was reprinted by the European Consortium for Political Research as part of their Classics series. He is co-author (with Stephen A. Borrelli) of "A Question of War: Question Wording and Support for the War in Iraq" in Public Opinion Quarterly. He has written extensively on economics and politics, voting behavior, and public opinion polling. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, and many other journals and books.

He is a part of a group of political scientists engaged in election forecasting. His work on forecasting presidential, Senate, and House elections has appeared in several issues of PS: Political Science and Politics starting with the election of 2000. Sage publications has also made this work available in Before the Vote: Forecasting American National Elections.

Lockerbie's most recent research project focuses on the role of religion in American politics. "Race and Religion: Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes" is in Social Science Quarterly.

Lockerbie received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Georgia and a PhD from the University of Iowa.