JOHN P. MCIVER (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1985) returned to the University of Colorado in 1996 after two years as Director of the Political Science Program of the National Science Foundation. McIver taught at the University of Houston prior to joining the University of Colorado faculty in 1987.

McIver's research spans a number of areas from statistics and research methodology to public opinion with a major emphasis on the justice system. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Political Methodology as well as in numerous other journals and books. He is the author of Uni-dimensional Scaling (with Edward G. Carmines) and Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion, Politics, and Policy in the American States with Gerald Wright and Robert Erikson. He is editor of a special issue of the Justice System Journal on court-annexed arbitration programs nationwide.

COURSES:
PSCI 1101: The American Political System
PSCI 2481: Introduction to Legal Processes
PSCI 4224: Rationality, Democracy and Public Policy
PSCI 7011: Core Seminar in American Politics
PSCI 7051: State Politics
PSCI 7095: Advanced Data Analysis

Erikson, Robert S., Gerald C. Wright, and John P. McIver. 2007. “Measuring the Public’s Ideological Preferences in the 50 States: Survey Responses versus Roll Call Data.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 7(2): 141-151.

Wright, Gerald C., Robert S. Erikson, and John P. McIver. 1993. Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion, Politics and Policy in the American States.  New York: Cambridge University Press.