ANAND EDWARD SOKHEY (The Ohio State University, 2009) joined the CU faculty in 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Anand specializes in American politics, and his work examines the role that social influence plays in voting behavior, political participation, and opinion formation, with a special focus on how people employ their networks when acquiring and processing information. Anand is currently working on a series of papers concerning spatial and contextual patterns of political participation in the 2008 elections, and several experiments relating interpersonal networks to the quality of individual political decision-making.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
PSCI 3051: Public Opinion and Political Behavior

GRADUATE COURSES:
PSCI 7108: Topics in Political Data Analysis (Network Analysis)

Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M. and Anand E. Sokhey. 2009. “Event History Methods and Politics.” In Handbook of Politics: State and Civil Society in a Global Perspective. Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins, eds. Springer.

Djupe, Paul A., Anand E. Sokhey, and Chris Gilbert. 2007. “Present But Not Accounted For? Churches, Institutional Treatment, and Gender Differences in Civic Resources.” American Journal of Political Science. October 51(4): 906-920.