Matthew Joseph Gabel

Department of Political Science                                                               phone:    (859)-257-1771

University of Kentucky                                                                            fax:          (859)-257-7034

1615 Patterson Office Tower                                                                   e-mail:    mjgabe1@uky.edu     

Lexington KY 40506-0027

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1994

M.A., Advanced European Studies, College of Europe, Brugge, Belgium, 1993

M.A., Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 1993

B.A., Political Science, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 1988

Employment and Appointments

Visiting Professor, Nuffield College, Oxford University, Fall 2003.

Director of Graduate Studies, M.P.A. Program, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky, 2001-2003.

Visiting Professor, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, June 2001.

Associate Editor, European Union Politics, Sage Publications, 2000-.

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, 2000-.

Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, University of Michigan, 1996-1998.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, 1994-2000.

Grants

National Science Foundation, The Politics of Supranational Legal Integration.  With Cliff Carrubba. 2000-2002.

U.S. Department of Education, EC-US Cooperation Program in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training. 2003-2006.

Fulbright Foundation. Senior Specialist Program Grant.   2004.  Bulgaria.

Books

Interests and Integration: Market Liberalization, Public Opinion, and European Union. 1998. Univ. of Michigan Press.

Articles

Understanding Public Support for British Membership in the Single Currency (with Simon Hix). Political Studies, Forthcoming.

A Social Choice Approach to Expert Consensus Panels (with Charles Shipan)  Journal of Health Economics. Forthcoming.

Public Support for the European Parliament.  2003. Journal of Common Market Studies 41 (2): 289-308.

The Structure of Citizen Attitudes and the European Political Space (with Chris Anderson). 2002. Comparative Political Studies 35 (8): 893-913.

Defining the EU Political Space: An Empirical Study of the European Elections Manifestos, 1979-1999 (with Simon Hix).  2002. Comparative Political Studies 35 (8): 934-964.

European Integration, Voters, and National Politics. 2000. West European Politics 23:52-72.

Putting Parties in their Place:  Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Manifestos Data (with John Huber). 2000. American Journal of Political Science 44: 94-103.

How to Succeed at Increasing Spending Without Really Trying: The Balanced Budget Amendment and Item Veto (with Greg Hager). 2000. Public Choice 102: 19-23.

Public Opinion and European Integration: An Empirical Test of Five Theories. 1998.  Journal of Politics 60: 333-354.

International Economics and Mass Politics: Market Liberalization and Public Support for European Integration. 1998. American Journal of Political Science 42: 936-953.

The Endurance of Supranational Governance: A Consociational Interpretation of the European Union. 1998. Comparative Politics 30: 463-475.

Citizen Response to Regional Integration in the Americas: The Cases of Costa Rica and El Salvador (with Charles Davis and Kenneth Coleman). 1998. Studies in Comparative International Development 33: 88-109.

Economic Conditions, Economic Perceptions, and Public Support for European Integration (with Guy Whitten).  1997. Political Behavior 19(1):  81-96.

The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws in the 1990 Hungarian election. 1995. Comparative Politics:  205-214.

Understanding Variation in Public Support for European Integration (with Harvey Palmer). 1995. European Journal of Political Research 27:  3-19.

Book Chapters

The Structure of Citizen Attitudes and the European Political Space (with Chris Anderson). 2004. In Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen, eds. European Integration and Political Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Defining the EU Political Space: An Empirical Study of the European Elections Manifestos, 1979-1999 (with Simon Hix).  2004.  In Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen, eds. European Integration and Political Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The Ties that Bind: Partisanship and the Investiture Procedure for the EU Commission President (with Simon Hix).  2002. In M. Hosli and A. Van Deemen, Eds. Institutional Challenges in the European Union.  London: Routledge.

Divided Opinion, Common Currency: The Political-Economy of Public Support for EMU. 2000. In Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden, Eds. The Political Economy of European Monetary Unification. Boulder: Westview Press.

European Integration, Voters, and National Politics. 2000. In S. Hix and C. Goetz, Eds. Eurpoeanised Politics?  London: Frank Cass.

Review Essays

Review of International Trade and Political Conflict. 2004.  Journal of Economics.

Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Data on EU Politics (with Simon Hix and Gerald Schnedier). 2003.  European Union Politics.

Parliamentary Representation in Europe:  Past, Present, and Future. 2002.  Contemporary European History 11 (4): 665-674.

Public Opinion and European Integration:  The State of the Field. European Union Studies Association Review 15(3): 9-10.

Review of Political Theory and the European Union. 2000. Journal of Politics 62 (4): 1256-8.

European Union. 2001. Encyclopedia Britannica.

Working Papers

The Politics of Decision-Making in the European Court of Justice:  The System of Chambers and the Distribution of Cases.  Paper Presented at the ECPR Meetings, October 2003, Marburg.

Off the Record: Unrecorded Votes, Selection Bias, and Roll-Call Vote Analysis (with Cliff Carrubba, et.al.)  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, September 2003.

Estimating the Effect of Elite Consensus on Public Opinion Using Instrumental Variables (with Kenneth Scheve). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2004, Chicago.

Europork: EU Fiscal Policy and Public Support for European Integration (with Guy Whitten and Harvey Palmer).

National Interest, Public Opinion, and European Integration:  A Political-Economy Model of National-Level Public Support (with Harvey Palmer). 

Money for Nothing and the Checks for Free: States, Attorneys General, and Tobacco Cases (with Greg Hager). Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association  Meetings, April 2000, Chicago.

National Politics By Other Means?: Voting Behavior in the European Parliament in the Post-Reform Era (with Clifford Carrubba).  European Parliament Research Program Series.

Roll-Call Votes and Party Discipline in the European Parliament: Reconsidering MEP Voting Behavior (with Cliff Carrubba).  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the APSA, Atlanta, September 1999.

Explaining Multipartism: Evidence from Hungary (with Raymond Duch). Department of Political Science, University of Houston.

Courses

Undergraduate

Introduction to Political Behavior

The Politics of European Integration

Parliamentary Government

Introduction to European Politics

Graduate

Public Policy and Political Economy in an International Context

International Political Economy

Strategies of Inquiry in Political Science (Epistemology/Research Design)

European Politics

Social Choice and Game Theory

Professional Activities

Conference Participation

Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association (various years).

Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association (various years).

Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association 2000.

Conference of the Decision Behavior Research Consortium, Ann Arbor. 1997.

Meeting of the International Studies Association, 1996, 2001.

European Consortium of Political Research, Madrid.1994, Marburg 2003.

Meetings of European Union Studies Association, 1993, 1999, 2003

Disciplinary Service

Selection Committee, Best Book Prize, Political Economy Section of APSA, 2004.

Invited Presentations

Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, February 2004.

Seminar, International University, Bremen, December 2003.

Seminar, Institute for Advance Studies, Vienna, November 2003.

Seminar, Politics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, November 2003.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, November 2003.

Workshop, The Politics of Globalization, Harvard University, October, 2003.

Workshop, Eastern Enlargement of the European Union, UC-San Diego, May 2003. 

Seminar, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, May 2003.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, February 2003.

Workshop, The Year of the Euro, Notre Dame University, December 2002.

Workshop, The European Parliament at 50, Aberystwyth, Wales. July 2002.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, Penn. State University, May 2002.

Seminar, Leitner Political Economy Workshop, Yale University, May 2002.

Seminar, MZES, University of Mannheim, July 2001.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Konstanz, June 2001.

Seminar, Jean Monnnet Center, University of Bremen, June 2001.

Workshop, Ideas, Discourse, and European Integration, Harvard University, May 2001.

Paul Stewart Lecture, Marshall University, April 2001.

Seminar, College of Law, University of Kentucky, April 2001.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Houston, November 2000.

Seminar, Département de Science Politique, l'Université de Genève, June 2000.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, March 2000.

Workshop, The New Theory of European Integration, Fiesole, Italy, June 1999.

Workshop, The Political Economy of European Integration, UC-Berkeley, March 1999.

Workshop, Europeanised Politics: The Impact of European Integration on Domestic Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford, November 1998, June 1999.

Workshop, Contestation in the European Union, U. of North Carolina, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Seminar, Department of Political Science, Texas A & M University, February 1996.

Workshop, The Economy and Political Behavior, Rice University, May 1995.

Referee Service

The American Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, The European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Routledge Press, Review of Political Sociology, Rowan and Littlefield Press, University of Michigan Press, World Politics. 

Awards

Finalist, Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Kentucky, Spring 2002.

Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy. (1996-1998)

Rotary International Scholarship. (1991-1992)

Most Valuable Player, Men’s Varsity Tennis, Trinity University. 1988.