DONALD M. GOOCH Assistant Professor of Political Science Arkansas Tech University

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Donald M. Gooch
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Donald M. Gooch is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science & Philosophy at Arkansas Tech University. He has been at ATU since July, 2007. Mr. Gooch is an alum of the University of Central Arkansas and has a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2009. Professor Gooch is an expert in American politics and public policy and teaches a broad spectrum of classes in these fields such as courses in political behavior, constitutional law, research methods, and American political institutions (i.e. the U.S. Congress). He is the faculty sponsor of the Pre-Law Society at ATU and the Pre-Law advisor for the H&PS department. His current research agenda involves studying trends in political polarization in the American electorate and the distributional relationship on issue and partisan opinions between elites and the mass public. He also is continuing to pursue a variety of projects that include a comparative analysis of campaign finance laws, the effect mass electorate issue positions relative to perceived candidate issue positions have on voting behavior, the consequences of majority-minority districts on voting behavior in Congress, and an analysis of rational bureaucratic decision-making in response to federal performance benchmarks.