Donald P. Green, 2005-07 Yale University

Donald P. Green, Yale University
Council Member

Donald Green is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he has taught since 1989.  He is also Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale.  He holds a B.A. in political science and history from University of California, Los Angeles (1983) and a Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Berkeley (1988).

His scholarship covers a broad array of topics, such as campaign finance, party identification, rational action, voter turnout, and prejudice.  His three books are Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science (Yale University Press 1994) co-authored with Ian Shapiro, Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters (Yale University Press 2002) co-authored with Bradley Palmquist and Eric Schickler, and Get Out The Vote!  How to Increase Voter Turnout (Brookings Institution Press 2004) co-authored with Alan Gerber.  Outside of political science, he is known for his psychological research on the measurement of mood and his sociological research on the causes of racially-motivated crime.  Green has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He currently serves on the editorial board of two political science journals and has served on the committee charged with selecting the first editor of Perspectives on Politics.  Currently, his research and teaching revolves around the topic of field experimentation.  For the past four summers, he has taught workshops for students and faculty interested in the design and analysis of field experiments.