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David Robertson
I am a political scientist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. My interests include national politics and policy, political history, political economy, environmental policy, and labor, as well as the St. Louis Cardinals and Blues, travel, and classical music. I closely watch current politics, and I'm the political analyst for KSDK Television (NBC) in St. Louis. I am the co-leader of Confluence Scholar's Strategy Network, the St. Louis chapter of the national Network.
Biography
I'm a native Chicagoan. I went to high school in Oak Park (at Fenwick) and got an AA from College of DuPage, a BA from the University of Wisconsin, and my PhD in political science at Indiana University. I taught at the University of Texas-San Antonio for two years, and joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1983. I'm now studying the development of American environmental governance.Education
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PhD, Indiana University, 1983
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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American political and policy history; social, economic, and environmental issues, including climate change adaptation; the design of the US Constitution and the Constitutional Convention; the development of organized labor. I am active in the Scholars' Strategy Network.
Personal Interests
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Professional baseball and hockey; classical music; travel; learning more about the history of other cultures, such as China and India.
Websites
Confluence Scholars' Strategy Network
Dave Robertson's Vita
Dave'sRobertson's Home Page
Environmental Politics
Federalism and Political Development
Introduction to American Politics
Seminar: American Political Development
Seminar: Political Economy
The American Presidency
Books
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