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Biographical Information
Professor Guber’s teaching and research
interests include U.S. national elections and electoral behavior, public opinion, research
methodology, and environmental politics. She is the author of an article on the
dimensionality of environmental attitudes published in Social Science
Quarterly and two pieces on environmental voting at the state and national
level appearing in Society
and Natural Resources and State
and Local Government Review. She is also the author of a full-length
book on the public's concern for the environment and their willingness to
translate their beliefs into action, titled The
Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (2003),
published by The MIT Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent work
includes two essays co-authored with Christopher J. Bosso. The first, titled
"Maintaining Presence: Environmental Advocacy and the Permanent Campaign,"
appears in Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft’s popular text, Environmental
Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, 6th edition (CQ Press, 2005).
The second, "Framing ANWR: Citizens, Consumers and the Privileged Position of
Business," was recently published in a book entitled Business
and Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2007), edited by Michael E. Kraft and
Sheldon Kamieniecki.
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Professor Guber's curriculum vitae.
Contact Information
Dr. Deborah Lynn Guber
Associate Professor of Political Science
The University of Vermont
Old Mill, Room 532
94 University Place
Burlington, VT 05405-0114
Phone: (802) 656-4062
Fax: (802) 656-0758
E-mail: Deborah.Guber@uvm.edu
Internet: http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber
Office Location: 519 Old
Mill
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Teaching Schedule for Fall
2007:
POLS 125a: MWF 11:15 AM -
12:05 PM
POLS 293: MWF 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
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"Fans of green politics and those interested in public opinion
and the rational behavior of consumers should read this book... [I]t provides not
only an important analysis of its subject, but it is also an excellent work on public
opinion more broadly...." Robert Y. Shapiro
Columbia University
Perspectives on Politics, March 2004
"...Guber offers an important
contribution to our understanding of environmental attitudes across a range of settings.
The book should be read by every student in the field."
Eric R.A.N. Smith
University of California, Santa Barbara
Political Science Quarterly, Winter 2003-2004
"...Guber neatly unpacks the
volumious data on the attitudes and behaviors of Americans regarding the environment,
while simultaneously establishing a coherent explanation of the impact public opinion has
had on the positions of political parties and elected officials in the United States....
[She] has made a significant contribution to the literature in the fields of environmental
studies and policy...."
Christopher P. Borick
Muhlenberg College
Society and Natural Resources, vol. 17, 2004
"This book would make a welcome
addition to courses at the advanced undergradudate and graduate levels, including courses
on environmental issues, public opinion, social attitudes, social movements and even
social research methods. The ease with which she explains complicated statistical
analysis, her deft use of secondary survey data, and her collection and analysis of ballot
initiative data make this a very useful book for a research methods course. While she
necessarily accepts the utility of survey research (it would be difficult to do otherwise
in national public opinion research), she provides a wealth of information about the
complexities involved in survey research and how the way a question is asked can influence
the answer. In sum, this book should appeal to readers in several fields and with many
different background, including not only scholars but practitioners and social activists
as well."
Angela G. Mertig
Michigan State University
Rural Sociology, June 2004
"...The Grassroots of a Green
Revolution is an impressive book. It is well researched, presents important new
findings, and is clearly written. Both students of environmental politics and public
opinion will find it useful...."
Christopher J. Bailey
Kent University
Environmental Politics, Winter 2003
"...Guber's detailed analysis of
survey instruments, plus the extensive notes and references (almost one-third of the book)
will be useful to anyone seeking answers about what an opinion really means. The book
is a good read on an important subject...."
Thad Box
Utah State University
Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2004 |
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