David P. Redlawsk (Ph.D., Rutgers, 1997; MBA, Vanderbilt, 1982; AB, Duke, 1980) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. His primary research focuses on the emotional responses of voters to information generated by political campaigns. Redlawsk also studies citizens’ views of political corruption. He recently published two books, How Voters Decide: Information Processing in an Election Campaign, with Richard R. Lau, published by Cambridge University Press and an edited volume, Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Information Processing published by Palgrave-Macmillan. Other work includes articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and Political Behavior and a number of chapters in edited volumes.

He is a two-time winner of the ISPP’s Roberta Sigel Award for best paper by a junior scholar. Redlawsk currently serves as Treasurer for the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association, and was 2005 APSA Political Psychology Program Chair. At Iowa, Redlawsk will be co-directing a new Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy, in January 2007, and he is co-organizing an upcoming conference on Service Learning and Local and State Government to be held in June 2007, which will lead to publication of an edited volume on the subject.

Redlawsk’s teaching includes Political Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Voting Behavior and Elections, Political Decision Making (undergraduate and graduate), Experimental Methods (graduate), and Local Politics.

“I am interested in serving on the ISPP Governing Council for a number of reasons. First, and perhaps foremost, my own entry into the profession was greatly facilitated by actively participating in ISPP meetings. As a graduate student I found the Society to be a welcoming place, and a great chance to meet leaders in the field. I applaud the ongoing efforts to continue to make this kind of connection, and wish to see it continue and expand. I also believe that ISPP can do a better job of coordinating with the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association, which given my involvement on the Section Executive, I would work to foster. I am impressed by the continual improvement of the journal Political Psychology, and would want to continue to assure its success, as it reflects well on the Society and profession. Overall, I simply believe that I can bring useful experience and skills to the Governing Council, given my involvement in other organizations and boards both within and outside of political psychology. ISPP has done well over the past few years, as our membership and annual meeting attendance has grown, but we need to continue to find ways to bring people into the Society and to make being part of it relevant to their work.”