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Robert Mickey


Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard

7632 Haven Hall
(734) 615-9104
rmickey@umich.edu
Personal Web Site


Research Interests:


Professor Mickey's research focuses on U.S. politics in historical perspective. He is interested in American political development, political parties, racial politics, and policy responses to inequality. His forthcoming book explores the post-war U.S. South as a set of transitions from authoritarian rule. Current projects concern racial politics in the urban North and West; racial appeals and the politics of symbols; race and national party alignment; and the politics of national health insurance.

Professor Mickey has taught undergraduate courses on the political development of the U.S. South in comparative perspective and directed the department's honors thesis program. At the graduate level, he has taught American Political Development; U.S. Parties; Regimes and Regime Change; and Causal Inference in Small-n Research (with Anna Grzymala-Busse). He has also coordinated the department's workshop on political institutions, and co-coordinated an interdisciplinary colloquium for graduate students on Race and 20th Century American Political Development.

For more information, please see his personal web site


Selected Publications

  • Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972 (forthcoming, Princeton University Press)
  • "Safe At Any Speed: Legislative Intent, the Electoral Count Act of 1887, and Bush v. Gore" (with Eric Schickler and Terri Bimes), Journal of Law and Politics 16:4 (2001)

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