David William Rohde (born June 4, 1944) is an American political scientist and the

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Professor of

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in the

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. He has researched various aspects of

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, including the

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and

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. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he taught at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

(MSU) from 1970 to 2005. At MSU, he started the program "Political Institutions and Public Choice", which focused on encouraging collaborative research between faculty members and students. He started the same program at Duke when he joined their faculty in July 2005. He was the

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of the ''

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'' from 1988 to 1990.

Honors and awards

In 2000, Rohde was elected to the

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. In 2010, he received the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the

American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ...

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