ROBERT W. WALKER
Department of Political Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, Campus Box 1063, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Office: (979) 845-1410     Cellular: (585) 317-2110     Fax: (979) 847-8924
E-mail: rww@artsci.wustl.edu
http://rww.wustl.edu/ Education

Ph. D. in Political Science, University of Rochester, 2005
Thesis: Multiple Choice: Policy Substitution and Complementarity with Heterogeneity
Committee: Ronald W. Jones, Curtis S. Signorino, Alan C. Stockman, Randall W. Stone (Advisor)

M. A. in Political Science, University of Rochester, 2002
Examinations: International relations, political methodology, comparative political economy.

B. A. with Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Major: Post-Soviet and East European Studies
Thesis: Grand Failure or World Savior: The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

Academic Appointments

Current

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science	Washington University in St. Louis
Program in Applied Statistics and Computation	2006-Present

Prior

Assistant Professor of Political Science	Texas A&M University, 2005-2006
Research Fellow	Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 2005
Research Fellow and Visiting Instructor of Government	Dartmouth College, 2004-05

Awards

Research Fellowship, Department of Government, Dartmouth College 2004-2005
Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester 2000-2001
Charles E. Lanni Research Fellowship 2001, 2002, 2004
University Fellowship in Political Science, University of Rochester 2000-2004
NSF Fellow, Wallis Institute for Political Economy, University of Rochester 1999-2000
ECPR Essex Summer School Teaching Assistant for Time Series: Advances and Applications 1997

Publications and Presentations

Articles
Lebo, Matthew J., Robert W. Walker, and Harold D. Clarke. 2000. "You Must Remember This: Dealing with Long Memory in Political Analyses." Electoral Studies 19(1):31-48.

Book Reviews
Brown, Nathan J. 1997. The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Law and Politics Book Review 8(11): 409-11.

Research Presentations

"Some Unpleasant Reduced Form Arithmetic"

MPSA 2006.

"Political Turnover and Bond Risk in the U. S. States" [with Skip Krueger]

MPSA, Watson Center/Rochester, 2006.

"Markov Models for Multiple States"

Methods-Florida State University, APSA, 2005.

"Policy Substitution [and Complementarity] with Heterogeneity"

Department of Government, Harvard University, 2005.

"Are Democracy and Human Rights Related? How? Insights from a First-Order Markov Model"

MPSA, APSA, Texas A&M University Dept. of Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005.

"Bayesian Measurement and International Human Rights"

Methods-Stanford, 2004.

"Measuring Political Participation: African-Americans and Anglos in a Dynamic Item Response Model" [with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Frederick C. Harris]

APSA, 2005.

"Commitment and Distribution in International Financial Policy"

Methods-University of Washington, MPSA, 2002; LaFollette School/Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004.

"Costless Communication and Indivisible Crisis"

MPSA, Watson Center/Rochester, 2004.

"Statistical Models for Policy Substitutes."

Methods-University of Minnesota, MPSA, APSA, 2003.

"Political Instability and Exchange Rate Regimes."

MPSA, Watson Center/Rochester, 2003; Dartmouth, University of Texas-Dallas, Texas A&M University, Northwestern, 2004.

"Picking a Fight: Statistical Backwards Induction and Triadic Data." [with C. S. Signorino and M. Bas]

Methods-University of Washington, 2002; Watson Center/Rochester, 2003.

"Repression of the Human Right to Personal Integrity Revisited: A Probabilistic Approach."

Methods-University of California, Los Angeles, 2000.

Research on Long-memory Time Series [with M. J. Lebo, H. D. Clarke, and D. N. Lanier]

APSA 1998; MPSA 1998, 1999; Southern Political Science Association 1998.

Courses Taught

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
GOV 10[U]: Quantitative Political Analysis Fall 2004
GOV 58[U]: International Political Economy Fall 2004
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
GOV 209[U]: Introduction to Political Research Methods Fall 2005
GOV 306[U]: Contemporary Political Problems: International Political Economy Fall 2005

Research and Teaching Interests

International Relations
Politics of international currency and finance; international conflict and diplomacy; international human rights; international political economy; international relations theory.

Political Methodology
Inference in structural/theoretical models; simultaneous discrete choice analysis; time series econometrics; Markov processes and dynamic models; Bayesian model selection and Markov Chain Monte Carlo; formal theories of politics.

Political Economy
Macroeconomic policy, property rights, theories of institutions, and comparative political economy.

Affiliations and Service

Professional Associations

American Political Science Association	Midwest Political Science Association
Watson Center for Conflict and Cooperation	Society for Political Methodology

Service
International Relations Search, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2005-06.
Organizer: Workshop in Political Economy, Texas A&M University, 2005-Present.
Participant: Political Economy of International Finance, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005.
Discussant: MPSA, 2004; MPSA 2005.
Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Sociological Methods and Research.


Professional References

Randall W. Stone, Ph. D.	Curtis S. Signorino, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Political Science	Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Rochester	University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627	Rochester, NY 14627
e-mail: randall.stone@rochester.edu	e-mail: curt.signorino@rochester.edu
(585) 273-4761	(585) 273-4760
Henk E. Goemans, Ph. D.	Harold D. Clarke, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science	Ashbel Smith Professor of Political Economy
University of Rochester	The University of Texas at Dallas
Rochester, NY 14627	Richardson, TX 75083-0688
e-mail: henk.goemans@rochester.edu	e-mail: hclarke@utdallas.edu
(585) 275-9535	(972) 883-4891