Curriculum Vita
G. R. Boynton
Department
of Political Science University of Iowa
Date of Birth: 1935
Ph.D., University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1964
B.A., Oklahoma Baptist
University, 1957
Professional Positions
Department of Political
Science, University of Iowa, 1964-present, current rank: Professor
Department of Political
Science, University of California, Davis, Visiting Professor: 1988
Department of Political
Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, CIC Visiting Professor:
1985-86
Department of Political
Science, University of Iowa, Chairman, 1979-82
Director, Laboratory
for Political Research, University of Iowa, 1965-1975, 1979-82
Program Director
for Political Science, National Science Foundation, 1972-1974
Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, 1963-64, rank: Assistant Professor
Publication
G. R. Boynton (2006), RSS and Learning, The ITP News, vol. 3, issue 2, p. 15.
Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2005) Globalizing Sympathy, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Argumentation.
Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2004), American Communication Journal, Globalizing Political Action: Building bin Laden and Getting Ready for 9/11.
Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2004) "Paths Through the Minefields of Foreign Policy Space: Practical Reasoning in the U.S. Senate Discourse about Cambodia," in Beer and Landtsheer, Metaphorical World Politics, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan.
G. R. Boynton (2003) Legislatures, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics.
Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton(2003) "Globalizing Terror," Poroi Journal, vol. 2 number 1.
Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2001) "Talking About Dying: Rhetorical Phases of the Somalian Intervention," in Francis A. Beer, Meanings of War and Peace, College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press
G. R. Boynton and
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. (1998) special electronic issue of
Political Communication.
Milton G. Lodge
and G. R. Boynton (1998) Hot cognition, Political
Communication.
Francis A. Beer
and G. R. Boynton (1998) Traveling together on the information superhighway:
conversations about politics, language, and distance learning,
Political Communication.
G. R. Boynton and
John S. Nelson (1998) Sound arguments, Proceedings of the Tenth Conference
on Argumentation.
G. R. Boynton and
John S. Nelson (1997), Rhetorics of Political Advertising,
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
How Past is Present
in Writing International Affairs: Telling the Cambodian Story, (1996) in
Mary Stuckey (ed.), The Theory and Practice of Political Communication
Research, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
The Art of
Campaign
Advertising, Chatham House, Chatham, N.J., 1996
Our Conversations
about Governing (1996) in David Paletz ed. Political Communication
Research, Ablex Publishing Corp., Norwood, N.J.
Beer, Francis A.
and G. R. Boynton (1996) Realist rhetoric but not realism; a senatorial
conversation about Cambodia in Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, eds.,
Realist Rhetoric, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin
Press.
Beer, Francis A.
and G. R. Boynton (1995) Speaking About Dying, in Sally Jackson, ed.,
Argumentation and Values, proceedings of the ninth SCA/AFA conference
on argumentation, pp. 550-557
G. R. Boynton and
John Nelson (1995) How Music and Image Deliver Argument in Political
Advertisements on Television, in Sally Jackson, ed., Argumentation
and Values, proceedings of the ninth SCA/AFA conference on
argumentation, pp. 543-59
Computational Modeling:
A Computational Model of a Survey Respondent, in Milton Lodge and Kathleen
McGraw Political Judgment: Structure and Process Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Crossing The World
Order Divide (with Peggy Dozark) in Proceedings of the Eighth Conference
on Argumentation Speech Communicaton Association, Annandale, VA.,
1993.
Voters' Images of
Candidates (with Milton Lodge) in Bruce Gronbeck and Arthur Miller (eds.)
Presidential Campaigning and America's Self Images Westview,
1993.
Boynton, G. R. and
Sheila Creth, eds., New Technologies and New Directions, Westport:
Meckler, 1993
Legislatures, in
Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, 1992
The Disappearing
Sound-Bite (1991) Political Communication Report, vol. 2, no.
4, November.
Political Representation
as Information Processing and Problem Solving, (with C. L. Kim), The
Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 3, no. 4, October, 1991, pp.
437-461.
When Senators and
Publics Meet at the Environmental Protection Subcommittee, Discourse
and Society vol. 2, no. 2, April 1991, pp. 131-156.
The Expertise of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Valarie Hudson, ed., Artificial
Intelligence and International Politics, Westview Press, 1991.
The Solution,
Political Communication Report, vol. 2, num. 2, March 1990,
p. 9
Special Editor,
with Milton Lodge, of two issues of Political Behavior on Cognition
and Political Behavior vol. 12, nos. 1 and 2, 1990.
Editors Note: Cognition
and Political Action (with Milton Lodge) Political Behavior,
vol. 12, no. 1, March, 1990, pp. 105.
Ideas and Action;
A Cognitive Model of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Political
Behavior, vol. 12, no. 2, June 1990, pp. 181-213.
Conversations About
Governing, Bruce Gronbeck, ed., SPHERES OF ARGUMENT, Speech Communication
Association, Annandale, VA., 1989, pp. 167-74.
The Senate Agriculture
Committee Produces a Homeostat, POLICY SCIENCES, 1989, 22: 51-80.
Telling a Good Story:
Models of Argument; Models of Understanding in the Senate Agriculture Committee,
in Joseph W. Wenzel, ed., ARGUMENT AND CRITICAL PRACTICES, Speech Communications
Association, Annandale, Va., 1987
Models of the Economy
Implicit in the Public Discourse, (with Christophe Deissenberg), POLICY SCIENCES,
1987, 20: 129-151.
On Getting From
Here to There; Reflections on Two Paragraphs and Other Things , in Elinor
Ostrom, ed., STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL INQUIRY, Sage Publications, Beverly
Hills, 1982
Linking Problem
Definition and Research Activities: Using Formal Languages, in Judy Gillespie,
ed., MISSING ELEMENTS IN POLITICAL INQUIRY, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills,
1982
The Quality of Life
and Public Confidence in Government, in G. E. Lasker, ed., APPLIED SYSTEMS
AND CYBERNETICS, vol. 1, Pergamon Press, New York, 1981.
The Mini-Micro
Connection, PROCEEDINGS ACM JOINT CONFERENCE ON EASIER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE
USE OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS
MATHEMATICAL THINKING
ABOUT POLITICS, Longman, Inc., New York, 1980
An Analysis of
Consociational Democracy, LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY, February, 1978,
pp. 11-26
THREE PRINCIPLES
OF GOVERNING, (with W. H. Kwon), American Political Science Association,
Supplementary Analytic Units, 1978
The Evolution of
Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historical Leader: Test of a Mathematical
Model of Attitude Change, (with Gerhard Loewenberg), SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY,
Fall, 1976
Cumulativeness in
International Relations, in James Rosenau, ed., IN SEARCH OF GLOBAL PATTERNS,
Free Press, New York, 1976
REPRESENTATIVES
AND THE REPRESENTED, (with Samuel C. Patterson and Ronald Hedlund), Wiley,
New York, 1975
LEGISLATIVE SYSTEMS
IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, (with C. L. Kim), ed., Duke University Press, Durham,
North Carolina, 1975
CITIZENS, LEADERS,
AND LEGISLATURES; PERSPECTIVES ON SUPPORT FOR AMERICAN LEGISLATURES, (with
Samuel C. Patterson), Sage Professional Papers, Beverly Hills, 1974
The Decay of Support
for Monarchy and Dictatorship in Postwar Germany, (with Gerhard Loewenberg),
BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, October, 1974
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
AND PUBLIC OPINION, (with R. L. Bowman), ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey, 1974
The Development
of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951-1959, (with Gerhard
Loewenberg), BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 3, 1973
Dimensions of Support
in Legislative Systems, (with S. C. Patterson and John Wahlke) in LEGISLATURES
IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Allan Kornberg, ed., McKay, New York, 1973
Citizens and
the political
system, Harper and Row, New York, 1973
The Individual in
Society, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa, Iowa City,
1972
Changing Attitudes
Toward Integration, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa,
Iowa City, 1972
Voting Behavior
in the United States: 1952-1976, Laboratory for Political Research of University
of Iowa, Iowa City, 1976
Public Reactions
to Civil Disobedience, Laboratory for Political Research of University of
Iowa, Iowa City, 1972
Civic
Perception-Expectation Differentials and Legislative Support, (with S. C.
Patterson), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 75, No. 1, 1969
Legislative Recruitment
in a Civic Culture, (with S. C. Patterson), SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, September,
1969
Missing Links in
Legislative Politics: Constituency Influentials, (with S. C. Patterson),
JOURNAL OF POLITICS, August, 1969
Communal Ideology
and Politial Support, (with Marion Roth), JOURNAL OF POLITICS, May, 1969
Evaluation of General
Research Support Program, (with Sidney G. Roth), National Institutes of Health,
1969
The Nature of Support
for Legislative Institutions, (with S. C. Patterson and Ronald Hedlund),
MIDWEST JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, May, 1968
Recruitment Patterns
Among Local Party Officials: A Model and Some Preliminary Findings in Selected
Locales, (with R. L. Bowman), AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, September,
1966
Variations in Local
Party Activity, (with R. L. Bowman), JOURNAL OF POLITICS, February, 1966
Southern Conservatism:
Constituency Opinion and Congressional Voting, PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY,
Summer, 1965
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
President's Award for Technology Innovation, 2006.
National Science Foundation, 1999-2001, $195,000 equipment grant to upgrade network for multimedia teaching
Microsoft, Grand
Prize, Innovator in Higher Education Challenge for OnLine at Iowa, 1997
University Teaching
Award, 1992
Obermann Fellowship,
seminar on Presidential Campaigning and American Self-Images, summer 1991
National Endowment
of Humanities Fellow, fall 1990
The Dynamics of
Candidate Evaluation, National Science Foundation, 1990-91
A Computer-Based
Teleconference for Quantitative International Politics, National Science
Foundation, 1983-85
Developmental Assignment
to do Research on Organizational Theory, University of Iowa, 1982-83
Faculty Fellowship,
Science Faculty Professional Development Program, National Science Foundation,
1978-1979
Developmental Assignment
to Study Control Theory, University of Iowa, 1977
Social Change and
Political Attention, National Science Foundation, 1976-78
The Role of Legislatures
in Managing Social Conflict: Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, Ford Foundation,
1973-1979
Public Support for
Basic Institutions in Germany, Natonal Science Foundation 1971-1972
Development of Computer
Based Curriculum Materials for the Social Sciences, National Science Foundation,
1969-1972
Publication of SSDATA,
National Science Foundation, 1971-1973
Iowa Legislative
Research Project, Social Science Research Council and National Science
Foundation, 1967-1969
Evaluation of General
Research Support Program of the National Institutes of Health, National
Institutes of Health, 1969-1970
Equipment Grant
for Improving Undergraduate Education, National Science Found ation, 1966
Professional Activities
Member of The National Archives panel on medieval resource materials, 2003-
Publication Board, Political Communication Section of American Political Science Association 1999-2005
Managing Editor, Poroi Journal, 2000 -
Section Organizer, International Society of Political Psychology, July 1-4, 2000
Chair, Westview
Award committee for paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association
Member editorial
board of Political Communication, 1995-2005
Chairman, APSA Political
Communication Division, 1993-94
Chairman, International
Studies Association Committee on Electronic Resources, 1993-94
Chairman, University
of Iowa Committee on Statistics, 1990-91
Political Communication,
Section Chair for 1991 American Political Science Association Meeting
American Political
Science Association Committee on Research Support, Chairman, 1983-85
Editorial board,
American Political Science Review, 1982-85
Program chairman
of 1983 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
Chairman, Political
Science Panel, Modules and Monographs in Undergraduate Mathematics and Its
Applications Project, 1976-present
Chairman, Section
on Methodology and Analytical Theory for 1980 Program of American Political
Science Association annual meeting
Program chairman
of 1978 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association
Member of Social
Science Curriculum Committee, CONDUIT, 1972-1976
Executive Committee,
International Survey Library Association (Roper Center), 1968-1972
Executive Committee,
Council of Social Science Data Archives, 1969-1970
Editorial Board,
American Journal of Political Science, 1969-1972
Panel chairman,
discussant, and paper presentations at a number of professional meetings
Teaching 2005: see attachment
Service
Member department committee on stature of department, 2005
Chair, Departmental Recruiting Committee, 2000
University Accreditation Committee,
Task force on academic
computing established by Provost and director of Information Technology Services
Liberal Arts task
force on assessing electronic scholarship
University Library
Committee, beginning fall 1998
Chair, faculty
recruiting committee for Department of Political Science
Chair, Departmental
committee on computing and communication
Member of executive committee