Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Allegheny College, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1972, then taught at the California Institute of Technology and Harvard University before joining Stanford in 1998.

Fiorina has written widely on American government and politics, with special emphasis on topics in the study of representation and elections. He has published numerous articles and nine books: Representatives, Roll Calls, and Constituencies; Congress--Keystone of the Washington Establishment (two editions); Retrospective Voting in American National Elections; The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence (coauthored with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn); Home Style and Washington Work (coedited with David Rohde); Divided Government (two editions); The New American Democracy (coauthored with Paul Peterson); Civic Engagement in American Democracy (coedited with Theda Skocpol), and Change and Continuity in House Elections (coedited with David Brady and John Cogan).

Fiorina has served on the editorial boards of a dozen journals in the fields of Political Science, Economics, Law, and Public Policy, and from 1986-1990 served as chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

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