R. Michael Alvarez

R. Michael Alvarez, Ph.D., is a Professor of Political Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is the co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, and in that role has played an important role in both the scientific study of election administration and technology, and the development of public policies to improve the conduct of elections in the United States and other nations. His undergraduate degree in Political Science is from Carleton College, and he obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. He has authored or co-authored five books, including Information and Elections; Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information, and American Public Opinion; and the recently published New Faces, New Voices: The Hispanic Electorate in America. He has also edited a book on election fraud, and has written scores of academic articles on voting behavior, elections, and voting technologies. At Caltech he is a member of the Social Sciences and Behavioral and Social Neurosciences groups. He is the co-editor of the journal Political Analysis.