Faculty

Office: 320 Manchester Hall

Telephone: 860-486-3693

E-Mail: david.weakliem@uconn.edu

I came to UConn in 1994 after teaching at Cornell University (1987-91) and Indiana University (1991-4). In 1996-7 I was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and I served as interim director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in 2004-6.

My major research interests are in political sociology (especially public opinion), social stratification, and quantitative methods. My main current project is a book tentatively entitled Model Selection and Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences, which examines classical and Bayesian approaches to hypothesis testing, as well as "information critera" for trading off goodness of fit versus complexity.

Education:

Ph. D., Wisconsin, 1987.
M.S., Wisconsin, 1983.
BA, Harvard, 1981

Selected Publications:

David L. Weakliem.  2009.  “Time Series Analysis of Political Change.”  Pp.  637-51 in Handbook of Politics:  State and Society in Global Perspective, edited by Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins.  New York:  Springer. 

David Weakliem and Bradley R. Entner Wright.  2009.  “Robustness of Group-Based Models for Longitudinal Count Data.”  Sociological Methods and Research 38:  147-70. 

Andrew Gelman and David Weakliem.  2009.  “Of Beauty, Sex, and Power: “  American Scientist 97:  310-16; French translation published in Pour la Science, No. 385 (November 2009);  German translation forthcoming in Spektrum der Wissenschaft.

David Weakliem and Casey Borch.  2006.  "Alienation in the United States:  Uniform or Group-Specific Change?"  Sociological Forum  21:  415-38.