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Professor, Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program

Dr. Ross E. Burkhart joined the Department of Political Science at Boise State University in 1998. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Dr. Burkhart exemplifies a strong commitment to undergraduate education, recognized by his students and colleagues through numerous teaching and service awards. In addition to teaching, Dr. Burkhart’s research has been published in numerous journals and books, and he is a frequent presenter in the United States and Canada. Dr. Burkhart’s research interests include analyzing cross-national democratization patterns and US-Canada environmental relations.

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About Ross Burkhart

Dr. Ross E. Burkhart joined the Department of Political Science at Boise State University in 1998. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Dr. Burkhart exemplifies a strong commitment to undergraduate education, recognized by his students and colleagues through numerous teaching and service awards. In addition to teaching, Dr. Burkhart’s research has been published in numerous journals and books, and he is a frequent presenter in the United States and Canada. Dr. Burkhart’s research interests include analyzing cross-national democratization patterns and US-Canada environmental relations.

1998 - Present	Co-Director, Boise State University
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1998 - Present	Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Political Science
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Political Science

Comparative Politics and International Relations

Boise State University Foundation Scholar Teaching Award Finalist - 2011
David S. Taylor Award for Service to Students, Associated Students of Boise State University - 2009
Boise State University Foundation Scholar Research Award Nomination - 2008
Boise State University Foundation Scholar Teaching Award Nominations- 2008 & 2004
Faculty Partner Award Program - Boise State University Division of Student Affairs - 2007

POLS 231—International Relations
POLS 298—Introduction to Political Inquiry
POLS 327—Canadian Politics
POLS 328—Politics in Japan
POLS 333—Governments and Politics of Developing Nations
POLS 398—Advanced Political Science Methods
PUBADM 595—International Relations in Public Administration

E-mail: rburkha@boisestate.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1333-868X

Articles and Conference Proceedings (21)

A Fractured Electorate?: French Presidental Election Forecasting for 2022 (Ross E. Burkhart) Journal of Political Science and Public Opinion (2023)

This paper forecasts the first round of the French presidential election five months in advance. It uses a key industry-standard structural variable in its forecasting model, approval of the French president. Its parsimony allows for ...

Canada–US Border Communities: What the People Have to Say (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) American Review of Canadian Studies (2013)

This paper investigates the Canada-U.S. borderlands relationship along the two geographic corridors as bounded by Lake Superior: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario–Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Thunder Bay, Ontario–Duluth, Minnesota. Borderland communities—driven by their shared cultural ...

Bridges and Barriers: The Lake Superior Borderlands (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) Journal of Borderlands Studies (2013)

This paper investigates the Canada–US borderlands relationship along the two geographic corridors as bounded by Lake Superior: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario–Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Thunder Bay, Ontario–Duluth, Minnesota. Borderland communities—driven by their shared cultural ...

Paying for Long-Term Care in the Gem State: A Survey of the Federal and State Laws Influencing How Long-Term Care Services for Idaho’s Growing Aged and Disabled Populations Are - and Will Be - Funded (Andrew M. Hyer, Elizabeth L. Hannah, Ross E. Burkhart, et al.) Idaho Law Review (2012)

It is well recognized that as baby-boomers age and people live longer with chronic conditions, the need for long-term care ("LTC") services will increase nationwide.1 Given the costs involved in providing such LTC services, reforming ...

Democracy and Income Inequality: Measurement and Modeling of the Western Hemispheric Experience (Ross E. Burkhart) Conference Papers -- American Political Science Association (2011)

What is our understanding of the relationship between democracy and income inequality in the Western Hemisphere? This paper specifies a nonlinear relationship between democracy and income inequality in multivariate non-linear models across different regions and ...

Auditing Income Inequality Data in Models of Capitalism, Development and Democracy (Ross E. Burkhart) Conference Papers - American Political Science Association (2009)

It is appropriate to take stock of extant measures of income inequality as they pertain to their utility in cross-national models of political and economic performance. Are some measures more reliable and valid than others? ...

Democracy, Capitalism, and Income Inequality: Seeking Causal Directions (Ross E. Burkhart) Comparative Sociology (2007)

Recent research shows that lower levels of income inequality cause higher levels of democracy, and vice versa in a simultaneous relationship. A critical factor missing from these studies is a direct exogenous measure of capitalism ...

Left Out: Trust and Social Capital Among Migrant Seasonal Farmworkers (Maria L. Chávez, Brian Wampler and Ross E. Burkhart) Social Science Quarterly (2006)

Objectives. We analyze the levels of trust and social capital among an understudied group: migrant seasonal farmworkers (MSFW). MSFWs of today are likely to become the "Hispanics" of tomorrow, which means that understanding what affects ...

Is Spotlighting Enough? Environmental NGOs and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) Canadian-American Public Policy (2006)

The initial questions of our survey questionnaire focused on whether ENGOs were familiar with the CEC, and if so, how frequently they followed the proceedings of the CEC Tables 1 and 2 clearly illustrate that ...

The Mormon Question: Political Culture and Influence of Latter-Day Saints in Idaho (Leslie R. Alm, Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, et al.) Virginia Social Science Journal (2006)

Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) AmeriQuests (2006)

Does the way Canada, as a nation state, approach international environmental policymaking make a difference with respect to solving environmental problems in the Americas? We argue that it does, and it is a difference that ...

Canada and the United States: Approaches to Global Environmental Policy-Making (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) International Journal of Canadian Studies (2005)

The purpose of this review essay is to provide a starting point for the evaluation of the ways in which Canada and the United States approach global environmental policy-making. Each country has its own special ...

Political Culture and Ideology in the Mountain West: Regionalism in the State of Idaho (Leslie R. Alm, Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, et al.) The Social Science Journal (2004)

Analysis of conflict in state politics based on intrastate regionalism is an important, yet neglected, perspective in current scholarship. We demonstrate regionalism’s analytic power by illustrating the case of Idaho. Understanding how regionalism interacts with ...

Open Borders, Open Regimes? Testing Causal Direction between Globalization and Democracy, 1970-2000 (Ross E. Burkhart and Indra de Soysa) ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy (2003)

Pessimists on globalization claim that liberalization of markets allows multinational corporations free reign, constraining local autonomy and precipitating a 'race to the bottom' that will endanger recent democratic gains. The optimists see the end of ...

Democracy’s Effect on Economic Growth: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, 1951–1980 (Charles Kurzman, Regina Werum and Ross E. Burkhart) Studies in Comparative International Development (2002)

The relationship between democracy and economic growth has concerned social scientists since the 17th century, but recent democracy movements make this question especially important today. Do poor countries face a cruel trade-off between democracy and ...

Attitudinal Change and Critical Pedagogy: An Exercise in a Political Science and Global Business Course (Ross E. Burkhart and Mohan R. Limaye) Journal of Teaching in International Business (2002)

Making students revisit their worldviews through an encounter with discomforting ideas is a valuable teaching and learning device. We administered an exercise in our "Democracies, Diplomatic Relations, and Global Business" upper division course that documents ...

The Capitalist Political Economy and Human Rights: Cross-National Evidence (Ross E. Burkhart) The Social Science Journal (2002)

In a growing empirical literature on the determinants of human rights violations, the variable economic system has been untried as an independent variable in multivariate models. More theoretical treatments suggest that capitalism is more of ...

Intrastate Regional Differences in Political Culture: A Case Study of Idaho (Leslie R. Alm, Ross E. Burkhart, W. David Patton, et al.) State and Local Government Review (2001)

Recent research suggests that regional differences in political attitudes exist over long periods of time, despite major social and economic changes (Weakliem and Biggert 1999, 864). Simply put, scholars have found that, with respect to ...

Economic Freedom and Democracy: Post-Cold War Tests (Ross E. Burkhart) European Journal of Political Research (2000)

Current theorizing about the connection between cross–national economic development, capitalist economic structure, and democracy has reached critical mass. Current empirical modeling of the effect of economic structure on democracy, however, has slowed down; the most ...

Comparative Democracy and Income Distribution: Shape and Direction of the Causal Arrow (Ross E. Burkhart) Journal of Politics (1997)

Few research studies examine the effect of income distribution on democracy cross-nationally in a simultaneous equation environment (with democracy also influencing income distribution). The most recent such study asserts that no linear relationship exists between ...

Comparative Democracy: the Economic Development Thesis (Ross E. Burkhart and Michael S. Lewis-Beck) American Political Science Review (1994)

In comparative politics, an established finding--that economic development fosters democratic performance--has recently come under challenge. We counter this challenge with a dynamic pooled time series analysis of a major, but neglected data set from 131 ...

Turmoil in American Public Policy: Science, Democracy, and the Environment (Leslie R. Alm, Ross E. Burkhart and Marc V. Simon) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2010)

This book explores the intricacies of the science-policy linkage that pervades environmental policymaking in a democracy.To what extent should science inform and shape the environmental policymaking process? By what mechanisms does it do so in ...

Canadian Environmental Policy (Leslie R. Alm and Ross E. Burkhart) Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (2013)

This chapter covers several aspects of Canadian environmental policy. We examine constitutional features such as the internal federal-provincial relationship regarding the environment and the dominance of the provincial policy. The relationship between Canada and the ...

Political Institutions in the United States (Ross E. Burkhart) Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations (2008)

NAFTA is more than a decade old, and will quite possibly expand beyond its three-country membership into either a Central American free trading zone or, more ambitiously, into a Free Trade Area of the Americas ...

'Curvilinearity', 'Modeling', 'Skewed', and 'Threshold Effect' (Ross Burkhart) The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004)