Barry Burden

Barry Burden

Barry C. Burden is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director of the Elections Research Center and the Lyons Family Chair in Electoral Politics. His research and teaching are based in American politics, with an emphasis on electoral politics and representation. He is co-editor of The Measure of American Elections, author of Personal Roots of Representation, and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government. Burden has also published articles in the American Political Science ReviewAmerican Journal of Political ScienceBritish Journal of Political ScienceLegislative Studies QuarterlyPolitical Science Quarterly, and Electoral Studies.

His current position with the Committee continues through June 2022.