Bernard Tamas
Professor
- PhD
Rutgers University
Dr. Tamas is an expert on elections, electoral bias, and US third parties. His current research on electoral bias in US elections is funded by the and the . Dr. Tamas has held a Fulbright scholarship to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center at Harvard University. Prior to joining VSU, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University and has previously taught at Illinois State University, Williams College, and Brandeis University. He has also worked as a software developer at Princeton University. His most recent book is (2018). Dr. Tamas is a frequent political commentator on current issues and has been interviewed by (US), (US), (Canada), (France), and political blogs including , and . His research has also been published by several media outlets including , , , , , , , and . Dr. Tamas is a member of the .
Areas of Concentration
- American Government
- Elections and Political Parties
- US Third Parties
- Electoral Systems and Electoral Bias
- Research Methodology
Selected Publications
- Bernard Tamas (2019), “” Election Law Journal 18(1): 47-62.
- Bernard Tamas (2018), New York, NY: Routledge.
- Bernard Tamas (2017), "" New Political Science 39(4).
- Bernard Tamas and Matthew Hindman (2014), “”, Election Law Journal 13(2): 260-276.
- Bernard Ivan Tamas (2008), . Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, Columbia University Press.
- Gardenia Harris, Bernard Ivan Tamas, and Nancy S. Lind (2007), . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Nancy S. Lind and Bernard Ivan Tamas (2006), Bush Controversies: Pro & Con Primary Documents. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.