Dennis Chong
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Chong specializes in American national politics and has written extensively on political ideology, social norms, rationality, tolerance, and collective action, among other topics. His book Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (University of Chicago Press, 1991) won the 1993 best book award from the American Political Science Association's political economy section. His new book, Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2000), offers a theory of individual choice that explains how people make decisions across both social and economic realms. He is coeditor of the Cambridge University Press book series Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology.
Dennis Chong's Institute for Policy Research web page