David Fortunato
Contact
School of Global Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, #0519
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519

dfortunato@ucsd.edu
www.davidfortunato.com@davidfortunato

Current Appointments
Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego
Associate Professor, International Economics, Government, and Business, Copenhagen Business School

Previous Appointments
Associate Professor, Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2018-2020· Director of Graduate Studies, 2019-2020
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2016-2018
Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Merced, 2012-2016
Research Fellow, Research Center SFB 884, Universität Mannheim, 2010-2011

Education
PhD Political Science, Rice University, 2012
EITM, Universität Mannheim, 2010
MS Education, University of New Haven, 2007
BA Political Science, University of Miami, 2004

Grants and Awards
Lawrence Longley Award, 2020. “Electoral Implications of Coalition Policy Making.”
Ray A. Rothrock ‘77 Fellowship, 2018-2020.
German Social Science Infrastructure Services EUROLAB Grant, 2017.
SPSA ΠΣA Best Paper, 2016 with Matt W. Loftis. “Government Life Expectancy and Fiscal Discipline.”
Hellman Fellowship, 2014-2015. “The Causes and Consequences of Legislative Expertise.”

BookThe Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance. In production at Cambridge University Press.

1Articles“Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination.” With Timm Betz and Diana
Z. O’Brien. American Political Science Review, Forthcoming.
“Attributing Policy Influence under Multiparty Governance.” With Nick C.N. Lin, Randolph T. Stevenson, andMathias W. Tromborg. American Political Science Review, Forthcoming.
“Party Government and Political Information.” With Randolph T. Stevenson. Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Forthcoming.
“Agenda Control and Electoral Success in the U.S. House.” With Nathan W. Monroe. British Journal of PoliticalScience, Forthcoming.
“Legislative Review and Party Differentiation in Coalition Government.” American Political Science Review,2019. 113: 242-247.
“Electoral Implications of Coalition Policy Making.” British Journal of Political Science, 2019. 49: 59-80.
“Committee Chairs and Legislative Review in Parliamentary Democracies.” With Lanny Martin and Georg
Vanberg. British Journal of Political Science, 2019. 49: 785-797.
“Voters, Responsibility Attribution, and Support Parties in Parliamentary Democracies.” With Mathias Wessel
Tromborg and Randolph T. Stevenson. British Journal of Political Science, 2019. 49: 1591-1601.
“Heuristics in Context.” With Randolph T. Stevenson. Political Science Research and Methods, 2019. 7: 311330.
“Cabinet Durability and Fiscal Discipline.” With Matt W. Loftis. American Political Science Review, 2018. 112:939-953.
“Legislative Capacity and Credit Risk.” With Ian R. Turner. American Journal of Political Science, 2018. 63:
623-636.
“All Economics is Local: Spatial Aggregations of Economic Information.”
Williams. Political Science Research and Methods, 2018. 6: 467-487.

With Clinton Swift and Laron“The Trump Draw: Voter Personality and Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Nomination
Campaign.” With Matthew V. Hibbing and Jeffery J. Mondak. American Politics Research, 2018. 46: 785810.
“Compensation, Opportunity, and Information: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Nonresponse in the American States.” With Tessa Provins. Political Research Quarterly, 2017. 70: 644-656.
“Gamson’s Law and Voters’ Perceptions of Portfolio Allocation.” With Nick C.N. Lin, Randolph T. Stevenson,and Mathias Wessel Tromborg. European Journal of Political Research, 2017. 56: 912-940.
“Context, Heuristics, and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Citizens’ Left-Right
Knowledge.” With Randolph T. Stevenson and Greg Vonnahme. Journal of Politics, 2016. 78: 1211-1228.
“How Voters’ Perceptions of Junior Coalition Partners Depend on the Prime Minister’s Position.” With James
Adams. European Journal of Political Research, 2015. 54: 601-621.
“Can Easing Concealed-Carry Deter Crime?” Social Science Quarterly, 2015. 96: 1071-1085.
“Perceptions of Partisan Ideologies: The Effect of Coalition Participation.” With Randolph T. Stevenson. American Journal of Political Science, 2013. 57: 459-477.
“Majority Status and Variation in Informational Organization.” Journal of Politics, 2013. 75: 937-952.
“Government Agenda-Setting and Bicameral Conflict Resolution.” With Thomas König and Sven-Oliver Proksch.
Political Research Quarterly, 2013. 66: 937-950.

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“Performance Voting and Knowledge of Cabinet Composition.” With Randolph T. Stevenson. Electoral Studies,2013. 32: 517-523.

Book Review“Ideological Representation Achieved and Astray: Elections, Institutions, and the Breakdown of Ideological
Congruence in Parliamentary Democracies. By G. Bingham Powell, Jr.” Perspectives on Politics, Forthcoming.

Under Review“How do Voters Form and Update Perceptions of Party Positions? Theory, Data, and Evidence.” With Thiago
Nascimento da Silva and Laron K. Williams.
“Race, Sex, and Guns: The Contextual Nature of Americans’ Policy Positions.” With Matthew Hayes andMatthew V. Hibbing. [Invited to revise and resubmit to Journal of Public Policy]

Selected Working“Coalition Agenda Setting.” With Mariyana Angelova.
“Heuristics and Coalition Expectations.” With Randolph T. Stevenson.
“Legislative Oversight and Transparent Reporting of Deadly Force.” With Scott J. Cook.

Advising
Garrett Vande Kamp (Texas A&M University 2019). Assistant Professor, University of Georgia [Fall 2021].
Tessa Provins (UC Merced 2018). Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh.

Conference Participation
American Political Science Association

2010-2019

European Consortium of Political Research

2009, 2013

European Political Science Association

2011-2019

Midwestern Political Science Association

2009-2019

Public Choice Society Meetings

2016, 2019

Southern California Comparative Political Institutions (SC2 PI)

2014-2016

Southern Political Science Association

2012, 2016-2019

Southwestern Political Science Association

2010, 2014

Special Conferences, Colloquia, and Invited Presentations
University of Rochester, February 2020
Universität Zürich, January 2020
University College London, January 2020
Oxford University, January 2020
Università Bocconi, December 2019
State University of New York, Stony Brook, December 2019
American University, October 20193

Universitetet i Oslo, December 2018
Copenhagen Business School, August, 2018
Universität Bonn, December, 2017
GESIS, Köln, December, 2017
Rice University, October, 2017
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, May, 2017
University of Strathclyde, February, 2017
Universität zu Köln, February, 2017
Universiteit van Amsterdam, February, 2017
Voters Adrift, Universitè de Montrèal, December, 2016
Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop, November, 2015
University of Essex, November, 2015
Manifesto Project User Conference (WZB), June, 2015
Aarhus Universitet, November, 2014
McGill University, November, 2014
University of California, San Diego (GPS), October, 2014
University of California, Riverside, March, 2014
Vanderbilt University, November, 2013
University of California, Davis, April, 2013
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, November, 2012
Valence Politics and the Continuing Economic Crisis, Texas A&M, March, 2012
Politics in Times of Crisis, Universität Heidelberg, December, 2010

Teaching
Maximum Likelihood Estimation (graduate)
Political Behavior (graduate and undergraduate)
Political Institutions (graduate and undergraduate)

Field Work
Denmark, 2009
Germany, 2011

Editorial Board Membership
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2019 - present
Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2019 - present4Reviewer
American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science,
Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy, Electoral Studies, European
Journal of Political Research, European Review of Economic History, Journal of European Public Policy, Journalof Legislative Studies, Journal of Elections and Public Opinion, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly,
National Science Foundation, Party Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science
Research and Methods, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, Research Foundation-Flanders, Research andPolitics, West European Politics

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