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Dean Lacy is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, Director of the Program in Politics and Law, and department chair until December 31, 2018. His research focuses on American and comparative politics, particularly elections, public opinion, and lawmaking. Electoral politics and the complexity of political attitudes grabbed his attention in high school when he started working on political campaigns. He was a state delegate and campaign worker for Douglas Wilder‘s successful bids for Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Virginia and worked on several other local, state, and national campaigns. Prof. Lacy has written on economic sanctions in international relations, third party candidates, economic voting, referendums and initiatives, and divided government. His current research includes projects on complexity in public opinion and the relationship between federal spending and elections, including public perceptions of federal spending. Most of his work is based on experiments, quantitative methods, survey research, or game theory. He teaches Introduction to American Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Multivariate Statistical Models, American Political Behavior, and Lawmaking and Political Institutions at Dartmouth. He teaches statistics to graduate students from all over the globe in a summer program at the University of Michigan that serves students who cannot get advanced training in social science methodology at their home institutions. Prof. Lacy recently served as a visiting lecturer at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Peking University, both in China. He taught at the Ohio State University for 12 years before coming to Dartmouth. He studied for his Ph.D. at Duke University and his B.A. at the University of Virginia.