Morris P. Fiorina has been appointed a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, effective July 1, 1998.

He also will hold a joint appointment as a professor in the political science department at Stanford University.

"Mo Fiorina is a terrific appointment to the Hoover Institution," said Hoover director John Raisian. "He is at the top of political scientists studying electoral, legislative, and policymaking processes in the United States. He is a top academic scholar whose empirical knowledge and interest in public policy will significantly complement the policy research ongoing at the Hoover Institution."

Fiorina comes to Hoover from the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he joined the faculty in 1982; his research and teaching interests include democratic theory, legislative and electoral processes, and policymaking procedures.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a newly elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author and editor of several notable books; his newest work, The New American Democracy, was published earlier this year. His 1977 book, Congress - Keystone of the Washington Establishment, was the cowinner of the Washington Monthly Political Book Award that year and is now in an enlarged second edition.

His 1987 book, The Personal Vote: Constituency Service and Electoral Independence, coauthored with Bruce Cain and Hoover senior fellow John Ferejohn, received the 1988 Richard F. Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies.

A more recent book, Divided Government, (1992, Macmillan; 1995, Allyn&Bacon), figured prominently in discussions of current political climate in Washington.

Fiorina has also published widely in professional journals and is a member of numerous editorial boards.

Before joining Harvard, Fiorina was a professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester.

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