Faculty

Office: 320 Manchester Hall

Telephone: 860-486-3693

E-Mail: david.weakliem@uconn.edu

I came to UConn in 1994 after teaching at Cornell University and (1987-91) Indiana University (1991-4). In 1995 I was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and served as interim director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research in 2004-6.

My major research interests are in political sociology (especially public opinion), social stratification, and quantitative methods. My main current project is a book tentatively entitled Model Selection and Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences, which examines classical and Bayesian approaches to hypothesis testing and various "information criteria" for model selection.

Education:

Ph. D., Wisconsin, 1987.
M.S., Wisconsin, 1983.
BA, Harvard, 1981

Selected Publications:

David L. Weakliem and Casey Borch.  2006.   Alienation in the United States:  Uniform or Group-Specific Change?"   Sociological Forum 21.

David L. Weakliem and Sephen J. Frenkel.  2006.  "Morale and Workplace Performance."   Work and Occupations  33:  335-61.

David Weakliem, Robert Andersen, and Anthony F. Heath. 2005. "By Popular Demand: the Effect of Public Opinion on Income Inequality." Comparative Sociology 4: 260-84.

David Weakliem. 2005. "Public Opinion, Political Attitudes, and Ideology." Pp. 227-46 in A Handbook of Political Sociology , edited by Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander M. Hicks, and Mildred Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.