William Lee Eubank

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Oregon, Political Science, 1978.
  • M.A., University of Houston, Political Science, 1969.
  • B.S., University of Houston, Political Science, 1967.

Academic Experience

Teaching

  • University of Nevada, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, 1986 - Present; Assistant Professor, 1979 - 1986.
  • Washington State University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Spring 1979.
  • California State University at Sonoma, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Fall 1978.
  • University of Oregon, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, 1970-1972.
  • University of Houston, Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, September 1967 - August 1969.

Research

  • Center for Applied Research, University of Nevada, Research Professor, August 1986 - June 1987.
  • University of Nevada System Computer Center, Consultant, Survey Specialist, July 1982 - January 1986.
  • Nevada Public Affairs Institute, University of Nevada, Research Associate, August 1982 - June 1985.
  • Office of Community Service, State of Nevada, Consultant, August 1982 - September 1983.
  • Institute for Policy Analysis, Research Associate, Eugene, Oregon, June 1977 - March 1978.
  • Oregon Research Institute, Research Assistant, Eugene, Oregon, February 1976 - June 1977.
  • Center for Educational Policy and Management, Research Assistant, University of Oregon, Research Assistant, January 1974 - June 1975.

Administration and Management

  • Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, September 1985 - January 1990; July 1980 - January 1982.
  • Director of Public Administration Program, Dept. of Political Science, University of Nevada, September 1986 - January 1990.
  • University Gerontology Committee, member, September, 1997-present.
  • University Library Committee, member, September, 1996-June 1998.
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences Human Subjects Committee, University of Nevada, September 1984 - June 1994; Vice chair, September 1992-August 1994.
  • Academic Standards Committee, University of Nevada, 1991 - 1992.
  • Courses and Curricula Committee, College of Arts & Science, University of Nevada, member, September 1983 - June 1991; chairman, September 1984 - September 1986.
  • Courses and Curriculum Committee, University of Nevada, member, 1985 - June 1989; vice-chair July 1988-June 1989.
  • Computer Users Advisory Board, University of Nevada, Consultant, April 1981 - August 1981; member, August 1981 - August 1984; chair, Planning Subcommittee, August 1981 - July 1982; member, Executive Board, August 1982 - September 1983; secretary, August 1982 - July 1983.
  • Residency Appeals Board, University of Nevada, member, October 1985 - September 1986.
  • Personnel Committee, College of Arts and Science, University of Nevada, member January 1988 - June 1988.
  • Search Committees, Department of Political Science and Computer Center, University of Nevada, various periods: 1982 - present.
  • Ad Hoc Program Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, September 1981 - September 1984.
  • Manager, apartment complex, Eugene, Oregon, January 1974 - September 1978.

Skills

  • Research design (survey design and construction; experimental and quasi-experimental design); statistical and data analysis including non-parametric statistics, categorical data analysis, log-linear models, simple and multiple regression, discriminate function analysis, ARIMA time series; scale and test construction; facility with SPSS and BMDP.

Course Preparations

  • American Government
  • Voting and Elections
  • State & Local Politics and Government
  • Political Parties
  • Policy Analysis
  • Public Opinion & Political Psychology
  • Constitutional Law
  • Graduate Seminar in American Politics
  • Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
  • Graduate Research Methods, Introductory
  • Judicial Process
  • Graduate Research Methods, Advanced
  • Graduate Seminar: History of the Discipline

Other Teaching Competencies

  • The Presidency
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Judicial Behavior
  • Non-parametric Statistics
  • Public/Rational Choice
  • Political Terrorism

Bibliography

1999

  • with Weinberg, L. B. & Rapoport, D. L., "political violence and democratic party systems," 9 International Review of Sociology 161-176 # 2 July 1999.
  • with Weinberg, L. B. , "Terrorism and the shape of things to come," presented to the conference on Future Developments in Terrorism, University College Cork, Ireland, March 3-5, 1999. (Forthcoming, Terrorism and Political Violence)
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Democratic institutions and political violence: presidential versus parliamentary executives," presented to the International Society of Political Psychology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 18-21, 1995.

1998

  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Terrorism and democracy: what recent events reveal," 10 Terrorism and Political Violence, 108-118 (Spring 1998)
  • with Weinberg, L. B. and Rapoport, D. L., "Political violence and democratic party systems," presented to the International Sociological Association World Congress, Montreal, Canada, July, 1998.

1997

  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Terrorism and democracy within one country: the case of Italy," 9 Terrorism and Political Violence 98-107
  • with Weinberg, L. B.and Wilcox, A.R. "Voting for the far right (and left) in Europe," presented to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Cracow Poland, July, 1997
  • with Weinberg L. B. "The Italian regions and the prospects for democracy," presented to the Alpine Meadows Conference on Violence and Democracy, Stanford Alpine Chalet, September, 1997, Alpine Meadows, CA. (Forthcoming, in Ballots and Bullets: Essays on Political Violence and Democracy, Rapoport, D. (ed) Frank Cass.)
  • With Weinberg, L. B., International terrorism and democracy: perpetrators and victims," presented to the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego CA, November, 1997.

1996

  • with Gangopadhay, A., and Weinberg, L..B., "Italian communism in crisis: a study in exit voice and loyalty" 2 Political Parties 55-76 January 1996
  • with Weinberg, L. B., and Wilcox, A. R., "Reflections on right-wing radicalism and democratic defense in western Europe," presented to the Interim World Congress of the Committee of the Committee on Political Sociology/ISA, the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 7-11, 1966

1995

  • with Weinberg LB., and Wilcox, A.R., "A brief analysis of the extreme right in western Europe," 43 Italian Politics and Society 41-48, Spring, 1995.

1994

  • "Standard and non-standard models of voting," to be presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 10-12, Albuquerque, N.M.
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Cultural differences in the behavior of terrorists," Symposium Article, 6 Terrorism and Political Violence , 1-18 Spring
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Terrorism and democracy," 6 Terrorism and Political Violence, Fall, 1994 ,forthcoming.
  • with Weinberg, L. B., and Gangopadhaya, A. , "Italian communism in crisis: a study in exit, voice, and loyalty," presented to the Workshop on Party System Change in Italy and Japan, in conjunction with the World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Berlin, 19-20 1994.
  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., and Gangopadhyay, A.., "PCI to PDS: a study in exit voice and loyalty," Italian Politics and Society, Spring , 1994, 19-25.

1993

  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "Political terrorism and political development," in Henry Han (ed.), Terrorism and Political Violence: Limits and Possibilities of Legal Control. (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publishing).

1992

  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "Terrorism and changes in political party systems," in Weinberg, LB., ed., Political Parties and Terrorist Groups. (London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd, 1992).
  • ______________, "Preconditions for the emergence of terrorist groups: cross national perspectives", paper delivered at American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (September).

1991

  • with Herzik, E.B., "The effects of structural and secular changes on baseball," presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Sports History, May 24-27, Chicago, IL.
  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "El contexto cultural del terrorismo politico," 2 Psicologia Politica, 21-39.
  • Bibliography (continued) ______________, "Terrorism and changes in political parties", 4 Terrorism and Political Violence, 125-139.

1990

  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "Political parties and the formation of terrorist groups." 2 Terrorism and Political Violence, 125-144.
  • with Weinberg, Leonard B. and Lloyd, Randall, "Terrorism and party politics in comparative perspective" delivered at World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain (July).
  • ______________. "Linkages between political parties and terrorist groups: a preliminary exploration of their causes and consequences," delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, (August 30 - September 2, 1990).

1989

  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups." 1 Terrorism and Political Violence 156-176 (Spring).
  • ______________. "Political parties and formation of terrorist groups" delivered at the annual meeting of American Political Science Association (September).

1988

  • "The effects of innovation of the performance of major league baseball players," delivered at the joint meetings of the Popular and American Culture Associations, New Orleans, LA (March).
  • with Weinberg, Leonard B., "Neo-fascist and far left terrorists in Italy: some biographical observations", 18 British Journal of Political Science, 531-176.
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Leaders and followers in Italian terrorist groups," delivered at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, New York, July.

1987

  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Italian Women Terrorists." 9 Terrorism 241-261.
  • with Weinberg, L. B., The Rise and Fall of Italian Terrorism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

1986

  • "Voter Rationality: A Retest of the Downsian Model," 23 Social Science Journal 253-266.
  • with Baber, W. F., "Information use in environmental impact analysis," presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (September).
  • with Baber, W. F. and Bartlett, R. V., "The management of environmental impact analysis: organization and information usage," presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Eugene, Oregon (March).
  • with Kunkle, K. L.H., "University of Nevada system computer users survey results," University of Nevada Computer Center, University of Nevada.
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Change and continuity in the recruitment of Italian political terrorists." 14 Journal of Political Science 43-58. Reprinted in Multidimensional Terrorism, M. Slann and B. Schechterman (eds.) Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner, (May 1987).
  • with Weinberg, L.B., "The Italian new right: neo-fascist extremism in an industrialized democracy," presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Anaheim, CA (March).

1985

  • "Turf wars: a preliminary analysis of the effects of artificial playing surfaces on the hitting of major league baseball teams", Dept. of Political Science (unpublished).
  • with Dobra, J. L., "Political survivorship: an interest group perspective," 51 Southern Economic Journal 1038-1052.
  • with Evans, G. S., "Consumer preference structures: the use of principal component analysis to identify attributes of satisfaction in the health care setting," Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association of Consumer Research, Conference on Health Care Marketing, Salt Lake City, UT (April)
  • with Evans, G. S. and Chase, S.L., "Market segmentation in the HMO-prepaid sector of the health care industry: an investigation of consumer Preference structures," Dept. of Political Science (unpublished).
  • with Weinberg, L. B., "Neo-fascists and neo-fascist violence in Italy," presented at the International Political Science Association meetings, Paris, France, (July).
  • with Weinberg, L.B. "Change and continuity in the recruitment of Italian political terrorists: 1970-1984," presented at the American Political Science Association meeting, Washington, D.C., (August).

1984

  • "A new design for field experiments", Dept. of Political Science (unpublished).
  • "A test for the contribution of individual parameters in an ARIMA time series model based on partitioning the Box-Pierce Q statistic," Dept. of Political Science (unpublished).
  • with Dobra, J. L., "Markets for votes, influence, ideas and money in the interest group perspective," presented at the Public Choice Society Meetings, Phoenix, AZ (March). Bibliography (continued) with Kunkle, K. L.H., "A content based model of consumer education." 59 Journal of Business Education 236-241 (March).
  • With Kunkle, K. L. H., "University of Nevada computer users survey results," University of Nevada Computer Center.

1983

  • with Evans, G. S. and White, G. K., "Segments, satisfaction and sentiments: detection of prime target consumers for HMO diffusion programs," presented at the Association of Consumer Research, Conference on Health Care Marketing meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (April). Appears in the 1984 Proceedings.
  • with Kunkle, Karen L.H. (nee Pinkham), "University of Nevada system computer users survey results." University of Nevada Computer Center.
  • ______________, "A cautionary note on evaluating factor analysis results with SPSS," Proceedings Western Educational Computing Conference, San Diego, CA (November).

1982

  • with Pinkham, K. L. H., "A content based model of consumer education," Working Paper #82-6, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Nevada, Reno.
  • Pinkham, K. L .H., "University of Nevada system computer users survey." University of Nevada Computer Center.
  • with Wilcox, Allen R. IMPACTS: MX, ETC., THE NEVADA PUBLIC AFFAIRS REVIEW #2, co-editor, Nevada Public Affairs Institute.

1981

  • with others. "Master Computing Plan for the University of Nevada in the 1980s" Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Nevada, Reno.
  • with Pinkham, K. L.H., "A survey of UNR computing needs and attitudes of computer consumers: a preliminary report," Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Nevada, Reno.

1977

  • with Griffith, W. R., Olexa, J. S., and Zeigler, L.H., "Community and organizational response to competency based education," Occasional Papers in Applied Policy and Research, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR.

1976

  • "The applicability of quasi-experimental time series analysis to judicial policy making," Civil Liberties and Policy Making, Stephen L. Wasby, ed., Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

1975

  • "Quasi-experimental approaches to judicial policy making," 4 Policy Studies journal 171-175.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American, Southern, Midwest, and Western Political Science Associations
  • American Statistical Association

Other Interests

  • Handball, fly fishing, baseball research, English history (Plantagenet period), model railroading, cooking good food and good conversation.