Scott Althaus
Affiliate Professor
PhD, Political Science, Northwestern University
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, 2001 S. First St., Suite 207
Other professional appointments
Charles J. and Ethel S. Merriam Professor in Political Science
Professor of Communication
Director, Cline Center for Advanced Social Research
Research focus
Communication processes that support political accountability in democratic societies and empower political discontent in non-democratic ones, popular support for war, data science methods for extreme-scale analysis of news coverage, cross-national comparative research on political communication, psychology of information processing, communication concepts in democratic theory.
Office hours
By appointment