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Dr. Thomas Holyoke
Associate Professor
Coordinator, Undergraduate Degree in Political Science
Ph.D. The George Washington University
Office: McKee Fisk 216
Phone: 559-278-7580
E-mail: tholyoke@csufresno.edu
Dr. Holyoke's CV
Dr. Holyoke teaches courses and conducts research on national politics, specializing in interest group politics and education policy. He also teaches courses in research methodology and statistical analysis. He has published two dozen articles on interest group politics, education policy, and banking policy in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, and the American Journal of Education. His first book, Competitive Interests, was published in the fall of 2011 by Georgetown University Press. He is currently writing a new undergraduate-oriented book on interest group politics and lobbying that is under contract with Westview Press.
Dr. Holyoke has also worked for several interest groups in the past, as well as the United States Senate and the New York State Senate. In 2008 he received the Provost's Most Promising Faculty Award.
Long paper version of "Shopping in the Political Arena: Strategic State and Local Venue Selection by Advocates," published in State and Local Government Review 44(April): 9-20, with Heath Brown and Jeffrey R. Henig.
Methodological appendix to "Policy Dynamics and the Evolution of State Charter School Laws," published in Policy Sciences 42(February): 33-55, 2009, with Jeffrey R. Henig, Heath Brown, and Natalie Lacireno-Paquet.
Formal and Statistical Models Appendix to "Interest Group Competition and Coalition Formation," published in the American Journal of Political Science 52(April): 360-375, 2009.