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Arthur Miller was born April 24, 1942, in Little Falls, MN. He died in Iowa City, IA, on August 19, 2008. Arthur received a BA from the University of Minnesota in 1965 and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (UM) in 1971.
Arthur Miller took a position as assistant professor at Ohio State University (1971-73). While on leave from Ohio State University (OSU), he served as study director at the Center for Political Studies (CPS) at the UM. After leaving OSU, he continued as study director (1973-76) of the national election series while also serving as a lecturer (1974-76) at UM. He was associate professor of political science and senior study director at CPS and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan from 1976 to 1984. During this period, he was also a research scholar at the University of Goteborg in Sweden (1980) and as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (1984-85).
Arthur Miller joined the political science department at the University of Iowa (UI) in 1985. As a full professor at UI, he served as director of the Laboratory for Political Research (renamed to the University of Iowa Social Science Institute) from 1986 to 2001 and director of the University of Iowa International Evaluation Project (2001-07).
Some of Arthur Miller's more influential sole-authored publications in the American Political Science Review include "Commentary on Political Issues and Trust in Government" (2006); "Where is the Schema? Critique" (1991); "Rejoinder to 'Comment' by Jack Citrin: Political Discontent or Ritualism" (1974); and "Political Issues and Trust in Government: 19641970" (1974).
His co-authored publications in the American Political Science Review include "Understanding Political Change in PostSoviet Societies" (with W. Reisinger and V. Hesli, 1996); "Reassessing Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in the Former USSR" (with Hesli and Reisinger, 1994); "Schematic Assessments of Presidential Candidates" (with M. P. Wattenberg and O. Malanchuk, 1986); "Throwing the Rascals Out: Policy and Performance Evaluations of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1980" (with Wattenberg, 1985); "TypeSet Politics: Impact of Newspapers on Public Confidence" (with L. Erbring and E. Goldenberg; 1979); "Ideology in the 1972 Election: Myth or Reality-A Rejoiner" (with W. E. Miller, 1976); "A Majority Party in Disarray: Policy and Polarization in the 1972 Election" (with Miller, A....