Jerry F. Hough

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Jerry F. Hough is the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University. Hough has taught at Duke since 1973; he previously taught at the University of Toronto and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has served as a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Hough received his A.B., A.M. and PhD from Harvard University.

Hough's research has focused on domestic American politics, the Soviet Union, the democratization of Russia and American efforts at nation-building. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Changing Party Coalitions: The Strange Red-Blue State Alignment. [1]