Eric Oliver

Eric Oliver is a political scientist whose interests include contemporary American politics, suburban and racial politics, political psychology, and the politics of science. Eric is currently working on papers about public support for conspiracy theories, whether liberals and conservatives name their children differently, and conducting research on the biological foundations of political cognition.

He has also authored numerous articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, International Journal of Epidemiology, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review on topics ranging from absentee voting to happiness in suburbs.

His books include Democracy in Suburbia; Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic; The Paradoxes of Integration: Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multi-ethnic America and Local Elections and the Politics of Small Scale Democracy.