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Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod
| Title: | Instructor |
| Department: | Political Science College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | meyerguj@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Office: | Gambrell, 331 |
| Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] Personal Website Google Scholar |
Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod is teaching faculty at the University of South Carolina, Department
of Political Science. Josh’s research explores the limits of the growing animosity
between Democratic and Republican politicians associated with partisan polarization
by examining bipartisan cooperation between federal and state agents. Much of his
work examines partisan rhetoric at different levels of government, with a focus on
the President, members of Congress, and state legislators. Conventional wisdom suggests
that national partisan division and the nationalization of politics will produce consistent
polarization across institutions. His research explores inconsistencies in both policy
and rhetoric, with the goal of identifying mechanisms for undermining polarization.
Josh received his PhD from Cornell University. Before coming to South Carolina, he
served as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the SBE
program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also maintains the Digital
Campaigns Project (DCP), which he established in 2016 to track campaign content of
state legislative campaign websites. His research has been published in Political Communication and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.