Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa.  His interests are comparative elections, election forecasting, political economy, and quantitative methodology.  Professor Lewis-Beck has authored or co-authored over 200 articles and books, including Economics and Elections, The American Voter Revisited, French Presidential Elections, Forecasting Elections, The French Voter, and Applied Regression. He has served as Editor of the American Journal of Political Science and of the Sage QASS series (the green monographs) in quantitative methods.  Currently he is Associate Editor of International Journal of Forecasting and Data Editor of French Politics.  In January-June of 2011, he was Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Siena, and Senior Fellow with the Carlo Alberto Foundation in Torino. Currently, he is Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri. michael-lewis-beck@uiowa.edu