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Fall
2008
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PLSI
1301-2
American Politics
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PLSI
3305-1
Legislatures in the US
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PLSI 3329-1
Politics
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VITA
L. TUCKER GIBSON, JR.
Personal Data:
Born: October 11, 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married: Wife, Dorothy; three daughters
Address: 3802 Deerfield Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78218
Phone: 210-999-8318 (office); 210-653-0669 (home)
Educational Background:
1958-1960 Mars Hill Junior College, Mars
Hill, North Carolina
B.A. 1961 Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee
(History)
M.A. 1963 Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
(Government)
Ph.D. 1968 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
(Government)
Faculty Positions:
1961-1963 Teaching Assistant, Oklahoma
State University
1963-1965 Assistant Professor, Phillips
University
1968
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia
1968-1974
Assistant Professor, Trinity University
1974-1995
Associate Professor, Trinity University
1995-2006
Professor and Chair, Trinity University
2006-
Professor, Trinity University
Courses Taught:
American Government,
Issues in American Politics, State Government and Politics, Local Government
and Politics, Elections and Campaigns, Political Parties and Interest
Groups, U.S. Legislatures, Public Policy, Bureaucratic Politics, Research
Methods in Political Science, Religion in American Politics, Internships in
Political Science, Politics of Non-Government Corporations
Publications:
"The Governor of
Virginia as Legislative Leader,"
University of Virginia
News Letter, 45 (June, 1969).
Demographic Data for
San Antonio Voting Precincts,
1976. San Antonio, TX: Urban Data Base, 1976.
"The Governor of
Virginia as Legislative Leader," in
Virginia Government
and Politics:
Readings
and Comments.
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
San Antonio Census Tract Street Directory.
San Antonio, TX: Data Resource Center, 1979.
"Mayoralty Elections
in San Antonio," The Politics of
San Antonio,
ed. David R. Johnson, John A. Booth, and Richard Harris. Lincoln, NEB:
University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
"Texas Legislators and
the Folks Back Home," in Practicing
Texas Politics
, 6e,
Eugene W. Jones, Joe E. Ericson, Lyle C.Brown, and Robert S. Trotter.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986.
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice,
with Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
Politics in
America: Texas Edition,
with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice ,
2e, with Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995
Government by the People:
Texas Edition,
with James MacGregor Burns, J.W. Peltason, Thomas E. Cronin, David B.
Magleby and Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.
Politics in
America: Texas
Edition,
2e, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robinson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1997.
Government by the People: Texas Edition,
2e, with James MacGregor Burns, J.W. Peltason, Thomas E. Cronin, David B.
Magleby and Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice, 3e, with Clay Robison.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1999
Politics in
America: Texas
Edition,
3e, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1999.
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice,
4e, with Clay Robison. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001
Politics in
America: Texas Edition,
4e, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2002.
Politics in
America: Texas Edition,
5e, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2003.
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice, 5e.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Politics in
America: Texas
Edition, 6e, with
Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Politics in
America: Brief Texas
Edition, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Politics in
America: Texas
Edition, 7e, with
Thomas Dye and Clay Robison. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
Politics in
America: Brief Texas
Edition, with Thomas Dye and Clay Robison.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
Government by the People: Texas Version,
22e with David Magleby, David M. O’Brien, Paul C. Light, James MacGregor
Burns, J.W. Peltason, Thomas E.Cronin, and Clay Robison. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
Government by the People: Texas Version
(Brief Edition), 3e with David Magleby, David M. O’Brien, Paul C. Light,
James MacGregor Burns, J.W. Peltason, Thomas E.Cronin, and Clay Robison.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
Government and Politics in the Lone
Star State: Theory and
Practice, 6e.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
Papers:
"Interest Groups in a
Nonpartisan Election System," paper delivered at Southwestern Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, April, 1976.
"Mayoralty Elections
in San Antonio," paper delivered at the Southwestern Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, April, 1977.
"Teaching the
Legislative Process," paper delivered at the Southwestern Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March, 1984.
"Applied Social
Sciences: Marketing Research Along the Texas-Mexico Border," paper delivered
at the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies Annual Meeting,
Kingsville, Texas, April 7, 1989.
"San Antonio Politics
in Perspective: 1900 to 1989," 1989 Scholars Program Proceedings, City
Public Service Board, San Antonio, Texas.
"The Effects of
Single-Member Districting on Texas School Board Politics," paper delivered
at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, Texas, March, 1991.
Panels:
Panelist, San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce, Leadership San Antonio, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1991.
Panelist, Political
Campaign Workshop, American Association of University Women, Kerrville,
Texas, February 9, 1980.
Panelist, 1980 Census
Workshop, Trinity University Panelist, San Antonio Chapter, American
Marketing Association, San Antonio, November 14, 1980.
Panelist, Southwest
Political Science Association, Houston, March, 1985.
Panelist, 1990 Census
Redistricting Conference, Sponsored by the Texas Economic and Demographic
Association/San Antonio and Center for Economic Development, The University
of Texas at San Antonio.
Panelist, Design San
Antonio, 1991.
Panelist,
Inter-University Policy Forum, 1991
Panelist, Texas Public
Radio, City Charter Reform, May 12, 2004
Panelist, Earl Lewis
Symposium, Trinity
University, 2004
Panelist, Texas
Association of Regional Councils, San Antonio, September 23, 2004.
Grants/Contracts:
Robert A. Taft
Institute of Government, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980
Contract with the Bureau of the Census to complete update of 1980 GBF/DIME
File for the City of San Antonio, 1977-1978
Summer Stipend, Trinity University, 1990
Academic Leave, Trinity University, 1991
Administrative Leave, Trinity University, 2002
CONSULTING:
Aiken and Gump, 1996
Alamo Community College
District, Redistricting, 1991
Alamo Heights Independent
School District, Redistricting, 1995
Attorney General, State of
Texas, Redistricting, 1989
Aransas County,
Redistricting, 1982
Bexar County, Redistricting,
1991
Burleson County,
Redistricting, 1981-1982
Cameron County,
Redistricting, 1981
City of Castroville,
Redistricting, 1993, 2005
City of San Antonio, City
Water Board Litigation
City of San Antonio,
Redistricting, 1976, 1981
City of San Marcos,
Redistricting, 1994
City of Gonzalez,
Redistricting, 1982
City of Jefferson,
Redistricting, 1982-1983
City of Seguin,
Redistricting, 1993
Comal County, Redistricting,
1981-1982
Dimmit County, Redistricting,
1981
Driscoll Independent School
District, 1997
Edwards Aquifer Authority,
2000, 2002,
2004
Frio County, Redistricting, 1981, 1991
Guadalupe County,
Redistricting, 1981
Hondo Independent School
District, Redistricting, 1988, 1991
Karnes County, Redistricting,
1981, 1991
Kendall County,
Redistricting, 1991
Live Oak County,
Redistricting, 1981
Maverick County,
Redistricting, 1982
Medina County, Redistricting,
1977-1982, 1991, 2002
Medina Valley Independent
School District, 1994, 2002
New Braunfels Independent
School District, Redistricting, 1983-1984, 1991
Northeast Independent School
District, Demographic Applications for Long-range Planning, 1983
Northeast Independent School
District, Redistricting, 1994
San Patricio County,
Redistricting, 1981-1982
Seguin Independent School
District, Redistricting, 1984, 1991
Uvalde Independent School
District, Redistricting, 1991
Washington County,
Redistricting, 1981
Wilson County, Redistricting,
1993
John Steen, Alamo Junior
College District, 1975; San
Antonio City Council, 1977,
1979; mayoralty race, 1981
Nelson Wolff, 1974
congressional campaign for 21st district; 1987 City Council Race
Northside Independent School District Elections, 1988
North East Independent School District Bond Election, 1987
Research Skills:
Survey
Research, Research Design, STATPAC, Demographics.
Current Research:
Texas
government and politics
Single-member districting in Texas school districts
San Antonio politics
Administrative Responsibilities:
Chair, Department of Political
Science, 1995-2006
Co-Director, Robert A. Taft Institute of
Government, 1975-1980
Co-Director, NSF Institute for Political
Science Curriculum, 1975, 1978
Director, Data Resource Center, 1977-1980
University Committees:
Member of the University
Senate, 1973-1976, 2003-2006
Member of the Faculty Research and Development Committee, 1973-1976
Chairman, Computer Advisory Committee, 1976-1977
Chairman, Self-Study Subcommittee on Student Personnel, 1975-1976
Chairman, Faculty Research and Development Committee, 1979-1980
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on University Reorganization, 1979
Member, Search Committee for Associate Vice-President for Academic
Affairs, 1980
Member, Promotion and Tenure Commission 1982-1985
Member, Major Scholarships & Fellowships Committee, 1998-1999,
2001-2002, 2005-2006
Member, Faculty Senate, 1988-1991, 2004-2006
Chairman, Pre-Law Advisory Committee, 1988 to 2006
Member, Pre-Law Advisory Committee, 2006-
Member, Faculty Grievance Committee, 1993-1994
Member, Admissions, Scholarships & Financial Aid Committee,
1983-1985, 1993-1995,1999-2000
Professional Associations:
American
Political Science Association
Southwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors
Community Service:
City of
San Antonio, Animal Advisory Control Board, 1978
City of San Antonio, Trustee, Library Board, 1978-1979
City of San Antonio, Commissioner, Civil Service Commission,
1979-1981
City of San Antonio, Ad Hoc Committee on Data Requirements,
1982-1983
San Antonio Literacy Council, 1983-1985
Northeast Independent School District, Technical Advisory
Committee, 1985-87
President, San Antonio Chapter of Texas Demographic and Economic
Association, 1988-89
Community of Churches, Long Range Planning Task Force,
1989
Member, San Antonio Express News Board of Community
Advisors
Board Member, Hemisphere Institute for Public Service, 1989-1994
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