{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2021-08-20T20:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T20:44:41","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"POLS_arri\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2012\/10\/POLS_arri.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Theodore Arrington<br \/>\nProfessor Emeritus<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-mail:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arrington@uncc.edu\">arrington@uncc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2021\/08\/CV-May-2021.pdf\">CV-May-2021<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Select Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Limited Vote Alternative to Affirmative Districting (with Gerald Ingalls), Political Geography 17 (Number 6, April 1998) 701-728.<\/li>\n<li>Party Registration Choices as a Function of the Geographic Distribution of Partisanship: A Model of \u2018Hidden partisanship\u2019 and an Illustrative Test (with Bernard Grofman), Political Geography 18 (Number 2, February 1999) 173-185.<\/li>\n<li>Strategic Voting for Damage Control on the Supreme Court (with Saul Brenner), Political Research Quarterly 57 (December, 2004) 565-573.<\/li>\n<li>Affirmative Districting and Four Decades of Redistricting: The Seats\/Votes Relationship 1972-2008. Politics and Policy 38 (Number 2, 2010) 223-253.<\/li>\n<li>Redistricting in the U.S.: A Review of Scholarship and Plan for Future Research, The Forum 8 (Number 2, Article 7, 2010). DOI: 10.2202\/1540-8884.1351 Available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bepress.com\/forum\/vol8\/iss2\/art7\">http:\/\/www.bepress.com\/forum\/vol8\/iss2\/art7<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Practical Procedure for Detecting a Partisan Gerrymander, <em>Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy<\/em> 15 (Number 4, December, 2016) 385-402. This paper won third place in the second Common Cause \u201cGerrymander Standard\u201d writing contest in 2015-6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Specialties<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Voting Behavior<\/li>\n<li>Voting Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Voting &amp; Elections<\/li>\n<li>Parties &amp; Interest Groups<\/li>\n<li>The Congress<\/li>\n<li>The Presidency<\/li>\n<li>Research Methods in Political Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ted Arrington received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He served in the U.S. Army Military Police during the Vietnam War.\u00a0 Since coming to UNC Charlotte in 1973, he has served in many leadership roles including Faculty President, and for 18 years he was the Chair of the Political Science Department. He has been an expert witness in over 50 voting rights cases in the United States and Canada. Most recently he has been retained in voting rights litigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section and the Lawyer&#8217;s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. His testimony has been cited in several precedent setting cases such as Gingles v. Edmisten and United States v. Ike Brown et al. \u00a0His research \u2013 mainly on voting behavior, voting systems and redistricting \u2013 has been published in many of the premiere refereed journals in the discipline. He has taught courses on methodology, voting behavior, Congress, Presidency, and political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Arrington Professor Emeritus E-mail:\u00a0arrington@uncc.edu CV-May-2021 Select Publications The Limited Vote Alternative to Affirmative Districting (with Gerald Ingalls), Political Geography 17 (Number 6, April 1998) 701-728. Party Registration Choices as a Function of the Geographic Distribution of Partisanship: A Model of \u2018Hidden partisanship\u2019 and an Illustrative Test (with Bernard Grofman), Political Geography 18 (Number 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2UNGG-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/theodore-arrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}