Biography

Andrew Gooch is an Assistant Professor at Rowan University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of American public policy, political behavior, and electoral politics. His research is published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Political Communication, Political Behavior, Political Science Research Methods, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and others. He is currently working on a book project about policy repositioning (aka politicians "flip-flopping"). Before coming to Rowan, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and before entering academia, he was a project manager at a political polling firm in Washington, D.C.