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Jim Allison

Jim Allison

After public schooling in California, Jim received an A.B. at the University of California-Berkeley. Following army service, he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and joined the Indiana University psychology department. For decades Jim earned his living as an experimental psychologist, using inferential statistics to help decide whether there was any significant difference between the behavior of the experimental group and that of the control group. Examples include Behavioral Economics, by James Allison (Praeger, 1983), and “Response-Disequilibrium Therapy: Clinical Case Studies,” by Richard M. McFall, James Allison, Richard J. Viken, and William Timberlake (Clinical Psychological Science, 2019). With his wife, Tomi, he co-wrote The Accidental Mayor, which describes her experience as Bloomington mayor from 1983 to 1995. Jim retired from IU as Professor Emeritus in 1992.

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Indiana Legislature Violates Principle of ‘Free and Equal’ Elections

Retired IU Professor Emeritus Jim Allison shows how the Indiana legislature, by means of partisan gerrymandering, has violated the democratic principle of one person, one vote. Proportional representation, he says, would help to give Hoosiers “free and fair” elections, as required by the state constitution. This article is part of Limestone Post’s coverage for Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative. Click here to read more.

Small-State Bias and the Electoral College

While this election day will be quiet in Monroe County, many people are still actively resisting the “new normal” and changing what they see as wrong in our country. In this article, IU Professor Emeritus James Allison shows why abolishing the Electoral College is the fair thing to do for a democracy. Click here to read the full story.

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