Professor Elder teaches courses in public policy, American politics and methodology. He has served as the Deputy Dean of the WSU College of Liberal Arts. Professor Elder's publications include Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda-Building and The Political Use of Symbols . Recent articles include "Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation," published in the American Political Science Review . Current projects include continuing participation as a co-principal investigator in the Life Span Civic Development project, and work on a new manuscript entitled Searching for Policy: Implementing the Older Americans Act . Professor Elder was presented with the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1983. In 1998, Dr. Elder was awarded the prestigious Aaron Wildavsky Award, an award given to a political scientist who has made a significant and lasting contribution to scholarship in the area of public policy studies.
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