Richard Fording

Dr. Richard C. Fording

Professor

Education

  • PhD, Florida State University, 1998
  • BA, University of Florida, 1986

Research Areas

  • American Politics
  • Public Policy Administration

About

Office Hours

Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am- 12:00pm and by appointment

Research Interests

  • Public Policy
  • State Politics
  • Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Teaching Interests

  • PSC 211 State and Local Government
  • PhD Seminar in State Politics and Policy
  • Research Methods

Selected Publications

  • Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race. University of Chicago Press.
  • Fording, Richard C., Joe Soss, and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. “Race and the Local Politics of Punishment in the New World of Welfare.” American Journal of Sociology 116, 5: Vol. 116, No. 5 (March 2011), pp. 1610-57.
  • Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. “The Organization of Discipline: From Performance Management to Perversity and Punishment.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21(suppl 2): 203-232.