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Overview
Don Beachler studies Congress, public policy, the politics of Social Security and Medicare reform, elections, voter turnout, reapportionment and gerrymandering, and how issues of race, genocide and the Holocaust play out in politics.

Beachler has published numerous papers and articles on Congress, elections and voter turnout as well as two books in the “Winning the White House” series on presidential elections. Forthcoming in the fall of 2011 will be his book “The Genocide Debate: Politicians, Academics, and Victims,” which examines how different episodes of mass killing--in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Nazi Germany and the Ottoman Empire--have been politicized.

Books
“The Genocide Debate: Politicians, Academics, and Victims” (forthcoming)
"Winning the White House, 2008"
"Winning the White House, 2004"
Chapter: “Ordinary Events and Extraordinary Times: The 2002 Congressional Elections,” in “Transformed by Crisis: The Presidency of George W. Bush and American Politcs”

Research

• Redistricting
• Medicare and social security reform
• Economic policy
• Foreign policy
• Voting and elections
• How we view and respond to genocide