Conor M. Dowling is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Dowling received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2008. Following four years as a postdoctoral research associate at Yale University, he joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Mississippi in Fall 2012. His research and teaching interests are in American Politics, where he studies both mass and elite political behavior with a substantive focus on issues of electoral competition, representation, and public policy, campaign finance law and health policy in particular. He is the co-author of Super PAC! Money, Elections and Voters After Citizens United (with Michael G. Miller, Routledge Press, 2014), Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine (with Eric M. Patashnik and Alan S. Gerber, Princeton University Press, 2017), which received the Don K. Price Book Award for best book on science, technology and politics from the American Political Science Association and the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, and more than 30 articles published in peer-reviewed journals.