Conor Dowling is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, after joining the department in the fall of 2023. 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 three books and more than 30 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He received his MA and PhD from Binghamton University and his BA from James Madison University.

• PhD, Binghamton University
• MA, Binghamton University
• BA, James Madison University

Mass and elite political behavior in the U.S. context; Public opinion; Electoral competition, representation, and public policy; Experimental methods

• PSC 436 Citizen Participation
  

• Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller. 2022. Small Power: How Local Parties Shape Elections. Oxford University Press.
• Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, Michael G. Miller, and Michelle D. Tuma. 2022. “Race, Crime, and the Public’s Sentencing Preferences.” Public Opinion Quarterly 86(S1): 523-546.
• Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller. 2021. “The Conditional Effect of Local Party Organization Activity on Federal Election Outcomes.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 31(3): 368-387. 
  
• Patashnik, Eric M., Alan S. Gerber, and Conor M. Dowling. 2017 [2020 Paperback]. Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine. Princeton University Press.
  
• Dowling, Conor M., Michael Henderson, and Michael G. Miller. 2020. “Knowledge Persists, Opinions Drift: Learning and Opinion Change in a Three-Wave Panel Experiment.” American Politics Research 48(2): 263-274. 
  
• Doherty, David, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller. 2019. “Do Local Party Chairs Think Women and Minority Candidates Can Win? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.” Journal of Politics 81(4): 1282-1297.