Margaret Ferguson
Associate Professor
Phone number: 317-274 4996
Room number: CA 503J
Margie Ferguson joined the IUPUI Department of Political Science in
1996, after completing her Ph.D. in political science at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her dissertation title was "Gubernatorial Policy
Leadership in the Fifty States," in which she reviewed the progress of
bills in state legislatures in the fifty states during 1993-1994 to determine
whether bills that were endorsed by governors fared better than those that
were not.
In 1993, Margie received her M.A. in political science, also from the
University of North Carolina. She completed her B.A. in political science
at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1990.
Professor Ferguson's teaching interests within the field of American
politics include state and local politics, executive politics, legislative
politics, and welfare policy. While completing her Ph.D., she worked on
welfare policy issues as a Research Associate at the University of North
Carolina's Human Services Research and Design Laboratory.
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