Frederick Solt

University of Iowa

Based in

United States
North America

Frederick Solt is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa. His interests include comparative political behavior, comparative public opinion, and political economy from a cross-national perspective; he is also interested in computational methods for cross-national research. He created and maintains the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID), which provides the most-comparable data available on income inequality for broadly cross-national research, and leads the Dynamic Comparative Public Opinion (DCPO) Lab, which draws on thousands of surveys and advances in Bayesian estimation to provide cross-nationally comparable estimates of trends in public opinion. Solt’s work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and other leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals.