Glenn Mitchell, Ph.D.
Faculty Administrator, University of South Florida,
Director, State Data Center on Aging
Fellow, Institute on Aging
Adjunct, Department of Political Science

Email: gmitchel@cas.usf.edu
Telephone: 813-974-4968
Curriculum Vitae(pdf)

Grant Support

Primary Investigator, Florida Medicaid, Performance-Based Budget Analysis of Elderly Medicaid Recipients, employs probabilistic record matching of administrative data. $186,000 annually. Recurring.

Publications (representative publications)

Publications – American Politics

"The Impact of Legal Constraints on Voter Registration, Turnout, and the Composition of the American Electorate," Glenn E. Mitchell II and Christopher Wlezien, Political Behavior, 17:179-202, Spring 1995.

Publications – Comparative Politics

"French Electoral Theory: The National Front Test," Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Glenn E. Mitchell II, Electoral Studies, 12:2, 112-27, Spring 1993.

"Transitional Models of Economic Voting," Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Glenn E. Mitchell II, Revista del Instituto de Estudios Economicos, 4:66-81, 1990.

Publications – Health and Aging Policy

“Plan Comparisons for Consumers: Premature for Medicaid?” Glenn Mitchell and Nancy Ross, Florida Heath Care Journal, Jan 2000.

“The Impact of Florida’s Low Back Practice Guideline on the Treatment of Workers Compensation Injuries,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Abstracts of Clinical Care Guidelines, October 1998.

“The Impact of Florida’s Ischemic Stroke Guideline on Patient Outcomes,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Abstracts of Clinical Care Guidelines, September 1998.

Publications – Information Management

” Building Enterprise Apps: An Introduction to Multi-tier Architecture for Visual Basic Developers,”Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, January 2001.

Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming with Java, PL/SQL and XML. December 2000. Michael Awai, Matthew Bortniker, John Carnell, Sean Dillon, Drew Erwin, Jaeda Goodman,Bjarki Hólm, Ann Horton, Frank Hubeny, Thomas Kyte, Glenn E. Mitchell II, Kevin Mukhar,Gary Nicol, Daniel O'Connor, Guy Ruth-Haymond, Mario Zucca. (Liverpool: Wrox Press,Ltd.).

” Building Enterprise Apps: An Introduction to Multi-tier Architecture for Visual Basic Developers,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Software Developers Network (MSDN) Library, January 2001.

” Building Enterprise Apps: An Introduction to Multi-tier Architecture for Visual Basic Developers,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, January 2001.

"SQL Server Phone Home: Effective Use of SQL Server Alerts,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft SQL Server Advisor Expert Journal, December 2000.

"Random Rows: Lessons Learned from Selecting Rows at Random", Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft SQL Server Advisor Expert Journal, October 2000.

“C++ Object Model Design. Part III: Using Assertions to Implement Design by Contract.” Glenn E. Mitchell II, C++ Builder Magazine, August 2000.

“Object Model Design. Part II: Abstract Base Classes vs. Descendant Classes,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, C++ Builder Magazine, June 2000.

“Object Model Design. Part I: Composition vs. Inheritance,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, C++ Builder Magazine, May 2000.

“Validate Business Rules in Visual Basic with Class,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Access*VB*SQL Advisor Magazine, July 1999.

“Already Bitten by the Millennium Bug? The Year 2000, Microsoft Office, and a Y2K-Compliant Date Class,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Software Developers Network (MSDN) Library, March 1999.

“Already Bitten by the Millennium Bug? The Year 2000, Microsoft Office, and a Y2K-Compliant Date Class,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, March 1999.

“Validating with Class. Enforcing Business Rules with VJ6,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Visual J++ Informant, March 1999.

“Sign In, Please. Part II: Closing Our ASP Guest-book Application,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, January 1999.

“Getting to the Registry,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Visual J++ Informant, December 1998.

“Sign In, Please. Part I: Building an ASP Guest Book,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, December 1998.

“Multi-Tier Application Architecture,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Visual J++ Informant, August 1998.

“Flexible Database Architecture,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, Microsoft Visual J++ Informant, June 1998.

Publications – International Relations

"Targets of Covert Pressure: The Hidden Victims of the Democratic Peace," Patrick James and Glenn E. Mitchell II, International Interactions, 21:1, pp. 85-107, Summer 1995.

Publications – Statistical Research Methodology

"Goodness of Fit Measures for Probit and Logit," Timothy M. Hagle and Glenn E. Mitchell II, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36:3, pp. 762-84, August 1992.

Published Book Reviews

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects by Douglas Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, and Frank Buschmann, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, January 2001.

Visual Basic Developer's Guide to UML and Design Patterns by Yair Alan Griver, Matthew Arnheiter, and Michael Gellis. Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, November 2000.

Microsoft Visual Basic Design Patterns by William Stamatakis. Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, November 2000.

Building Web Applications with UML by Jim Conallen. Microsoft Office and VBA Developer, November 2000.

C++ Master Reference: The Definitive Guide by Clayton Walnum. C++ Builder Magazine, October 2000.

SAMS Teach Yourself Borland C++Builder 4 in 24 Hours by Kent Reisdorph. C++ Builder Magazine, October 2000.

Value Change in Global Perspective by Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart. Journal of Politics, pp. 909-910, August 1996.

Published Datasets

“Maternal-Infant Record Linkages: Maternal Hospital Discharges to Birth Certificates, 1992 – 1995.” Glenn E. Mitchell II and Scott Hinton. Florida Agency for
Health Care Administration, State Center for Health Statistics. September, 1998.

“Voter Registration and Election Laws in the United States, 1972-1992.” Glenn E. Mitchell II and Christopher Wlezien. International Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan. 1995.

Published Reports

“Monitoring Hospital Admissions from Florida Nursing Homes,” Glenn E. Mitchell II. Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, State Center for Health Statistics. September, 1998.

“The Impact of Florida’s Low Back Practice Guideline on Treatment of New Workers’ Compensation Injuries,” Glenn E. Mitchell II and Russell Mardon, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, State Center for Health Statistics. December, 1997.

Forthcoming Publications – Information Management

Beginning Java Networking. July 2001. Glenn E. Mitchell II. (Liverpool: Wrox Press, Ltd.)

Professional Java Data. May 2001. Raj Betapudi, Tom Bishop, Samir Fernandes, Glenn E. Mitchell II, Raffi Noran, Andrew Patzer, and Steve Wilkinson. (Liverpool: Wrox Press, Ltd.)

“Logging Application Events: Create a Generic Class for Application Logging," Glenn E. Mitchell II, Access*VB*SQL Advisor Magazine, February 2001.\

Forthcoming Book Reviews

Mike and Phani's Essential C++ Techniques, by Michael Hyman and Phani Vaddadi, C++ Builder Magazine, February 2001.

Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems, by Hung Q. Nguyen, Microsoft Office and VBA Developer Magazine, February 2001.

Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems, by Hung Q. Nguyen, Delphi Informant, February 2001.

Manuscripts Under Review

“Assessing the Impact of Florida’s Ischemic Stroke Guideline on the Quality of Patient Care,” Glenn E. Mitchell II, The Stroke Interventionalist.

“Ouch! My Aching Back! Anticipated Effects of Florida’s Physician Guidelines on Low Back Pain,” Glenn E. Mitchell II and Russell Mardon, Medical Care Research and Review.

"Bringing Politics Back In: The French Lesson for Popularity Functions," Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Glenn E. Mitchell II, revise and resubmit, Journal of Politics.

"Economics and Electoral Change: The Irish Experience," Michael Marsh and Glenn E. Mitchell II, on review, Political Behavior.

Teaching Experience

• Introduction to Comparative Politics
  An undergraduate course introducing students to the comparative study of politics.
• Introduction to Public Policy
  An undergraduate course introducing students to the study of American public policy.
• Politics of Western Europe
  An undergraduate course in Western Europe.
• Political Behavior, Public Opinion, and Elections.
  An upper division undergraduate course focusing on American electoral behavior and public opinion.
• Political Parties and Elections Systems
  An upper division undergraduate course focusing on the relationship between party systems, election systems, and voting behavior.
• Comparative Core Seminar
  A graduate core seminar focusing on the study of comparative politics. Introduced students to important contemporary studies and classic texts.
• Political Behavior, Public Opinion, and Elections.
  A graduate course focusing on American electoral behavior and public opinion.
• Political Analysis
  A graduate core seminar to philosophy of science and the scientific method.
• Research Design
  A graduate core seminar introducing students to the scientific method, contemporary social science, and research design issues.
• Statistics and Probability
  A graduate core seminar introducing students to statistical inference and elementary probability.
• Advanced Linear Models
  A graduate core seminar focusing on advanced linear statistical modelling. Topics included a review of regression from a matrix math perspective, causal modelling
  (recursive and non-recursive), time series analysis (including Box-Jenkins and VAR), and confirmatory factor analysis, and covariance structure modelling.
• Seminar on the Politics of West Europe
  A graduate seminar on the politics of West Europe, focusing on electoral behavior and political institutions.