{"id":449,"date":"2026-06-23T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/?p=449"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:30:17","slug":"patrick-donnay","status":"publish","type":"facstaff","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/patrick-donnay\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Donnay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a professor at 91¿´Æ¬Íø since 1991. In addition to my life as a professor, I have been, and continue to be, very active in a variety of community organizations including arts, business, and downtown development organizations. I currently serve on the Bemidji Area Cross Country Ski Club Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. in Political Science 1991. University of Iowa. Dissertation: <em>Politics and Professionals: The Demand for Participation in the Intergovernmental Lobby<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A. in International Relations and Philosophy with minor in Economics, Saint Cloud State University 1986<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kansai Gaidai University. Osaka, Japan, 1984.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>British Studies Program. Alnwick, England, 1982.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Primary Elections and Polarization in Congress: Has the Role of the Nominating Primary Changed in Ways that Increase the Polarization in Congress?&rdquo;<\/strong> Presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the Minnesota Political Science Association.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The History and Performance of Minnesota&rsquo;s Publicly Funded Legislative Elections.&rdquo;<\/strong> in <em>Perspective on Minnesota Government and Politics, <\/em>5<sup>th<\/sup> edition. Edited by Steven Hoffman, Homer Williamson and Kay Wolsborn.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The Impact of Minnesota&rsquo;s Contribution Refund Program on Small Donor Behavior in State House Races.&rdquo;<\/strong> <em>State and Local Government Review <\/em>Volume 33, Number 1<em>. <\/em>Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The Public Financing of Legislative Elections: Lessons from Minnesota.&rdquo;<\/strong> <em>Legislative Studies Quarterly.<\/em> August 1995. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Public Financing: Lessons from Minnesota.&rdquo;<\/strong> Occasional Paper 4, in a series entitled, <em>Trends in Political Financing and Campaign Reform, <\/em>published by the Citizen&rsquo;s Research Foundation, University of Southern California. May 1996. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The History and Performance of Minnesota&rsquo;s Publicly Funded Legislative Elections.&rdquo;<\/strong> in <em>Perspective on Minnesota Government and Politics, <\/em>4<sup>th<\/sup> edition. Don Ostrom, editor. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The Impact of Minnesota&rsquo;s Contribution Refund Program on State Legislative Races.&rdquo;<\/strong> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 23-25, 1998, Chicago. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Political Parties and Competitiveness in the 1994 and 1996 House Elections.&rdquo;<\/strong> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 27-31, 1997, Washington, D.C. Graham Ramsden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Party Money in Congressional Elections: Enhancing Electoral Competitiveness.&rdquo;<\/strong> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 10-12, 1997, Chicago. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Party Money and Public Money in Minnesota Campaigns: Making Elections Competitive.&rdquo;<\/strong> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, March 20-23, 1996, Houston, Texas. Graham Ramsden, co-author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>&ldquo;The Public Financing of Legislative Elections: Lessons from Minnesota.&rdquo;<\/strong> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 10-12, 1994, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graham Ramsden, co-author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open Field<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hobbies and Interests<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Cycling, travel and cross country skiing<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"bsu_hero":"","bsu_hero_on_children":false,"bsu_hero_height":"600","bsu_hero_video":"","bsu_hero_focal_point":"","bsu_hero_media":"","bsu_hero_display":"random","bsu_hero_slider_interval":5,"bsu_hide_from_navigation":false,"bsu_redirect_enabled":false,"bsu_redirect_url":"","bsu_redirect_target":false,"bsu_require_auth":false,"bsu_require_auth_usertypes":"","_bsu_seo_title":"","_bsu_seo_description":"","_bsu_robots_noindex":false,"_bsu_sitemap_priority":"","_bsu_og_title":"","_bsu_og_description":"","_bsu_og_use_hero":false,"_bsu_og_image":"","photo":0,"websites":"","facstaff-manual":0,"facstaff-created-by-cron":0,"facstaff-cron-created-on":"","facstaff-cron-unpublished-on":"","facstaff-pre":"","facstaff-fname":"Patrick","facstaff-lname":"Donnay","facstaff-title":"Professor","facstaff-email":"patrick.donnay@bemidjistate.edu","facstaff-phone":"2187553899","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-449","facstaff","type-facstaff","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facstaff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}