Research
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Publications
Books
Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. New York: Houghton-Mifflin. (2004).
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Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (2001).
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Articles
"Race, Ethnicity and Political Participation: Competing Models and Contrasting Explanations." Journal of Politics 61 (November 1999): 1092-1114. (with Arnold Vedlitz)
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Racial Diversity, Voter Turnout and Mobilizing Institutions in the U.S. American Politics Quarterly 27 (July 1999): 275-95. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
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Political Parties and Class Mobilization in Contemporary U.S. Elections. American Journal of Political Science 40 (August 1996): 787-804. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
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Group Membership and the Mobilization of Political Participation. Journal of Politics 58 (May 1996): 447-63.
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Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives: A Review Essay on Political Participation. Political Research Quarterly 48 (March 1995): 181-209.
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Lower-Class Mobilization and Policy Linkage in the U.S. States. American Journal of Political Science 39 (February 1995): 75-86. (with Kim Quaile Hill and Angela Hinton-Andersson)
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Mobilizing Institutions and Class Representation in U.S. State Electorates. Political Research Quarterly 47 (March 1994): 137-50. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
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Party Ideology, Organization and Competitiveness as Mobilizing Forces in U.S. Elections. American Journal of Political Science 37 (November 1993): 1158-78. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
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Socioeconomic Class Bias in Turnout, 1972-1988: The Voters Remain the Same. American Political Science Review 86 (September 1992): 725-36. (with Jonathan Nagler)
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Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who Votes? 1984. Journal of Politics 54 (August 1992): 718-40. (with Jonathan Nagler)
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The Policy Consequences of Class Bias in American State Electorates. American Journal of Political Science 36 (May 1992): 351-65. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
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Presidential Campaign Expenditures: Evidence on Allocations and Effects. Public Choice 73 (March 1992): 319-333. (with Jonathan Nagler)
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How Employment Affects Women's Gender Attitudes: The Workplace as a Locus of Contextual Effects. Political Geography Quarterly 10 (April 1991): 174-85. (with LeeAnn Banaszak)
Participation as a Stimulus of Political Conceptualization. Journal of Politics 53 (February 1991): 198-211.
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Social Interaction and Contextual Influences on Political Participation. American Politics Quarterly 18 (October 1990): 459-475.
Chapters in Edited Volumes and Book Reviews
"Mobilizing Institutions and Class Bias in U.S. Electoral Politics, 1964-2004." In Mobilizing Democracy: Barriers to Participation, Margaret Levi, Jack Knight and James Johnson, eds., Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming 2008. (with Jonathan Nagler)
"Science, Political Science and the American Journal of Political Science." In Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science, Kristen Renwick Monroe, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. (with Kim Quaile Hill)
"Voter Mobilization." In CQ's Guide to Political Campaigns, Paul Hernnson, ed., with Colton Campbell, Marni Ezra and Stephen K. Medvic. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2005. (with Tetsuya Matsubayashi)
"Race, Ethnicity and Electoral Mobilization: Where's the Party?" In The Politics of Democratic Inclusion, eds. Christina Wolbrecht and Rodney E. Hero, with Peri E. Arnold and Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005.
"Voters, Non-voters and Minority Representation." In Representation of Minorities in the American Political System: Implications for the 21st Century, Charles E. Menifield, ed. University Press of America, 2001. (with Patrick Ellcessor)
"Women's Participation in Electoral Politics: Myths and Realities." Pp. 322-31 in Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives, Dana Vannoy, ed. Los Angeles, California: Roxbury Press, 2001. (with Alesha Doan)
Party Identification and Public Opinion in Texas, 1984-94: Establishing a Competitive Two-Party System. In Texas Politics: A Reader, 2nd ed., Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham, eds. New York: Norton (1998). (with James A. Dyer and Arnold Vedlitz)
Godwin, R. Kenneth, One Billion Dollars of Influence and Eismeier, Theodore J. and Philip Pollock, III, Business, Money, and the Rise of Corporate PACs in American Elections. The Annals 507 (January 1990): 160-161.
Samuel L. Popkin, The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns and Diana Owen, Media Messages in American Presidential Elections. Journal of Politics 54 (November 1992): 1180-83.
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Why Americans Still Don't Vote. Public Opinion Quarterly (2001) 65: 610-612.
Diana Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy. Public Opinion Quarterly (2007).
Current Research Projects
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Elections and Behavior I am editing this volume which includes review essays from leading scholars in the field of American political behavior. Expected publication date: August, 2009.
Who Votes Now? An empirical investigation of trends in the correlates of voter turnout between 1960 and 2004, with a special emphasis on changes in demographic trends, state electoral laws and the representativeness of the electorate over time. Book-length manuscript to be completed by December 2006. (with Jonathan Nagler)
Voters and Non-Voters: Representation in a Diverse Polity. Examines the extent to which voters are representative of non-voters across race, ethnicity and gender. To be revised for submission to Political Research Quarterly Fall 2006.
Race, Ethnicity and Class: Context, Contact and Political Participation. This grant proposal, to be submitted to the National Science Foundation, seeks funding to study the mechanisms by which race, ethnicity and class structure individual behavior. The study will likely rely on a national survey, with racial and ethnic oversamples, and integrate individual-level data on political (including racial policy) attitudes and participation with contextual-level (demographic and political) data. It will also likely include a snowball sample of political and social discussants. Such a design should allow us to test how individuals' political attitudes and behavior are influenced indirectly by the composition of the individuals' neighborhood, work and church environments or more directly through political discussion with neighbors, co-workers or fellow congregants. The grant will extend previous research on the contextual determinants of individual political behavior, the nature of individuals' racial attitudes, and how individuals are mobilized into politics. Because this project must be in the field during a presidential election, the main proposal will be submitted for funding in August 2007.