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Danny Hayes

Assistant Professor
Department of Government

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Research Fellow, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
    Faculty Affiliate, Women & Politics Institute
  • Danny Hayes is an assistant professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs. His research focuses on political communication and political behavior in American politics. A former journalist, he is interested in how information from the media and other political actors influences citizens’ attitudes during public policy debates and election campaigns. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Presidential Studies Quarterly, among others. He also contributes to the Washington Post's public opinion and polling blog Behind the Numbers.

  • Degrees

    Ph.D. in Government, University of Texas at Austin, 2006
    M.A. in Government, University of Texas at Austin, 2004
    Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, 1998
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

  • 2012. "The Intersection of Redistricting, Race, and Participation." American Journal of Political Science 56(1): 115-130. (with Seth C. McKee)
  • 2011. "The Influence of Foreign Voices on U.S. Public Opinion." American Journal of Political Science 55(4): 830-850. (with Matt Guardino)
  • 2011. "When Gender and Party Collide: Stereotyping in Candidate Trait Attribution." Politics & Gender 7(2): 133-165.
  • 2010. "Trait Voting in U.S. Senate Elections." American Politics Research 38(6): 1102-1129.
  • 2010. "The Dynamics of Agenda Convergence and the Paradox of Competitiveness in Presidential Campaigns." Political Research Quarterly 63(3): 594-611.
  • 2010. "Parties and the Media: Getting Messages to Voters." In Jeffrey M. Stonecash (ed.), New Directions in American Political Parties, pp. 44-62. New York: Routledge
  • 2010. "The Transformation of Southern Presidential Primaries." In Branwell D. Kapeluck, Laurence W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed (eds.), Presidential Elections in the South: Putting 2008 in Political Context, forthcoming. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. (with Seth C. McKee)
  • 2010. "Whose Views Made the News? Media Coverage and the March to War in Iraq." Political Communication 27(1): 59-87. (with Matt Guardino)
  • 2010. "A Matter of Distinction: Candidate Polarization and Information Processing in Election Campaigns." American Politics Research 38(1): 165-192. (with Mathieu Turgeon)
  • 2009. "The Participatory Effects of Redistricting." American Journal of Political Science 53(4): 1006-1023. (with Seth C. McKee)
  • 2009. "Has Television Personalized Voting Behavior?" Political Behavior 31(2): 231-260.
  • 2009. "Dixie's Kingmakers: Stability and Change in Southern Presidential Primary Electorates." Presidential Studies Quarterly 39(2): 400-417. (with Seth C. McKee)
  • 2008. "Party Reputations, Journalistic Expectations: How Issue Ownership Influences Election News." Political Communication 25(4): 377-400.
  • 2008. "Does the Messenger Matter? Candidate-Media Agenda Convergence and Its Effects on Voter Issue Salience." Political Research Quarterly 61(1): 134-146.
  • 2008. "Toward a One-Party South?" American Politics Research 36(1): 3-32. (with Seth C. McKee)  [Reprinted in Princeton Readings in American Politics, Richard M. Valelly, ed.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. 519-541.]
  • 2005. "Candidate Qualities through a Partisan Lens: A Theory of Trait Ownership." American Journal of Political Science 49(4): 908-923.
  • 2005. Voter Turnout in the California Recall: Where Did the Increase Come from?" American Politics Research 33(2): 187-215. (with Brian K. Arbour)
  • 2004. "Booting Barnes: Explaining the Historic Upset in the 2002 Georgia Gubernatorial Election." Politics & Policy 32(4): 708-739. (with Seth C. McKee)
  • 2004. "Accentuating the Personal: Media Exposure, Political Sophistication, and Evaluations of Presidential Candidate Traits." LBJ Journal of Public Affairs 16(2): 86-97.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Campbell Public Affairs Institute Faculty Research Award
  • National Science Foundation: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, "A Matter of Distinction: Candidate Similarity and On-line vs. Memory-based Processing." (with Mathieu Turgeon).
  • Appleby-Mosher Fund Research Grant, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University
  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Research Grant, 2005-2006
  • Best Graduate Student Paper, 2005 Southwestern Political Science Association meeting (Paper title: “The Dynamics of Candidate and Media Issue Convergence.”)
  • Best Graduate Student Paper, 2004 Southwestern Political Science Association meeting (Paper title: “Perpetuating Party Advantage: Issue Ownership and News Media Favorability in Presidential Campaigns, 1992-2000.”)

Work In Progress

  • Influence from Abroad: How Foreign Voices in the Media Shape U.S. Public Opinion. Book manuscript. (with Matt Guardino)
  • “Sectional Change and the Variable Incumbency Advantage.” (with Seth C. McKee ) Under review.
  • "Reconsidering the Irrelevance of Foreign Voices for U.S. Public Opinion: An Experiment." (with Matt Guardino)
  • “Media Frames and the Immigration Debate.”

Professional Presentations

  • "Reconsidering the Irrelevance of Foreign Voices for U.S. Public Opinion: An Experiment," with Matt Guardino, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011
  • "Media Frames and the Immigration Debate," presented at the Political Communication APSA Pre-Conference, University of Washington, August 2011
  • "Redistricting and Turnout in Black and White," with M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2011
  • "Divided by Information: The Partisan Polarization of Political Knowledge," with Rebekah E. Liscio, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2010
  • "Sectional Change and the Variable Incumbency Advantage," with Seth C. McKee, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2010
  • "Indexing Iraq," with Matt Guardino, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2010
  • "Why 'Old Europe' Still Matters: Foreign Voices in the News, Public Opinion, and the War in Iraq," with Matt Guardino, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 2009
  • "Race and the Participatory Effects of Redistricting," with Seth C. McKee, presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 2009
  • "Uncovering the Influence of Foreign Voices on U.S. Public Opinion: The Case of Iraq," presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2009
  • "Feminine Democrats, Masculine Republicans: Stereotype Accessibility and Candidate Trait Attribution," presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2009

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Area of Expertise: Political behavior and political communication in American politics; public opinion; campaigns and elections; voting behavior, political participation, and the media

Additional Information: Danny Hayes is an expert on political behavior and political communication in American politics. His primary areas of interest are public opinion, campaigns and elections, voting behavior, political participation, and the media. Much of his work focuses on how the public responds to information from the media during campaigns and public policy debates, and how this shapes attitudes about politics. He also studies the effects of redistricting on political participation.

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