
Government & Politics ·
Super Tuesday the Key to Predicting Campaign Outcomes?
To shed some light how primaries impact the race, The School of Public Affairs’ Jan Leighley, an expert in political behavior and voter turnout, weighs in.
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American political behavior
Voter turnout
Registration laws
Election administration
Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality and Turnout in the U.S. Princeton University Press, 2014. (with Jonathan Nagler).
"Representation in an Era of Political and Economic Inequality: How and When Citizen Engagement Matters." Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming 2017. (with Jennifer Oser)
"Latino Electoral Participation: Variations on Demographics and Ethnicity." 2016. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2:3 (June 2016): 148-164. (with Jonathan Nagler)
"Participation Online and Otherwise: What's the Difference for Policy Preferences?" Social Science Quarterly 95:5 (December 2014): 1259-77. (with Jennifer Oser and Kenneth M. Winneg)
Voter turnout, voter registration, voter mobilization, media/campaign effects, minority group politics/mobilization, political participation, voter attitudes, racial ethnic political behavior, race and politics
Jan Leighley is the co-editor of the Journal of Politics,a leading general journal of political science research. She is co-author Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States(2013). Previous books include Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective.
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Government & Politics ·
To shed some light how primaries impact the race, The School of Public Affairs’ Jan Leighley, an expert in political behavior and voter turnout, weighs in.
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Achievements ·
Members of the Midwest Political Science Association elected Leighley to the role of president-elect in April 2015.
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