The Program in Mass Political Behavior permits focus on public opinion or on voting behavior and political participation. The Mass Political Behavior Program is complimented by strength in our department in the microfoundations of political behavior (including Political Psychology and Formal Theory), Political Methodology (including the PRISM program and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Survey Research); and related specialties (including Race, Gender, and Ethnicity; Political Parties; and Comparative Political Behavior).
Faculty: Herb Asher, Paul Allen Beck, Jan Box-Steffensmeier, Gregory Caldeira, Kathleen McGraw, Thomas Nelson, Herb Weisberg, and Ismael White.
Recent Placements:
Harvard University
University of Cincinnati
University of Georgia
University of Mississippi
University of Missouri at Saint Louis
Wittenberg University
Recent Doctoral Dissertations:
"Candidates' Positions in Congressional Elections"
"Social Groups and Socio-Cultural Explanations in American Public Opinion"
"The Psychological Structure of Partisanship: Affect, Cognition, and Social Identity"
"National and Local Media Coverage and the Presidential Nomination Campaign"
"The Divided Voter in American Politics"
"Party Polarization in American Politics"
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