University of Minnesota
Department of Political Science
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Department of Political Science

Recent Publications

Barrett, D.W., Cappella, J., Fishbein, M.. Yzer, M. C. & Ahern, R.K. (2009).Measuring the effectiveness of anti-drug Public Service Announcements.In M.B. Hinner (Ed.), Freiberger Beitraege zur Interkulturellen und Wirtschaftskommunikation: A Forum for General and Intercultural Business Communication, Volume 4. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Lang.

Borgida, E., Federico, C. M., & Sullivan, J. L., eds. (2009). The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Borgida, E., Federico, C. M., & Sullivan, J. L. “Normative Conceptions of Democratic Citizenship and Evolving Empirical Research,” Ch. 1 in Eugene Borgida, Christopher M. Federico and John L. Sullivan, eds., The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 1-20.

Dancey, L. & Goren, P. (2010). “Party Identification, Issue Attitudes, and the
Dynamics of Political Debate.” American Journal of Political Science, 54, 686-699.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00454.x/pdf

Dwyer, C. E., Stevens, D., Sullivan, J. L., & Allen, B. (2009). Racism, Sexism and Candidate Evaluations in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Vol. 9, pp. 223-240.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01187.x/pdf

Federico, C. M. and Goren, P. (2009). Epistemic Motivation and Elite Discourse. In Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification, ed. John Jost et al. New York: Oxford University Press.

Federico, C. M., Hunt, C. V., & Ergun, D. (2009). Political expertise, social worldviews, and ideology: Translating “competitive jungles” and “dangerous worlds” into ideological reality. Social Justice Research, 22, 259-279.
http://www.springerlink.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/content/91403r60881342l3/fulltext.pdf

Girvan, E. J. (2009). Rethinking the Economic Model of Deterrence: How Insights from Empirical Social Science Could Affect Policies Towards Crime and Punishment. Review of Law and Economics, 5(1), Art. 19.

Girvan, E. J., Weaver, J., & Snyder, M. (In press). Elevating norm over substance: Self Monitoring as a predictor of decision criteria and decision time among independent and moderate voters. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01205.x/pdf

Goren, P., Federico, C. M., and Kittilson, M. C. 2009. Source Cues,
Partisan Identities, and Political Value Expression. American Journal of Political
Science, 53
, 805-820.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2009.00402.x/pdf

Johnson, P.E. (2009) “What Knowledge is of Most Worth?” In E. Borgida, J. Sullivan, and E. Riedel (Eds.) The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship. Oxford University Press. pp.52-70.

Johnson, T., Black, R. C., and Ringsmuth, E. M. (2009). Hear Me Roar: What Provokes Supreme Court Justices to Dissent from the Bench? Minnesota Law Review: 93(5): 1560-1581.
http://ringsmuth.okstate.edu/Ringsmuth/CV_files/Roar_final.pdf

Jost, J. T., Federico, C. M., & Napier, J. L. (2009). Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 307-338.
http://www.annualreviews.org.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163600

Miller, C. B. (2009). Yes We Did! Basking in Reflected Glory and Cutting Off Reflected Failure in the 2008 Presidential Election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 9(1), 283-296.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01194.x/pdf

Nelson, K. & Ringsmuth, E. (2009). “Departures from the Court: The Political Landscape and Institutional Constraints." American Politics Research 37(3): 486-507.
http://apr.sagepub.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/content/37/3/486.full.pdf+html

Shivley, P. (2009) "Who Represents us Best, One or Many?" in Hans-Dieter Klingemann, ed. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Oxford University Press.

Southwell, B. G., Gilkerson, N. D., Depue, J.B., Shelton, A.K., Friedenberg, L.M., & Koutstaal, W. (2010). Aging and the Questionable Validity of Recognition-Based Exposure Measurement. Communication Research, 37, 603-621.
http://crx.sagepub.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/content/37/5/603.full.pdf+html

Southwell, B. G. & Yzer, M. C. (2009). When (and why) interpersonal talk matters for campaigns. Communication Theory, 19, 1-8.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2008.01329.x/pdf

Sullivan, J. L. & Hendriks, H. (2009). Public Support for Civil Liberties Pre and Post 9/11. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 5, 375-391.
http://www.annualreviews.org.floyd.lib.umn.edu/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.lawsocsci.093008.131525
Wang, K. (2010). Democratic deliberation in online consultation forums: A study of the casino debate in Singapore. In L. Shedletsky and J. Aitken (Eds.). Cases on online discussion and interaction: Experiences and outcomes. Hershey, PA: IGI Global

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