Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1: Jan E. Leighley: Introduction
Part II: Research Design
2: Lonna Rae Atkeson: The State of Survey Research as a Research Tool in American Politics
3: Josh Pasek and Jon A. Krosnick: Optimizing Survey Questionnaire Design in Political Science: Insights from Psychology
4: Tiffany C. Davenport, Alan S. Gerber, and Donald P. Green: Field Experiments and the Study of Political Behavior
5: John H. Aldrich and Arthur Lupia: Formal Modeling, Strategic Behavior, and the Study of American Elections
Part III: Participation
6: Michael D. Martinez: Why Is American Turnout So Low, and Why Should We Care?
7: Michael P. McDonald: American Voter Turnout in Historical Perspective
8: Fredrick Harris and Daniel Gillion: Expanding the Possibilities: Reconceptualizing Political Participation as a Tool Box
9: Robert D. Brown: Voter Registration: Turnout, Representation, and Reform
10: Robert M. Stein and Greg Vonnahme: Early, Absentee, and Mail-In Voting
11: Karen Mossberger and Caroline J. Tolbert: Digital Democracy: How Politics Online is Changing Electoral Participation
12: R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall: Voting Technology
Part IV: Vote Choice
13: Larry M. Bartels: The Study of Electoral Behavior
14: William G. Jacoby: The American Voter
15: T.K. Ahn, Robert Huckfeldt, Alexander K. Mayer, and John B. Ryan: Politics, Expertise, and Interdependence within Electorates
16: Maria Armoudian, Ann N Crigler: Constructing the Vote: Media Effects in a Constructionist Model
17: Sunshine Hillygus: Campaign Effects on Vote Choice
18: Thomas Holbrook: Forecasting U.S. Presidential Elections
Part V: Interests, Self- and Otherwise
19: Suzanna Linn, Jonathan Nagler, and Marco A. Morales: Economics, Elections and Voting Behavior
20: John A. Garcia: Latinos and Political Behavior: Defining Community to Examine Critical Complexities
21: Kira Sanbonmatsu: Organizing American Politics, Organizing Gender
22: John C. Green: Gauging the God Gap: Religion and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections
Part VI: Elections Other than Presidential
23: Barry C. Burden and Amber Wichowsky: Local and National Forces in Congressional Elections
24: Melissa J. Marschall: The Study of Local Elections in American Politics
25: Laura Langer, Meghan Leonard and Andrea Polk: Studying State Judicial Races in a Transformed Electoral Environment
26: Barbara Norrander: Primary Elections
27: Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan: Direct Democracy in the United States
Part VII: Elites and Institutions
28: Walter J. Stone and Matthew K. Buttice: Voters in Context: The Politics of Citizen Behavior
29: Kenneth M. Goldstein and Matthew Holleque: Getting Up Off the Canvass: Rethinking the Study of Mobilization
30: John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin: Parties, Elections, and Democratic Politics
31: Peter L. Francia: Organized Interests: Evolution and Influence
32: Lynda Powell and Clyde Wilcox: Money and American Elections
33: Bernard Grofman and Thomas L. Brunell: Redistricting
34: Mark N. Franklin and Till Weber: American Electoral Practices in Comparative Perspective
Part VIII: Reflections
35: Jane Junn: On Participation: Individuals, Dynamic Categories, and the Context of Power
36: Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde: Studying American Elections
37: Patricia A. Hurley and Kim Quaile Hill: In Search of Representation Theory

About the Author

Jan E. Leighley, Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona, has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and American Politics Quarterly, among others. Her two books include Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, published by Princeton University Press, and Mass Media and
Politics: A Social Science Perspective. She served as editor (with Kim Quaile Hill) of the American Journal of Political Science, a leading general journal in political science, from 2000-2004 and has served on two advisory panels at the National Science
Foundation.

Reviews

While learning about the state of research in political behavior, readers will find interesting nuggets of information on the development of political science in the US. Summing Up: Recommended.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior is a must-own for anyone interested in mass political behavior ... topics range from different methodologies of research to systematic reviews of enduring puzzles in political behavior. The Handbook offers an excellent overview of where we have been as a field, and a roadmap for where future research should go.
*Adam J. Berinsky, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.*