The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

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.

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.