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American Politics - Faculty Specialties

 

Major Subfields Within American Politics

National Institutions

  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon
  • Kenneth Mayer
  • Ryan Owens
  • Byron Shafer
  • Alexander Tahk

Extragovernmental Organizations

  • Barry Burden
  • John Coleman
  • Kenneth Goldstein
  • Benjamin Marquez
  • Byron Shafer
  • David Weimer   
  • Susan Yackee

Political Behavior

  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon
  • John Coleman
  • Charles Franklin
  • Kenneth Goldstein
  • Benjamin Marquez
  • Kenneth Mayer
  • Ryan Owens
  • Alexander Tahk
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh

Constitutional and Administrative Law

  • Don Downs
  • Ryan Owens
  • Howard Schweber

Policy, Political Economy and Public Administration

  • John Coleman
  • David Weimer
  • Susan Yackee

Federalism and Subnational Government 

  • Susan Yackee

Specific Topics Within American Politics

Faculty in parentheses work primarily in other subfields of the discipline.

Judicial Politics

  • Ryan Owens
  • Alexander Tahk

American Political Development

  • John Coleman
  • Byron Shafer

Campaign Advertising

  • Charles Franklin
  • Kenneth Goldstein

Campaign Finance

  • John Coleman
  • Kenneth Mayer

Congress

  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon

Courts

  • Kathryn Hendley
  • Ryan Owens
  • Alexander Tahk

Election administration

  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon
  • Kenneth Mayer

Elections

  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon
  • John Coleman
  • Charles Franklin
  • Kenneth Mayer
  • Byron Shafer

Identity

  • (Yoshiko Herrera)
  • Ben Marquez
  • (Nadav Shelef)
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh

Law

  • Don Downs
  • Kathryn Hendley
  • Ryan Owens
  • Howard Schweber
  • Alexander Tahk

Political Communication

  • Kenneth Goldstein
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh

Political Institutions

  • (John Ahlquist)
  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon
  • (Melanie Manion)
  • Kenneth Mayer
  • Ryan Owens
  • (Nils Ringe)
  • Byron Shafer
  • Alexander Tahk

Political Parties

  • Barry Burden
  • John Coleman
  • Byron Shafer

Presidency

  • Kenneth Mayer
  • Byron Shafer

Public Opinion

  • Barry Burden
  • Charles Franklin
  • Byran Shafer
  • Alexander Tahk
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh

Race

  • David Canon
  • (Keisha Lindsay)
  • Benjamin Marquez
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh

Representation

  • (Rikhil Bhavnani)
  • Barry Burden
  • David Canon

Tax and Budget Policy

  • John Coleman

Voting Behavior

  • Barry Burden
  • John Coleman
  • Charles Franklin
  • Alexander Tahk
  • Katherine Cramer Walsh