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John Coleman
Professor Coleman is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and a Lyons Family Faculty Fellow. He received his B.A. from Clark University and his Ph.D. from MIT, and has been at UW since 1992. He is the author or editor of six books and his research on political parties, elections, legislative-executive relations, divided government, campaign finance, and American political development has appeared in the discipline’s leading journals. His current research explores the relationship between different means of campaign finance regulation and the content of public policy in the states. He is a past president of the Political Organizations and Parties research section of the American Political Science Association, and earned an Emerging Scholar Award from that group in 1997. He has served as an expert witness on campaign finance cases, serves on the academic advisory board of the Wisconsin Business Council, and is frequently interviewed by the news media for analysis of current events. He has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award from UW-Madison.
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Recent Publications
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John Coleman, Kenneth Goldstein, William Howell. Understanding American Politics and Government. 3rd edition, 2013; previous editions 2011, 2009. New York: Pearson.
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John Coleman, Kenneth Goldstein, William Howell, Cause and Consequence in American Politics. 2012. New York: Pearson/Penguin Academics.
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John Coleman, "Parties as a Resource for Presidential Leadership: The Case of Barack Obama." In Steven E. Schier, ed., Transforming America: Barack Obama in the White House (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011).
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Faultlines: Debating the Issues in American Politics. 3rd ed. 2011. Previous editions: 2007, 2004. New York: W.W. Norton.
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics. 6th ed. 2011. Previous editions: 2008, 2005, 2003. New York: W. W. Norton.
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John Coleman, Kevin S. Price. Legitimacy, Leadership, and Longing for Realignment: The Party Basis of the Bush Presidency.” In Steven E. Schier, ed., Ambition and Division: Legacies of the George W. Bush Presidency (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).
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John Coleman, and David C.W. Parker. “The Consequences of Divided Government.” In George C. Edwards III and William G. Howell, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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John Coleman. “Parties, Politics, and the Fiscal State,” in Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, and Kenneth A. Shepsle, Norton American Politics Online Reader (New York: WW Norton, 2008).
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John Coleman, Paul Manna "Above the Fray? The Use of Party System References in Presidential Rhetoric." Presidential Studies Quarterly, September 2007.
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John Coleman, David C. W. Parker. “Pay to Play: Parties, Interests, and Money in Federal Elections.” 2004. In Patricia Strach and Ken Goldstein, eds., The Medium and the Message. Prentice Hall. 2004.
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John Coleman, Kevin S. Price. “The Party Base of Presidential Leadership and Legitimacy.” 2004. In Steven Schier, ed., High Risk and Big Ambition: The Presidency of George W. Bush. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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John Coleman “The Benefits of Campaign Spending.” 2003. Briefing Paper no. 84. Washington, DC: Cato Institute.
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John Coleman “Responsible, Functional, or Both: American Political Parties and the APSA Report after Fifty Years.” 2003. In John C. Green and Rick Farmer, eds. The State of the Parties 4th ed.
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John Coleman “The Distribution of Campaign Spending Benefits Across Groups.” Journal of Politics 63, 3 (2001): 916-34.
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David Canon, John Coleman, Kenneth Mayer. Readings in American Government. 7th ed. 2002. New York: W. W. Norton.
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John Coleman, Paul F. Manna. “Congressional Campaign Spending and the Quality of Democracy.” Journal of Politics 62, 3 (2000): 757-89.
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Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013
424 - American Parties & Politics
Instructors: John Coleman Field: American Politics
Section Number: 001
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