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Books and other work of note.
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 A Citizens Guide to the Political Psychology of Voting, by David Redlawsk and Michael Habegger, from Routlege. Using the 2016 Presidential election as its backdrop, this book explores recent political psychology research into voter decision making.
 The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning, by Kyle Mattes
and David Redlawsk, from the University of Chicago Press. The book is available at Amazon, and you can see a preview of Ch 1 at Google Books.
Here is an interview I did about the book for the Boston Globe.
I also did a talk on the book at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. You can see it here on YouTube. as well as an interview with WHYY radio which is much shorter than the book talk! You might also like the radio interview I did with Canadian Broadcasting. Also, check out the podcast Kyle Mattes and I did about the book.
 In Why
Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential
Nominating Process, my co-authors Caroline Tolbert and Todd
Donovan and I explore the place of Iowa in a sequential system. We conclude
that despite its problems and limitations, the Iowa Caucuses provide
significant benefits in the existing presidential nominating system.
The book can be ordered on Amazon
and you can see a preview of it on Google
Books. It's published by the University
of Chicago Press. My co-author Caroline Tolbert and I published
a piece in the New
York Times online "Room for Debate" late in 2011 about
what Iowans wanted from their caucus candidates.
The American Governor: Power, Constraint, and Leadership in the States. 2015, Palgrave Macmillan.
Oldies but goodies:
Re-upping a revised version of a blog post I wrote in Dec 2015 after attending a Trump event in Burlington, IA. My take: It's about Trump as Superman.
Why
is it hard for voters to make decisions in a primary? AP science writer Malcolm Ritter has a story about this, quoting
me, as well as my colleague and co-author Rick Lau.
A short
piece I published in the New York Times online edition about
how motivated reasoning can help explain resistance to facts
showing President Obama was born in Hawai'i. |
