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Overview

Barbara Norrander is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a primary focus on medicine as well as political science and public health. The work notably intersects with topics concerning reproductive health, constitutional law, and political processes in the United States.

Their research contributions cover key topics including:

  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies

Key subfields of study in which they have worked include:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Reproductive Medicine

Barbara Norrander has published research in several academic venues, with notable publications appearing in:

  • Public Opinion Quarterly
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Party Politics

Their recent papers comprise:

  • "Trends in Abortion Attitudes: From Roe to Dobbs," 2023, Public Opinion Quarterly
  • "Primary Elections in the United States. By Shigeo Hirano and James M. Snyder Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 358p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper," 2020, Perspectives on Politics
  • "Book Review: Toppling Trump: How party elites steered Joe Biden to the democratic nomination and victory in the 2020 presidential election BestSamuel JLadewigJeffrey W, Toppling Trump: How Party Elites Steered Joe Biden to the Democratic Nomination and Victory in the 2020 Presidential Election, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024. $129.99, 340pp. ISBN 978-3-031-55400-1," 2025, Party Politics

Barbara Norrander collaborates within their research network, including frequent co-authorship with Clyde Wilcox.

Best Publications

  • The Gender Gap in Latin America: Contextual and individual influences on gender and political participation

    Scott Desposato;Barbara Norrander

  • Public Opinion and Policymaking in the States: The Case of Post-Roe Abortion Policy

    Barbara Norrander;Clyde Wilcox

  • Ideological Representativeness of Presidential Primary Voters

    Barbara Norrander

  • The Evolution of the Gender Gap

    Barbara Norrander

  • The Gender Gap in Ideology

    Barbara Norrander;Clyde Wilcox

  • Measuring State Public Opinion with the Senate National Election Study

    Barbara Norrander

  • The Multi-Layered Impact of Public Opinion on Capital Punishment Implementation in the American States:

    Barbara Norrander

  • The attrition game: Initial resources, initial contests and the exit of candidates during the US presidential primary season

    Barbara Norrander

  • The reliability of aggregated public opinion measures

    Bradford S. Jones;Barbara Norrander

  • Super Tuesday: Regional Politics and Presidential Primaries

    Barbara Norrander

  • The End Game in Post-Reform Presidential Nominations

    Barbara Norrander

  • Efficient use of reference group cues in a single dimension

    Bernard Grofman;Barbara Norrander

  • Correlates of Vote Choice in the 1980 Presidential Primaries

    Barbara Norrander

  • Nomination Choices: Caucus and Primary Outcomes, 1976-88

    Barbara Norrander

  • Presidential Nomination Politics in the Post-Reform Era:

    Barbara Norrander

  • The Independence Gap and the Gender Gap

    Barbara Norrander

  • Understanding Public Opinion

    Barbara Norrander;Clyde Wilcox

  • The history of the gender gaps

    Barbara Norrander

  • Explaining Cross-State Variation in Independent Identification

    Barbara Norrander

  • Open versus closed primaries and the ideological composition of presidential primary electorates

    Barbara Norrander;Jay Wendland

  • Rallying Around the Flag and Partisan Change: The Case of the Persian Gulf War

    Barbara Norrander;Clyde Wilcox

  • Explaining Individual Participation in Presidential Primaries

    Barbara Norrander

Frequent Co-Authors

Clyde Wilcox
Clyde Wilcox Georgetown University
Bernard Grofman
Bernard Grofman University of California, Irvine
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba Harvard University

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