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  • 2019 - Frank J. Goodnow Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Jan E. Leighley is affiliated with American University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences with a particular focus on political science and international relations.

The scientist's research explores a variety of topics within political science, highlighting areas such as electoral systems and political participation, social policy and reform studies, politics and society in Latin America, social media and politics, migration, refugees, and integration, judicial and constitutional studies, as well as survey methodology and nonresponse.

Jan E. Leighley has authored several recent papers including:

  • Who votes now? And does it matter? (2023), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Why Making Voting Easier Isn't Enough: Early Voting, Campaigns, and Voter Turnout (2024), published in American Politics Research
  • Reducing Racial Asymmetries in the Survey Overestimation of Voter Turnout (2024), published in Public Opinion Quarterly
  • The effects of non-precinct voting reforms on turnout, 1972-2008 (2023), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Books authored include a work published by Princeton University Press titled Strength in Numbers? (2021).

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jan E. Leighley are:

  • Jonathan Nagler
  • Marisa Abrajano
  • G. Agustin Markarian
  • Brian T. Hamel
  • Robert M. Stein

Jan E. Leighley's publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • American Politics Research
  • Public Opinion Quarterly

The researcher's academic output is centered in social sciences, with a significant number of publications in political science and international relations, complemented by work in sociology and political science, communication, law, and economics and econometrics.

Jan E. Leighley was awarded the Frank J. Goodnow Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2019, recognizing contributions to the field.

Best Publications

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  • Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation: Competing Models and Contrasting Explanations

    Jan E. Leighley;Arnold Vedlitz

  • Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives: A Field Essay on Political Participation:

    Jan E. Leighley

  • Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election

    Jonathan Nagler;R. Michael Alvarez

  • Strength in Numbers? The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

    Jan E. Leighley

  • Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States

    Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

  • The Policy Consequences of Class Bias in State Electorates

    Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley

  • Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who Votes? 1984

    Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

  • Social Interaction and Contextual Influences On Political Participation

    Jan E. Leighley

  • Socioeconomic Class Bias in Turnout, 1964–1988: The Voters Remain the Same.

    Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

  • Group Membership and the Mobilization of Political Participation

    Jan Leighley

  • Lower-Class Mobilization and Policy Linkage in the U.S. States

    Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley;Angela Hinton-Andersson

  • Unions, Voter Turnout, and Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1964–2004

    Jan E. Leighley;Jonathan Nagler

  • Racial Diversity, Voter Turnout, and Mobilizing Institutions in the United States:

    Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley

  • Participation as a Stimulus of Political Conceptualization

    Jan Leighley

  • Party Ideology, Organization, and Competitiveness as Mobilizing Forces in Gubernatorial Elections

    Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley

  • Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective

    Jan E. Leighley

  • Political Parties and Class Mobilization in Contemporary United States Elections

    Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley

  • Presidential campaign expenditures: Evidence on allocations and effects

    Jonathan Nagler;Jan Leighley

  • The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

    Jan E. Leighley

  • Lower-Class Mobilization and Policy Linkage in the U.S. States: A Correction

    Evan J. Ringquist;Kim Quaile Hill;Jan E. Leighley;Angela Hinton-Anderson

  • How employment affects women's gender attitudes. The workplace as a locus of contextual effects

    Lee Ann Banaszak;Jan E. Leighley

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Nagler
Jonathan Nagler New York University
Arnold Vedlitz
Arnold Vedlitz Texas A&M University
Costas Panagopoulos
Costas Panagopoulos Northeastern University

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