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Overview

Jennifer Wolak is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly within political science and related subfields.

The main fields of study for their research focus largely on social sciences, with subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, gender studies, communication, and economics and econometrics.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably electoral systems and political participation, gender politics and representation, social media and politics, populism and right-wing movements, social and intergroup psychology, social capital and networks, and fiscal policies and political economy.

Jennifer Wolak has published in various academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Behavior
  • American Politics Research
  • State Politics & Policy Quarterly
  • Political Research Quarterly

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Wolak include:

  • David A. Peterson
  • Carey E. Stapleton
  • Jacob Oliver
  • Damon C. Roberts
  • Anand E. Sokhey

Recent papers by Jennifer Wolak showcase research in diverse aspects of political behavior and trust in governance. These include:

  • Self-Confidence and Gender Gaps in Political Interest, Attention, and Efficacy (2020), published in The Journal of Politics
  • Conflict Avoidance and Gender Gaps in Political Engagement (2020), published in Political Behavior
  • The Dynamic American Dream (2020), published in American Journal of Political Science
  • Why Do People Trust Their State Government? (2020), published in State Politics & Policy Quarterly
  • Do Voters Care about the Age of their Elected Representatives? (2022), published in Political Behavior

Best Publications

  • Civic Engagements: Resolute Partisanship or Reflective Deliberation

    Michael MacKuen;Jennifer Wolak;Luke Keele;George E. Marcus

  • Explaining Public Confidence in the Branches of State Government

    Christine A. Kelleher;Jennifer Wolak

  • The Measure and Mismeasure of Emotion

    George E. Marcus;Michael MacKuen;Jennifer Wolak;Luke Keele

  • The roots of trust in local government in western Europe

    Jennifer Fitzgerald;Jennifer Wolak

  • The Roots of the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge in Adolescence

    Jennifer Wolak;Michael McDevitt

  • When Do the Ends Justify the Means? Evaluating Procedural Fairness

    David Doherty;David Doherty;Jennifer Wolak

  • Contextual Sources of Ambivalence

    Luke Keele;Jennifer Wolak

  • Explaining change in party identification in adolescence

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Value Conflict and Volatility in Party Identification

    Luke Keele;Jennifer Wolak

  • The Consequences of Presidential Battleground Strategies for Citizen Engagement

    Jennifer Wolak

  • The Dynamics of Public Confidence in U.S. State and Local Government

    Jennifer Wolak;Christine Kelleher Palus

  • Compromise in an Age of Party Polarization

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Priming Presidential Approval: The Conditionality of Issue Effects

    Christine A. Kelleher;Jennifer Wolak

  • Feelings of Political Efficacy in the Fifty States

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Personality and Emotional Response: Strategic and Tactical Responses to Changing Political Circumstances

    Jennifer Wolak;George E. Marcus

  • Conflict Avoidance and Gender Gaps in Political Engagement

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Self-Confidence and Gender Gaps in Political Interest, Attention, and Efficacy

    Jennifer Wolak

  • The Roots of Citizens’ Knowledge of State Politics:

    Jeffrey Lyons;William P. Jaeger;Jennifer Wolak

  • Candidate Gender and the Political Engagement of Women and Men

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Reconsidering The Counter-Mobilization Hypothesis: Health Policy Lobbying In The American States

    David Lowery;Virginia Gray;Jennifer Wolak;Erik Godwin

  • Descriptive Representation and the Political Engagement of Women

    Jennifer Wolak

  • Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi‐State Lobbying in State Interest Communities

    Jennifer Wolak;Adam J. Newmark;Todd Mcnoldy;David Lynn Lowery

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke Keele
Luke Keele University of Pennsylvania
David Lowery
David Lowery Pennsylvania State University
Virginia Gray
Virginia Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus Williams College
Michael B. Mackuen
Michael B. Mackuen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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