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Overview

John L. Sullivan is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple areas within the social sciences, particularly focusing on communication, sociology and political science, as well as literature and literary theory.

The primary fields of study for John L. Sullivan include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, their research further specializes in several subfields such as:

  • Communication
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The main topics covered in John L. Sullivan's research include:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media
  • Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
  • Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

John L. Sullivan has contributed to academic knowledge through multiple papers. Two notable recent publications are:

  • "Audiences," published in 2020 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • "GET WITH THE PROGRAM: PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND THE DATAFICATION OF PODCAST AUDIENCES," published in 2023 in AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

The publication venues where John L. Sullivan frequently publishes include:

  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Best Publications

  • Political Tolerance and American Democracy

    John Lawrence Sullivan;James Piereson;George E. Marcus

  • Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do Presidential Candidates “Waltz Before a Blind Audience?”.

    John H. Aldrich;John L. Sullivan;Eugene Borgida

  • With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments

    George E. Marcus;John L. Sullivan;Elizabeth Theiss-Morse;Sandra L. Wood

  • THE PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF DEMOCRACY: A Selective Review of Research on Political Tolerance, Interpersonal Trust, and Social Capital

    J L Sullivan;J E Transue

  • An Alternative Conceptualization of Political Tolerance: Illusory Increases 1950s–1970s

    John L. Sullivan;James Piereson;George E. Marcus

  • A Social Cognitive Model of Candidate Appraisal

    Wendy M. Rahn;John H. Aldrich;Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan

  • Ideological Constraint in the Mass Public: A Methodological Critique and Some New Findings

    John L. Sullivan;James E. Piereson;George E. Marcus

  • The Sources of Political Tolerance: A Multivariate Analysis

    John L. Sullivan;George E. Marcus;Stanley Feldman;James E. Piereson

  • On the Relationship Between Attitude Involvement and Attitude Accessibility: Toward a Cognitive-Motivational Model of Political Information Processing

    Howard Lavine;Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan

  • Divergent Perspectives on Citizenship Education: A Q-Method Study and Survey of Social Studies Teachers

    Christopher Anderson;Patricia G. Avery;Patricia V. Pederson;Elizabeth S. Smith

  • The Emotional Foundation of Political Cognition: The Impact of Extrinsic Anxiety on the Formation of Political Tolerance Judgments

    George E. Marcus;John L. Sullivan;Elizabeth Theiss-Morse;Daniel Stevens

  • The relationship of national and personal issue salience to attitude accessibility on foreign and domestic policy issues

    Howard Lavine;Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan;Cynthia J. Thomsen

  • Civic Culture Meets the Digital Divide: The Role of Community Electronic Networks

    Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan;Alina Oxendine;Melinda S. Jackson

  • Political Correlates of Social, Economic, and Religious Diversity in the American States

    John L. Sullivan

  • Threat, Authoritarianism, and Voting: An Investigation of Personality and Persuasion

    Howard Lavine;Diana J Burgess;Mark Snyder;John Transue

  • Platelet MAO in subtypes of alcoholism

    John L. Sullivan;John C. Baenziger;David L. Wagner;Frederick P. Rauscher

  • The Application of Individual Differences Scaling to the Measurement of Political Ideologies

    George E. Marcus;David Tabb;John L. Sullivan

  • Patriotism, Politics, and the Presidential Election of 1988

    John L. Sullivan;Amy Fried;Mary G. Dietz

  • Candidate Appraisal and Human Nature: Man and Superman in the 1984 Election

    John L. Sullivan;John H. Aldrich;Eugene Borgida;Wendy M Rahn

  • Why Politicians Are More Tolerant: Selective Recruitment and Socialization Among Political Elites in Britain, Israel, New Zealand and the United States

    John L. Sullivan;Pat Walsh;Michal Shamir;David G. Barnum

  • Congressional Behavior and Electoral Marginality

    John L. Sullivan;Eric M. Uslaner

  • What's Good for the Goose is Bad for the Gander: Negative Political Advertising, Partisanship, and Turnout

    Daniel Stevens;John Sullivan;Barbara Allen;Dean Alger

  • Electoral Choice and Popular Control of Public Policy: The Case of the 1966 House Elections *

    John L. Sullivan;Robert E. O'Connor

  • The Media and the Gulf War: Framing, Priming, and the Spiral of Silence

    Barbara Allen;Paula O'Loughlin;Amy Jasperson;John L. Sullivan

  • The importance of trust and community in developing and maintaining a community electronic network

    Alina Oxendine;Eugene Borgida;John L. Sullivan;Melinda S. Jackson

  • Rights and obligations in civic education: A content analysis of the National Standards for Civics and Government

    Marti Hope Gonzales;Eric Riedel;Patricia G. Avery;John L. Sullivan

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene Borgida
Eugene Borgida University of Minnesota
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus Williams College
John H. Aldrich
John H. Aldrich Duke University
Wendy M. Rahn
Wendy M. Rahn University of Minnesota
Mark Snyder
Mark Snyder University of Minnesota
Thomas J. Rudolph
Thomas J. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John I. Nurnberger
John I. Nurnberger Indiana University
Diana J. Burgess
Diana J. Burgess United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Xandra O. Breakefield
Xandra O. Breakefield Harvard University
Charles H. Markham
Charles H. Markham University of California, Santa Barbara

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