My Curriculum Vitae
Please click here for my CV.Dissertation
My dissertation, Learning Curves: Three Studies on Political Information Acquisition, is a collection of articles that investigates pathways of information
acquisition among three groups--the politically sophisticated, the potentially sophisticated, and the unsophisticated--using very different approaches. The three
central questions are:
What campaign information matters? Which campaign events are actually informative?
How does the information that students 'incidentally' encounter in electronic social networks shape their political knowledge?
Do candidate visits affect issue salience, public opinion, and ultimately vote choice?
Publications
Note: Due to copyright concerns, these are not the final typeset versions. If you would like a copy in that format, please contact me and I will be happy to send it to you."It's the Electability, Stupid" --or Maybe Not? Electability, Substance, and Strategic Voting in Presidential Primaries. Jill Rickershauser and John H. Aldrich, Electoral Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 371-380.
Fear in the Voting Booth: The 2004 Presidential Election. Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, Jill Rickershauser, and David W. Rohde, Political Behavior, Vol. 29, No. 2, 197-220. The Appendix, with wording and coding for all variables used in the analysis, is available here .
The Presidency and the Election Campaign: Altering Voters' Priorities in the 2004 Election. John Aldrich, John Griffin, and Jill Rickershauser. In The Presidency and the Political System, edited by Michael Nelson, 2006.
Media, Violence and Terrorism in North America. David Paletz and Jill Rickershauser. In Media, Violence and Terrorism, edited by S.T. Kwame Boafo and Sylvie Coudray, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. 2003.
Working Papers
Volatility in Prediction Markets: A Measure of Information Flow in Political Campaigns
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association.
'Going Local': The Agenda-Setting Effects of Candidate Appearances
Presented at the 2006 Midwest Political Science Association Conference.
A new version of this paper, which will be presented at the APSA conference, will be posted here soon.
A Practical Liberal Approach to Pluralism and Immigration: The Case of Pim Fortuyn [Abstract]
Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2005.