Jeremy Mayer
Associate Professor and Director,
Master's of Public Policy

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, Brookings, forthcoming July 2008 (Co-authored with Bruce Smith and Lee Fritschler)

Media Power, Media Politics, 2nd ed. Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming fall 2008 (Co-edited with Mark Rozell).

Deconstructing Reagan: A Critical Analysis of Conservative Mythology. M.E. Sharpe, 2007 (Co-authored).

American Media Politics in Transition. McGraw Hill, 2006.

9-11: Aftermath of the Attacks, 2nd ed. Wadsworth, 2006.

9-11 The Giant Awakens. Wadsworth, 2002.

Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000. Random House, 2002.
- Named by Washington Monthly as one of the best political books of 2002.

Selected Book Chapters
“Campaign Press Coverage: Politics at the Speed of Light.” Campaigns on the Cutting Edge. Edited by Richard J. Semiatin. Congressional Quarterly Press.

“Zog for Albania, Edward for Estonia, and Royals for all the Rest?  The Royal Road to Prosperity, Democracy, and World Peace.” With Lee Sigelman.  Quantitative Methods in Practice. Edited by David Rochefort.  Congressional Quarterly Press. 2005.

“Reagan and Race: Prophet of Colorblindness, Baiter of the Backlash.” Deconstructing Reagan: A Critical Analysis of Conservative Mythology. Edited by Kyle Longley. M.E. Sharpe, 2007.

"A Comparison of Bush’s pre and post-9/11 Rhetoric." With Mark Rozell.  In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenge of Public Leadership. Edited by Lori Cox Han and Diane J. Heathe.   Albany: State University of New York Press. 2004.

“The Internet and the Future of Media Politics.” With Michael Cornfield. In Media and American Politics. Edited by Mark Rozell. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 2003.

“The Perils and Promise of Presidential Polling: From Gallup’s Dream to the Morris Nightmare.” With Lynn Kirby. In Is This Anyway To Run a Democratic Government? Edited by Stephen J. Wayne, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

“The Incorrigibly White Republican Party: Racial Politics in the 2000 Presidential Election.” In The Election of the Century, edited by Stephen J. Wayne and Clyde Wilcox, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.

“Understanding Perot’s Plummet.” With Clyde Wilcox. In Ross For Boss: Mass and Elite Perspectives, Ted Jelen, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.

"Everything Comes Up Rosy: The Iowa Christian Right in the 1994 Elections." With Bruce Nesmith. In God at the Grassroots: The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections, edited by Clyde Wilcox and Mark Rozell. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Politics at the Speed of Light: How the Internet Has Changed Media Coverage of Campaigns.” 2008.  Journal of Law and Politics (Japan), Volume 5  Spring 2008.

“The Presidency and Image Management: Discipline in the Pursuit of Illusion.” 2004. Presidential Studies Quarterly.

“Christian Fundamentalists and Public Opinion Toward the Middle East: Israel’s New Best Friends?” 2004. Social Science Quarterly.

“Gendered Political Socialization in Four Contexts: Political Interest and Values Among Junior High School Students in China, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.”  With Heather Schmidt.  2004. The Social Science Journal.

“Demographic Shifts and Racial Attitudes: How Tolerant are Whites in the Most Diverse Generation?”  With Molly W. Sonner. The Social Science Journal, 40: 2003.

“The Bush Presidency: Transition to Crisis Leadership.”  With Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox.  Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science.  2002.

“The Bullets, the Ballots, and the Backlash: The Charged Racial Politics of 1968.” The Historian, Winter, 2002.

“The Racial Politics of the 1964 Presidential Campaign: LBJ Wins Despite Civil Rights.”  Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives and Records Administration. March, 2001.

“Bradley’s Failure, McCain’s Success: The Preprimary Campaigns of 2000.” With Alex Sarapu. Political Chronicle, Fall 2000.

"Japan and International Relations Theory: Why Tokyo Didn’t Go Ballistic Over North Korean Nukes." Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, XV:2, Summer 1996.

Selected Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Gay Rights in the Aftermath of the 2004 Presidential Election.” Federations.  2005.

“The 2004 Presidential Election: Bush Wins Another Broken Election.”  Relações Internacionais, the journal of the Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais, Lisboa, Portugal.  2005.

“9-11 and the Secret FISA Court: From Watchdog to Lapdog?” Journal of International Law.  2002.

“Gay Rights in the USA: The States Lead the Way.” With Louis-Philippe Rochon.
Federations. Vol. 2, No. 1, November 2001.

“Zog for Albania, Edward for Estonia, and Royals for all the Rest? The Royal Road to Prosperity, Democracy, and World Peace.” With Lee Sigelman. PS: Political Science and Politics. December 1998.

“Tom Ridge” “John Ashcroft” “Nancy Pelosi” “John Snow” entries in the World Book Encyclopedia, 2002-5.

Selected Newspaper Op-Eds and ReviewsReview of "Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism", by Victoria Clark, in The Journal of American History, forthcoming.

“War crimes next October surprise?” The Politico, April 22, 2008.

“Forget Libby; stop the next Bush pardon(s).” The Politico, July 7, 2007.

“GOP Veep choice could get interesting.” The Politico. October 16th, 2007.

“With so many front-runners, talk is veep.” The Politico, October 3, 2007.

“Is death on the ballot in 2008?” The Politico, September 17, 2007.

“Book offers excuses for middling career.” A review of Robert Shrum’s book, No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner.  The Politico, June 24, 2007.

“Fusion Is the Ticket for 2008.” The Politico. January 24, 2007.

“Kerry on Iraq: He must be clearer.” Northern Virginia Journal. June 7, 2004.

“Analyzing the midterm election results.” Blue and Gray. November 11, 2002.

“The real dirty bomb is already here.” Northern Virginia Journal. August 11, 2002.

“Election lawsuit would bring mutually assured destruction.” Kalamazoo Gazette. November 13. 2000.

“Only Gore may stop a banana republic.” Detroit News. November 9, 2000.

“In a close vote, would there be the courage to concede?” Detroit News. November 6, 2000.

“Gore in Double Trouble in Michigan.” Detroit News, November 14, 1999, p. 9C.

“Business culture tied to dearth of births.” Japan Times, July 13, 1998, p. 21.

“Preference voting will increase city’s election turnout problem” Kalamazoo Gazette, April 3, 1998, A9.

“Fieger eats away at Dems’ chance for governorship” Detroit News, March 14, 1998.

“Maturing in America” Washington Times, March 3, 1998. A23.

“Pothole fight linked to insurance reform” Detroit News, May 23, 1997.

“If Engler won’t raise gas tax, his campaign may be bumpy.” Detroit Free Press, March 21, 1997.

“Clinton Tuition Plan Benefits Only A Rich Elite.” Detroit News, March 6, 1997.

“Engler, lawmakers now must accept divided government and deal with it.” Detroit Free Press, January 31, 1997, 9A.