Jonathan Nagler Professor of Politics Ph.D. 1989, California Institute of Technology; M.S. 1985, California Institute of Technology; A.B. 1982, Harvard University. Email: Phone:  (212) 992-9676 Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  307 For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: Methodology, voting behavior, voter turnout, latino voting, campaigns and elections, and specifically the relative impact of the economy and issues on voting.

About Me: I am a Professor of Politics, as well as the Director of the Politics Data Center. I am currently working on a book on voter turnout in the United States from 1972 to 2004, as well as projects on the effect of campaign advertising on turnout, and other aspects of elections and voting behavior.

My Current Work: My current work would reside here.

Select Publications:

Papers

• Electoral Laws and Turnout, 1978-2008 (Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference in Empirical Legal Studies, November 2009, University of Southern California)
  
• Who Votes Now? And Does it Matter? (with Jan E. Leighley)

• Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1972-2004 (with Jan E. Leighley).
• The Hispanic Vote in the 2004 Presidential Election: Insecurity and Moral Concerns (with Marisa A. Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez).
• Unions and Class Bias in the U.S. Electorate, 1964-2004 (with Jan E. Leighley).
• Do Voters Really Care Who Gets What?: Economic Growth, Economic Redistribution, and Presidential Popularity (with Suzanna De Boef)
• A Method for Weighting Survey Samples of Low-Incidence Voters" (with R. Michael Alvarez).
• Race-Based versus Issue Voting: A Natural Experiment: The 2001 City of Los Angeles Elections. (with Marisa Abrajano and R. Michael Alvarez).
• Economics, Entitlements and Social Issues: Voter Choice in the 1996 Presidential Election (with R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Economic Conditions and Presidential Elections (with Jennifer R. Niemann).
• Explaining the Gender Gap U.S. Presidential Elections, 1980-1992 (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Explaining the Gender Gap in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election (with Carole Chaney and R. Michael Alvarez).
• When Politics and Models Collide: Estimating Models of Multi-Party Elections (with R. Michael Alvarez). (JSTOR access required)
• Issues, Economics, and the Dynamics of Multi-Party Elections: The British 1987 General Election (with R. Michael Alvarez and Shaun Bowler).
• Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election (with R. Michael Alvarez).
• Coding Style and Good Computing Practices.