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Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy
B.A., Swarthmore, 1992; M.P.A., Princeton, 2000; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2008
Email:
Phone:
(212) 992-8078
Office Address:
19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
Office Room Number:
327
For a full list of my work, see my
Vita.
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Areas of Research/Interest: public opinion, public policy, and their relationship in American politics; public opinion and the judiciary; lesbian, gay and bisexual issues and politics; campaigns and elections
Select Publications:
WORKING PAPERS
"'Don't Just Stand There: Do Something!' When Ideology Yields to a Desire for Change" (under review)
"Issue Ownership and Representation: A Theory of Legislative Responsiveness to Public Opinion"
"Findings from a Decade of Polling on Ballot Measures Regarding the Legal Status of Same-Sex Couples"
"The Limits of Judicial Persuasion and the Fragility of Judicial Legitimacy" (with Jack Citrin, UC Berkeley) (under review)
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Egan, Patrick J. and Megan Mullin. "Turning Personal Experience into Political Attitudes: The Effect of Local Weather on Americans' Perceptions about Global Warming." forthcoming, Journal of Politics.
Egan, Patrick J. 2012. "Group Cohesion without Group Mobilization: The Case of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals." British Journal of Political Science (doi:10.1017/S0007123411000500).
Egan, Patrick J. 2011. "Public Opinion, the Media, and Social Issues." in The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro eds.
Persily, Nathaniel, Jack Citrin and Patrick J. Egan, eds. 2008. Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy. Oxford University Press.
Egan, Patrick J., Nathaniel Persily, and Kevin Wallsten. 2008. "Gay Rights." In Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy, eds. Nathaniel Persily, Jack Citrin and Patrick J. Egan. Oxford University Press.
Goux, Darhsan, Patrick J. Egan, and Jack Citrin. 2008. "The War on Terror and Civil Liberties." In Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy, eds. Nathaniel Persily, Jack Citrin and Patrick J. Egan. Oxford University Press.
Egan, Patrick J. and Kenneth Sherrill. 2005. "Marriage and the Shifting Priorities of a New Generation of Lesbians and Gays." PS: Political Science and Politics.
Bruce E. Cain, Patrick J. Egan and Sergio Fabbrini. 2003. "Toward More Open Democracies: The Expansion of Freedom of Information Laws," In Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies, eds. Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan E. Scarrow. Oxford University Press.
Persily, Nathaniel A., Thad Kousser and Patrick J. Egan. 2002. "The Complicated Impact of One Person, One Vote on Political Competition and Representation." North Carolina Law Review.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Bloomberg's Limited WinGood government advocates portrayed the extension of term limits for New York City elected officials in 2008 as a "power
grab" by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In this New York Times op-ed piece,
I argue that the change actually boosted the institutional power of
City Council to act as a democratic check on executive power.
A First-Ever Political Survey of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals with a Probability-Based SampleOur report on the first political survey ever to be fielded with a probability-based sample of lesbians, gays and bisexuals (conducted with Murray S. Edelman and Kenneth Sherrill).
Neither an In-Law Nor Outlaw BeOver-time trends in Americans' attitudes toward gay people. With Kenneth Sherrill. (Public Opinion Pros, February 2005.)
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