Education
PhD
Dissertation: Whodunnit? The Actors Behind
the Frontloading
of
Presidential Primaries and Caucuses, 1976-2008
--The extant campaigns and elections literature has done much to point
out the presence of frontloading across presidential nomination cycles,
but has ultimately failed to sufficiently explain why it is that states
have decided to move their primaries to earlier dates. Mayer and Busch
(2004) tackle frontloading indirectly by examining the relationship
between media coverage/candidate spending and the date on which a
presidential nominating event is held. Carman and Barker (2005) on the
other hand shift the focus in the direction of the states themselves;
looking at the influence of political culture on the decision to
frontload. I, too, keep the focus on the states by observing the actual
decision makers, the state legislatures, governors, state parties and
secretaries of state. The decisions of these bodies or individuals from
1976-2008 to move their presidential nominating events to earlier dates
or keep them in place are the dependent variable. The focus of the
research then shifts to an analysis of the relationship between the
decision to frontload and factors such as campaign spending, media
coverage, voter turnout and type of delegate selection event.
Advisor:
Dr. Paul-Henri Gurian
Reading
Committee: Dr. Damon Cann, Dr. Paul-Henri Gurian, Dr.
Arnold Fleischmann and Dr. Audrey Haynes
Major
Field: American Government
Minor Field:
Research Methodology
Thesis: “State Legislatures as the Motivating Factor Behind Frontloading”
Advisor: Dr.
Paul-Henri Gurian
Reading Committee:
Dr. Paul-Henri Gurian,
Dr. Audrey Haynes and Dr. Shawn Treier
BA Political
Science
Minor: History
Dean’s List: Fall 1998, Spring
1999
--American Government: Campaigns and Elections, Presidential
Nomination Politics, Legislative Process, Politics of Race
and Ethnicity, Political Parties, State Politics
--Research methodology
Teaching
Experience
Spring 2009
POLS 2000 Introduction to Political Science
--Instructor of Record
POLS 4530 American Political Parties
--Instructor of Record
Fall 2008
POLS 1101
Introduction to American Government
--Instructor of Record
POLS 4515 Campaign Politics
--Instructor of Record
Spring 2008
POLS 2000
Introduction to Political Science
--Instructor of Record
Fall 2007
POLS 2000 Introduction to Political Science
--Instructor of Record
POLS 4150 Research Methods in Political Science
--Instructor of Record
Fall 2006
POLS 4600 Legislative Process
--Lead TA (Dr. Charles S. Bullock III)
Fall 2005
POLS 1101 Introduction to American Governmen
--Lead TA (Dr. Damon Cann)
Research Experience
Research Assistant (Dr. Audrey Haynes, Dr. Teena Wilhelm)
Research Assistant (Dr. Shawn Treier, Dr. Brad Lockerbie, Dr. Robert
Grafstein)
Research Assistant (Dr. Shawn Treier, Dr. Damon Cann)
Graduate Courses
Fall 2005
POLS 8140
Legislative Process
STAT 6280 Time
Series
STAT 6380 Survival
Analysis
Spring 2005
POLS 8150 The
Presidency
PADP 8140 Advanced
Quantitative Methods
Fall 2004
POLS 8110 Electoral
Behavior
POLS 9200 Advanced
Quantitative Methods (Ind. Study: Treier)
POLS 9200
Publication in Political Science (Ind. Study: Haynes)
Spring 2004
POLS 8190 Campaign
Politics
Fall 2003
POLS 8120 Southern
Politics
POLS 7050 Advanced
Quantitative Methods
POLS 6170 American
Political Parties
Spring 2003
POLS 8200 Special
Topics in International Relations: Decision-Making
POLS 8130 American
Interest Groups
POLS 7040
Quantitative Methods
Fall 2002
POLS 7010
Research Design: Methodology in Political
Science
POLS 6350 Introduction
to Comparative Political
Analysis
POLS 6100 Introduction
to American Politics
--Who's on First? Frontloading Through the Lens of Policy Diffusion
--The Deciders: State Legislatures, Secretaries of State, Governors, State Parties and Frontloading
--Split Primaries and State Legislatures: Frontloading More Fully Explained
--Advice and
Consent
Revisited: The 107th Senate and the Jeffords
Switch
--How
Loyal are
African Americans to the Democratic Party?
Publications
--Gurian, Paul-Henri, Audrey A. Haynes and Joshua T. Putnam. 2008. “Jimmy Carter's Presidential Nomination Campaigns: Setting Precedent for Future Campaigns.” In The Carter Presidency: Lessons for the 21st Century, John A. Maltese, ed. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Forthcoming.
Conference Presentations
--"Split
Primaries
and State Legislatures: Frontloading More Fully Explained."
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
New Orleans, 2007.
--"How Loyal are
African Americans to the Democratic Party?" Annual Meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans,
2008.
--"The Deciders: State Legislatures, Secretaries of State, Governors, State Parties and Frontloading." Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Diego, 2008.
--"Who's on First? Frontloading Through the Lens of Policy Diffusion." Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, 2009.
Statistical Methods Training
--Completion of the methodological sequence required of Ph.D.s within
the
Department of Political Science at the
University of Georgia: ordinary
least squares, generalized least squares, logistic regression, probit,
ordered logit/probit, multinomial
logit/probit, Poisson/negative binomial regression, time
series cross-sectional analysis.
--Independent
Study: time series cross-sectional logit, factor
analysis, introduction to Bayesian analysis.
--Outside the departmental sequence (through the Department of Statistics): time series, survival analysis/duration models.
Association
Memberships
American Political
Science Association (2002-present)
--Member Political
Methodology
Section (2005-present)
Midwest
Political
Science Association (2005-present)
Southern
Political
Science Association (2005-present)
Western Political Science Association (2005-present)
--Administrator of Frontloading HQ blog, March 2007-present.
--Cited by: US News & World Report, Politico.com, Slate.com, The American Prospect, The Washington Times, Real Clear Politics, FiveThirtyEight.com and on the political science blogs The Monkey Cage, Election Updates and Fruits and Votes.
--Leadership UGA panel participant (New Media & Political Campaigns), December 2007.
104
706-542-2057
cbullock@uga.edu
Dr. Damon Cann
Dept. of Political Science
UMC-0725
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0725
435-797-8705
damon.cann@usu.edu
Dr. Robert Grafstein
104
706-542-2057
bobgraf@uga.edu
104
706-542-2057
phgurian@uga.edu
Dr. Audrey Haynes
104
706-542-2057
polaah@uga.edu
Dr. Shawn Treier
1414
267
612-624-4144
satreier@umn.edu
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