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David P. Redlawsk
Professor I and Director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling
| Contact Information |
| Office: |
Hickman 603 (political Science)
Woodlawn (Eagleton) |
| Email: |
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| Web Page: |
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~redlawsk |
| Phone: |
(732) 932-9384 Ext. 285 |
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| Education and Background |
| B.A. from Duke University, M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers. Taught at the University of Iowa before coming to Rutgers in 2009. |
| Specialty |
| Political Psychology, American Politics, Elections and Voting Behavior |
| Research |
| Prof. Redlawsk's research focuses on the role of information in voter decision making and on emotional responses to campaign information. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (through both the political science program and the computer science program) and by the MacArthur Foundation. He is currently serving as co-editor of the journal Political Psychology and is a member of the Board of the American National Elections Studies. |
| Publications |
Prof. Redlawsk’s newest book (with Caroline Tolbert and Todd Donovan) is Why Iowa?: How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process published in 2011 by the University of Chicago Press. The book focuses on the role the Iowa Caucuses play in the nomination process. More information is available at http://www.whyiowa.org.
He has two other recent books, How Voters Decide: Information Processing in an Election Campaign, (with Richard Lau) published by Cambridge University Press and winner of the 2007 Alexander George Award for best Book in Political Psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology and an edited volume, Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Information Processing by Palgrave-Macmillan. He is also a co-editor, with Milton Heumann and Thomas Church, of Hate Speech on Campus: Cases, Case Studies, and Commentary (Northeastern University Press, 1997.)
Prof. Redlawsk's research has also been published in the top journals in political science including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and the American Journal of Political Science, as well as the journal Political Psychology.
He is also interested in civic engagement and service-learning pedagogies. He is editor (with Tom Rice) of Civic Service: Service-Learning with State and Local Government Partners (Jossey-Bass, 2009) which highlights a number of exemplary service-learning projects across institutions and disciplines, which all have in common partnering with government to provide reciprocal value to students and government agencies.
Prof. Redlawsk is a regular commentator in local and national media, and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, the BBC, and on network and cable news, as well as in the pages of The New York Times, and in international publications such as the Economist and the Financial Times among many others. |
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