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David P. Redlawsk

Associate Professor

Ph.D.: Rutgers University, 1997.

Fields: Political Psychology and American Politics (voter decision making, political corruption, campaigns and elections, and political polling).

Sample Publications: My primary research focuses on cognition and affect in voter decision making. Using experimental methods, I examine how voters search for and use information during the course of a campaign. I am particularly interested in emotional (affective) responses to campaign materials. I am currently working to make my experimental methodology available to other researchers supported by a National Science Foundation grant.

Two recent books highlight this work:

How Voters Decide: Information Processing during an Election Campaign, Cambridge University Press, 2006. (with Richard Lau), winner of the Alexander L. George Book Award from the International Society of Political Psychology.

Feeling Politics: Emotion in Political Information Processing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (Editor.)

I have published this work in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, and Political Behavior.

With my colleague Caroline Tolbert, I have recently begun a new University of Iowa Poll, which has been funded to field a series of political surveys about the Iowa Caucuses and the 2008 general election. These surveys will begin what we hope will be an ongoing survey research center at Iowa.

I am also working with Jay McCann (Purdue) on a project aimed at understanding how citizens view political corruption and the implications of those attitudes for political action. We have article in Political Behavior (Sept. 2005), "Popular Interpretations of Corruption and their Partisan Consequences" that sets up this research project and another in PS (39:4, 2006) looking at the consequences of corruption for the 2006 midterm elections.

My courses include Political Campaigning, Local Politics, Political Decision Making, Voting Behavior and Elections, and Experimental Methods. Most of these courses include some sort of "real world" experience as an integral part of the learning process. This has led to a new project where Tom Rice and I are editing a volume on Service Learning and Government Partners, to be published by Jossey-Bass in 2008. Syllabi for each of my courses can be found at my web site. I also regularly involve undergraduates in research projects, and encourage any interested student to contact me.