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Caroline J. Tolbert

Professor

Ph.D.: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996.

Fields: American Politics and Methods (voting and elections and representation, state politics, direct democracy, race/ethnicity, information technology and politics).

Co-Director: The University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll (with D. Redlawsk), The University of Iowa, 2007-present.

Sample Publications: Coauthor of Digital Citizenship: The Internet Society and Participation (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2007 with K. Mossberger and R. McNeal) and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (Georgetown University Press, 2003 with K. Mossberger and M. Stansbury). Digital Citizenship was ranked one of 20 best-selling titles in the social sciences by the American Library Association for 2008. She is also coauthor of Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States (University of Michigan, 2004, with Daniel Smith). She is co-editor of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform (Brookings Institution Press, 2008, with B. Cain and T. Donovan) and Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States (Ohio State University Press, 1998, with T. Donovan and S. Bowler). The latter book received an outstanding (O) rating for books published in 1998-1999 from the American Association of University Presses for exceptional content. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Administration Review, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Research, Urban Politics and more. Her latest book, Why Iowa: Sequential Elections and U.S. Presidential Nominations (with D. Redlawsk and T. Donovan) examines at how we nominate presidents in the United States and ways to reform the process. She is editor of two recent symposium in PS: Political Science and Politics, the latest in January 2009 titled "Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process" with P. Squire. Tolbert was the General Program Chair (with Taeku Lee, UC Berkeley) of the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting.

Recent Award: Caroline Tolbert is the new Collegiate Scholar, honored for excellence in teaching and scholarship or creative work.