Grants

 

New Media, Civic Learning, and Civic Action Among Young People.  (with J. Quin Monson) Spencer Foundation, Chicago, Illinois--$40,000.  Awarded August 2010 (Grant #201100076).

Publications

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Claassen, Ryan.  Forthcoming.  “Awareness Effects and Campaign Effects:  Maximum Effects for Minimum Citizens?”  Political Behavior.

Claassen, Ryan.  Forthcoming (expected Dec. 2011).  “Political Awareness and Partisan Realignment:  Are the Unaware Unevolved?.”  Political Research Quarterly.

Claassen, Ryan, and Andrew Povtak.  Forthcoming.  “The Christian Coalition Effect:  Testing for Longitudinal Change in Participation Among Evangelical Christians.” Journal of Politics. 72:  2-15.

 

Claassen, Ryan and Benjamin Highton.  2009.  “The ‘Choice Context’ and the Political Significance of Political Awareness.”  Political Research Quarterly.  62:  538-551.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  “Direction v. Proximity:  Amassing Experimental Evidence.”  2009.  American Politics Research. 37:  227-253.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2008.  “Testing the Reciprocal Effects of Campaign Participation.” Political Behavior.  30:  277-296.

 

Claassen, Ryan, David B. Magleby, Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson.  2008.  “‘At Your Service’: Voter Evaluations of Poll Worker Performance.”  American Politics Research in the 2008 special issue devoted to election administration.  36:4.  612-634.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2007.  “Campaign Activism and the Spatial Model:  Getting Beyond Extremism to Explain Policy Motivated Participation.”  Political Behavior.  29:3.  369-390.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2007.  “Ideology and Evaluation in an Experimental Setting:  Comparing the Proximity and the Directional Models.”  Political Research Quarterly. 60:2.  263-274.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2007.  “Floating Voters and Floating Activists:  Political Change and Information.”  Political Research Quarterly.  60:1.  124-134.

 

Claassen, Ryan and Benjamin Highton.  2006.  “Does Policy Debate Reduce Information Effects in Public Opinion?  Analyzing the Evolution of Public Opinion on Health Care.” Journal of Politics.  68:2.  410-420.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2005.  “Hispanic Public Opinion.”  In Polling America:  An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion.  Benjamin Radcliff and Samuel Best, eds.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.  297-304.

 

Claassen, Ryan.  2004.  “Political Opinion and Distinctiveness:  The Case of Hispanic Ethnicity.”  Political Research Quarterly.  37: 4.  609-620.