Faculty
James E. Campbell
Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Email: jcampbel@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-8452
Office: 522 Park Hall
Current CV in PDF format: James E Campbell's 2009 CV
Areas of Teaching and Research Interests:
Political Campaigns and Elections, Voting Behavior, American Political Parties, American Macropolitics, Election Forecasting, Public Opinion, Campaign Finance, Political Participation, Presidential Politics, Presidential-Congressional Relations, and Electoral Systems.
Courses Taught:
PSC 344, Presidential Campaigns
PSC 376, Politics and Money
PSC 436, Citizen Participation
PSC 495, Senior Seminar: American Macropolitics
PSC 505, Seminar on American Politics
PSC 665, Voting & Public Opinion
PSC 761, American Political Frontiers: Campaign Finance Reform
PSC 761, American Political Frontiers: American Macropolitics
Current Research:
The Theory of Conditional Retrospective Voting, The Relationship between the Growth of Economic Inequality and Political Polarization, The Effect of the Presidential Party on Economic Growth and Inequality, The Impact of Declining District Electoral Competition on Inter-election Congressional Seat Change, Election Forecasting, Explanations of the 2008 Presidential Election, Explaining Change in Macropartisanship, and The Impact of Swing Voters on Presidential Elections.
Brief Bio:
James E. Campbell is the Chair of the Department. He is also the President of Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society. He is a former APSA Congressional Fellow and a program director at the National Science Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of six political science journals and on the executive councils of seven political science organizations. Professor Campbell has published four books and more than sixty book chapters and articles in major political science journals. His most recent book is the second edition of The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote, published in 2008 by Texas A&M University Press. He is also the author of Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections and The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections. Prior to joining the UB faculty in 1998, he served on the faculties of the University of Georgia (1980-88) and Louisiana State University (1988-98).
Selected Recent Research:
“A Refutation of Unequal Democracy: The Myth that Democratic Presidents Improve Economic Growth and Equality,” Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2009.
“The Exceptional Election of 2008: Performance, Values, and Crisis,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.
"Context and Strategy in Presidential Campaigns: Incumbency and the Political Climate," Journal of Political Marketing, forthcoming, (co-authored with Bryan J. Dettrey).
“The Trial-Heat Forecast of the 2008 Presidential Vote: Performance and Values Considerations in an Open Seat Election,” PS: Political Science & Politics, v.41, n.4 (October 2008), pp.697-701 and “The 2008 Campaign and the Forecasts Derailed,” PS: Political Science & Politics, v.42, n.1 (January 2009), pp.19-20.
“Do Swing Voters Swing Elections?” The Swing Voter in American Politics, edited by William G. Mayer (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008) chapter 7, pp. 118-32.
“Evaluating U.S. Presidential Election Forecasts and Forecasting Equations,” International Journal of Forecasting, v.24, n.2 (April-June 2008), pp. 259-271.
“Party Systems and Realignments in the United States, 1868-2004,” Social Science History, v.30, issue 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 359-86.
“Why Bush Won the Presidential Election of 2004: Incumbency, Ideology, Terrorism, and Turnout,” Political Science Quarterly, v.120, n.2, (Summer 2005), pp.219-241.
last updated 10/16/09