Faculty / Staff
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 Campell CV
Areas of Teaching and Research Interests: Political Campaigns and Elections, Voting Behavior, American Political Parties, Election Forecasting, Public Opinion, Campaign Finance, Political Participation, American Macropolitics, Presidential-Congressional Relations, Presidential Politics, and Electoral Systems.
Courses Taught:
PSC 344, Presidential Campaigns
PSC 376, Politics and Money
PSC 436, Citizen Participation
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: Evaluating Election Forecasting, The Impact of Swing Voters on Presidential Elections, Congressional Seat Change and the Impact of District Competition, Explaining Political Change with Corrected Poll Data, Measuring Electoral Realignments in American History, and Explaining the Increased Polarization of the American Electorate.
Brief Bio: James E. Campbell is the Chair of the Department. He previous served as an APSA Congressional Fellow and as a program director at NSF. He is the President-elect of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. He has served on the editorial boards of six political science journals and the executive councils of seven political science organizations. He is the author of The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections, Cheap Seats, and The American Campaign and the co-editor of Before the Vote. His research has also been widely published in numerous books and in the major political science journals.
Selected Recent Research:
"Do Swing Voters Swing Elections?" The Swing Voter in American Politics, edited by William G. Mayer (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007) forthcoming.
"Presidential Politics in a Polarized Nation: The Re-election of George W. Bush," In The George W. Bush Legacy, edited by Colin B. Campbell, Bert A. Rockman, and Andrew Rudalevige (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2007 in press) pp.21- 44.
"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.
"Evaluating the Trial-Heat and Economy Forecast of the 2004 Presidential Vote: All's Well that Ends Well," PS: Political Science & Politics, v.38, n.1 (January 2005), pp.33-34.