Faculty / Staff
Franco Mattei
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Università di Firenze (Italy)
Email: mattei@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-8451
Office: 516 Park Hall
Current CV [in PDF format]: Franco Mattei CV
Area of Teaching and Research Interest: Presidential and Congressional Elections, Presidential Nominating Campaigns, American Political Parties, Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Participation.
Courses Taught:
PSC 214, The Politics of Congressional Elections
PSC 307, Political Parties
PSC 313, Voting and Public Opinion
PSC 508, Introduction to Statistics
PSC 531, Intermediate Statistics
PSC 563, Political Parties
PSC 665, Voting and Public Opinion
Current Research: The Presidential Nominating Process, Information Effects on Voting Behavior, Change in Recent Congressional Elections.
Brief Bio: Franco Mattei is an Associate Professor in the Department where he has served as Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. His work is focused on the study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion, the presidential nominating process. He is the author of a book and of several chapters and articles published in major political science journals.
Selected Recent Research:
"Recent Developments in the Associational Rights of Political Parties: Membership and Participation in the Nomination Process," (with Lisa K. Parshall). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, 2006.
"Political Efficacy," (with Richard G. Niemi), In Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, edited by Samuel Best and Benjamin Radcliff (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005), 525-534.
"Presidential Coattails, Incumbency Advantage, and Open Seats: A District-Level Analysis of the 1976-2000 U.S. House Elections," (with Joshua Glasgow) Electoral Studies 24 (2005), 1-23.
"Challenging the Presidential Nomination Process: The Constitutionality of Front-Loading," (with Lisa Parshall), Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 26 (2004), 1-41.
"Senate Apportionment and Partisan Advantage: A Second Look," Legislative Studies Quarterly 26 (2001), 391-409.