Do Campaigns Matter?

Thomas Holbrook is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was a Distinguished Professor and the Wilder Crane Professor of Government in the political science department. He is a former editor of American Politics Research and the author of Do Campaigns Matter (Sage, 1996), Altered States (Oxford, 2016), and dozens of articles on various aspects of voting behavior and elections in the United States, most recently focusing on local politics. Professor Holbrook has taught undergraduate courses on data analysis and survey research for the past three decades and has integrated R into his data analysis courses for the past several years.

Campaigns and Elections Evidence Against Campaign Effects A Model of Campaign Effects Nominating Conventions The Effect of Debates Campaigns, National Conditions, and US Presidential Elections The Role of Campaigns in US Presidential Elections