Jim Adams
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Mailing address:
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616

Office: 670 Kerr Hall
e-mail: jfadams@ucdavis.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Awarded 1994.
B.A. (Economics), Princeton University, Awarded 1984.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Jim Adams studies voting behavior, parties' election strategies, and political representation in Western Europe and the United States. His work encompasses both spatial models of party competition and empirical analyses of parties' policy programmes.

SELECTED RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

“Is anybody listening? Evidence that voters do not respond to European parties’ policy programmes” (with Lawrence Ezrow and Zeynep Somer-Topcu). Forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science.

“When candidates value good government: A spatial model with applications to congressional elections” (with Samuel Merrill, III, Beth Simas, and Walt Stone). Forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.

“Has the British public depolarized along with political elites? An American perspective on British public opinion” (with Jane Green and Caitlin Milazzo). Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.

“Policy-seeking parties in a parliamentary democracy with Proportional Representation: A valence-uncertainty model” (with Samuel Merrill, III).  British Journal of Political Science, 2009.

Curriculum Vitae