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 PUBLICATIONS:

“Moderate now, win votes later? The electoral consequences of parties' policy shifts in 25 postwar democracies” (with Zeynep Somer-Topcu). Journal of Politics, 2009

“Who do European parties represent? How Western European parties represent the policy preferences of opinion leaders” (with Lawrence Ezrow). The Journal of Politics, 2009

“What moves parties? The role of public opinion and global economic conditions in Western Europe” (with Andrea Haupt and Heather Stoll). Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.

“Candidate and party strategies in two-stage elections beginning with a primary” (with Samuel Merrill, III).  The American Journal of Political Science, 2008

Curriculum Vitae