Jim Adams
Professor of Political Science

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

Office: 243 SocSci
Phone: (530) 754-9172
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.

Curriculum Vitae

SELECTED FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

"Candidate and party strategies in two-stage elections beginning with a primary" (with Samuel Merrill, III). Forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science.

"Do parties adjust their policies in response to rival parties’ policy shifts?" (with Zeynep Somer-Topcu). Forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science.

"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.