LAWRENCE R. JACOBS University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science 137 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 301-19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: (612) 625-3384 Fax: (612) 624-0068 Email: [email protected] BORN New York City, March 6, 1959 EDUCATION 1990 Columbia University, PhD in Political Science Fields of Concentration: American Politics, Political Institutions, Historical Institutionalism, Comparative Public Policy 1981 Oberlin College, BA in History and English ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND HONORS 2020-Present Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2018-Present McKnight Presidential Chair in Public Affairs, University of Minnesota 2007-Present Co-editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Series in American Politics 2005-Present Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science 2005-Present Founder and Director, Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs 2001-Present Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota 2019-2020 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University 2013 + 2019 Associate Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University 2015-present Steering Committee, Scholars Strategy Network 2000-2003 Associate Director, Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability, University of Minnesota Lawrence R. Jacobs Curriculum Vitae Page 2 1994-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota 1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota 1988-1989 Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota TEACHING (selected courses) “America’s Constitutional Crises, 1946-Present” with Vice President Walter Mondale. For undergraduate and graduate students. “Governance and Health: Policy, Politics, and Technology.” For undergraduate and graduate students. “The American Presidency.” For undergraduate and graduate students. PUBLICATIONS Books Lawrence R. Jacobs. Democracy Under Fire: The Rise of Extremists and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party. (New York: Oxford University Press, under contract). Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. Fed Power: How Finance Wins. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016). Subject of two exchanges in Perspectives on Politics: Vol.15 (June 2017) and Vol.16 (September 2018). James Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Updated and Revised Third Edition, 2015). Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, eds. Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America’s Future. 2nd ed. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012). Theda Skocpol and Lawrence Jacobs, eds. Reaching for the New Deal: President Obama's Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics. (New York, NY: Russell Sage, 2011). Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011). Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael Delli Carpini. Talking Together: Public Deliberation in America and the Search for Community. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Lawrence R. Jacobs Curriculum Vitae Page 3 Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs. Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, eds. The Unsustainable American State. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009). Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs. The Private Abuse of the Public Interest. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008). Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, eds. Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005). Based on a report from a Task Force of the American Political Science Association. James Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005). Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2000). Winner of book awards from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Joel Krieger (editor in chief) with co-editors Margaret Crahan, Lawrence R. Jacobs, William Joseph, George Nzongola-Ntalaja, and James Paul. The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Edited volume. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001). Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Kumar, and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000). Lawrence R. Jacobs. The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of Health Policy in the U.S. and Britain. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993). Special Issues, Symposia, Major Reports, and other Research Projects Reports on campaign spending on federal and state elections in Minnesota, 2018-19, Kathryn Pearson and Lawrence Jacobs http://ow.ly/76NL30mK6az Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King, Symposium on the Federal Reserve Bank, PS: Politics and Political Science. October 2018. Contributor. “Report to the New Leadership and the American People on Social Insurance and Inequality.” National Academy of Social Insurance. January 2017. Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. Fall 2011 Special issue devoted to public opinion and health and health policy. Lawrence R. Jacobs Curriculum Vitae Page 4 Co-led with Theda Skocpol and including eight other scholars. Reaching for the New Deal: President Obama's Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics. Published online by the Russell Sage Foundation, Fall 2010. Collaborations with Minnesota Public Radio (May-Nov. 2010). 4 polls and 11 reports on elections, and launching of PoliGraph (fact-checking investigations of statements by candidates). Edited by George Edwards III and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Presidential Studies Quarterly. Fall 2008. Special symposium on Vice Presidential candidates selected. Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. Public Opinion Quarterly. Dec. 2005. Special issue on polls and campaigns. American Political Science Association’s Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy (Lawrence R. Jacobs, Chair), “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” 2004. [http://www.apsanet.org/inequality/] Lawrence R. Jacobs. Surveys and Reports on 2004 Elections. Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Summer and Fall 2004. [http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/csp/elections/index.htm]. Marshall M. Bouton and Benjamin I. Page (eds.) with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Richard C. Longsworth, Steven Kull, Catherine Hug, and Christopher Whitney. Worldviews 2002: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy. (Chicago: Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 2002). M. Bouton, Benjamin I. Page, Catherine Hug, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Christopher Whitney. Worldviews 2002: European Public Opinion and Foreign Policy. (Chicago: Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 2002). Scholarly Articles Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “What Health Reform Tells Us About American Politics.” Journal of health politics, policy and law. 45 (August 2020): 581-94. Lawrence R Jacobs, Suzanne Mettler, and Ling Zhu. “Affordable Care Act Moving to New Stage of Public Acceptance.” Journal of health politics, policy and law. 44 (December 2019): 911-917. Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion.” Perspectives on Politics. 16 (June 2018). Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King. “The Political Economy of the Fed.” PS: Politics and Political Science. October 2018. Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Future of Health Care Reform: What is Driving Enrollment?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 42 (April 2017): 215-246. James Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Critical Dialogue about Who Governs.” Perspectives on Politics. Lawrence R. Jacobs Curriculum Vitae Page 5 14 (September 2016). Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Liking Health Reform but Turned Off by Toxic Politics,” Health Affairs. May 2016. Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Interest Group Battle Over Medicaid Expansion: The Surprising Impact of Public Advocates.” American Journal of Public Health. 106 (January 2016): 308-313. Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Process Learning and the Implementation of Medicaid Reform.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 44 (Fall 2014): 541-563. Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Health Reform and the Future of American Politics.” Perspectives on Politics. 12 (September 2014): 631-642. Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Contested Politics of Public Value.” Public Administration Review. 74 (July/August 2014): 480-494. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Progressive Federalism and the Contested Implementation of Obama’s Health Reform.” The Politics of Major Policy Reform Ed. by Jeffrey Jenkins and Sidney Milkis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Lawrence R. Jacobs.