JOHN D. GRIFFIN October 2019 Department of Political Science Campus Box 333 University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO 80309 (303) 492-3135 [email protected] RESEARCH INTERESTS Political Equality, Democratic Representation, Race and Ethnicity, Leadership. TEACHING INTERESTS Political Representation, U.S. Congress, Development of American Political Institutions, Introduction to American Politics. EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D., Political Science, Duke University Committee: John Aldrich (Chair), John Brehm, Arthur Lupia, Michael Munger, James Stimson 2000 M.A., Political Science, Duke University 1995 J.D., University of Colorado School of Law Order of the Coif 1990 B.A., Political Science, Boston College Summa cum laude, Honors Program EMPLOYMENT University of Colorado Boulder 2019- Professor of Political Science 2014- Faculty Director, CU Boulder Conference on World Affairs Unit has a $2.4 million budget, 3 FTE, and 600 volunteers. Responsible for design, implementation, and assessment of CWA Strategic Plan, marketing and partnership initiatives, fundraising strategy, operational plan, campus engagement and outreach, and volunteer management systems. 2012- Associate Professor of Political Science 2012- Courtesy Appointment, CU School of Law 2012- Director, LeRoy Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment 2014 University of Notre Dame 2009 Associate Professor of Political Science 2002 Assistant Professor of Political Science HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 Emerging Scholar Award Midwest Political Science Association (with Brian Newman) 2008 Emerging Scholar Award Finalist, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association 2007 Jewell-Loewenberg Award For the best article published in Legislative Studies Quarterly in 2006. Awarded for “Senate Apportionment as a Source of Political Inequality.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 31(3): 405-32. 1993 American Jurisprudence Awards Civil Procedure Legal Ethics 1990 Phi Beta Kappa Boston College Chapter BOOKS 2018 John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin. Why Parties Matter: Political Competition and Democracy in the American South. University of Chicago Press. Subject of podcast interview with Heath Brown, “New Books in Political Science,” February 2018 - http://newbooksnetwork.com/john-aldrich-and-john-griffin-why-parties-matter- political-competition-and-democracy-in-the-american-south-u-chicago-press-2018/ Review in Times Higher Education https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-why-parties-matter-john-h-aldrich- and-john-d-griffin-university-of-chicago-press Review in The Journal of Politics Steven White, “Race and Southern Political Development,” 81(2)(2019). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/702169 2 2008 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. Minority Report: Evaluating Political Equality in America. University of Chicago Press. Review in Polity https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1057/pol.2008.34?journalCode=pol Review in Public Opinion Quarterly - https://academic.oup.com/poq/article- abstract/73/3/590/1928000 REFEREED ARTICLES (student co-authors underlined) 2020 John D. Griffin, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, and Vania Ximena Velasco Guachella, “Deprivation in the Midst of Plenty: Citizen Polarization and Political Protest,” British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming). 2020 John D. Griffin, Brian Newman, and Patrick Buhr. “Class War in the Voting Booth: Bias Against High-Income Congressional Candidates.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 45 (forthcoming). 2019 John D. Griffin, Brian Newman, and David W. Nickerson. “A God of Vengeance and of Reward? Voters and Accountability.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 44(1): 133-62. 2019 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “Presidents and the Congressional Black Caucus: The Racial Consequences of Electoral Incentives.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, https://rdcu.be/bpzQZ. 2018 E. Scott Adler, Adam Cayton, and John D. Griffin. “Representation When Constituent Opinion and District Conditions Collide.” Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 681-94. 2017 John D. Griffin, Zoltan Hajnal, Brian Newman, and David Searle. “Political Inequality in America: Who Loses on Spending Policy? When is Policy Less Biased?” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 1-19. 2016 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “The Presidency and Political Equality.” Congress & the Presidency 43(3): 352-76. 2014 John D. Griffin. “When and Why Minority Legislators Matter.” Annual Review of Political Science 17: 327-26. 2013 John D. Griffin and Claudia Anewalt. “Legislator Wealth and the Effort to Repeal the Estate Tax.” American Politics Research 41(4): 599-622. Blogged on The Monkey Cage: http://themonkeycage.org/2010/09/22/congressional_wealth_and_oppos/ 2013 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “Voting Power, Policy Representation, and Disparities in Voting’s Rewards.” The Journal of Politics 75(1): 52-64. 3 Blogged on London School of Economics and Political Science USAPP: http://bit.ly/184ToVp 2012 John D. Griffin, David W. Nickerson, and Abigail K. Wozniak. “Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game.” Journal of Economics, Behavior, and Organization 84(2): 600-17. 2012 John D. Griffin, Brian Newman, and Christina Wolbrecht. “A Gender Gap in Policy Representation in the U.S. Congress?” Legislative Studies Quarterly 37(1): 35-66. 2011 John D. Griffin and Patrick Flavin. “How Citizens and Their Legislators Prioritize Spheres of Representation.” Political Research Quarterly 64(3): 52-33. 2010 John D. Griffin and Michael Keane. “Are African Americans Effectively Represented in Congress?” Political Research Quarterly 64(1): 145-56. 2009 Patrick Flavin and John D. Griffin. “Policy, Preferences, and Participation: Government’s Impact on Democratic Citizenship.” The Journal of Politics 71(2): 544-59. 2008 John D. Griffin. “Measuring Legislator Ideology.” Social Science Quarterly 89(2): 337-50. 2007 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “The Unequal Representation of Latinos and Whites.” The Journal of Politics 69(4): 1032-46. 2007 John D. Griffin and Patrick Flavin. “Racial Differences in Information, Expectations, and Accountability.” The Journal of Politics 69(1): 220-36. 2006 John D. Griffin. “Electoral Competition and Democratic Responsiveness: A Defense of the Marginality Hypothesis.” The Journal of Politics 68(4): 909-19. 2006 John D. Griffin and Michael Keane. “Descriptive Representation and the Composition of African American Turnout.” American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 998-1012. 2006 John D. Griffin. “Senate Apportionment as a Source of Political Inequality.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 31(3): 405-32. 2005 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “Are Voters Better Represented?” The Journal of Politics 67(4): 1206-27. NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Law Review Articles 2012 John D. Griffin and Brian Newman. “’One Person, One Vote’? – Why Citizens’ Votes Carry Unequal Weight Despite Baker, and How it Matters.” The Case Western Reserve University Law Review 62(4): 1079-1107. Book Chapters 4 2010 John D. Griffin. “Public Evaluations of Congress.” Oxford Handbook of Congress, Oxford Handbook of American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press). 2009 John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin. “Parties, Elections, and Democratic Politics.” Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior, Oxford Handbook of American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press). 2007 John D. Griffin. “The U.S. Congress.” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed. 2005 John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin. “The Presidency and the Campaign: Creating Voter Priorities in the 2004 Election?” in The Presidency and the Political System, 8th Ed. (Michael Nelson, ed.) Congressional Quarterly Press. 2002 John H. Aldrich and John D. Griffin. “The Presidency and the Campaign: Creating Voter Priorities in the 2000 Election.” in The Presidency and the Political System, 7th Ed. (Michael Nelson, ed.) Congressional Quarterly Press. Book Reviews 2019 Tom Wong, The Politics of Immigration: Partisanship, Demographic Change, and American National Identity (Oxford University Press) in Tulsa Law Review (forthcoming). 2019 David Mayhew, The Imprint of Congress. (New Haven: Yale University Press) in Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming). 2013 Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press) in The Review of Politics. 2012 Matthew N. Beckmann, Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953- 2004. (New York: Cambridge) in Congress & the Presidency 40(1): 95-7. 2010 James H. Read: Doorstep Democracy: Face-to-Face Politics in the Heartland. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) Perspectives on Politics 8: 961-62. 2008 Barry Burden: The Personal Roots of Representation (Princeton: Princeton University Press) in The Journal of Politics 70(4): 1243-44. 2007 Zoltan L. Hajnal: Changing White Attitudes toward Black Political Leadership (New York: Cambridge) in The Journal of Politics 69: 1214-15. 2005 “The Importance of Constituents.” Review of Nelson W. Polsby: How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change. (New York: Oxford University Press) in The Review of Politics 67(2): 380-81. 2003 Gary W. Cox and Jonathan N. Katz: Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution. (New York: Cambridge University Press) in The Journal of Politics 66(2): 630-32. 5 ONGOING RESEARCH (graduate and