I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. My main field is American political behavior with a focus on how political campaigns affect voters, but I have broader interests in public opinion, media effects, and democratic political theory as well. I am currently working on a book manuscript that examines how the different types of campaign information environments generated by competitive and non-competitive elections affect voters.

Books

Daron Shaw, John Sides, Matt Grossman, and Keena Lipsitz. The Modern American Campaign: Candidate Strategy and Voter Response. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. Under contract.

Stephen Macedo, Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Jeffrey M. Berry, Michael Brintnall, David E. Campbell, Luis Ricardo Fraga, Archon Fung, William A. Galston, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Margaret Levi, Meira Levinson, Keena Lipsitz, Richard G. Niemi, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy M. Rahn, Rob Reich, Robert R. Rodgers, Todd Swanstrom, and Katherine Cramer Walsh. 2005. Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

 
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

John Sides, Keena Lipsitz, and Matt Grossman, “How Voters Evaluate Campaigns,” American Politics Research, forthcoming.

Keena Lipsitz, “The Consequences of Battleground and Spectator State Residency for Political Participation,” Political Behavior, forthcoming.

Keena Lipsitz, Christine Trost, Matthew Grossman and John Sides. 2005. “What Voters Want from Campaign Communication,” Political Communication 22 (3): 337-354. 

Keena Lipsitz. 2004. “Democratic Theory and Political Campaigns,” Journal of Political Philosophy 12 (2): 163-189.

Manuscripts Under Review and In Preparation

Keena Lipsitz. Competitive Elections and the American Voter.

Keena Lipsitz and Jeremy Teigen. “The Effect of Alien Media Markets on Turnout in Statewide Races.” Under review.

John Sides, Matt Grossman, and Keena Lipsitz, “The Myth About Universal Aversion: Public Opinion About Negativity in American Campaigns.” 

    Keena Lipsitz. “Issue Convergence and Political Learning in Presidential Elections.”

Introduction to American politics

Political Behavior

Public Opinion

Parties and Elections

American Presidency