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
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
Keena
Lipsitz and Jeremy Teigen. “The Effect of Alien Media Markets on
Turnout in
Statewide Races.” Political
Communication, forthcoming.
John Sides, Keena Lipsitz, and Matt Grossman,
“How Voters Evaluate Campaigns,” American
Politics Research, forthcoming.
Keena
Lipsitz. 2009. “The Consequences of Battleground and Spectator
State
Residency for
Political Participation,” Political
Behavior. 31(2): 187-209.
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
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 with W.W. Norton & Company.
Keena
Lipsitz. Competitive
Elections and the American Voter. Under advance contract with
University
of Pennsylvania Press.
Keena Lipsitz. “Issue Convergence
and Political
Learning in Presidential Elections.”
Keena Lipsitz and Costas
Panagopoulos. "Political Contributions in the 2008 Presidential
Campaign."
John Sides, Matt
Grossman, and Keena Lipsitz,
“The Myth About
Universal Aversion: Public Opinion About Negativity in American
Campaigns.”
Courses Taught
Introduction
to American politics
Political
Behavior
Public Opinion
Parties
and Elections
American Presidency