Teaching & Research Interests
Applied: Campaigns and Elections, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, and Congress. Methods: Statistics, Research Design, Social Choice, and Game Theory
Jennifer Merolla is the Mary Nicolai-George Blair Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Policy. Her research areas include American politics with specialization in campaigns and elections, public opinion, political psychology, political behavior and Congress, and the interaction of behavior by elites and the masses, and linkages of political parties and interest groups. The primary focus of her research is to examine how elites can help citizens overcome information and coordination problems.