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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeffery J. Mondak

Jeffery J. Mondak

James M. Benson Professor
255 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-2500
jmondak@illinois.edu


Ph.D. (Political Science) Indiana University, 1991

Academic Positions

  • 2005- Present,   James M. Benson Chair in Public Issues and Civic Leadership, University of Illinois

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements

  • Brooks/Cole Award, for the best paper by a graduate student at the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, for "Institutional Legitimacy, Policy Legitimacy, and the Supreme Court." (1991)
  • American Association for Public Research Student Paper Competition. Awarded for, "Source Cues and Policy Approval: The Cognitive Dynamics of Public Support for the Reagan Agenda." (1992)
  • "Emerging Scholar Award" (1996)
  • "Developing Scholar Award" (1998)

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment. 1995. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Journal Articles

  • "A Framework for the Study of Personality and Political Behavior." 2008. British Journal of Political Science 38:335-62. With Karen D. Halperin.
  • "Information, Activation and Competition in the 2002 Congressional Elections." 2007. Journal of Politics 69: 798-812. With Robert Huckfeldt, Edward G. Carmines and Eric Zeemering.
  • "Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?: The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes toward Congress." 2007. American Journal of Political Science 51:34-48. With Edward G. Carmines, Robert Huckfeldt, Dona-Gene Mitchell and Scot Schraufnagel.
  • "The Workplace as a Context for Cross-Cutting Political Discourse." 2006. Journal of Politics 68:140-55. With Diana C. Mutz.
  • "Making Sense of Candidates: Partisanship, Ideology and Issues as Guides to Judgment." 2005. Cognitive Brain Research 23:11-23. With Robert Huckfeldt, Michael Craw and Jeannette Morehouse Mendez.
  • "The Knowledge Gap: A Reexamination of Gender-Based Differences in Political Knowledge." 2004. Journal of Politics 66:492-512. With Mary R. Anderson.
  • "Tolerance and Intolerance, 1976-1998." 2003. American Journal of Political Science 47:492-502. With Mitchell S. Sanders.
  • "Democratic Principles, Discrimination, and Political Intolerance." 2002. British Journal of Political Science 32:93-118.
  • "Developing Valid Knowledge Scales." 2001. American Journal of Political Science 45:224-38.

Other Publications

  • Assessing the President: The Media, Elite Opinion, and Public Support, 1991, by Richard A. Brody, in Presidential Studies Quarterly 22:780-82 (1992).

  • Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution, 1998, by Timothy C. Cook, in Political Science Quarterly 113:716-17 (1998-99).