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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Althaus

Scott Althaus

Associate Professor
256 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 265-7879
salthaus@illinois.edu


Northwestern University: Ph.D. in Political Science with certificate in Political Communication, December 1996.

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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research

  • 2006 Political Communication Article of the Year Award, Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Awarded in 2007 for "Priming Effects in Complex Information Environments" (with Young Mie Kim). (2006)
  • 2009 Paul Lazarsfeld award for the best paper on political communication presented at the 2008 APSA annual meeting. Awarded by APSA's political communication division for "Uplifting Manhood to Wonderful Heights?" (with Nathaniel Swigger, Chris Tiwald, Svitlana Chernykh, David Hendry, and Sergio Wals) (2009)

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • Althaus, Scott. 2003. Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Awarded a 2004 Goldsmith Book Prize by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and the 2004 David Easton Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association)

Chapters in Books

  • Althaus, Scott. 2008. "Polls, Opinion." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed. Darity, William A., editor. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. Volume 6, pp. 355-358. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
  • Althaus, Scott. 2007. "Free Falls, High Dives, and the Future of Democratic Accountability." In The Politics of News/The News of Politics, 2nd ed. Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris, eds. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.

Monographs

  • Scott Althaus and David Tewksbury. 2007. “Toward a New Generation of Media Use Measures for the ANES.” American National Election Studies Pilot Study Report, No. nes011903.

Articles in Journals

  • Althaus, Scott. Forthcoming. “The Forgotten Role of the Global Newsreel Industry in the Long Transition from Text to Television.” International Journal of Press/Politics 15(2).

  • Althaus, Scott, Anne Cizmar, and James Gimpel. 2009. “Media Supply, Audience Demand, and the Geography of News Consumption in the United States.” Political Communication 26(3): 249-77.
  • Leetaru, Kalev and Scott Althaus. 2009. “Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era.” D-LIB Magazine 15(1-2) Available URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january09/01inbrief.html
  • Cortell, Andrew, Robert Eisinger, and Scott Althaus. 2009. “Why Embed? Explaining the Bush Administration’s Decision to Embed Reporters in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq” American Behavioral Scientist. 52(5): 657-77.
  • Althaus, Scott and Todd Trautman. 2008. "The Impact of Television Market Size on Voter Turnout in American Elections." American Politics Research. 36(6): 824-856
  • Althaus, Scott, and Young Mie Kim. 2006. "Priming Effects in Complex Information Environments: Reassessing the Impact of News Discourse on Presidential Approval." Journal of Politics 68(4): 960-976. (Recipient of the 2006 Political Communication Article of the Year Award by the Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association)
  • Althaus, Scott. 2006. "False Starts, Dead Ends, and New Opportunities in Public Opinion Research." Critical Review 18(1-3): 75-104.