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Curriculum Vitae

October 2003

Mary A. Stegmaier

University of Virginia Phone: (434) 924-8863

College of Arts and Sciences Fax: (434) 924-1405

Garrett Hall, PO Box 400133 E-mail: ms2bu@virginia.edu

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4133

Education

Ph.D. December 2000 - Political Science, University of Iowa. Dissertation: “Voting Behavior during Economic and Political Transitions: The Case of Post-Communist East Central Europe” Chair: Michael S. Lewis-Beck

M.A. May 1995 - University of Iowa, Department of Political Science

B.A. December 1993 - College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Employment

Assistant Dean and Lecturer in Politics and Economics, University of Virginia, 2003-present

Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies, Virginia Military Institute, 2001-2003

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Virginia, 1999-2001

Adjunct Professor, Mary Baldwin College Adult Degree Program, Spring 2003- present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Mary Baldwin College, Spring 2001

Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Spring 1999

Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa,1998-1999

Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 1995-1997

Courses Taught

American Government Introduction to International Studies

Economics and Elections Political Behavior

Economics and Gender Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

Elections and American Democracy (honors) Women and American Politics

Publications and Articles Currently under Journal Review

“The 2002 Election to the Chamber of Deputies, Czech Republic.” Forthcoming in Electoral Studies. (with Klára Vlachová).

“Post-Socialist Democratization: A Comparative Political Economy Model of the Vote for Hungary and Nicaragua.” Electoral Studies, vol. 22 (September 2003): 469-484. (with Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Leslie Anderson).

“The Effects of Gender Roles on Russian Political Attitudes in 1992.” Virginia Social Science Journal, vol. 38 (Winter 2003): 33-51 (with Gwyn Erb).

“A Comparison of National Effects on Individual U.S. Senate Elections.” Politics and Policy, vol. 29 (September 2001): 545-567 (with Scott Lasley)

"Economic Determinants of Election Outcomes." Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 3 (2000): 183-219 (with Michael S. Lewis-Beck).

“Post-Communist Gender and Generation Gaps: Impact on Russian Economic Values.” (with Gwyn Erb).

“Economic and Political Determinants of Vote Choice in Post-Communist East Central Europe.”

“Voter Turnout during Economic and Political Transitions: The Case of East Central Europe.”

Selected Professional Activities

VMI Summer Undergraduate Research Institute, Program Director 2002-2003, Program Associate Director 2001-2002

- The VMI Summer Undergraduate Research Institute funds undergraduates and their faculty mentors as they conduct summer research in all disciplines. The program includes a speakers series and a concluding symposium where students present their research results.

Senior Research Analyst for the study “Parental Leave, Stopped Tenure Clocks, and Gender in U.S. Universities,” directed by Dr. Steven Rhoads at the University of Virginia and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the University of Virginia Bankard Fund. 2002-2003.

Virginia Social Science Association, Executive Committee Member, 2003- present.

Faculty Advisor for Undergraduates:

- Advisor for Virginia Military Institute freshmen and International Studies majors – 2001-2003

- Advisor for University of Virginia first- and second-year students – 2000-2001

- Advised incoming University of Virginia first-year and transfer students, Summer Orientation 2000

Reviewer for Peer-review Journals:

- British Journal of Political Science

- Comparative Political Studies

- Electoral Studies

- Politics and Policy

- Virginia Social Science Journal

National Editorial Board Member for the Proceedings of NCUR 2003 (National Conference on Undergraduate Research).

- Reviewed undergraduate research papers for publication in the NCUR Proceedings

The University of Iowa Center for Teaching Review Board Member, Spring 1998

- Reviewed and recommended additions to the Handbook for Teaching Assistants.

Intensive Russian and Mentorship Project Administrator

- The University of Iowa received an SSRC grant in 1997 to bring 10 minority students from historically black universities to Iowa to study Russian and participate in a mentorship project with graduate students and faculty members during the summer. I was one of two graduate students who recruited participants and organized the program.

Search Committee Member, 1996-97

- Junior Comparative Politics faculty opening at the University of Iowa

Graduate Student Mentor

- Mentored two minority undergraduate students in the 1996 Summer Intensive Russian and Mentorship Project

Honors and Awards

Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award at VMI, 2003

- One award given annually to a junior faculty member

VMI Grant-in-Aid of Research, Summer 2003

Artinian Award for Faculty Development - Southern Political Science Association

- Travel to present a paper at the November 2002 meeting in Savannah

- Travel to present a paper at the November 2001 meeting in Atlanta

VMI Faculty Development Grant, Spring 2002

- Course reduction to develop an Institute Honors Course, “Elections and American Democracy”

T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Fellowship - University of Iowa

- Dissertation research in the Czech Republic during October and November 1998

Stanley Fellowship - University of Iowa

- Dissertation research and language study in the Czech Republic from June to August 1998

Research Grant - University of Iowa Student Government

- Travel for dissertation research in the Czech Republic

FLAS Fellowship (Foreign Language Area Studies) - U.S. Department of Education through the University of Iowa Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

- Academic year 1997/98 tuition fellowship and stipend for Russian language and area studies

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 1996/97 - University of Iowa Council on Teaching

- The council honors 25 Teaching Assistants campus-wide

Intensive Russian Language Scholarship - University of Iowa, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR).

- Summer 1996 University of Iowa Intensive Russian Language and Mentoring Project

Scholarship for Summer 1996 Foreign Language Study - University of Iowa Graduate College

- Advanced-level German in the Iowa Regents Program at the University of Vienna, Austria

Research Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship - University of Iowa Political Science Department

- Academic year 1994/95

St. Catherine of Alexandria Tuition Scholarship - College of St. Catherine

- Awarded for four years 1990 – 1993

Phi Beta Kappa – 1993

Conference Participation, Seminars, and Lectures

“Faculty Perceptions of University Parental Leave Policies.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA – August 2003.

Paper Discussant on the “Mass Public Support for Political and Economic Reforms in Russia and East-Central Europe” panel at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL – April 2003.

“Faculty Perceptions of University Parental Leave Policies.” Presented at the Virginia Social Science Association Meeting, Newport News, VA – March 2003.

“Post-Communist Gender and Generation Gaps: Impact on Russian Economic Values.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Savannah, GA – November 2002. Co-authored with Gwyn Erb.

“The 2002 Czech Chamber of Deputies Election.” Presented at the International Studies Association – South Meeting, Richmond, VA – October 2002.

“Economic and Political Determinants of Vote Choice in Post-Communist East Central Europe.”

Virginia Social Science Association Meeting, Lexington, VA – March 2002.

Virginia Political Science Meetings – Participated in the “Elections in Europe” Roundtable. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA – December 1, 2001.

“Economic and Political Determinants of Vote Choice in Post-Communist East Central Europe.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA – November 2001.

Aspen Institute Wye Faculty Seminar on “Citizenship in the American Polity” Participant. Queenstown, MD - July 21-27, 2001.

“Economics and U.S. Elections.” Presented in the Albemarle County Social Studies Forum. March 28, 2001.

“Voter Turnout during Economic and Political Transitions: The Case of East Central Europe.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL - April 2000.

“The Effects of Gender on Political Attitudes in Russia.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL - April 1999. Co-authored with Gwyn Erb.

“An Integrative Model of U.S. Senate Elections.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL - April 1998. Co-authored with Scott Lasley.

“Changing Attitudes Toward the Roles of Women in Germany: 1991 - 1996.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, Norfolk, VA - November 1997.

“The Politics of Economic Forecasting.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL - April 1997.

“Testing Subpresidential Voting Hypotheses: Evidence From Individual Senate Elections.” Presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, MA - November 1996. Co-authored with Scott Lasley.

Paper Discussant on the “Theoretical Issues in the Study of Public Opinion” panel at the Northeastern Political Science Association Meetings - November 1996.

“Explaining Attitudes Toward the Roles of Women in a Unified Germany.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago IL - April 1996.

International Work, Research, and Study

VMI Prague Spring Break Trip 2003

- Organized and led spring break sightseeing and cultural trip to Prague, Czech Republic for 25 VMI students.

Summer and Fall 1998 – Ostrava and Prague, Czech Republic

- Conducted in-depth interviews with Czech voters and gathered materials on the 1998 Czech Parliamentary Elections.

Summer 1998 Prague University - Czech Language Student

- Studied advanced-level Czech at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Iowa Regents Austria Study Abroad Participant, 1996 and 1992

- 1996 University of Vienna International Summer German Language Institute

- 1992, Studied in a small town near Graz, Austria and at the University of Vienna International Summer German Language Institute

English Conversation Teacher in the Czech Republic

- Taught English at a private high school in Ostrava, Czech Republic - Spring 1994

PLCP 424: Economics and Elections in Comparative Perspective

University of Virginia – Spring 2004

Instructor: Mary Stegmaier

Office: 110 Garrett Hall

Phone: 924-8863

e-mail: ms2bu@virginia.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-12:00

** I have office hours nearly every day, though the times will vary. Please call 924-8863 to make an appointment to see me at other times in the week.

Office hours are designed to give you an extra opportunity to seek help in understanding the material. Please feel free to discuss with me concerns or problems that you may experience in this course. You may make an appointment to meet with me at times outside of office hours.

Course Description

This course examines the various ways that economic conditions interact with elections and voting behavior in the United States and other democratic countries. Political scientists and economists have researched the interaction between economics and elections steadily since the early 1970s. After 30+ years of research in this area, we have learned a great deal, but many unanswered questions and conflicting conclusions still exist. In this class, we will read and discuss a few of the seminal works in this area, as well as a number of more recent works. We will also delve into some of the ongoing debates in this field.

In this class we will first review common economic terms and the role that politicians play in the making of economic policy. We will also study election processes across democracies, which is essential to understanding how economic conditions might affect voting and election outcomes differently from one country compared to another. For some of you this will be a review, but it is necessary that we all start from a similar base of knowledge. Next we will discuss people’s knowledge and perceptions of the economy and the ways in which the media influence public perceptions about the state of the national economy. Then we will move on to read about how economic conditions and voters’ perceptions of economic conditions affect voter participation, vote choice, and election outcomes in the U.S. and abroad. This literature dovetails into the election forecasting literature, and we will read about how political scientists and economists use economic conditions to predict election outcomes. Finally, we will explore to what extent politicians can and do manipulate the economy to their electoral benefit, through the literature on the electoral-economic cycle (political business cycle).

Required Reading:

In addition to the books listed below that will be available at the UVA bookstore, there will be a number of political science journal articles that will be available on the toolkit website under “materials”.

Anderson, Christopher. 1995. Blaming the Government. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.

Evans, Geoffrey (ed). 1999. The End of Class Politics?: Class Voting in Comparative Context. Oxford University Press.

Jones, Randall J., Jr. 2002. Who will be in the White House?: Predicting Presidential Elections. New York: Longman.

LeDuc, Lawrence, Richard G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris (eds). 2002. Comparing Democracies 2: New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lewis-Beck, Michael S. 1988. Economics and Elections: The Major Western Democracies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Tufte, Edward R. 1978. Political Control of the Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Course Grading30% Participation and Attendance

15% Paper

5% Paper Presentation to the class

20% Midterm Exam

30% Final Exam

Assignment of letter grades

Letter grade Final percentage based on the course grading system

A+ 97.0-100

A 93.0-96.9

A- 90.0-92.9

B+ 87.0-89.9

B 83.0-86.9

B- 80.0-82.9

C+ 77.0-79.9

C 73.0-76.9

C- 70.0-72.9

D+ 67.0-69.9

D 63.0-66.9

D- 60.0-62.9

F below 59.9

Participation: Participation in class discussions is imperative for your success in this class. Students are expected to attend class prepared to actively participate in class discussion. Consequently, everyone is responsible for having read the assigned readings prior to class. For each reading, students should be prepared to answer applicable questions from the following list. The answers to these questions will prepare you for class discussion (though discussions will not be limited to this list). Please refer these questions before each class.

- What is the main theory/argument of the article?

- What evidence does the author use to test or support her or his theory?

- Does the author find support for the theory?

- Do you agree with the author’s argument? Why or why not?

- In what way can the theory be revised to fit this case better or to be extended to other situations?

- How does the article relate to the material we have covered in class to this point?

- Are there any terms in the article that are new to you? What are they and what do they mean?

- Which questions or issues from the article should we discuss further in class?

In addition to the assigned readings, I ask that you keep up with current events, particularly those related to the 2004 Presidential Election and election news from other countries. This will allow you to participate in class in an informed manner.

Note: Under no circumstances will students be allowed to make up participation points. To earn participation points you must be in class. However, if you experience prolonged illness or other documented difficulties that prevent you from regularly attending class, please make an appointment with me. Additionally, if you regularly attend class, but never participate in discussion, you will have 0% for participation.

Attendance: Since this class meets just once a week, it is MANDATORY that you attend class. I will take attendance each class period. For each class that you miss without a documented reason (student health, funeral, family emergency) you will be docked 5% from your final course grade. Thus, if you anticipate missing class because of reasons that are important to you, you probably should not take this course.

Paper and Presentation: Each student will be required to write a review of an article dealing with a topic we are covering in class. I will hand out a list of articles and the dates that the reviews are due. Students will sign up for the article/date in class.

The paper should be 5-7 pages in length, typed, double-spaced. The paper should include the following:

1. An introduction to the paper

2. An overview of the basic theories covered in the required readings for the class period or the previous class period (this will be noted on the handout).

3. An explain of how the article builds upon the theories of the articles/books that we are reading for that class period (this can follow the summary of the paper if your paper flows better that way)

4. Summary of the article’s key points (the hypothesis, methodology, results)

5. Critique of the article

Students will present the paper to the class. The presentation should be approximately 10-15 minutes and should be detailed and structured enough for students to take notes.

Grading of the paper will be based on content and writing. The presentation will be graded on the speaker’s clarity, organization, and presentation style.

Exams: You will be allowed to use your own notes for the midterm and final exams. The final exam will be cumulative.

Class Schedule

(this schedule may be altered during the semester)

Jan 14: Introduction + Economic Terminology

Jan 21: The Basics of Elections and Fiscal Policy

Readings: Gosling handout

LeDuc chapters 1, 2, 4, and 10

Jan 28: What Do Voters Know and How Do They Learn it?

Readings: LeDuc chapter 6

(toolkit) Blendon, Robert J. et al. 1997. “Bridging the Gap between the Public’s and Economists’ Views of the Economy.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(3): 105-118

(toolkit) Paldam, Martin and Peter Nannestad. 2000. “What do voters know about the economy?: A study of Danish data, 1990–1993” Electoral Studies 19(2-3): 363-391

Feb 4: The Economy’s Impact on Electoral Participation

Readings: LeDuc chapter 7

(toolkit) Rosenstone, Steven. 1982. “Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout.” American Journal of Political Science 26(1): 25-46.

(toolkit) Bahry, Donna and Christine Lipsmeyer. 2001. “Economic Adversity and Public Mobilization in Russia.” Electoral Studies 20(3): 371-398.

Feb 11: Voting Behavior and How Economic Evaluations Affect Vote Choice

Readings: LeDuc chapter 8

Lewis-Beck chapters 1, 3-7

Feb 18: More Economic Determinants of Vote Choice

Readings: (toolkit) Hansen, Susan B. ““Life is Not Fair”: Governors’ Job Performance Ratings and State Economies.” Political Research Quarterly 52(1)167-188.

Feb 25: Class Voting

Readings: LeDuc chapter 9

Evans chapters 2, 5, 6, and 8

March 3: More Class Voting and EXAM

Readings: Evans chapters 9 and 10

Spring Break!

Mar. 17: Economic Conditions and Aggregate Government Support

Readings: Anderson chapters 1, and 3-7

Mar. 24: Economic Conditions and Election Outcomes

Readings: (toolkit) Whitten, Guy D. and Harvey D. Palmer. 1999. “Cross-National Analyses of Economic Voting.” Electoral Studies 18:49-67.

(toolkit) Pacek, Alexander and Benjamin Radcliff. 1995. “The Political Economy of the Developing World.” American Journal of Political Science 39(3):745-759.

Mar. 31: Economic Conditions and Elections

Readings: Tufte chapter 5

(toolkit) Jacobsen, Gary C. 1989. “Strategic Politicians and the Dynamics of U.S. House Elections, 1946-1986.” American Political Science Review 83(3):773-793.

(toolkit) Remmer, Karen and Francois Gelineau. 2003. “Subnational Electoral Choices: Economic and Referendum Voting in Argentina, 1983-1999. Comparative Political Studies 36(7):801-821.

April 7: Forecasting Elections

Readings: Jones chapters 1, 3, 6, 8, and 9

April 14: Can and Do Politicians Manipulate the Economy to Win Elections?

Readings: Tufte chapters 1-4

April 21: Further Evidence on Political Business Cycles

Readings: (toolkit) Schultz, Kenneth. 1995. “The Politics of the Political Business Cycle.” British Journal of Political Science 25:79-99.

(toolkit) Chowdhury, Abdur. 1993. “Political Surfing over Economic Waves: Parliamentary Election Timing in India.” American Journal of Political Science 37(4): 1100-1118.

April 30: FINAL EXAM 2:00-5:00

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