James M. Benson Chair in Public Issues and Civic Leadership; Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

James M. Benson Chair, Political Science
Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Political Science
Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science
Professor, Political Science
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Highlighted Publications

Mondak, J. J. (2010). Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior. (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761515

Mitchell, D. G., & Mondak, J. J. (2008). Fault Lines: Why the Republicans lost Congress. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203890905

Mondak, J. J. (1995). Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment. University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10442

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Recent Publications

McClinton, K. S., Mettler, M., & Mondak, J. J. (2025). Conceptualizing and Measuring Structural Overlap in the Political Attitudes and Orientations of Multidimensional Groups. Social Science Quarterly, 106(3), Article e70038. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.70038

Mettler, M., & Mondak, J. J. (2024). Fact-opinion differentiation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-136

Pagán Márquez, A. S., Djupe, P. A., Mettler, M., & Mondak, J. J. (2024). Was there an enthusiasm gap? Examining support for Donald Trump among evangelicals and nonevangelicals. Politics and Religion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755048324000142

Canache, D., Mondak, J. J., Seligson, M. A., & Tuggle, B. (2022). How Bad is Bad? Dispositional Negativity in Political Judgment. Political Behavior, 44(2), 915-935. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09757-z

Remmel, M. L., & Mondak, J. J. (2022). Personality, public opinion, and politics. In Handbook on Politics and Public Opinion (pp. 83-98). Edward Elgar Publishing.

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