Professor of Political Science

Year Joined RCNJ: 2005

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6286
• Email: jteigen@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-211
• Office Hours: TF 9:15-9:45 am, 1:30-2:30 pm
• Personal Website

Education:

• B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D. University of Texas

Courses Offered:

• American Government
• Political Methodology
• Campaigns and Elections
• Political Behavior
• Military, Politics, and Society

Teaching Interests:

• American government
• Elections
• Voter Behavior
• Research Methods

Research Interests:

• Elections and Electoral Behavior
• Political Participation
• Military veterans

Scholarly Activity:

• Why Veterans Run: Military Service in American Presidential Elections, 1789-2016. Book published by Temple University Press, 2018.
• “Military Service and Political Participation in the United States: Institutional Experience and the Vote,” (with David Leal). 2018. Electoral Studies. 52: 99-110.
• “Density, Race, and Vote Choice in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections,” (with Daron Shaw and Seth McKee). 2017. Research & Politics. 4(2).
• “The New Blue: Northern In-Migration in Southern Presidential Elections,” (with Seth McKee). 2016. PS: Political Science & Politics. 49(2): 228-233.
• “Experimental Methods in Military and Veteran Studies.” 2014. In Soeters, J., Shields, P. M., and Rietjens, B. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies. New York: Routledge.
• “Military Experience in Elections and Perceptions of Issue Competence: An Experimental Study with Television Ads,” 2013. Armed Forces & Society. 39(3): 415-433.
• “Conventional and Distinctive Policy Preferences of Early Twenty-First-Century Veterans.” 2012. In Ortiz, S. (ed.), Veterans’ Policy, Veterans’ Politics. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
• “Barack Obama’s ‘American’ Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections,” (with Brian Arbour). 2011. Social Science Quarterly. 92(3): 563-587.
• “Orphan Counties and the Effect of Irrelevant Information on Turnout in Statewide Races,” (with Keena Lipsitz). 2010. Political Communication. 27(2): 178-198.
• “Probing the Reds and Blues: Sectionalism and Voter Location in the 2000 and 2004 U.S Presidential Elections,” (with Seth McKee). 2009. Political Geography. 28(8): 484-495
• “Conscription vs. Security?: Georgian Military Institution Building and NATO Enlargement, 1991-2008,” (with Julie George). 2008 European Security 17 (2 & 3): 339-366
• “Enduring Effects of the Uniform: Previous Military Experience and Voting Turnout.” 2006. Political Research Quarterly. 59(4): 601-607.