Seth   Masket

• Associate Professor, Department Chair
• 469 Sturm Hall
• 303-871-2718
• smasket@du.edu

Focus:

American politics, state and local politics, political parties, campaigns and elections.

Background:

PhD, University of California--Los Angeles, 2004.

Interests:

Personal website: Seth Masket

Publications:

"The Circus That Wasn't: The Republican Party's Quest for Order in the 2003 California Gubernatorial Recall," State Politics and Policy Quarterly (forthcoming).

"Did Obama's Ground Game Matter? The Influence of Local Field Offices During the 2008 Presidential Election," Public Opinion Quarterly (forthcoming).

"Cooperative Party Factions in American Politics," American Politics Research, (forthcoming, with Gregory Koger and Hans Noel).

"Partisan Webs: Information Exchange and Party Networks," British Journal of Political Science, 2009 (with Gregory Koger and Hans Noel).

"Where You Sit is Where You Stand: The Impact of Seating Proximity on Legislative Cue-Taking," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008, 3: 301-311.

"It Takes an Outsider: Extra-legislative Organization And Partisanship In The California Assembly, 1849-2006," The American Journal of Political Science 51: 482-497.

"Ideological Adaptation? The Survival Instinct of Threatened Legislators," The Journal of Politics, 2007, 69: 828-843 (with Thad Kousser and Jeffrey B. Lewis).

"A Return to Normalcy? Revisiting the Effects of Term Limits on Competitiveness and Spending in California Assembly Elections," State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 2007, 7: 20-38 (with Jeffrey B. Lewis).