Andrew Pieper, Ph.D.
Political Science Coordinator and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs | Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA, UNITED STATES
Andrew Pieper teaches American politics, with interests in campaigns and elections, American political parties and social movements.
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Andrew L. Pieper received his B.S. in Political Science from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut. He teaches American politics and research methods, particularly the Presidency and Congress, but also campaigns and elections and political parties. He has also taught political theory, particularly democratic theory and critiques of liberalism. His research interests are religion and politics, social movements, American political parties, and environmental politics. His current work focuses on the rhetoric and development of the culture wars and their impact on American elections, and the intersection of religion and environmentalism. He has published his work in journals such as the New England Journal of Public Policy and American Politics Research.
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American Politics
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American Political Parties
Environmental Politics
Political Campaigns and Elections
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U.S. Presidency
U.S. Congress
Education (3)
University of Connecticut: Ph.D., Political Science 2007
Aquinas College: B.S., Political Science 1998
University of Connecticut: M.A., Political Science
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Lots of money, little attention on judicial races
MDJ Online
2016-04-16
Dr. Andrew Pieper, associate professor of political science at Kennesaw State University, said the politicization of judicial races is a rising concern in his field, especially because they tend not to attract the same level of public scrutiny as other contests...
Truth Test 2: Does President Obama abuse his power?
CBS46
2014-10-06
You hear from conservatives a lot these days calling President Obama the imperial president who abuses his power. Republican senate candidate David Perdue said Obama uses executive power to escape constitutional checks and balances.
Truth Test 3: Nathan Deal on education
CBS46
2014-10-02
This campaign season, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter has pummeled Gov. Nathan Deal about education. Carter's boldest statement is that over the last five years, Georgia has seen the worst contraction in education ever.
Recent Papers (3)
Loyalty Lost: Catholics, Liberals, and the Culture Wars
Journal of Media and Religion
2013 Although the influx of religiously committed evangelical Christians to the Republican Party has dominated both the popular press and the scholarly literature, a similarly stunning shift has occurred among American Catholics. This article addresses the causes and effects of that shift by focusing on how the American Left covered Catholicism in its publications...
Flouting Faith? Religious Hostility and the American Left, 1977-2000
American Politics Research
2011 Recent scholarship has outlined and debated theories of a culture war taking place within the United States, with religious traditionalists pitted against nonorthodox religious believers and nonbelievers. Some scholars and commentators contend that the American Left has contributed to this culture war through its hostility toward Americans of faith...
Walking the Maternal Tightrope: Work and Family in America
New England Journal of Public Policy
2007 In the last few decades, an unprecedented number of women with children have entered the US workforce. The ability to negotiate the roles of parent and employee is important to the health and financial well-being of these women and their families, but institutional and social barriers impede the process...