Jeff DeWitt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs | Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA, UNITED STATES
Jeff DeWitt's primary field of study is American political behavior with research interests in electoral politics and public opinion.
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Jeff DeWitt’s primary field of study is American political behavior with research interests in electoral politics, political communication and public opinion. He has published in Politics & Policy, Journal of Political Science, American Review of Politics, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Journal of Faculty Development. He also serves as a reviewer for several academic journals. DeWitt teaches courses in American government, mass media and politics, research methods, and senior seminar and is a member of KSU's Honors faculty.
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Georgia State University: Ph.D., Political Science 2005
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A Comparative Case Study of Georgia Delegations at the 2012 National Party Conventions
Georgia Journal of Public Policy
2015 From August 26 to September 8, nine political science students and four supervising faculty traveled from Kennesaw State University to the 2012 Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention as part of special topics course on a course titled “Party Conventions Field Study”...
An Applied Learning Experience Field Research and Reporting at the 2012 National Party Conventions
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
2014 Scholarship in teaching and learning demonstrates how academic understanding may be best achieved, and values of civic engagement best inculcated, when class materials are delivered within a experiential context. The goal for instructors, therefore, is to develop pedagogic techniques and teaching platforms that enhance learning by doing by directly engaging students with educational content...
Political Sophistication and Presidential Candidate Considerations: Disentangling the Effects of Knowledge, Interest, and Media Exposure
American Review of Politics
2012
The impact of prolonged nomination contests on presidential candidate evaluations and general election vote choice: the case of 2008
Politics and Policy
2011 The fact that political parties hold competitive nomination contests that require voters to choose among multiple candidates leaves open the possibility that the contest itself could damage the prospects of an eventual nominee. In this study, we employ the American National Election Study panel survey data from the 2008 US presidential election to assess the impact of the Democratic Party nomination process on candidate evaluations and general election vote preference...
Considering Congressional Candidates: Substantive Salience and Incumbency Advantage in US House Elections
Journal of Political Science
2010 This study examines relationships among incumbency status, candidate considerations, and vote preference in US House elections. I employ National Election Study data from 1980-2000 in order to build a model of congressional elections that incorporates existing theoretical explanations of incumbency advantage in addition to" substantive salience" factor...