Research: American Politics, Political Institutions (Congress), Congressional Elections, Methodology, Geographic Information Systems

Teaching: American Government, Congress, Elections

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Statement of Interests :

Dr. Crespin 's general research interests include American politics and research methodology. His work focuses on the U.S. Congress and elections, with a particular concentration on the ways that institutions influence elite behavior and election outcomes. Dr. Crespin has written papers on such topics as redistricting, representation, polarization, appropriations earmarks, political rhetoric, and the voting behavior of elected officials. Before arriving at the University of Georgia, Dr. Crespin served as an APSA Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Daniel Lipinski.

Selected Publications/Presentations :

Crespin, Michael and Charles Finocchiaro. 2008. “Distributive and
Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks, 1996 – 2005,” Forthcoming in Why Not Parties? Party Effects in the United States Senate, Nathan Monroe, Jason Roberts and David Rohde eds. University of Chicago Press.

Hassan Ahmed, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Burt Monroe, Kevin Quinn, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev. 2008. "Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discussion" Forthcoming in Proceedings of COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics).

Fader, Anthony, Dragomir Radev, Michael H. Crespin, Burt L. Monroe, Kevin M. Quinn and Michael Colaresi. 2007. “MavenRank: Identifying Influential Members of the U.S. Senate using Lexical Centrality," Proceedings of the EMNLP (Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing), pages 658-666.

Carson, Jamie, Michael Crespin, Charles Finocchiaro and David Rohde. 2007. “Redistricting, Constituency Influence, and Party Polarization in Congress,” American Politics Research, 35(6): 878-904.

Crespin, Michael H. , Suzanne Gold and David W. Rohde . 2006 "Ideology, Electoral Incentives and Congressional Politics: The Republican House Class of 1994," American Politics Research 34: 135 - 158.

Jenkins, Jeffery A., Michael H. Crespin and Jamie L. Carson . 2005. "Parties as Procedural Coalitions in Congress: An Examination of Differing Career Tracks," Legislative Studies Quarterly 30(3): 365-389.

Crespin, Michael H. 2005. "Using Geographic Information Systems to Measure District Change, 2000-02," Political Analysis 13(3): 253-260.

Carson, Jamie L. and Michael H. Crespin . 2004. "The Effect of State Redistricting Methods on Electoral Competition in United States House Races," State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4(4):455-469.

Carson, Jamie L. , Michael H. Crespin , Jeffery A. Jenkins and Ryan J. Vander Wielen . 2004. "Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal," Political Analysis 12(2):176-179.

Haynes, Audrey , Paul-Henri Gurian , Michael H. Crespin and Christopher Zorn . 2004. "The Calculus of Concession: Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Winnowing in Presidential Nominations," American Politics Research 32(3):310-337.

Flowers, Julianne, Audrey Haynes and Michael H. Crespin . 2003. "The Media, the Campaign and the Message," American Journal of Political Science 47(2):259-273.