Dr. Adam Newmark

Assistant Professor and Director of the Department’s Honors Program

Email: newmarkaj@appstate.edu

Phone: (828) 262-6341
 

Ph.D.               University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (May 2003)

Major:   American Government

Minors:  Public Policy; Methodology

MA                 University of Birmingham (December 1999), Birmingham, England

                                    Research Methods for Political Science (With Distinction)

MA                 University of South Florida (May 1998), Tampa, Florida

                                    Major:  American National and State Government

                                    Minor:  Public Policy / Public Administration Concentration

BA                   University of Florida (May 1995), Gainesville, Florida

                                    Major: Political Science (With Honors)

                                    Outside Concentration in Psychology

Courses Teaching or Taught:

American National Government and Politics, State Politics, State and Local Government, Comparative State Politics (honors), Campaigns and Elections (graduate and undergraduate), American Political Parties and Interest Groups (graduate and undergraduate), graduate Seminar in American Politics, and Congress and Policymaking.

Areas of Research:

American Politics, Interest Groups and Lobbying, State and Local Politics, Public Policy, Public Opinion.  

Selected Publications:

“Interest Groups and Lobbying in North Carolina:  Density, Diversity, and Regulation.”  In North Carolina Government, Politics, and Policy in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Christopher Cooper and Gibbs Knotts.  University of North Carolina Press.  In press.

“Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States,” co-authored with Christopher Witko.  Review of Policy Research.  Forthcoming 2007.

 “Political and Demographic Explanations of Felon Disenfranchisement Policies in the States,” co-authored with Daniel S. Murphy and Phillip J. Ardoin.  Justice Policy Journal.  2006.  Volume 3: No. 1.

 “Measuring Legislative Lobbying Regulation, 1990-2003.”  State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 2005. Volume 5:182-191.

 “Business Mobilization and Public Policy in the U.S. States,” co-authored with Christopher Witko.  Social Science Quarterly.  2005. Volume 86: 356-367.

 “Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions,” co-authored with David  Lowery, Virginia Gray, and Jennifer L. Anderson.  Journal of Politics. 2004.  Volume 66: 684-705.

 “Mayflies and Old Bulls:  Demographic Volatility and Experience in State Interest Communities,” co-authored with Jennifer L. Anderson, David Lowery, and Virginia   Gray.  State Politics and Policy Quarterly.  2004.  Volume 4: 140-160.

 “An Integrated Approach to Policy Transfer and Diffusion.”  Review of Policy Research (formerly  Policy Studies Review).  2002. Volume 19:151-178.

 “A Dynamic Model of U.S. Senator Approval, 1981-2000,” co-authored with Jennifer L. Anderson.  State Politics and Policy Quarterly.  2002.  Volume 2:298-316.

 “All Politics is Still Local:  Multistate Representation in State Interest Communities,” co-authored with Jennifer Wolak, Todd McNoldy, David Lowery, and Virginia Gray.  Legislative Studies Quarterly.  2002. Volume 27:527-555.