Wayne Steger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Wayne Steger, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
773.325.4240
Room 2204
990 West Fullerton
wsteger@depaul.edu

Books

"Legislative Presidencies: How Presidents Influence Congress" under contract with Lynne Rienner Publishers

"The Exhibition Season: Presidential Nominations Before the Primaries" in progress, with Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle

Recent Articles

The President's Legislative Program: an issue of sincere vs. strategic behavior, Politics & Policy, forthcoming

Partisan Differences in the Exhibition Season and New Hampshire Primary (with Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle), Political Research Quarterly, forthcoming, 2004

Presidential Renomination Challenges in the 20th Century. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2003, 33(4): 827-852

A Quarter Century of Network News Coverage of Candidates in Presidential Nomination Campaigns. Journal of Political Marketing. 2002. 1: 91-116. (PDF version )

Candidate Competition and Attrition in Presidential Primaries, 1912-2000.
(with John Hickman and Ken Yohn). American Politics Research. 2002. 30 (5): 528-554.

Campaign Momentum, Front-Loading, and Press Coverage of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Campaign. Illinois Political Science Review. 2001. 7: 21-40. (HTML version )

Do Primary Voters Draw From a Stacked Deck? Presidential Nominations in an Era of Candidate-Centered Campaigns. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 2000. 30: 727-753. 

The Occurrence and Consequences of Electoral Mandates in Historical Context. Congress & the Presidency. 2000. 27: 121-147.

Recent Conference Papers

Peering around the Corner: forecasting the 2004 Presidential Nomination. SPSA, New Orleans, 2004. 

The Exhibition Season: Forecasting Presidential Nominations in the Post-Reform Era. (with Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle). APSA, Philadelphia. September, 2003. (PDF version)

Ideological Information in Candidate Endorsements. (with Brittany Brown). Poster. MWPSA, Chicago, April 2003. (PDF version)

Before the Primaries: Modeling Pre-Primary Presidential Nomination Politics. (with Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle). MWPSA, Chicago. April, 2003.