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  Melanie J. Springer

Melanie J. Springer

Associate Professor

831-459-2421

 

Social Sciences Division

Politics Department

Associate Professor

Faculty

Legal Studies

Regular Faculty

United States Politics and Government
Politics
Electoral Politics
US History

CV

Merrill College Academic Building
Office 113

On Sabbatical -- Spring 2024 and Fall 2024

Merrill/Crown Faculty Services

 

 

Melanie Jean Springer received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2006. She began her academic career in the Political Science department at Washington University in Saint Louis. In the Fall of 2013, she joined the Politics faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She specializes in American Politics. Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics and policymaking, sovereignty, American Indian political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. Her book How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000 was published in 2014 with the University of Chicago Press (Chicago Studies in American Politics). This work examines the effects of numerous state-level electoral institutions on 20th century voter turnout rates in the American states. Her research has also been published by Brookings Institution Press, and in Political Research Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Research, the Journal of Policy History, and the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship.

American Political Development, Political History, Voting and Elections, State Politics and Policymaking, Sovereignty, American Indian Political Rights, Political Parties, Partisanship, and Political Institutions.

Poli 20: Introduction to American Politics
Poli 100: Writing Skills-Building Seminar: Direct Democracy in the United States
Poli/LGST 120B: Society and Democracy in American Political Development
Poli 127: Parties and Partisanship in American Politics
Poli 128: American Elections and Voting Behavior
Poli 190M: Politics in the American States
Poli 223: Topics in American Political Development

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