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Dept. Political Science
Univ. of Kentucky


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Mark Peffley
I received
my Ph.D from the
University of
Minnesota
in 1984. My research area is public opinion and political psychology,
mostly in the U.S. but also in a comparative context. I study policy
attitudes, media effects, racial attitudes and political tolerance.
My current research involves three projects:
1) I use survey experiments to study the complex way that racial
attitudes influence public support for ostensibly "race-neutral"
policies like welfare and crime, with Jon Hurwitz. We are finishing
a book manuscript, "Racial Polarization on Criminal Justice Issues,"
that compares Whites' and Blacks' views of the fairness of the criminal
justice system, based on a national survey funded by the NSF.
2) I examine how changing threats to Israeli security over time
influence citizens' support for the civil liberties of offensive domestic
groups, with Michal Shamir and Marc Hutchison.
3) I am also exploring the impact of news coverage of welfare
policy to explain why welfare reform in the late 1990s failed to improve
public support for welfare.
My research has appeared in American Political Science Review, American
Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Studies
Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political
Communications, Political Research Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly. I coauthored
and edited, Perception
and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the U.S.
(Yale University Press), and I'm co-editor of the journal, Political
Behavior, with Jon Hurwitz.
Areas of Specialization: Public opinion, mass media, racial
attitudes and political tolerance
Recent Publications (see my Research
Page)
"Persuasion and Resistance: Race and the Death
Penalty in America," (with Jon Hurwitz). American Journal of
Political Science, 2007.
"Explaining the Great Racial Divide: Perceptions
of Fairness in the U.S. Criminal Justice System,"
(with Jon Hurwitz). Journal of
Politics, 2005.
"Playing the Race Card in the Post Willie Horton
Era: The Impact of Racialized Code Words on Support for Punitive Crime
Policy,"” (with Jon Hurwitz).
Public Opinion Quarterly, 2005.
"Democratization and Political Tolerance in
Seventeen Countries: A Multi-level Model of Democratic Learning,”
(with Robert Rohrschneider). Political
Research Quarterly, 56(3), 2003.
Current Courses (Spring
2008)
PS
474G--Political Psychology
Previous Syllabi
PS
681, American Political Behavior
PS 711--009, Public
Opinion and Political Communication
PS 473G -- Public Opinion
PS
475G -- Politics and the Mass Media
PS 491--005, Political
and Racial Tolerance
PS 271-002-Political
Behavior (Spring 2002)
Contact Info
1653 Patterson Office Tower
mpeffl@uky.edu
Phone 859 257-7033
Fax 859 257-7034
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