Jim Adams
Professor of Political Science

Mailing address:
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis CA 95616

Office: 243 SocSci
Phone: (530) 754-9172
e-mail: jfadams@ucdavis.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Awarded 1994.
B.A. (Economics), Princeton University, Awarded 1984.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Jim Adams studies voting behavior, parties’ election strategies, and political representation in Western Europe and the United States. His work encompasses both spatial models of party competition and empirical analyses of parties’ policy programmes.

Curriculum Vitae

RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

“Why Small, Centrist Third Parties Motivate Major Policy-Seeking Parties to Diverge in the Policy Space” (with Samuel Merrill, III). Forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.

“Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties’ Policy Shifts, 1976-1998” (with Michael Clark, Lawrence Ezrow, and Garrett Glasgow). Forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science.