Tracy Sulkin
Assistant Professor
Joint appointment in Political Science.
Education: Ph.D.,
University of Washington
Research Interests: Political communication;
agenda-setting and representation; legislative media strategies; communication
in congressional campaigns; deliberation and democracy.
Current Research: Professor Sulkin is
currently working on a book manuscript about legislative representation
that focuses on the relationship between the issue content of congressional
campaigns and the content of legislators' agendas in office. Her other
current projects include an analysis of issue selection in congressional
campaigns, an investigation of the nature of punctuated change in American
political institutions across time (with Bryan Jones and Heather Larsen),
and a study that explores how legislators translate their records in office
into campaign appeals.
Representative Recent Publications:
Simon, A. & Sulkin, T. (2002). Discussion's Impact
on Political Allocations: An Experimental Approach. Political Analysis,
10(4), 402-411.
Sulkin, T. (2001). Explaining Campaign Intensity. American
Politics Research, 29(6), 608-624.
Sulkin, T., & Simon, A. (2001). Habermas in the Lab:
An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Deliberation. Political
Psychology, 22(4), 809-826.
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