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Jeremy Pope

Professor
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Website: Jeremy C. Pope
Email: jpope@byu.edu
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Publications

Books & Monographs

  • Partisanship Reconsidered, edited volume (with Christopher Karpowitz), University of Michigan Press, 2026.
  • Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution (with Shawn Treier), University of Michigan Press, 2020.
  • Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (with Morris P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams), Longman, 2005 (2d ed. 2006; 3d ed. 2011)

Journal Articles

  • White Identity and Ideology (with Lisa Argyle, Kesley Townsend, and Kelsey Eyre), The Journal of Politics, 2025, 87:795–800.
  • The Crucial Role of Race in 21st Century U.S. Political Realignment (with Michael Barber), Public Opinion Quarterly, 2024, 88:149–160.
  • Does Issue Importance Attenuate Partisan Cue-Taking? (with Michael Barber), Political Science Research and Methods, 2024, 12:435–443.
  • Groups, Behaviors, and Issues as Cues of Partisan Attachments in the Public (with Michael Barber), American Politics Research, 2022, 50:603–608.
  • Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States? (with Lisa P. Argyle), Public Opinion Quarterly, 2022, 86:697–707.
  • How the Constitution Aggravates Polarized Politics: The Trap the Framers Left Us, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2022, 3:413–431.
  • A Revolution of Rights in American Founding Documents (with Scott Abramson and Michael Barber), Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 2022, 3:124–147.
  • The Trump Era Legacy of Partisanism, The Forum, 2021.
  • Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention? (with Soren Schmidt), American Journal of Political Science, 2021, 65:566–581.
  • Mechanical Turk and the “Don’t Know” Option (with Adam Brown), PS: Political Science and Politics, 2021.
  • What Leads Racially Resentful Voters to Choose Black Candidates? (with Christopher Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, and Tyson King-Meadows), The Journal of Politics, 2021, 83:103–121.
  • Conservatism in the Era of Trump (with Michael Barber), Perspectives on Politics, 2019, 17:719–736
  • Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in America (with Michael Barber), American Political Science Review, 2019, 113:38–54.

Book Chapters

  • The Three-Fifths Compromise, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2016.
  • The Campaign Context for Partisanship Stability (with J. Quin Monson and Kelly D. Patterson), in The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, John C. Green and Daniel J. Coffey, eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.
  • Congress and Civil Rights Policy: An Examination of Endogenous Preferences (with David W. Brady and John Ferejohn), in Preferences in Time, Ira Katznelson and Barry Weingast, eds., Russell Sage Press, 2005.
  • Public Opinion and the Clinton Era Elections, in Public Opinion and Polling Around the World, John Geer, ed., ABC-CLIO, 2004.
  • The Legislator, in The American Heritage Reader, Gary Daynes, ed., Brigham Young University Press, 2002.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, by Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, Political Science Quarterly, 2026.
  • Review of Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites, by Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles, Perspectives on Politics, 2021.
  • Review of Partisan Priorities: How Issue Ownership Drives and Distorts American Politics, by Patrick J. Egan, Political Science Quarterly, 2015, 130:148–149.

Research Reports

  • The American Family Survey (with Christopher Karpowitz), annual reports, 2015–2026. Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy & the Wheatley Institute.

Public Writing

  • We agree on much more than we think. Our political system just hides it (with Michael Barber), Deseret News, July 12, 2026.
  • Why are American politics so volatile? (with Michael Barber), Good Authority, June 16, 2026.
  • Americans are losing a shared sense of what makes government action legitimate (with Rebecca Bankhead), Deseret News, September 12, 2025.
  • What is uniquely special about America?, Deseret News, June 15, 2025.
  • The problem with calling policy disagreements ‘executive overreach’, Deseret News, March 22, 2025.
  • Call it ‘a victory for the forces of chaos within the Republican Party’ (with Christopher
    Karpowitz), Deseret News, October 3, 2023.
  • The U.S. Constitution is not a parliamentary system. Why are we treating it like one?, Deseret News, September 15, 2023.
  • George Washington went home on Dec. 23, 1783. Here’s why that matters, Deseret News, December 22, 2022.
  • Our politics are not polarized, they’re partisan — which could be worse, Deseret News, January 12, 2021.
  • A Surprising Factor Influenced How the Framers Voted (with Soren Schmidt), The Atlantic, July 7, 2020.