Publications                            

Book

S. E. Finkel, Causal Analysis with Panel Data, Sage University Paper Series on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1995.  Click for more information. 

Articles and Book Chapters

S.E. Finkel, “Political Tolerance and Civic Education in Developing Democracies to appear in Tolerance in the 21^st Century: Prospects and Challenges, edited by Gerson Morena-Riano. Lexington Press, forthcoming.

R.G. Niemi and S.E.Finkel, “Civic Education and the Development of Civic Knowledge And Attitudes, to appear in Essays on Cultural Change, edited by Lawrence Harrison and Jerome Kagen. Routledge, forthcoming. 

S. E. Finkel and H. R. Ernst, “Civic Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Alternative Paths to the Development of Political Knowledge and Democratic Values Political Psychology 26, June 2005, 333-364.

S.E. Finkel, “In Defense of the Wide Rational Choice Model of Collective Political Action to appear in Festschrift für Karl-Dieter Opp, edited by Andreas Diekmann, Klaus Eichner, Peter Schmidt, and Thomas Voss. Westdeutscher Verlag, forthcoming.  

S.E. Finkel, “Can Democracy Be Taught? Journal of Democracy, Vol. 14, October 2003, pp. 137-151.  Download

S. E. Finkel and P.B. Freedman, “The Half-Hearted Rise: Voter Turnout in the 2000 Elections Pp. 180-205 in Herbert Weisberg and Clyde Wilcox, editors, Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 Elections. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

S.E. Finkel, “Change Scores and “Cross-Lagged Models in Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Alan Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao, editors, Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1993.  

S. E. Finkel, “Civic Education and the Mobilization of Political Participation in Developing Democracies, Journal of Politics, Vol. 64, November 2002, pp. 994-1020. Download

S. E. Finkel, S. Humphries, and K.-D. Opp, “Socialist Values and the Development of Democratic Support in the Former East Germany, International Political Science Review, December 2001.  Download

K.-D. Opp and S. E. Finkel, “Politischer Protest, Rationalität und Lebenstile: Eine Empirische Überprüfung alternativer Erklärungsmodelle? (Political Protest, Rationality and Lifestyle: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Explanatory Models), pp. 73-108 in Achim Koch, Martina Wagner, and Peter Schmidt, eds. Politische Partizipation in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Empirische Befunde und theoretische Erklärungen. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 2001.  

S. E. Finkel, C. Sabatini, and G. Bevis, “Civic Education, Civil Society, and Political Mistrust in a Developing Democracy: The Case of the Dominican Republic World Development, November 2000, Vol. 28, 1851-1874.Download

S. E. Finkel, L. Sigelman, and S. Humphries, “Democratic Values and Political Tolerance in Measures of Political Attitudes (revised edition), eds. John Robinson, Phillip Shaver, and Lawrence Wrightsman. New York: Academic Press, 1999.

S. E. Finkel and E. N. Muller, “Rational Choice and the Dynamics of Collective Political Action: Evaluating Alternative Models with Panel Data  American Political Science Review, March 1998, Vol. 92, 37-50.  Download

S. E. Finkel and J. Geer, “A Spot Check: Casting Doubt on the Demobilizing Effect of Attack Advertising American Journal of Political Science, April 1998, Vol. 42, 573-595.  Download

S. E. Finkel and P. Schrott, “Campaign Effects on Voter Choice in the 1990 German Bundestag Elections British Journal of Political Science, July 1995, Vol. 25, 349-77. German version appears in “Wählerstimmen Durch Wahlkämpfe? Eine Analyse der Bunderstagswahl 1990 Zuma-Nachrichten, May 1994, Vol. 34, 7-34. 

K. D. Opp, S. E. Finkel, E. N. Muller, J. Green and G. Wolfsfeld, “Ideological Commitment and Collective Political Action in The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements, eds. Bert Klandermans and J. Craig Jenkins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.  

S. E. Finkel, “Reexamining the 'Minimal Effects' Model in Recent Presidential Elections Journal of Politics, February 1993, Vol. 55, no. 1, 1-21.  Download

C. E. Denk and S. E. Finkel, “The Aggregate Effect of Explanatory Variables in Logit and Linear Probability Models? American Journal of Political Science, August 1992, Vol. 36, no. 3, 785-804. Download

E. N. Muller, H. A. Dietz, and S. E. Finkel, “Discontent and the Expected Utility of Rebellion: The Case of Peru? American Political Science Review, December 1991, Vol. 85, no. 4, 1261-1282.  Download

S. E. Finkel, T. M. Guterbock and M. J. Borg, “Race of Interviewer Effects in a Pre-Election Poll: Virginia 1989 Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall 1991, Vol. 55: 313-330.  Download

S. E. Finkel and K. D. Opp, “Party Identification and Participation in Collective Political Action Journal of Politics, May 1991, Vol. 53, no. 2, 339-371.  Download

S. E. Finkel, E. N. Muller and K. D. Opp, “Personal Influence, Collective Rationality and Mass Political Action American Political Science Review, September 1989, Vol. 83, no. 3, 885-903.  Download

S. E. Finkel, “The Effects of the 1980 and 1984 Campaigns on Mass Ideological Orientations: Testing the Salience Hypothesis Western Political Quarterly, September 1989, Vol. 42, No. 3, 325-346.  Download

S. E. Finkel, E. N. Muller, and M. A. Seligson, “Economic Crisis, Incumbent Performance and Regime Support: A Comparison of Longitudinal Data from Costa Rica and West Germany British Journal of Political Science, July 1989, Vol. 19, No. 3, 329-351.  Download

S. E. Finkel, “The Effects of Participation on Political Efficacy and Political Support: Evidence from a West German Panel Journal of Politics, May 1987, Vol. 49, 441-464.  Download

P. W. Kingston and S. E. Finkel, “Is T  View a Marriage Gap in Politics?  Journal of Marriage and the Family, February 1987, Vol. 49, 57-64.  Download

S. E. Finkel and G. Trevor, “Reassessing Ideological Bias in Campaign Participation Political Behavior, 1986, vol. 8, no. 4, 374-390.  Download

S. E. Finkel and J. B. Rule, “Relative Deprivation and Related Psychological Theories of Civil Violence: A Critical Review in Social Movements, Social Conflicts and Social Change, eds. Kurt and Gladys Lang. Greenwood, Conn.: JAI Press, 1986, Vol. 9, 47-69.  

S. E. Finkel, “Reciprocal Effects of Participation and Political Efficacy: A Panel Analysis American Journal of Political Science, November 1985, Vol. 29, no. 4, 891-913.  Download

S. E. Finkel and H. A. Scarrow, “Party Registration and Party Identification: The Difference and the Consequences Journal of Politics, May 1985, Vol. 47, No. 2, 620-642.  Download

S. E. Finkel and H. Norpoth, “Candidates and Issues in the 1980 Campaign: The Ideological Connection Political Behavior, 1984, Vol. 6, No. 1, 61-78. Download