Georgia Kernell, Ph.D.

gkernell@ucla.edu


Assistant Professor

University of California Los Angeles

Year of PhD: 2008

About Me:

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Department of Political Science (by courtesy) at UCLA.My research interests include political communication, parties, behavior, European politics, comparative democratic institutions, and research methodology. I am currently writing a book about how parties’ organizations affect candidate strategies, representation, and electoral success. I am also working on several projects that examine the institutions that regulate party diversity, the normative implications of party organizations for representation, and how political information shapes consumer sentiment. The methods I employ include formal theory, experiments, statistics, and interviews.

Research Interests

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Political Parties

American Political Parties

Political Party Organization

European Politics

Canadian Politics

Research Methods & Research Design

Formal Theory

Countries of Interest

United States

United Kingdom

Canada

New Zealand

Australia

Denmark

Ireland

Spain

Finland

Sweden

My Research:

I examine the internal party rules that shape representation, participation, and electoral outcomes. I am writing a book investigating party organization in 65 long-standing parliamentary democracies. I also examine political communication and the factors that cause people to seek out and retain information about the economy and politics.I use formal theory methods to generate hypotheses and experiments, surveys, and interviews to test these hypotheses with empirical data.