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Kelly, Nathan

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  • Nathan Kelly
  • PROFESSOR
  • Subfield: American Politics, Doctoral Faculty

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Specialties:

    Political Economy; National Political Institutions, Economic, Social and Political Inequality.
  • Bio:

    Professor Kelly's Research seeks to understand how multiple forms of inequality are connected to political institutions and the behavior of political actors within those institutional contexts. Prof. Kelly seeks to address research questions that are substantively and theoretically important using rigorous analytical techniques and multiple types of data including mass surveys (some with embedded experiments), text, macroeconomic indicators, demographics, congressional roll-calls, and qualitative interviews, and has developed and maintained a vigorous research program which has gained both national and international recognition. 
  • Publications:

    Books

    • 2021. Hijacking the Agenda (with Jana Morgan, Christopher Witko, and Peter Enns) New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Winner of the 2022 Gladys M. Kammerer award given annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy. Reviewed in New Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics. 
    • 2020. America’s Inequality Trap. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Sociology, Choice, and Political Science Q

    Journal Articles and Book Chapters 

    • 2024 “American Dream versus American Reality: How Information about Structural Racism Can Prompt Support for Race-Based Policies,” (with Leah Christiani and Jana Morgan). Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics FirstView. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.202 4.5
    • 2023. “The Representational Deficit of Latinxs in the U.S. House of Representatives,” (with Giovanny Pleites-Hernandez). Hispanic Journal of