DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Program Area(s): Methods; Law and Politics; International Relations; American Politics

Regional Specialization(s): United States

Subfield Specialties: American Political Development; Comparative Historical Analysis; Law and Politics; Political Parties; Public Opinion, Political Communication, and Political Participation

Biography

Professor Page's interests include public opinion and policy making, the mass media, empirical democratic theory, political economy, policy formation, the presidency, and American foreign policy. His research interests include public opinion, policy making, the mass media, and U.S. foreign policy. He is currently engaged in a large collaborative project to study Economically Successful Americans and the Common Good. More information about this project is available.

Books  

• Living with the Dragon: How the American Public Views the Rise of China (with Tao Xie, Columbia University Press, 2010)
• Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (with Lawrence R. Jacobs, University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with Robert Shapiro, University of Chicago Press, 1992)
• Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
• What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality (with James Simmons, University of Chicago Press, 2000)

Select Publications

• "Effects of Public Opinion on Policy," (American Political Science Review)
• "What Moves Public Opinion," (American Political Science Review)