Updated 11/29/07

MATTHEW J. STREB

 

Northern Illinois University                                       

Department of Political Science                                            

DeKalb, IL 60115                                                      

Work: 815-753-7046

mstreb@niu.edu

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D.               Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2000

                               

M.A.                Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1998

 

B.A.                Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1996

 

 

Areas of Specialization and Teaching Interests

 

American Government

Parties and Elections

Polling and Public Opinion

The United States Congress

Civil Rights Movements

Undergraduate Research Methods

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University

                Fall 2005-Present

 

Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University

                Fall 2002-Summer 2005

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University

                Fall 2000-Spring 2002

 

 

 

Books

 

Matthew J. Streb.  Rethinking American Electoral Democracy.  2008.  New York:

Routledge.

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2002.  The New Electoral Politics of Race.  Tuscaloosa: University

of Alabama Press.

 

Christine Barbour and Gerald C. Wright (with Matthew J. Streb, and Michael R. Wolf).  2006.  Keeping the Republic, 3rd ed.  Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.  

 

 

Edited Books

 

Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  2007.  Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections.  New York:  New York University Press.

 

Christine Barbour and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  2006.  Clued in to Politics:  A Critical

Thinking Reader on American Government, 2nd ed.  Washington, DC:  CQ Press;

2003, 1st ed.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

 

Evan Gerstmann and Matthew J. Streb (eds).  2006.  Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a

New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free

Speech.  Stanford University Press.

 

Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  2005.  Law and Election Politics: The Rules of the Game.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

 

Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  2004.  Polls and Politics: The

Dilemmas of Democracy.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

 

Articles and Research Notes

 

Matthew J. Streb, Brian Frederick, and Casey LaFrance.  2007.  “Contestation, Competition, and the Potential for Accountability in Intermediate Appellate Court Elections.” Judicature 91: 70-78. 

 

Matthew J. Streb, Barbara Burrell, Brian Frederick, and Michael A. Genovese.  “Social

Desirability Effects and Support for a Female American President.”  Forthcoming 2007, Public Opinion Quarterly. 

 

Brian F. Schaffner, Matthew J. Streb, and Gerald C. Wright.  2007.  “A New Look at the

Republican Advantage in Nonpartisan Elections.”  Political Research Quarterly

60: 240-249.

 

Matt Barreto, Matthew J. Streb, Mara Marks, and Fernando Guerra.  2006.  “Do Absentee

Voters Differ From Polling Place Voters?  New Evidence from California.” 

Public Opinion Quarterly, 70: 224-234. 

 

Evan Gerstmann and Matthew J. Streb.  2004.  “Putting and End to Push Polling.”  Election Law Journal, 3: 37-46.

 

William D. Morgan and Matthew J. Streb.  2003.  “First Do No Harm: Student

Ownership and Service-Learning.”  Metropolitan Universities, 14: 36-52.

 

Brian F. Schaffner and Matthew J. Streb. 2002.  “The Partisan Heuristic in Low-Information Elections.”  Public Opinion Quarterly, 66: 559-581.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb. 2002.  “Service-Learning: Promoting Civic

Activism or Apathy?”  Politics and Policy, 30: 161-188.

 

Brian F. Schaffner, Matthew Streb, and Gerald Wright. 2001.  “Teams Without Uniforms:  The Nonpartisan Ballot in State and Local Elections.”  Political Research Quarterly, 54: 7-30.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb.  2001.  “Building Citizenship: How Quality Service

Learning Develops Civic Values.” Social Science Quarterly, 82: 154-169.

 

Matthew Streb.  2001.  “A New Message: Compassionate Conservatism, African

Americans, and the Republican Party.” Politics and Policy, 29: 670-691.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

Matthew J. Streb and Brian Frederick.  “The Myth of a Distinct Catholic Vote.”  In Catholics and Politics: The Dynamic Tensions between Religion and Politics, Michael A. Genovese, Kristin Heyer, and Mark J. Rozell (eds.).  Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, forthcoming 2008.

 

Matthew J. Streb and Brian Frederick.  “When the People Lead: Public Opinion and the Direction of Democratic Government.”  In Leadership and Politics, Michael A. Genovese and Lori Cox Han.  Westport, CT: Praeger, forthcoming 2008. 

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2007.  “The Study of Judicial Elections.”  In Running for Judge: The

Rising Political, Financial, and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections, Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  New York: New York University Press.

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2007.  “Partisan Involvement in Partisan and Nonpartisan Trial Court

Elections.”  In Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal

Stakes of Judicial Elections, Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  New York: New York

University Press.

 

Matthew J. Streb and Brian Frederick.  2007.  “Judicial Reform and the Future of Judicial

Elections.”  In Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial, and Legal

Stakes of Judicial Elections, Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  New York: New York

University Press.

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2006.  “The Reemergence of the Academic Freedom Debate.”  In

Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech, Evan Gerstmann and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.    

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2005.  “Linking Election Law and Electoral Politics.” In Law and

Election Politics: The Rules of the Game, Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2005.  “Judicial Elections: A Different Standard for the Rulemakers?.”

In Law and Election Politics: The Rules of the Game, Matthew J. Streb (ed.).  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

 

Matthew J. Streb and Michael A. Genovese.  2004.  “Polling and the Dilemmas of

Democracy.”  In Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy, Michael A.

Genovese and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

Matthew J. Streb and Susan H. Pinkus.  2004.  “When Push Comes to Shove: Push

Polling and the Manipulation of Public Opinion.”  In Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy, Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb.  2004.  “Polling in a Robust Democracy.”  In

Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy, Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb (eds.).  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

 

Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries, and Other Publications

 

Book review of Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston’s The End of Southern

Exceptionalism.  The Forum September 2006. 

 

Matthew J. Streb.  2005.  “Televised Debates Between Candidates Have Been Little

More Than “Sound-bite” Contests.”  In Debating the Presidency, Robert P. Watson and David A. Freeman (eds.).  Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

 

Three entries in the Encyclopedia of American Politics, forthcoming. 

 

Ten entries in the Encyclopedia of the American Presidency.  Facts on File, 2004.

 

Book review of CQ Press’s Presidential Elections, 1789-2000.  White House Studies, December 2004: 257-258.

 

Book review of Randy Sanders’ Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. Journal of American History March 2004.  

 

Barbour, Christine and Matthew J. Streb.  2003.  “Clues to Teaching Critical Thinking Skills.”  AP Central.  www.apcentral.com. 

 

Book review of Randall J. Jones’ Who Will Be in the White House?  Predicting Presidential Elections.  White House Studies December 2002: 463-465.

 

Book review of Tali Mendelberg’s The Race Card.  Journal of American History June 2002: 316.

 

 

Works in Progress

 

 

“Barn Burners and Burn Out:  The Effects of Competitive Elections on Efficacy and Trust” (with Matt Barreto), under review.

 

“Paying for a Seat on the Bench: Campaign Spending in Intermediate Appellate Court Elections” (with Brian Frederick), revise and resubmit at State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

 

“Women Running for Judge: The Impact of Sex on Candidate Success in State Intermediate Appellate Court Elections” (with Brian Frederick), revise and resubmit at Social Science Quarterly.

 

“Conditions for Competition in Low-Information Elections:  The Case of Intermediate Appellate Courts” (with Brian Frederick), preparing for submission.

 

“The Effects of Negative Advertising on Voter Turnout in Judicial Elections”

 

“Running for Judge on Television:  The Role of Campaign Commercials in Supreme Court Elections.”

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Participation

 

Matthew J. Streb, Brian Frederick, and Casey LaFrance.  “Contestation, Competition, and the Potential for Accountability in Intermediate Appellate Court Elections,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007.

 

Matt A. Barreto and Matthew J. Streb.  “Barn Burners and Burn Out:  The Effects of Competitive Elections on Efficacy and Trust,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007.

 

Barbara C. Burrell, Rebecca Hannagan, and Matthew J. Streb.  “Gender and Support for Issues of Force in the Post 9/11 Era,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007.

 

Matthew J. Streb and Brian Frederick.  “The Myth of a Distinct Catholic Vote,” paper presented at the annual Loyola Marymount University Dilemmas of Democracy Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 12, 2007.

 

Matthew J. Streb, Fernando Guerra, Mara Marks, and Matt Barreto.  “Absentee Voting in the California Recall Election,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2-5, 2004.

 

Matthew J. Streb, Brian F. Schaffner, and Gerald C. Wright.  “A New Look at the Republican Bias Hypothesis in Nonpartisan Elections,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-18, 2004.

 

Matthew Streb and Parker Sandoval.  “Latinos and the GOP: Attempting to Reshape Electoral Coalitions,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, CO, March 27-30, 2003.

 

Antonio Brown and Matthew Streb.  “Los Angeles at the Crossroads: Political

Mobilization, Coalition Building, and the African American Community,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 24-28, 2002. 

 

Matthew Streb and Tracy Osborn.  "Gender vs. Cultural Reference Groups: Issue

Preferences of Southern Women," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 19-22, 2001.

 

Matthew Streb, Brian Schaffner, and Gerald Wright.  "The Nonpartisan Election:

Nonpartisan in Name or Nonpartisan in Spirit?," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 15-18, 2001. 

 

Brian Schaffner and Matthew Streb.  “Voters without Cues:  The Effects of Nonpartisan

Elections in Local Elections,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 30-September 3, 2000.

 

Matthew Streb.  “A New Message: Compassionate Conservatism, African Americans,

and the Republican Party,”  paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2000.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb.  “Affecting Efficacy Through Service-Learning,”

paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2000.

 

Matthew Streb.  “Parliamentary Procedure, Political Rules, and the Clinton Impeachment Trial,”  roundtable panelist at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 4-7, 1999.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb. “Service Learning: Promoting Civic Activism or Civic Apathy?” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 2-5, 1999.

 

Brian Schaffner, Matthew Streb, and Gerald Wright. “A Rule that Works:  The Nonpartisan Ballot in State and Local Election,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-17, 1999.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb.  “Developing Citizens for the New Millennium,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-17, 1999.

 

Matthew Streb and Darla Anderson. “The Hitman and the First Amendment,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Charleston, WV, April 29-30, 1999.

 

William Morgan and Matthew Streb. “Youth Voice and the Impact of Service Learning on Civic Attitudes,” poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 3-6, 1998.

 

Matthew Streb. “The Changing South: The Effects of Challenger Quality and Campaign Spending on the Rise of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,  April 23-25, 1998.

 

Discussant:  APSA 2000, 2003, 2005; MPSA 2003, 2005; WPSA, 2001

 

 

Research Skills

 

Civic Literacy Project Program Evaluation Consultant

Designed and implemented surveys for the Indiana Department of Education, Youth as

Resources, and Indiana Service Learning Compact.

Experience with STATA and SPSS.

Experience in interviewing.

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

Northern Illinois University Summer Research Grant.  2006. 

 

Institute for Leadership Studies Grant.  2006.  Received $1350. 

 

Loyola Marymount University Summer Research Grant.  2003, 2004.

 

Doctoral Grant-in-Aid of Research.  University Graduate School. Indiana University, Bloomington.  1999

 

Greenough Memorial Fund.  Department of Political Science.  Indiana University, Bloomington.  1998, 1999.

 

Cum Laude.  Indiana University, Bloomington.  1996.

 

Phi Beta Kappa.  Indiana University, Bloomington.  1996.

 

Honors in History.  Indiana University, Bloomington.  1996.

 

 

Professional Activities

 

-Book series editor, Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation, Routledge

-Invited talk, The Brennan Center at New York University, May 22, 2007

-Invited talk, University of Notre Dame, October 27, 2006

-Invited talk, Indiana University, September 22, 2006

-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Northern Illinois University, (2006-Present)

-NCAA Faculty Athletic Board, Northern Illinois University (2006-Present)

-Participant, Loyola Marymount University Institute for Leadership Studies, Dilemmas of

Democracy Conference (2006)

-Asked to attend Russell Sage Foundation’s Mobilizing Democracy conference (2006)

-Public Opinion Section Head, Midwest Political Science Association (2006)

-Reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Research, Election Law Journal, Judicature, White House Studies, Urban Affairs Review, American Journal of History, Party Politics, CQ Press, Russell Sage, Palgrave Macmillan, Longman Publishers, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Routledge, Waveland Press, and Broadview Press.

 

 

References

 

Gerald C. Wright.  Professor.  Woodburn Hall 210.  Bloomington, IN 47405.  (812) 855-6308.  wright1@indiana.edu.

Lawrence Baum.  Professor.  2026 Derby Hall. 154 N. Oval Mall.  Columbus, Ohio 43210.  (614) 292-6088.  baum.4@osu.edu.

Paul Sniderman.  Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy.  (650) 723-3591.  paulms@stanford.edu.

Michael Genovese.  Professor.  One LMU Dr., Suite 4200.  Los Angeles, CA 90045.  (310) 338-2807. mgenoves@lmu.edu.