Wendy Rahn

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Wendy Rahn
Nationality American
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Awards
  • Erik Erikson Award ISPP
  • Emerging Scholar Award, APSA
  • Russell Sage Foundation Grant
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Wendy Rahn is an American political scientist. She is a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, researching social capital, partisanship and civic engagement in American democracy, and the role of emotions in political behavior.

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Early work and education

Rahn attended Creighton University, graduating with a BA in political science in 1984. [1] She then attended the University of Minnesota, receiving a PhD in political science in 1990. [2]

In 1989 Rahn joined the faculty at The Ohio State University, in 1991 moved to The University of Wisconsin, and then in 1994 moved to Duke University. [1] In 1995, she became a professor at the University of Minnesota. [1]

Career

Rahn's 1997 article with John Brehm in the American Journal of Political Science , "Individual-level evidence for the causes and consequences of social capital", [3] has been credited with being a fundamental advance in the discussion of social capital and has received thousands of citations. [4] In a discussion of the academic literature on social capital in the book Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science, Rahn and Brehm were credited with having "had a significant impact on political science". [5]

Rahn has received several major awards. She was the recipient of the 1999 Erik Erikson Early Career Award from the International Society of Political Psychology, which "recognizes and celebrates exceptional achievement" to a scholar who received a PhD within the previous decade. [6] She was also the 1999 recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association. [7] In 2007, Rahn received an award from the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate "how broadened stock ownership may contribute to disparities in political participation and the polarization of America's policy preferences". [8]

A 2019 citation analysis by the political scientists Hannah June Kim and Bernard Grofman listed Rahn as one of the most cited political scientists working at an American university in 3 different categories: the top 40 most cited women scholars, the top 25 most cited political scientists who study Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Law, or Political Psychology, and also the top 25 most cited political scientists who earned their PhD between 1990 and 1994 (inclusive). [2]

Rahn has been on the board responsible for overseeing the National Election Studies, and has been an editor for the journal Political Psychology . [1] Her work has been published or cited in news outlets like The Washington Post , [9] [10] The New York Times , [11] Politico , [12] and The Christian Science Monitor . [13]

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Selected awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Wendy M Rahn". University of Minnesota. 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 Kim, Hannah June; Grofman, Bernard (April 2019). "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield" (PDF). PS: Political Science & Politics. 52 (2): 296–311. doi: 10.1017/S1049096518001786 . Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Brehm, John; Rahn, Wendy (1 July 1997). "Individual-level evidence for the causes and consequences of social capital". American Journal of Political Science. 41 (3): 999⁠–1023. doi:10.2307/2111684. JSTOR   2111684.
  4. ↑ "Wendy Rahn Google Scholar profile" . Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Engerman, Stanley L. (1999). Alt, James E.; Levi, Margaret; Ostrom, Elinor (eds.). "Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science". The Journal of Economic History. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 60 (2): 593–594. doi:10.1017/s002205070002564x. ISSN   0022-0507.
  6. 1 2 "Erik Erikson Early Career Award". International Society of Political Psychology. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Emerging Scholar Award". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Citizen Investors: The Democratization of the Stock Market and the Transformation of American Politics". Russell Sage Foundation. June 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  9. ↑ Rahn, Wendy; Oliver, Eric (9 March 2016). "Trump's voters aren't authoritarians, new research says. So what are they?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  10. ↑ Sargent, Greg (3 July 2018). "This new study suggests Trump's racism might actually hurt him". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  11. ↑ Phillips, Lauren (27 September 2006). "Republicans Decide Early on Minneapolis-St. Paul for 2008 Convention". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  12. ↑ Samuelsohn, Darren (22 April 2016). "The Rise of Trump Studies". Politico. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  13. ↑ Bruinius, Harry (27 August 2018). "Who made you an expert? Is America's distrust of 'elites' becoming more toxic?". The Cristian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
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