Books by Mark Brewer

Mark D. Brewer is assistant professor of political science at the University of Maine, where he teaches courses in American government, parties and elections, and religion and politics. His research focuses on partisanship and electoral behavior at the mass and elite levels, the linkages between public opinion and public policy, and the interactions between religion and politics in the United States. Brewer is the author of Relevant No More? The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics (2003), coauthor of Diverging Parties (2003), and has published articles in Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Jeffrey M. Stonecash is professor and chair of the political science department at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses on American political parties, federalism and state politics, and quantitative methods. His research is in the area of political parties and their electoral bases, changes over time in electoral bases and their impact on the nature of political debates in society. Stonecash is the author or coauthor of Political Parties Matter: Realignment and the Return of Partisan Voting (2006), Political Polling (2003), The Emergence of State Government: Parties and New Jersey Politics, 1950-2000 (2002), Diverging Parties (2003), and Class and Party in American Politics, (2000), as well as editor of Governing New York State (2006).