Books:
3. Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond J. La Raja. Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in America's Local Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
In this book, we provide an unprecedented look at local government responsiveness, by combining data from a database with information on more than 260 million American adults with information on the ideologies of local representatives, the outputs of local governments, and the electoral and governing institutions of hundreds of communities throughout the United States. Leveraging these advances in "big data," we examine whether poor and non-white Americans receive unequal representation from local governments, and test whether electoral and governing institutions that facilitate participation and increase descriptive representation of poor and non-white citizens enhance government responsiveness.
2. Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act (Stanford University Press, 2017).
In this book, I trace the puzzling evolution - or gradual dismantling - of the Voting Rights Act over the last five decades. I argue the wayward development of the VRA is attributable to the way political and racial conflict has been channeled through the nation's tripartite system of government. Conservative critics of federal voting rights enforcement sought to limit the federal role while simultaneously maintaining a positive reputation on civil rights matters. This led them to adopt a political strategy in which they acquiesced to legislative expansions of the VRA, while at the same time using executive maneuvers and judicial appointments to limit the scope of the Act.
1. An Education in Politics: The Origin and Development of No Child Left Behind (Cornell University Press, 2012; Paperback, 2014).
My book uses the theory of institutionally-bounded entrepreneurship to explain the trajectory of federal standards, testing, and accountability policymaking over the past three decades. As the book details, political entrepreneurs, most notably business leaders and civil rights activists, made impressive headway in promoting greater federal involvement in raising standards and holding schools accountable for results. However, federal education reforms were layered atop a highly decentralized education system, resulting in a profound gap between the aspirations of reforms and the performance of the education system.
Articles:
32. Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond J. La Raja. Forthcoming. Are Local Policy Attitudes Distinct? Political Science Research and Methods.
31. Jesse H. Rhodes and Adam Eichen. Forthcoming. How Ideological Diversity Moderates Republican Support for Voter Suppression Measures: The Cases of Georgia and Alabama. The Forum.
30. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2024. Safeguarding Infant Lives: The Unappreciated Effects of Voting Rights Enforcement. Peer-reviewed editorial, American Journal of Public Health March: 291-293.
29. Jesse H. Rhodes, Tatishe M. Nteta, Lilliauna Hopkins, and Gregory Wall. 2024. Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations. RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(3): 30-48.
28. Jesse H. Rhodes and Tatishe M. Nteta. 2024. The New Racial Spillover: Donald Trump, Racial Attitudes, and Public Opinion toward Accountability for Perpetrators and Planners of the January 6th Capitol Attack. Political Science Quarterly 139(2): 159-176.
27. Christine Bailey, Paul M. Collins, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Douglas R. Rice. 2024. The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in the LGBTQ+ Community. American Political Science Review: 1-16.
26. Chris Bailey, Paul M. Collins, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Douglas R. Rice. 2024. Legal Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Multidimensional Advocacy in Social Movements: The Case of Marriage Equality. Law & Society Review 58(1): 95-125.
25. Tatishe M. Nteta, Jesse H. Rhodes, et al. 2023. Rooted in Racism? Race, Partisanship, Status Threat, and Public Opinion Toward Statehood for Washington, D.C. Political Research Quarterly, 1-16.
24. Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond J. La Raja. 2022. The Conservative Bias in America’s Local Governments. Political Science Quarterly.
23. Douglas R. Rice, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Tatishe M. Nteta. 2022. Same As It Ever Was? The Impact of Racial Resentment on White Juror Decision-Making. Journal of Politics.
22. Jesse H. Rhodes, Tatishe M. Nteta, Elizabeth A. Sharrow, and Jill S. Greenlee. 2020. Just Locker Room Talk? Explicit Sexism and the Impact of the Access Hollywood Tape on Electoral Support for Donald Trump in 2016. Political Communication 37(6): 741-767.
21. Douglas R. Rice, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Tatishe M. Nteta. 2019. Racial Bias in Legal Language. Research and Politics.
20. Mia I. Costa, Jill S. Greenlee, Tatishe M. Nteta, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Elizabeth A. Sharrow. 2019. "Family Ties? The Limits of Fathering Daughters on Congressional Behavior." American Politics Research 47(3): 471-494.
19. Jesse H. Rhodes and Amber B. Vayo. 2019. "Fear and Loathing in Presidential Candidate Rhetoric, 1952-2016." Presidential Studies Quarterly.
18. Jill S. Greenlee, Tatishe M. Nteta, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Elizabeth A. Sharrow. 2018. "Helping to Break the Glass Ceiling? Fathers, Daughters, and Presidential Vote Choice in 2016." Political Behavior 42: 655-695.
17. Libby Sharrow, Jesse H. Rhodes, Tatishe M. Nteta, and Jill Greenlee. 2018. "The First Daughter Effect: The Impact of Fathering Daughters on Men's Preferences for Gender Equality Policies." Public Opinion Quarterly 82(3): 493-523.
16. Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond J. La Raja. 2018. "Detecting and Understanding Donor Strategies in Midterm Elections." Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 503-516.
15. Jesse H. Rhodes, Brian F. Schaffner, and Sean McElwee. 2017. "Is America More Divided by Race or Class? Race, Income, and Attitudes among Whites, African Americans, and Latinos." The Forum, 15(1).
14. Jesse H. Rhodes and Brian F. Schaffner. 2017. "Testing Models of Unequal Representation: Democratic Populists and Republican Oligarchs?" Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12(2): 185-204.
13. Tatishe M. Nteta, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Melinda R. Tarsi. 2017. "Conditional Representation: Presidential Rhetoric, Public Opinion, and the Representation of African American Interests," Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 1(2): 280-315.
12. Jesse H. Rhodes and Kaylee T. Johnson. 2017. "Welcoming Their Hatred: Class Populism in Democratic Rhetoric in American Presidential Campaigns, 1932-2012," Presidential Studies Quarterly 47(1): 92-121.
11. Jesse H. Rhodes and Zachary Albert. 2017. "The Transformation of Partisan Rhetoric in American Presidential Campaigns, 1952-2012," Party Politics 23(5): 566-577.
10. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2015. "Learning Citizenship? How State Education Reforms Affect Parents' Political Attitudes and Behavior," Political Behavior 37(1): 181-220.
9. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2015. "Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2013" TransAtlantica.
8. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2014. "Party Polarization and the Ascendance of Bipartisan Posturing as a Dominant Strategy in Presidential Rhetoric," Presidential Studies Quarterly 44(1): 120-142.
7. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2013. "The Evolution of Roosevelt's Rhetorical Legacy: Presidential Rhetoric about Rights in Domestic and Foreign Affairs, 1933-2011," Presidential Studies Quarterly 43(3): 561-91.
6. Sidney M. Milkis, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Emily J. Charnock. 2012. "What Happened to Postpartisanship? Barack Obama and the New American Party System," Perspectives on Politics 10(1): 57-76.
5. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2011. "Progressive Policy Making in a Conservative Age? Civil Rights and the Politics of Federal Education Standards, Testing, and Accountability", Perspectives on Politics 9(3): 519-44.
4. Shamira M.Gelbman and Jesse H. Rhodes. 2011. "Ideology Construction, Grassroots Mobilization, and Party Strategy in South Africa and the United States, 1934-1948," Polity 43(2): 154-78. (Lead Article)
3. Sidney M. Milkis and Jesse H. Rhodes. 2009. "Barack Obama, the Democratic Party,and the Future of the New American Party System," The Forum 7(1): Article 7.
2. Sidney M. Milkis and Jesse H. Rhodes. 2007. "George W. Bush, The Republican Party, and American Federalism," Publius 37(3): 478-504.
1. Sidney M. Milkis and Jesse H. Rhodes. 2007. "George W. Bush, The Republican Party, and the "New" American Party System," Perspectives on Politics 5(3): 461-88.
Book Chapters:
5. Jesse H. Rhodes. Forthcoming. The Rhetoric and Reality of Compassionate Conservatism in the Presidency of George W. Bush. 41: The Presidency of George W. Bush. Ed. Michael Nelson. University Press of Kansas.
4. Elizabeth Sharrow, Jesse H. Rhodes, Tatishe M. Nteta, and Jill Greenlee. 2020. Fatherhood, First-Daughters, and the First Woman Presidential Candidate. The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy, eds. Ivy Cargile, Denise Davis, Jennifer Merola, and Rachel VanSickle-Ward. London: Bloomsbury.
3. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2015. "The Politics of Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Reform." In Max Angerholder, James Kitfield, Norman Ornstein, and Stephen Skowronek, eds., The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency. New York: Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress.
2. Jesse H. Rhodes. 2014. "What Influence Do the Parties Have in the Presidency and the Bureaucracy?" In Marjorie Hershey, ed. Guide to the U.S. Political Parties. New York: Sage.
1. Sidney M. Milkis and Jesse H. Rhodes. 2010. "The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development." In L. Sandy Maisel and Jeffrey M. Berry, eds. The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups. Oxford: Oxford University Press.