Select Publications
Democratic Party Control Reduces Gender Inequality. 2020 Legislative Studies Quarterly (With John Kuk)
A disproportionate burden: strict voter identification laws and minority turnout. 2020. Politics, Groups, and Identities. June 2020. John Kuk, Zoltan Hajnal & Nazita Lajevardi
Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics. January 2020. Cambridge University Press
White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics. 2015 Princeton University Press. With Marisa Abrajano. (Choice Outstanding Academic Title; Ralph Bunche Award for Best Book on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism, APSA; Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “The Year in Reading” 2016; Best New Books in Political Science, New Books Network)
Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure of Political Parties to Engage the Public. 2011. Princeton University Press. With Taeku Lee. (Best Book in Racial and Ethnic Politics, APSA)
America’s Uneven Democracy: Turnout, Race, and Representation in City Politics. 2010. Cambridge University Press. (Best Book in Urban Politics, APSA)
Zoltan Hajnal, John Kuk, and Nazita Lajevardi, 2018. We all Agree: Strict Voter ID Laws Disproportionately Burden Minorities. Journal of Politics 80 (3): 1052-1059
John Griffin, Zoltan Hajnal, Brian Newman, and David Searle, 2018. Political Inequality in America: Who Loses on Spending Policy? When is Policy Less Biased? Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Hajnal, Zoltan, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson 2017. “Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes” The Journal of Politics 79 (2): 363-379 (Lawrence Longley Award from the Representation and Electoral Systems section of APSA for the best article on representation and electoral systems).
Abrajano, Marisa, Zoltan Hajnal, and Hans Hassell. 2017. “The Case of Immigration Coverage and White Macropartisanship. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 2(1):5-34.
Hajnal Zoltan L. and Michael Rivera. 2014. “Immigration, Latinos, and White Partisan Politics: The New Democratic Defection” American Journal of Political Science 58(4):77-789.
Hajnal, Zoltan L. and Jeremy Horowitz. 2014. “Racial Winners and Losers in American Party Politics”. Perspectives on Politics 12(1):10-18. (Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in Perspectives)
Hajnal, Zoltan L. and Jessica L. Trounstine 2013. What Underlies Urban Politics? Race, Class, Ideology, Partisanship, and the Urban Vote. Urban Affairs Review 49 (4): 63-99.
Hajnal, Zoltan L. and Jessica L. Trounstine. 2013. Identifying and Understanding Perceived Inequities in Local Politics. Political Research Quarterly 66 (2).
“Who or What Governs: The Effects of Economics, Politics, Institutions, and Needs on Local Spending.” 2010. American Politics Research. 2010 38: 1130-1163
“Who Loses in American Democracy: A count of Votes Demonstrates the Limited Representation of African Americans.” 2009. American Political Science Review 103(1):37-57. (Runner-up for Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in the APSR)
“Where Turnout Matters: The Consequences of Uneven Turnout in City Politics” 2005 Journal of Politics. 67(2): 515-535. With Jessica Trounstine.
“Reviving Local Democracy: Institutional Solutions to Low Voter Turnout” 2003 Urban Affairs Review. 38(5):645-668. With Paul Lewis.
“Minorities and Direct Legislation: Evidence from California Ballot Proposition Elections,” 2002 The Journal of Politics. 64(1):154-177. With Elisabeth Gerber and Hugh Louch.
“White Residents, Black Incumbents, and a Declining Racial Divide,” 2001 American Political Science Review. 95(3):603-617.