Claassen, Ryan L. and Michael Ensley. Forthcoming. 2026. “The Voting Wars: Public Opinion about Battles Over Voting Rules.” American Politics Research. 54:1. 15-26.

Claassen, Ryan L. and John Barry Ryan.  2025. “Biased Polls: Investigating the Pressures Survey Respondents Feel.” Acta Politica. 60: 821-843.

Claassen, Ryan L., Michael Ensley and John Barry Ryan.  2025. “Do Fans Make Poor Referees? Exploring Citizens’ Reactions to Partisan Gamesmanship” Political Behavior. 47: 1295-1315.

Claassen, Ryan L., Paul Djupe, Andy Lewis, and Jacob Neiheisel. 2021. “Which Party Represents My Group? The Group Foundations of Partisan Choice and Polarization.”  Political Behavior. 42:2. 615-636.

Claassen, Ryan L. and John Barry Ryan.  2016.  “Social Desirability, Hidden Biases, and Support for Hillary Clinton.”  Special Election Issue of PS:  Political Science and Politics. 49: 730-735.

Claassen, Ryan L. and Michael Ensley.  2016.  “Motivated Reasoning and Yard-Sign-Stealing Partisans:  Mine is a Likable Rogue, Yours is a Degenerate Criminal.” Political Behavior.  38:  317-335.

Claassen, Ryan L. and J. Quin Monson.  2015. “Does Civic Education Matter?  The Power of Long-Term Observation and the Experimental Method.” Journal of Political Science Education.  11:  404-421.

Claassen, Ryan L., and Stephen P. Nicholson.  2013.  “Extreme Voices:  Interest Groups and the Misrepresentation of Issue Publics.”  Public Opinion Quarterly.  77:  861-887.

Claassen, Ryan L., David B. Magleby, Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson.  2013.  “Voter Confidence and the Election-Day Voting Experience.” Political Behavior.  35:  215-235.

Herrnson, Paul, Ryan L.Claassen, Richard Niemi, and Kelly Patterson.  2013.  “Exceeding Expectations: Determinants of Satisfaction with the Voting Process in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.”  Journal of Politics.  75:  464-477.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2011.  “Political Awareness and Partisan Realignment:  Are the Unaware Unevolved?.”  Political Research Quarterly.  64:  818-830.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2011.  “Awareness Effects and Campaign Effects:  Maximum Effects for Minimum Citizens?”  Political Behavior. 33:  203-223.

Claassen, Ryan L, and Andrew Povtak.  2010.  “The Christian Right Thesis: Explaining Longitudinal Change in Participation among Evangelical Christians.” Journal of Politics.  72: 2-15.

Claassen, Ryan L. and Benjamin Highton.  2009.  “The ‘Choice Context’ and the Political Significance of Political Awareness.”  Political Research Quarterly.   62:  538-551.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2009.  “Direction v. Proximity:  Amassing Experimental Evidence.”  American Politics Research.  37: 227-253

Claassen, Ryan L.  2008.  “Testing the Reciprocal Effects of Campaign Participation.” Political Behavior.  30:  277-296.

Claassen, Ryan L., David B. Magleby, Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson.  2008.  “‘At Your Service’: Voter Evaluations of Poll Worker Performance.”  American Politics Research in the 2008 special issue devoted to election administration.  36:4.  612-634.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2007.  “Campaign Activism and the Spatial Model:  Getting Beyond Extremism to Explain Policy Motivated Participation.”  Political Behavior.  29:3.  369-390.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2007.  “Ideology and Evaluation in an Experimental Setting:  Comparing the Proximity and the Directional Models.”  Political Research Quarterly. 60:2.  263-274.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2007.  “Floating Voters and Floating Activists:  Political Change and Information.”  Political Research Quarterly.  60:1.  124-134.

Claassen, Ryan L. and Benjamin Highton.  2006.  “Does Policy Debate Reduce Information Effects in Public Opinion?  Analyzing the Evolution of Public Opinion on Health Care.” Journal of Politics.  68:2.  410-420.

Reprinted in:

Health, Politics and Policy.  2011.  Eds.  Sue Tolleson-Rinehart and Mark A. Peterson.  London:  Sage Publications.  217-234.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2004.  “Political Opinion and Distinctiveness:  The Case of Hispanic Ethnicity.”  Political Research Quarterly.  37: 4.  609-620.

BOOK REVIEWS

Claassen, Ryan L. 2021. “Review of The Nones by Ryan P. Burge. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press.)” Public Opinion Quarterly. 85: 4. 1153-1155.

Claassen, Ryan L. 2020. “Review of Rock of Ages by Jeremiah J. Castle (Temple University Press, 2019).” Perspectives on Politics.18(1): 275.

Claassen, Ryan L. 2018.  “Review of First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformation by Christopher Baylor (University of Pennsylvania Press).”  Politics and Religion. 11:4. 911-914.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2016.  “Review of God Talk:  Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion by Paul A. Djupe and Brian R. Calfano (Temple University Press).”  Perspectives  on Politics.  25:1.  25-26.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2013.  “Review of On Voter Competence by Paul Goren (Oxford University Press, 2013).”  Public Opinion Quarterly.  77: 825-827.

Chapters, Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries

Claassen, Ryan, and Michael J. Ensley. Forthcoming. “Conspiracy Theories and Elections in the United States,” in Speel, Robert, Michael J. Ensley, Heather K. Evans, Kevin Fahey, and Nicholas Pyeatt. (eds.) Handbook on United States Voting Behavior. De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Handbooks.

Claassen, Ryan L. 2025 (online first). “Moral Issues Meet Unmovable Objects: A Review of Churn in American Religion and Politics.” Political Science Quarterly.

* Political Science Quarterly invited this review article (this is a 6,000+ word review article) and subjected it to review prior to acceptance.

Claassen, Ryan L. 2020. “White evangelicals and white born again Christians in 2020.” In Jackson, Daniel, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker, and Einar Thorsen eds. U.S. Election Analysis 2020: Media, Voters and the Campaign. The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research. Poole, England. 

Claassen, Ryan L.  2018.  “Understanding the Political Motivations of Evangelical Voters.”  In Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan L. Claassen, eds. The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition. Temple University Press.

Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan L. Claassen.  2018.  “Introduction.”  Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan L. Claassen, eds. The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition. Temple University Press.

Claassen, Ryan L. and Djupe, Paul A..  2018.  “What if...Evangelicals and the Future of American Politics.”  Djupe, Paul A. and Ryan L. Claassen, eds.  Forthcoming. The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition. Temple University Press.

Claassen, Ryan L.  2005.  “Hispanic Public Opinion.”  In Polling America:  An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion.  Benjamin Radcliff and Samuel Best, eds.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press.  297-304.

Claassen, Ryan L. and J Quin Monson.  2013. "American Politics Syllabus and Blogging Lab."  Posted as an online supplement to Teaching Civic Engagement. Eds.  Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Elizabeth A. Bennion, and Dick Simpson.  Washington, DC:  APSA.

UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS

“Shy Trump Voters and Social Desirability Bias in 2024.” Revise and resubmit at American Politics Research. (with Michael Ensley and Patrick Miller).

“Motivated Reasoning and Acceptable Uses of AI in Campaigns.” Under review at Political Behavior. (with Michael Ensley and Patrick Miller).

“Gaming the System: Supporting Voting Laws to Win Elections.” Working paper. (with Michael Ensley and Patrick Miller).

“The Politics of Evangelicals:  Race and the Value Voters.”  Journal article manuscript.