Assistant Professor
University of Rochester, 1997

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Office: 3351 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 825-4855
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: lvavreck@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

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Field:

American Politics

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Notes:
Lynn Vavreck is an assistant professor of political science. She studies campaigns and elections, with an emphasis on systematically characterizing candidate behavior in campaigns and how it affects (or does not affect) voters on election day. Her comparative work on the importance of fundamental considerations like the state of the economy was published in The British Journal of Political Science. She has also done considerable work on campaign advertising. This research appears in The Journal of Politics, American Politics Review, and Campaign Reform: Insights and Evidence, a book she co-edited with Larry M. Bartels. Before coming to UCLA, Professor Vavreck taught at Dartmouth College for three years, where she studied the retail politics nature of New Hampshire’s primary. This work is published in The American Journal of Political Science. She is the recipient of grants from the American Political Science Association, the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, the UCLA Faculty Senate, and the Center for Investigation and Research on Civic Learning and Education (CIRCLE). Her current book project is about modern presidential campaigns from 1952 to 2000. Professor Vavreck is currently involved in a major field study of political advertising effectiveness, which is the first major test of campaign driven mass-media effects. She offers courses in American Politics, Campaigns and Elections, and Media and Politics.

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