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LAWRENCE R. JACOBS
University of Minnesota
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and
Department of Political Science
137 Hubert H. Humphrey Center
301-19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 625-3384
Fax: (612) 624-0068
Email: ljacobs@umn.edu
BORN New York City, March 6, 1959
EDUCATION
1990 Columbia University, PhD in Political Science
Fields of Concentration: American Politics, Political Institutions, Historical
Institutionalism, Comparative Public Policy
1981 Oberlin College, BA in History and English
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND HONORS
2020-Present Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018-Present McKnight Presidential Chair in Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
2007-Present Co-editor, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Series in American Politics
2005-Present Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies, Hubert H. Humphrey School of
Public Affairs and Department of Political Science
2005-Present Founder and Director, Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Hubert H.
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
2001-Present Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
2019-2020 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford University
2013 + 2019 Associate Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University
2015-present Steering Committee, Scholars Strategy Network
2000-2003 Associate Director, Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability,
University of Minnesota
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1994-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
1989-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
1988-1989 Instructor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
TEACHING (selected courses)
“America’s Constitutional Crises, 1946-Present” with Vice President Walter Mondale. For undergraduate and
graduate students.
“Governance and Health: Policy, Politics, and Technology.” For undergraduate and graduate students.
“The American Presidency.” For undergraduate and graduate students.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Lawrence R. Jacobs. Democracy Under Fire: The Rise of Extremists and the Hostile Takeover of the
Republican Party. (New York: Oxford University Press, under contract).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. Fed Power: How Finance Wins. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 2016). Subject of two exchanges in Perspectives on Politics: Vol.15 (June 2017) and Vol.16
(September 2018).
James Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Who Governs? Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs
to Know. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Updated and Revised Third Edition, 2015).
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, eds. Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for
America’s Future. 2nd ed. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence Jacobs, eds. Reaching for the New Deal: President Obama's Agenda and the
Dynamics of U.S. Politics. (New York, NY: Russell Sage, 2011).
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the
Media. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael Delli Carpini. Talking Together: Public Deliberation in
America and the Search for Community. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
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Benjamin Page and Lawrence Jacobs. Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality.
(Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, eds. The Unsustainable American State. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2009).
Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs. The Private Abuse of the Public Interest. (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, eds. Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and
What We Need to Learn. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005). Based on a report from a
Task Force of the American Political Science Association.
James Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of
Democratic Responsiveness. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2000). Winner of book awards
from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and the
Kennedy School at Harvard University.
Joel Krieger (editor in chief) with co-editors Margaret Crahan, Lawrence R. Jacobs, William Joseph, George
Nzongola-Ntalaja, and James Paul. The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Edited volume.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha Kumar, and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds. Presidential Power: Forging the
Presidency for the 21st Century. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of Health Policy in the U.S. and
Britain. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993).
Special Issues, Symposia, Major Reports, and other Research Projects
Reports on campaign spending on federal and state elections in Minnesota, 2018-19, Kathryn Pearson and
Lawrence Jacobs http://ow.ly/76NL30mK6az
Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King, Symposium on the Federal Reserve Bank, PS: Politics
and Political Science. October 2018.
Contributor. “Report to the New Leadership and the American People on Social Insurance and Inequality.”
National Academy of Social Insurance. January 2017.
Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. Fall 2011
Special issue devoted to public opinion and health and health policy.
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Co-led with Theda Skocpol and including eight other scholars. Reaching for the New Deal: President Obama's
Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics. Published online by the Russell Sage Foundation, Fall 2010.
Collaborations with Minnesota Public Radio (May-Nov. 2010). 4 polls and 11 reports on elections, and
launching of PoliGraph (fact-checking investigations of statements by candidates).
Edited by George Edwards III and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Presidential Studies Quarterly. Fall 2008. Special
symposium on Vice Presidential candidates selected.
Edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. Public Opinion Quarterly. Dec. 2005. Special issue on
polls and campaigns.
American Political Science Association’s Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy (Lawrence R.
Jacobs, Chair), “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality,” 2004.
[http://www.apsanet.org/inequality/]
Lawrence R. Jacobs. Surveys and Reports on 2004 Elections. Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Summer and Fall 2004. [http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/csp/elections/index.htm].
Marshall M. Bouton and Benjamin I. Page (eds.) with Lawrence R. Jacobs, Richard C. Longsworth, Steven
Kull, Catherine Hug, and Christopher Whitney. Worldviews 2002: American Public Opinion and
Foreign Policy. (Chicago: Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 2002).
M. Bouton, Benjamin I. Page, Catherine Hug, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Christopher Whitney. Worldviews
2002: European Public Opinion and Foreign Policy. (Chicago: Chicago Council on Foreign Relations,
2002).
Scholarly Articles
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “What Health Reform Tells Us About American Politics.” Journal of
health politics, policy and law. 45 (August 2020): 581-94.
Lawrence R Jacobs, Suzanne Mettler, and Ling Zhu. “Affordable Care Act Moving to New Stage of Public
Acceptance.” Journal of health politics, policy and law. 44 (December 2019): 911-917.
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “When and How New Policy Creates New Politics:
Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion.” Perspectives on
Politics. 16 (June 2018).
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King. “The Political Economy of the Fed.” PS: Politics and Political Science.
October 2018.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Future of Health Care Reform: What is Driving
Enrollment?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 42 (April 2017): 215-246.
James Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Critical Dialogue about Who Governs.” Perspectives on Politics.
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14 (September 2016).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Liking Health Reform but Turned Off by Toxic Politics,”
Health Affairs. May 2016.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Interest Group Battle Over Medicaid Expansion: The
Surprising Impact of Public Advocates.” American Journal of Public Health. 106 (January 2016):
308-313.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Process Learning and the Implementation of Medicaid
Reform.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 44 (Fall 2014): 541-563.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Health Reform and the Future of American Politics.” Perspectives on Politics.
12 (September 2014): 631-642.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Contested Politics of Public Value.” Public Administration Review. 74 (July/August
2014): 480-494.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Progressive Federalism and the Contested Implementation of
Obama’s Health Reform.” The Politics of Major Policy Reform Ed. by Jeffrey Jenkins and Sidney
Milkis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Political Parties and Economic Inequality.” CQ Guide to Political Parties Ed. by
Marjorie Hershey. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Lord Bryce’s Curse: The Costs of Presidential Heroism and the Hope of Deliberative
Incrementalism.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 43 (December 2013): 732-52.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Going Institutional: The Making of Political Communications.” Oxford Handbook of
Political Communication Ed. by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2013).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Timothy Callaghan. “Why States Expand Medicaid: Party, Resources, and
History.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 38 (October 2013): 1023-1050.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Public Presidency and Disciplinary Presumptions.” Presidential Studies
Quarterly. 43 (March 2013): 16–34.
Joe Soss and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Guardianship and the New Gilded Age: Insular Politics and the Perils of
Elite Rule.” Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility Ed. by M. Sherraden and Marion
Crain. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Lawrence Jacobs and Joel Ario. “Postelection, The Affordable Care Act Leaves The Intensive Care Unit
For Good.” Health Affairs. 31 (December 2012): 2603-2608.
Joel Ario and Lawrence Jacobs. “In the Wake of The Supreme Court Decision Over The Affordable Care Act,
Many Stakeholders Still Support Health Reform.” Health Affairs. Web version, July 11, 2012.
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Print version, August 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Eric P. Schwartz. “Presidential Power and the Internationalization of Domestic
Policy.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. 13 (Spring/Fall 2012).
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama’s Presidency.”
Political Science Quarterly. 127 (Spring 2012): 1-24.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond S. King. “Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama
Presidency.” Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America’s Future Ed. by
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Barack Obama and the Angry Left: The Fight for Progressive Realism.” Obama at the
Crossroads: Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America’s Future Ed. by Lawrence Jacobs and
Desmond King (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Why Public Opinion Changes: The Implications for Health and
Health Policy.” Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. 36 (December 2011).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion and Information Interdependence in the New
Media Era.” The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media Ed. by Robert Y.
Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Shapiro, Robert Y. and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Pathologies of Leadership, Public Opinion, and the Media
Polarization.” The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media Ed. by Robert Y.
Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “America’s Critical Juncture: The Affordable Care Act and its Reverberations.” Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 36 (June 2011), pp. 625-631.
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Segmented Representation: The Reagan White House and
Disproportionate Responsiveness.” Who Gets Represented? Ed. by Christopher Wlezien and Peter
Enns (New York, NY: Russell Sage, 2011).
Lawrence Jacobs. “The Betrayal of Democracy: The Purpose of Public Opinion Survey Research and its Misuse
by Presidents” in Manipulating Democracy edited by Wayne LeCheminant and John Parrish
(London, UK: Routledge, 2011).
Lawrence Jacobs, “The Privileges of Access: Interest Groups and The White House.” The Obama
Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. Ed. by Bert Rockman, Andrew Rudalevige, and Colin
Campbell. (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2011).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Presidential Overselling: Presidential Promotion and the Bubble of Irrational
Exuberance.” Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking. Ed. by Michael
Nelson and Russell Riley (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 2011).
Lawrence Jacobs. “What Health Reform Teaches Us About American Politics.” PS: Political Science &
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Politics. 43 (October 2010): 619-623.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. “Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency and the Obama
Presidency.” Perspectives on Politics. 8 (September 2010): 793-802.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Democracy and Capitalism: The Limits of Oligarchic Rule.” Politics and Society.
38 (June 2010): 243-254.
Fay Lomax Cook, Lawrence Jacobs, and Dukhong Kim. “Trusting What You Know: Information,
Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security.” Journal of Politics. 72 (April 2010): 1–16.
Lawrence Jacobs and Joe Soss. “The Politics of Inequality in America: A Political Economy Framework.”
Annual Review of American Politics. 2010. 13:341–64.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Presidency and the Press: The Paradox of the White House Communications
War.” The Presidency and the Political System (9th Edition). Ed. by Michael Nelson (Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010).
Joe Soss and Lawrence Jacobs. “The Place of Inequality: Non-participation in the American Polity.”
Political Science Quarterly. Spring 2009 Vol. 124 (1): 95-125.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Building Reliable Theories of the Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 39
(December 2009): 771-80.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. “America’s Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time
of Unraveling.” PS: Political Science and Politics. April 2009: 277-285.
Lawrence Jacobs. “The Threat to Democracy” in The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives. Ed. by
Gary King, Kay Schlozman, and Norman Nie. (New York: Routledge Press, 2009).
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion.” Oxford
Handbook of the American Presidency Ed. by George Edwards. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2009).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. “Chapter 1. The Political Crisis of the America State.” The
Unsustainable State Ed. by L. Jacobs and D. King. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Benjamin Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Chapter 6. No Class War: Economic Inequality and the American
Public” in The Unsustainable State. Ed. by L. Jacobs and D. King. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 2009).
Lawrence R. Jacobs, “1994 All Over Again? Public Opinion and Health Care.” New England Journal of
Medicine. May 1, 2008, Vol. 358 (18): 1881-1883.
James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion” in Oxford
Handbook of the American Presidency. Ed. by George C. Edwards III and William G. Howell. (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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George C. Edwards III and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The new vice presidency: institutions and politics.”
Presidential Studies Quarterly. 38 (September 2008).
Fay Lomax Cook, Michael Delli Carpini, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Who Deliberates? Discursive
Participation in America.” Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: Can the People Govern?
Ed. By Shawn Rosenberg. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Implementation and Evolution of Medicare: The Distributional Effects of ‘Positive’
Policy Feedbacks.” Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality. Ed. by
Joe Soss, Jacob Hacker, and Suzanne Mettler. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Press, 2007).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Promotional Presidency and the New Institutional Toryism: Public Mobilization,
Legislative Dominance, and Squandered Opportunities” Politics and Polarization. Ed. by George
Edwards and Desmond King. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Medicare Approach: Political Choice and American Institutions.” Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law. 32 (2007): 159-186.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Bush’s Democratic Ambivalence: Responsiveness and Policy
Promotion in Republican Government.” The George W. Bush Legacy Ed. by Andrew Rudalevige and
Bert Rockman. (Washington, DC.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Joanne Miller. “Bucking The Democratic Sweep in Minnesota: Campaigning in a
Hostile Environment and Winning.” The Sixth Year Itch. Ed. by Larry Sabato (Pearson Longman,
2007).
Fay Cook, Michael Delli Carpini, and Lawrence Jacobs. “Discursive Capital and Democratic Deliberation”
Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: Can the People Govern? Ed. by Shawn Rosenberg. (New
York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).
James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information That
Politicians Collect and Use.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 70 (December 2006): 453-476.
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “A Disconnect between Foreign Policy Makers and the Public?”
The Foreign Policy Disconnect: What Americans Want from Our Leaders but Don't Get by Benjamin
Page and Marshall Bouton. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns.” Public
Opinion Quarterly. December 2005.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality.” Inequality and
American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn. Ed. by Lawrence R. Jacobs and
Theda Skocpol. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Studying Inequality and American Democracy: Findings and
Challenges.” Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn Ed.
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by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
Larry Bartels, Hugh Heclo, Rodney Hero, and Lawrence Jacobs. “Inequality and American Governance.”
Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn. Ed. by Lawrence
R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Restoring the Tradition of Rigor and Relevance to Political Science.”
PS: Political Science and Politics. December 2005.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Benjamin I. Page. “Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy?” American Political Science
Review. 99 (February 2005): 107-124.
Lawrence R, Jacobs. “Health Disparities in the Land of Equality.” Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care
and the Good Society. Ed. by James Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs. ( New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2005).
James A. Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Introduction: Health and Wealth in the Good Society.” Healthy,
Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society. Ed. by James Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone. “Conclusion: Prospering in an Age of Global Markets” in Healthy,
Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society Ed. by James Morone and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Communicating from the White House: From Mass Communications to Specialized
Constituencies” in Presidents and Bureaucrats: The Executive Branch and American Democracy. Ed.
by Joel Aberbach and Mark Peterson (Oxford, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Presidency and the Press: The Paradox of the White House “Communications War.”
The Presidency and the Political System (8th Edition). Ed by Michael Nelson. (Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Melanie Burns. “Don’t Lump Seniors.” Public Policy & Aging Report. 2005.
Druckman, James N., Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Eric Ostermeier. “Candidate Strategies to Prime Issues and
Image.” Journal of Politics. 66 (November, 2004): 1205-1227.
American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy (Lawrence R.
Jacobs, Chair). “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality.” Perspectives on Politics. 2
(December 2004): 651-666.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Melanie Burns. “The Second Face of the Public Presidency: Presidential Polling and
the Shift from Policy to Personality Polling.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 34, no.3 (Fall 2004): 536-
56.
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Fay Lomax Cook, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Public Deliberation, Discursive
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Participation, and Citizen Engagement: A Review of The Empirical Literature.” Annual Review of
Political Science. (2004).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Michael Illuzzi. “In the Shadow of 9/11: Health Care Reform in the 2004 Presidential
Election.” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. (Fall 2004).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and James A. Morone. “The Politics of Wealth and the Health Care System.”
The American Prospect. (June 2004).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda Jackson. “Presidential Leadership and the Threat to Popular Sovereignty:
Building an Appealing Image to Dodge Unpopular Policy Issues in the Nixon White House” in Polls,
Politics, and the Dilemmas of Democracy. Ed. by Michael Genevese and Matt Streb. (New York, NY:
SUNY Press, 2004).
Anne Kapuscinski, Robert Goodman, Stuart Hahn, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Emily Pullins, Charles Johnson, Jean
Kinsey, Ronald Krall, Antonio La Viña, Margaret Mellon, and Vernon Ruttan. “Making “Safety First”
A Reality for Biotechnology Products.” Nature Biotechnology. 21 (June 2003): 599-601.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Benjamin I. Page, Gregory McAvoy, Melanie Burns, and Eric Ostermeier. “What
Presidents Talk About: The Nixon Case.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. (December 2003): 751-771.
Samantha Luks, Joanne M. Miller, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Who Wins? Campaigns and the Third Party
Vote.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. (Spring 2003).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Politics and Policy Making in the Real World: Crafted Talk and
the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness.” Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of
American Democracy. Ed. by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin Page. (New York, NY:
Oxford University Press, 2002).
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and Democracy: How Presidents
Use Public Opinion.” Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American
Democracy. Ed. by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin Page. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 2002).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Presidency and the Press: The Paradox of the White House “Communications War”
The Presidency and the Political System (7th Edition). Ed by Michael Nelson. (Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Manipulators and Manipulation: Public Opinion in a Representative Democracy.”
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 26 (December 2001): 1361-1374.
Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Assessing Assumptions about Attitudes Toward Social Security:
Popular Claims Meet Hard Data.” The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental
Reform. Ed. by Peter Edelman, Dallas Salisbury, and Pamela Larson. (Washington, DC: Brookings
Institution, 2002): 82-118.
Jon Oberlander, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Theodore Marmor. “The Politics of Health Care Rationing: Lessons
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from Oregon.” The New Politics of State Health Policy. Ed. by David Rochefort and Robert Hackey.
(Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2001).
Jon Oberlander, Theodore Marmor, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Oregon Health Plan: Rhetoric, Rationing
and Reality.” British Journal of Health Care Management. 7 (September 2001): 358-62.
Theodore Marmor, Jon Oberlander, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Rationing Medical Care: Rhetoric and Reality in
the Oregon Health Plan.” Canadian Medical Association Journal. 164 (2001): 1583-87.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Presidential Power: Dilemmas of Democracy.” In Presidential
Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century Ed. By Martha Kumar, Robert Y. Shapiro, and
Lawrence R. Jacobs. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000).
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Who Leads and Who Follows? U.S. Presidents, Public Opinion,
and Foreign Policy.” Decisionmaking in a Glass House. Ed. By B. Nacos, R. Shapiro, and P. Isernia.
(Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Polling and Pandering.” Society. 37 (October 2000): 11-13.
Shmuel Lock, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Impact of Political Debate on Government
Trust: Reminding the Public What the Government Does.” Political Behavior 21 (1999): 239-64.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Pragmatic Liberalism Meets Philosophical Conservatism:
Americans' Reactions to Managed Care.” Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. 24 (Fall 1999):
5-16.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and Public Opinion: Rethinking
Realists' Theory of Leadership.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. 29 (September 1999): 592-616.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Theodore Marmor and Jon Oberlander. “The Oregon Health Plan and the Political
Paradox of Rationing: What Advocates and Critics have Claimed and What Oregon Did,” Journal of
Health Politics, Policy, and Law. (February 1999) 24: 161-80. Reprinted by the Innovations in
American Government Program, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University. (Fall, 1998).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Is Washington Disconnected from Public Thinking about Social
Security.” The Public Perspective. (June/July 1998): 54-57.
Greg Shaw, Robert Y. Shapiro, Shmuel Lock, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Polls: Crime, the Police, and
Civil Liberties,” Public Opinion Quarterly. 62 (Fall 1998): 405-426.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Myths and Misunderstandings About Public Opinion Toward
Social Security.” Framing the Social Security Debate. Ed. by R. Douglas Arnold, Michael Graetz,
and Alicia Munnell. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998): 355-88.
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Democracy.” Public
Opinion. Ed. by Carol Glynn, Susan Herbst, Garette O'Keefe, and Robert Shapiro. (Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 1999): 299-340.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs, Eric Lawrence, Robert Shapiro, and Steven Smith. “Congressional Leadership of Public
Opinion.” Political Science Quarterly. 113 (Spring 1998): 21-41.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Politicization of Public Opinion: The Battle for the Pulpit,” in
The Clinton Administration and Social Policy. Ed. by Margaret Weir. (Washington, DC: Brookings
Institution and Russell Sage Foundation, 1998): 83-125.
John Lipinsky, Charles Riemann, Robert Shapiro, and Matthew Stevens, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Welfare
State Regimes and Subjective Well-Being: A Cross National Study.” International Journal of Public
Opinion Research. 10 (1998): 2-24.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Myth of the Pandering Politician.” The Public Perspective,
(April/May, 1997): 3-5.
Eleanor Singer and Robert Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Privacy of Health Care Data: What Does the
Public Know? How Much Do They Care?” Health Care and Information Ethics: Protecting
Fundamental Human Rights. Ed. by Audrey Chapman. (Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1997): 393-418.
Michael Zis, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Elusive Common Ground: The Politics of
Public Opinion and Healthcare Reform.” Generations. 20 (Summer 1996): 7-12.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Cultural Crisis of the American Welfare State: Barriers to National Health Care
Reform.” Social and Secure? Politics and Culture of the Welfare State: A Comparative Inquiry in the
series European Contributions to American Studies vol. 37 (Amsterdam, NL: Vrije Universiteit, 1996).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Presidential Manipulation of Public Opinion: The Nixon
Administration and the Public Pollsters.” Political Science Quarterly. 10 (Winter 1995-96): 519-38.
Reprinted in Understanding Presidential Elections: Trends and New Developments. Ed. by Robert Y.
Shapiro (New York, NY: The Academy of Political Science, 1996).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Toward the Integrated Study of Political Communications, Public
Opinion, and the Policy-Making Process.” PS: Political Science and Politics. (March 1996): 10-13.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Talking Heads and Sleeping Citizens: Health Policy Making in a
Democracy.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 21 (Spring 1996): 411-23.
Robert Y. Shapiro and R. Kent Weaver, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Poll Trends: Welfare.” Public Opinion
Quarterly. 59 (Winter 1996): 606-27.
Jennifer Baggette, Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Poll Trends: Social Security -- An Update.”
Public Opinion Quarterly. 59 (Fall 1995): 420-442.
Robert Y. Shapiro and R. Kent Weaver, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Public Opinion on Welfare Reform: A
Mandate for What?” Looking Before We Leap: Social Science and Welfare Reform. Ed. by William
Dickens and R. Kent Weaver. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995): 109-28.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Rise of Presidential Polling: The Nixon White House in
Historical Perspective.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 59:2 (Summer 1995): 163-95.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Politics of America's Supply State: Health Reform and Medical Technology.”
Health Affairs. 14:2 (Summer 1995): 143-57.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Mark Watts, and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Media Coverage and Public Views of Social
Security.” The Public Perspective: A Roper Center Review of Public Opinion and Polling. 6:3 (April
1995): 9-12.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Don't Blame the Public for Failed Health Reform.” Journal of
Health Politics, Policy and Law. 20 (Summer 1995): 411-424.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Issues, Candidate Image and Priming: The Use of Private Polls in
Kennedy's 1960 Presidential Campaign.” American Political Science Review. 88 (September 1994):
527-540.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion's Tilt Against Private Enterprise.” Health Affairs
12: (Spring 1994, I): 285-98. “Public Opinion and Health Reform” (Reply). Health Affairs 13 (Summer
1994): 275-276.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Questioning the Conventional Wisdom on Public Opinion
Toward Health Reform.” PS: Political Science and Politics (June 1994): 208-14.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Studying Substantive Democracy: Public Opinion, Institutions,
and Policymaking.” PS: Political Science and Politics (March 1994): 9-16.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion in President Clinton's First Year: Leadership and
Responsiveness.” The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership.
Ed. by Stanley Renshon, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Health Reform Impasse: The Politics of American Ambivalence Toward Government.”
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 18 (Fall 1993): 629-55. Reprinted in The Politics of Health
Care Reform: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future. Ed. by James Morone and Gary Belkin.
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994).
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro and Eli Schulman. “Poll Trends: Medical Care in the United States.”
Public Opinion Quarterly 57 (Fall 1993): 394-427.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Public's National and Personal Interests in Health Reform.”
Domestic Affairs. 2 (Winter 1993/94): 245-258.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Conventional Wisdom that Portrays Americans as Narrow
Individualists is Myopic.” The Public Perspective: A Roper Center Review of Public Opinion and
Polling. (May/June 1993): 22-27.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Institutions and Culture: Health Policy and Public Opinion in the U.S. and Britain.”
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World Politics 44 (January 1992): 179-209.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Recoil Effect: Public Opinion and Policymaking in the U.S. and Britain.”
Comparative Politics 24 (January 1992): 199-217.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion and the New Social History: Some Lessons for
the Study of Public Opinion and Democratic Policy Making.” Social Science History vol. 13 (Spring
1989):1-24.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Relationship Between Public Opinion and Public Policy: A
Review.” Political Behavior Annual Vol II. Ed. by Samuel Long. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
1988): 149-80.
Media Articles
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence Jacobs. “Keep it simple, Democrats.” USA Today. July 12 2020.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Suzanne Mettler and Ling Zhu. “Republicans are relying on the Affordable Care Act to
respond to the pandemic.” Washington Post. April 27, 2020.
Doug Chapin and Lawrence Jacobs. “Conducting a safe national election during a pandemic will be difficult.”
Star Tribune. April 3, 2020.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Minnesota's urban-rural divide is no lie.” Star Tribune. July 28, 2019.
Lawrence Jacobs. “The Cluelessness of Elites.” Star Tribune. March 9, 2019.
Lawrence Jacobs and Kathryn Pearson. “Minnesota, we've got a campaign finance problem.” Star Tribune.
November 6, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs. “A Pawlenty Sequel? Here’s the Rub.” Star Tribune. March 9, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Our political divide now extends even to poker.” Star Tribune. February 14, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Thinking of Walter Mondale near his 90th birthday: A great leader. A great teacher.” Star
Tribune. January 15, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Republicans are radicalizing Democrats. Just look at healthcare.” The Guardian. September
14, 2017.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Minnesota Party Politics: The Battles Within.” Star Tribune. July 9, 2017.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence Jacobs. “Under Trump, Obamacare’s Medicaid enrollments may actually go
up.” Washington Post Monkey Cage. February 22, 2017.
Lawrence Jacobs, “A realist's guide to Trump's first 100 days.” Star Tribune. January 8, 2017.
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Lawrence Jacobs and Jonathan Spiegler, “Gary Johnson, Queen Maker.” New York Times. November 4, 2016.
Doug Chapin and Lawrence Jacobs. “Enough already: US elections are fair.” The Hill. October 14, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Trump is trying to divide us but it’s backfiring.” Star Tribune. September 18, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs and Vin Weber. “Democracy (as only we know it).” Star Tribune. July 3, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Why public opinion on ObamaCare should worry us all.” The Hill.
June 21, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Wake up and see the Trump card: He can win.” Star Tribune. May 23, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King. “Why the Fed Needs Fixing.” The Hill. May 19, 2016.
Lawrence Jacobs. “The 2016 campaign: How 'we the people' came back to bite.” Star Tribune. January 24,
2016.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Yes, He Did: Why Obama Is the Most Consequential Second-Term President Since FDR.”
The WorldPost – a partnership with Huffington Post. January 11, 2016. http://ow.ly/WXBXJ
Lawrence Jacobs. “What the U.S. can relearn from British politics.” Star Tribune. May 10, 2015
Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Obamacare’s Remarkable Progress.” The Hill. April 2, 2015.
Lawrence Jacobs, “Stand Up for the Successes of Health Reform,” “Room for Debate” Online Symposium on
“Can Democrats Turn Back the Red Tide in 2016?” New York Times, November 9, 2014.
Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “The unfortunate turn against performance politics in US elections.” The
Hill. Blog. September 5, 2014.
Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Where pragmatism about health reform lives.” The Hill. Blog. July 8,
2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The 2014 campaign: An inside look.” Star Tribune. June 15, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Any Bipartisanship in the vicinity? You bet there is.” Star Tribune. April 27, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Joanne M. Miller. “Ranked-Choice Voting: By the Data, Still Flawed.” Star Tribune.
February 13, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Political Halftime for the GOP?” Star Tribune. December 28, 2013.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Right vs. Left in the Midwest.” New York Times. November 23, 2013.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Minnesota tax reform: A three-act play.” Star Tribune. March 2, 2013.
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Eric Schwartz and Lawrence Jacobs. “Foreign Policy Makes 2012 Campaign Debut.” Star Tribune.
September 23, 2012.
Lawrence Jacobs. “How Ryan can take Romney to the White House.” CNN Opinion. August 16, 2012.
Deborah Bachrach and Lawrence Jacobs. “Healthcare reform is a good deal for states.” The Hill. August 8
2012.
Joel Ario and Lawrence Jacobs. “Repeal health care law? Forget about it.” CNN Opinion. July 25, 2012.
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence Jacobs. “Bending Toward Universal Health Care.” New York Times. Web
publication. June 28, 2012.
Lawrence Jacobs and David Olson. “The few, the proud, the political party machine.” Star Tribune. June 23,
2012.
Theda Skocpol and Lawrence Jacobs. “Getting past healthcare's individual mandate.” Los Angeles Times.
June 20, 2012.
Lawrence Jacobs and Joel Ario. “Health reform - Genie is out of the bottle.” The Hill. Congressional Blog.
April 24, 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Tony Sutton. “Minnesota GOP: The Decoupling.” Star Tribune. March 11, 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The GOP and health care reform.” Star Tribune. November 12, 2011.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “What Do They Do Now?” Star Tribune. November 7, 2010.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Can Republicans Rescind Obamacare?” Los Angeles Times.
October 31, 2010.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Expect a Year of Debate.” Minnesota Medicine. October 2009.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Minnesota's next big battle.” Star Tribune. May 21, 2009.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Whatever Happened to Starting Small?” Star Tribune. March 16, 2008.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Three Ways That Rove Went Wrong.” Star Tribune. November 12, 2006.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Winning Isn’t Everything.” State Tribune. October 15, 2006.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “A Radical New Approach is Needed to Stabilize Iraq.” Pioneer Press. November 27,
2005.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “On Health Care, Decide Which Procedures to Cover.” Star Tribune. January 9, 2005.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Now to the Business of Governing.” Star Tribune. November 7, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “A Rerun of the 2000 Squeaker is Unlikely.” Pioneer Press. October 28, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Fight for Upper Midwest.” Star Tribune. October 26, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Money Talks and Votes.” Star Tribune. September 19, 2004.
J. Brian Atwood and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Rare for An Election Year: In 2004, Foreign Policy Matters.”
Christian Science Monitor. July 22, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Tiny lead in spring polls doesn't bode well for Bush.” Star Tribune. May 19, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “It’s Not Just Nader.” Christian Science Monitor. April 20, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Don’t Overreact to Bush’s Poll Numbers.” St. Paul Pioneer Press. February 17, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Third Party Guys, The Real Threat.” The Washington Post. October 19, 2003.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “A Party Designed to Lose.” Star Tribune. November 17, 2002.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “More Social Security Bunk: UFO Stories.” The New Republic,
August 10, 1998.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Polls Should Be Messengers, Not Messages.” Los Angeles Times.
(December 2, 1996).
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Social Security: The Sky Isn't Falling.” Star Tribune. July 15, 1996.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Polls, Pols: Disturbing Codependence.” Los Angeles Times.
March 24, 1996.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “News that Scares People.” Aging Today 17 March/April 1996.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Have We Too Much Democracy?” Los Angeles
September 9, 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Business Needs Clinton's Health Reform Leadership,” Star Tribune February 7, 1994.
Theodore R. Marmor and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Don't Settle for Crumbs on Health Reform.” Los Angeles
Times (November 16, 1992).
Book Reviews
“Health Reform Without Apology,” Review of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over
Health Care Reform by Paul Starr (Yale University Press). Democracy. (Winter 2012).
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Review of The Myth of Presidential Representation by B. Dan Wood. Congress & President. (Spring 2010),
Volume 37.
Review of The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership by George C.
Edwards, III. (November, 2009). Political Communications.
Review of Superclass by David Rothkopf. Star Tribune. (March 23, 2008).
Review of The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Star Tribune. (April 24, 2005).
Review of Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life by Theda
Skocpol, American Historical Review. (2004).
Review of The Evolution of Presidential Polling by Robert M. Eisinger. Political Science Quarterly (2004).
Review of Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter. Star
Tribune. (July 30, 2003).
Review of The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States by
Marie Gottschalk. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. (June 2002).
Review of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America by Beatrix
Hoffman. American Historical Review (February 2002): 231-32.
Review of Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails by Sherry Glied. Political Science Quarterly 113
(Winter 1998-99): 712-15.
Review of Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good by Joseph Cappella and Kathleen Jamieson,
Public Opinion Quarterly. 62 (Summer 1998): 282-84.
Review of The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point by Haynes Johnson and David
Broder, and Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in the U.S.
by Theda Skocpol. American Political Science Review. (1997).
Review of Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling has Shaped American Politics by Susan Herbst. Reviews in
American History. 25 (1997): 146-150.
Review of The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Chester Pach and Elmo Richardson, Congress and the
Presidency. (1991).
Review of The Health Services Since the War by Charles Webster, Sociology of Health and Illness (1990).
Miscellaneous
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Playing it Straight: The Minnesota Model of Election Administration.” Crystal Ball
internet publication sent to about 20,000 subscribers. (February 5, 2009).
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Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Walter F. Mondale: In the Tradition of James Madison.” University of Minnesota Law
School, April 2008.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Eric Ostermeier. “The ‘Right’ to Higher Education.” Public Perspective. 13
(May/June 2002): 16-18.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Medicare.” The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Ed. by Joel Krieger,
Margaret Crahan, Lawrence Jacobs, William Joseph, George Nzongola-Ntalaja, and James Paul (New
York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Polling and Pandering: End of the Presidency's Moral Authority?”
The Moral Authority of Government. Ed. by R. Gordon Hoxie (New York: National Institutes of Social
Sciences, 2000).
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Polling Crisis,” Roll Call, April 24, 1997.
Greg Shaw, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Searching Presidential Documents On-Line:
Advantages and Limitations.” PS: Political Science and Politics. (September 1996): 501- 4.
Greg Shaw, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “On-Line President Documents: User Friendly But
Still Incomplete.” Presidential Research Group Newsletter. (Fall 1995): 1, 7-10.
Testimony
Lawrence R. Jacobs. Commissioner. National Commission on Voting Rights: Minnesota and Wisconsin
Hearing. University of Minnesota Law School. February 25, 2014.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Improving Public Management in a time of budgetary crisis: Shared Service Bill
(S.P.10),” Minnesota Senate. March 11, 2009.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Values and Context: Negative Consensus, Seductive Ambivalence,” President’s Council
on Bioethics. Chicago, June 27, 2008.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Side by Side Comparisons of Redistricting Bills,” Minnesota Senate, January 11, 2008.
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
2017 Citizen of the Year Award, Minneapolis University Rotary Club
2016 Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association, Health Politics and
Policy Section. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “The Contingency of Policy Feedback
Effects: How Policy Features Interact with Political Conditions and Motivations to Shape Public
Opinion.” Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, September 5, 2015, San Francisco.
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Nominated for “Best Paper Award,” American Political Science Association, Health Politics and
Policy Section. Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Future of Health Care
Reform: What is Driving Enrollment?” Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 2015, San Francisco.
2014 Outstanding Community Service Award, University of Minnesota
2013- Distinguished Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University.
2012-14 “Ideas for Action Award – Making Prosperity a Possibility for All,” Northwest Area Foundation.
2011-2014 State Health Reform Network Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
2009-2013 “One Minnesota” Conference of entire Minnesota Legislature – Funded by McKnight Foundation,
Minneapolis Foundation, Blandin Foundation, Medtronic Foundation, and Bush Foundation.
2011-2014 State Health Reform Series, Blue Cross & Blue Shield Foundation
2009-10 Working Group on Obama’s Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics (with Theda Skocpol),
Russell Sage Foundation.
2010 Leaders in Public Policy 2010 Award for Election Administration Reform.
2008 America’s Future: Conversations about Politics and Policy during the 2008 Republican National
Convention, Rockefeller Foundation.
2008 “America’s Future: Conversations about Politics and Policy” during the 2008 Republican
National Convention, United National Foundation.
2006- 2006 Directed campaign to solicit individual, group, and corporate sponsorship of the Center for the
Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey Institute.
2008 Evaluation of Minnesota Secretary of State Automatic Voter Registration Updating Program,
Planning Grant.
2008 Evaluation of “Cover the Uninsured Week” Campaign, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
2007- 2009 “Minnesota Redistricting Project,” Joyce Foundation.
2006 Richard E. Neustadt Award, American Political Science Association, Presidency Research Group,
Presidents and Bureaucrats (edited volume) (Oxford, 2005), which included Lawrence R. Jacobs
“Communicating from the White House: From Mass Communications to Specialized
Constituencies.”
2005 Best Paper Award, “Lumpers and Splitters: Presidential Polling from Nixon to Reagan.”
Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association.
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2004- 2005 Evaluation of Government Performance Program, Pew Charitable Trusts.
2003-2005 Technical Adviser to Evaluation of Finance Evaluation, Pew Charitable Trusts.
2005 “Inequality and American Democracy,” Russell Sage Foundation.
2004 Steering Committee, National Student/Parent Mock Election Program.
2002-2003 State Government Capacity and Market Reforms, Ford Foundation, $105,000.
2002 Evaluation of John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists, Stanford University.
2002 Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.
2002 Advisory Committee, Public Opinion Survey.
2002 Technical Adviser to Evaluation of Campaign Practices, Pew Charitable Trusts.
2001-2003 Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, Safety First Initiative for Biotechnology in the United
States, Pew Charitable Trusts, $113,274.
2001-2002 Site Selection Committee for the Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
2001-2002 Cluster Evaluation of Journalism Programs, Pew Charitable Trusts.
2001 “Richard E. Neustadt Book Award,” American Political Science Association, Presidency
Research Section.
2001 “Distinguished Book Award,” American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section.
2001 “Goldsmith Book Prize,” Harvard University, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and
Public Policy.
2001 Evaluation of Higher Education, Pew Charitable Trusts, $162,000.
2001 Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, “Consortium
Scholar” and $10,000 (with Anne Kapuscinski).
2001 Evaluation of Proposed Strategy Paper, Pew Charitable Trusts.
2000-2001 Evaluation of Environmental Health, Pew Charitable Trusts, $178,651.
2000 Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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1999-2000 “Best Practices: A Guide to Improving Civic Discourse in the United States” Pew Charitable
Trusts, (Subcontract from Barnard College).
1998-1999 “National Issues Credibility Index” Public Relations Society of America, (via
Research/Strategy/Management Inc.).
1997-1998 “Democracy and Leadership,” Pew Charitable Trusts, $300,000.
1998 Evaluation of Americans' Discuss Social Security, Pew Charitable Trusts.
1996 Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
1996 Election to the National Academy of Social Insurance.
1996 Distinguished Essay Award, “Presidential Manipulation of Polls and Public Opinion: The Nixon
Administration and the Pollsters,” International Communication Association, Political
Communications Division.
1994-1996 “Investigator Award,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $250,000.
1994-1997 “The Politics of Social Policy in the Clinton Administration,” Russell Sage Foundation, $32,411.
1996-1997 Bush Sabbatical Supplement Program, University of Minnesota.
1996-1997 National Academy of Social Insurance, Presentations to Social Security Administration Regional
Offices, $7,500.
1994 National Academy of Social Insurance, “Deepening Workers' Understanding of Social Security”
(media content analysis), $36,449.
1993 Best Paper Award, “Leadership and Responsiveness: Some New Evidence on the Johnson
Presidency,” American Political Science Association, Presidency Research Group.
1992-1994 McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, $90,464.
1992-1994 National Science Foundation Grant, SES-9122440, $25,191.
1991 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, $4,500.
1990 McMillan Travel Grant, University of Minnesota.
1989-90 Grant-in-Aid of Research, University of Minnesota.
1987-88 Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Research Grant.
1986-87 John F. Kennedy Foundation Research Grant.
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1986-87 Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Research Grant.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Co-Editor Chicago Series in American Politics, University of Chicago Press.
Chair Editor Selection Committee, Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Association,
2014
Member Frank J. Goodnow Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2012.
Member National Annenberg Election Survey, Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania.
Chair Inequality and Democracy Task Force, American Political Science Association, 2002-2004.
Panelist National Advisory Committee for Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
Panelist Site Selection Committee for the Health Policy Scholars Program, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
Research American Political Science Assoc (2002-2004)
Advisory
Board
Membership National Academy of Social Insurance (1998-2001).
Review
Committee
Board Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (1997- ); Presidential Studies Quarterly (1998- );
Member Polity (2006- ); Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science
Association (1995-97); Polity (2006- ); Political Communications, APSA.
Referee American Politics Quarterly, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political
Science, Canadian Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Health Affairs, International Journal of
Public Opinion Research, The Israel Science Foundation, International Studies Quarterly, Journal
of Health Policy, Politics, and Law, Journal of Politics, Milbank Memorial Quarterly, The
National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, Policy Studies
Journal, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science
Quarterly, Polity, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science
History, Western Political Quarterly.
Reviewer Cambridge University Press, Chicago University Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell
University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press,
State University of New York Press, Temple University Press, University of Michigan Press,
University of Oklahoma Press, Westview Press, Yale University Press.
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John Heinz National Academy of Social Insurance
Dissertation
Committee
Promotion Boston University, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, Harvard
and Tenure University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, M.I.T., New York University,
Evaluator North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse
University, University of Virginia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Yale University.
Award J. David Greenstone Book Award Committee, (Politics and History Group, American Political
Committee Science Association).
Award Wildavsky Book Award Committee, American Political Science Association.
Committee
Paper Award Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association
Committee
Neustad Chair, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association
Book Award
ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
2005-Present Hundreds of conferences, forums, and conversations, Center for the Study of Politics and
Governance, Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg/events/past_events.html
2011 National Academy of Social Insurance Annual Conference, “Meeting Today's Challenges in
Social Security, Health Reform, and Unemployment Insurance,” (Co-Chair).
2007-Present “One Minnesota” conference for entire Minnesota Legislature.
2008 “America’s Future: Conversations about Politics and Policy” during the 2008 Republican
National Convention.
2006- Present Organize and moderate upwards of 30 public forums each year for the Center for the Study of
Politics and Governance.
2008, 2010 “Long-Term Care Financing Solutions.” Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota.
(Co-organized with the Minnesota Health & Housing Alliance).
2008 “Restructuring America: The American State, Political Change, and Rising Inequality.” Nuffield
College, Oxford University. (Co-organized with Desmond King).
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2008 The True Workings of Single Payer Health Care Systems. Humphrey Institute, University of
Minnesota. (Co-organized with the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law).
2008 “Picking the Vice Presidential Nominees: What Should We Look For?” Humphrey Institute,
University of Minnesota. (Co-organized with George Edwards and Presidential Studies
Quarterly).
2006 “Reforming Medicare: Where Do We Go From Here?” Humphrey Institute, University of
Minnesota
2006 “Restoring Electoral Competition: Research and Remedies for Redistricting.” Humphrey
Institute.
2006 “The Crisis of Polling: The Accuracy, Reporting, and Campaign Uses of Public Opinion
Surveys.” Humphrey Institute.
2006 “Serving Citizens Better: Promoting Excellence in Public Management.” Half-day conference on
governance. Humphrey Institute.
2002 “Safety First: Making it a Reality for Biotechnology Products.” Minneapolis.
2001 “Safety First: Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for Environment and Human Health
Worldwide.” Minneapolis.
1997 “Executive Politics and Presidency.” Section of the Midwest Political Science Association
Meeting.
1996 “Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21th Century.” Columbia University, New
York. (Chair, Agenda Committee).
CONSULTING AND RESEARCH
2002-Present Campaign Analyst, CBS Minnesota Affiliate (WCCO, Channel 4), Minneapolis, MN
1996 “Innovations in American.” Government evaluation of the Oregon Health Plan. John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MN
1994-1996 National Academy of Social Insurance
1993 Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press
1984 Research Assistant, Ford Foundation Seminar on Comparative Social Policy, Columbia
University, New York, NY
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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2020 Lawrence Jacobs. “Shaping America’s Future” Panel. London School of Economics. March 4,
2020
2020 Lawrence Jacobs. “The Form of American Democracy: Jefferson, Jackson, and Political Party
Nomination.” All Souls College, Oxford. February 2020.
2020 Lawrence Jacobs. “Policy is Politics.” SciencesPo, Paris. January 2020.
2019 Lawrence Jacobs. “The Politics of Policy: Health Reform and the Impacts of Policy Threat.”
Nuffield College, Oxford University. November 19, 2019.
2019 Lawrence Jacobs. “President Trump and American Democracy.” Featured presented at the
America Politics Group Colloquium, British Library, November 8, 2019.
2017. “Is Political Science up to the Challenge of Trump?” Keynote presentation to Macalester chapter
of Pi Sigma Alpha. February 22.
2017. “Building a Thriving Minnesota: Managing the Divides.” Presentation to the Itasca Group.
February 17.
2017. “Public Leadership in Conservative Times.” Presentation to senior staff of the McKnight
Foundation. January 11.
2017 “Bringing in the Fed: How the Fed Generates Inequality.” Co-convened and presented at the
Inequality in Trump’s America conference, Nuffield College, Oxford University. March 10.
2016 “Fed Power: Technocracy and Political Economy,” Oxford University, February 25, 2016.
2016 “The Democratic Deficit,” Seminar, London School of Economics, February 24, 2016
2016 “Who will be the next US President?” Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics,
February 24, 2016
2016 US Presidential Elections, U.S. Embassy, London, February 23, 2016
2016 “Neighboring States, Diverging Paths: Minnesota and Wisconsin.” Economic Development
Association of Minnesota. January 22, 2016
2015 “The American Democratic Deficit: Segmented Representation & Presidential Power,” Center for
European Studies, Sciences Po, Paris
2015 The Battle for American Health Reform: Welfare State Continuity and Disruption, Nuffield
College, Oxford University
2015 “The Battle for Health Reform in America: Partisanship, Ideology, and Need,” King’s College of
London
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2015 “Who Governs: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Manipulation,” Oxford University, January 20,
2014 “Health Insurance Reform: Are We There Yet?” Panel Discussion, Heller-Hurwicz Economics
Institute, University of Minnesota, November 12, 2014.
2014 “The 2014 Elections and the Future of Health Reform,” Keynote Lunch Address, OK Policy,
Oklahoma City, OK, November 10, 2014.
2014. “2014 Elections: What Happened?” Minnesota Business Partnership, Chief Financial Officers,
November 7, 2014.
2014 “2014 Elections: What Happened?” Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, November 6, 2014.
2014 “Health Reform and Community Health Clinics,” Many Faces of Community Health Conference,
Minneapolis, October 24, 2014.
2014 “Health Reform and American Politics,” Northwestern University, Medical School and Evanston
Campus, October 22, 2014
2014 “Taking Stock of Health Reform” Conference, Harvard University, September 1-3, 2014.
2014 “Policy Fundamentals: Performance & Communications,” Empire Lecture, Midwest Political
Science Association, April 2014
2014 “Health Reform and the States,” University of California at Berkeley, March 2014
2014 “Why states are adopting health reform,” University of New Mexico, March 2014
2013 Beijing Foreign Service University and Tsinghua University, Beijing University, Beijing, CN.
2011 “Making Public Opinion: The Case of Health Reform.” Social Service Administration,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
2011 “The Inequality Trap: Policy Design and Structural Framing.” Kennedy School, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA.
2011 “Putting Public Back Into Public Intellectuals.” Buell Symposium. Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA.
2011 “Public Opinion, Elite Mobilization Strategies, and Government Policy.” Leonard Davis Institute
Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2010 “From Situational to Structural Framing.” Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale
University, New Haven, CT.
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2010 “The Paradox of Representation: Health Care Reform and De-Democratization” at the “The
Politics of Ideas and the Politics of Representation” Conference. Rothermere American
Institute, Oxford University, New York, NY.
2010 “The Politics of Inequality in America: A Political Economy Framework.” Columbia University,
New York, NY.
2010 National and Minnesota elections. Mt. Zion Temple, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, Best Buy, Target, Minnesota Business Partnership, SUPERVALU, and
others.
2010 Reaching for the New Deal: President Obama's Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics (with
Theda Skocpol). Presentation to Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees, New York, NY.
2010 “Communications Strategies in a Contested World.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Princeton, NJ.
2010 “Headlines: Who Really Makes National Security Policy?” Conversation with Vice President
Mondale.
2009 “Politics of Economic Inequality.” Marconi Conference Center, Marshall, CA.
2009 “Class War?” Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
2009 “America’s Constitutional Crises: Great Conversation with Vice President Walter Mondale and
Seymour Harsh.”
2008 “Regulating Markets: The Private Abuse of the Public Interest.” National Press Club,
Washington, DC.
2008 “The Sirens of Health Care Reform,” The System 2009: What have we learned from 1993-94
Conference. National Institute of Health Policy, Minneapolis, MN.
2008 “Redefining the Federal Role of Transportation,” James Oberstar Forum on Transportation
Policy and Technology. University of Minnesota.
2008 Featured Speaker at “Second Annual Speaker Series”, Survey Research Center, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY.
2008 “Great Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2008 “The Betrayal of Democracy: Presidential Misuse of Public Opinion Surveys,” Dilemmas of
Democracy Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
2007 “Evaluating Policy Communications,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research and
Evaluation Conference, Princeton, NJ.
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2007 “Elections in the Midwest,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce Regional Meeting, Chicago, IL.
2007 “The Use and Misuse of Polls by Politicians,” Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
2007 “Strategic Populism: Presidential Polling, Public Rhetoric and the State of American Democracy.”
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2007 “American Democracy in Dissent: Great Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg.”
2006 “Inequality and Political Presentation.” Presented at American Politics Seminar, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
2006 “The Promotional President and Policy Overreaching: Public Opinion, Institutions, and Political
Overconfidence.” Presented at “Politics and Polarization: The George W. Bush Presidency.”
Nuffield College, Oxford University, New York, NY.
2004 The Upper Midwest Battleground. Presentation of Humphrey Institute Survey, National Press
Club, Washington, DC.
2004 “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality.” National Press Club, CSPAN Coverage.
2004 “American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality” at Demos Conference on “Inequality
Matters.” New York University, New York, NY.
2004 “Who Influences U.S. Policy? The Limits of Democracy and Implications for American Health
Policy.”
2004 “The Second Face of the Public Presidency,” Public Presidency Conference, Bush Library,
Texas A&M, College Station, TX
2004 “Social Security Reform in the 2004 Elections.” National Press Club, Washington, DC.
2003 “Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy Over Time?” (with Benjamin Page), Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ.
2003 Presentation to the Governor’s Commission on Health Care Costs, Minneapolis, MN.
2003 “The Public Management of Market Forces: Why ‘Alternatives to Government’ Make
Government Grow” (with Lawrence Brown). Review Pane of Ford Foundation Report l, New
York, NY.
2003 “Worldviews 2002: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy.” Chicago, IL.
2002 “The Paradox of Presidential Polling.” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
2002 “The State of American Democracy.” Policy Fellows Program, Humphrey Institute Policy
Forum, Minneapolis, MN.
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2001 “Politicians Don’t Pander.” Department of Political Science, University of Washington,
Washington, DC.
2001 “Where is the “Public” in Public Policy?” Washington Health Legislative Conference. School of
Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Washington, DC.
2001 “Reexamining Civic Engagement.” Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Foundation,
Pedantic, NY.
2001 “The Role of the Public in Public Policy.” Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, New York, NY.
2001 “Evaluating Public Policy and Higher Education,” Board Meeting of the National Center for
Public Policy and Higher Education, San Francisco, CA.
2001 “The Conditional Relevance of Public Opinion and Health Policy.” Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation of Scholars in Health Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
2001 “Faulty Assumptions about Americans’ Attitudes Toward Social Security: Popular Claims Meet
Hard Data,” National Press Club, Washington, DC.
2001 “Politicians Don’t Pander,” New America Foundation, Washington, DC.
2000 “The Conditional Relevance of Public Opinion: From the British National Health Service Act of
1946 and the American Medicare Act of 1965 to the failed Clinton Health Reform Proposal.”
Yale University, New Haven, CT.
2000 “Politicians Don’t Pander.” Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA.
2000 “Politicians Don’t Pander.” University of Maryland, Amherst, MD.
2000 “Polls and Politics: Who’s Spinning Whom?” National Press Club, Washington, DC.
2000 “Conference on Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy,” Northwestern
University, Chicago, IL.
2000 “Polls and Politics: Who’s Spinning Whom?” National Press Club, Washington, DC.
2000 “The Elections and American Politics,” Minneapolis Club, Minneapolis, MN.
2000 Conference on American Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
1999 “Managed Care Backlash,” National Press Club, Washington, DC.
1999 “Politics of Inequality Session,” Association for Health Services Research, Chicago, IL.
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1999 “Medicare and the American Social Contract, National Press Club,” Washington, DC (carried by
CSPAN).
1999 “The Mass Media and Public Education,” Presentation to “Learning Lunch,” Pew Charitable
Trusts, Philadelphia, PA.
1999 Politics for Life and Health Milbank Memorial Fund Roundtable Discussion of John
McDonough, Berkeley, CA.
1999 “The Myth of Pandering and the Polarization of American Politics,” Department of Political
Science and the Institute of Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1999 “Covering Health Care for Older Americans,” Minnesota Journalism Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1998 “The Myth of Pandering and the Polarization of American Politics,” Government Department
and John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
1998 “The Future of Social Security,” Minnesota Senior Federation Conference.
1998 “Social Security: A New School of Thought,” National Satellite Teleconference, Washington,
DC.
1998 “The Future of Medicare,” Annual Conference of Wisconsin Social Workers, Madison, WI.
1998 “Myths and Misunderstandings About Public Opinion Toward Social Security,” Annual
Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance, National Press Club, Washington, DC.
1997 “The Social Security Stalemate,” Humphrey Institute Policy Forum, Minneapolis, MN.
1997 “The Great Entitlement Debate: Who Wins, Who Loses,” Alzheimer's Association 9th Annual
Public Policy Forum, Washington, DC.
1997 “Social Security in the 21st Century,” Keynote Address, Phoenix, AZ
1997 “Privatizing Social Security,” Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
1996 Health Scholars Seminar: Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1996 “Political Realities of Health Care Initiatives for Children,” Conference on First Steps for
Children: Strategies for Universal Health Insurance for the Nation's Youth, Columbia University,
New York, NY.
1996 “Historical Understanding and the Making of Public Policy,” Presidential Session at Social
Science History Association.
1996 “Social Security's Future,” Keynote address to Social Security in the 21st Century
Conference, Baton Rouge, LA.
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1996 Minnesota Citizen's Forum on Social Security: Star Tribune and KTCA-TV Citizen-Initiative for
the 1996 Election.
1996 “The Future of the Polling Industry and Health Care Policy,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Princeton, NJ.
1996 Social Security Administration Policy Seminar: The News Media's Coverage of Social Security
National Academy of Social Insurance, San Fancisco, CA.
1996 National Academy of Social Insurance, Social Security Administration Policy Seminar: The
News Media's Coverage of Social Security, Dallas, TX.
1996 “The Sequence and Timing of Policy Reform,” The Maxwell School, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY.
1995 The Sequence and Timing of Policy Reform, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
1995 Aging Policy Issues and the Media, The Erotological Society of America's Annual Meeting.
1995 Netherlands American Studies Association, Middleburg, ND.
1995 National Academy of Social Insurance Conference, National Press Club, Washington, DC.
1995 Lecture, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1994 Woodrow Wilson School Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
1994 Association of Public Policy and Management: Plenary Session Address.
1993 “The Clinton Presidency” (with Robert Y. Shapiro), City University of New York Graduate
Center Conference, New York, NY.
1993 Health Policy Seminar, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1992 Health Services Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1992 “Health Care Reform” Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC.
1991 Health Policy Seminar, Milbank Foundation.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND REPORTS
Ling Zhu, Suzanne Mettler, and Lawrence Jacobs. “Policy Feedback and Public Opinion.” Presented at the
American Political Science Association Conference. August 31, 2019.
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Lawrence Jacobs. “The Variations of Central Banking.” Roundtable discussion of Democratic Politics of
Central Banking. American Political Science Association Conference. August 29, 2019.
Suzanne Mettler, Ling Zhu, and Lawrence Jacobs. “State Policy Feedback.” Presented at the American Political
Science Association Conference. April 6, 2019.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Trump’s Institutional Inheritance: The Legacy of Bipartisan Support for Presidential Power.”
Presented at New America Foundation Conference “A Republic, If We Can Keep It.” Washington DC April 12-
13, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs, Suzanne Mettler, and Ling Zhu. “The Development of Policy Feedback Over Time: The
impacts of health reform on political efficacy and political participation.” Paper presented to the Midwest
Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago Illinois, April 5-8, 2018.
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Has Health Reform Reduced Health Disparities? Probing the Effects of
the Affordable Care Act. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 31, 2017, San Francisco.
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Has Health Reform Reduced Health Disparities? Probing the Effects of
the Affordable Care Act.” Previously presented at “Health Policy after the 2016 Election” Conference convened
by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, May 19, 2017, Brown University.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “The Inequality of Policy Effects: Policy Feedbacks and Health Care
Reform.” Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
September 2, 2016, Philadelphia.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Policy Cascades: Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. Paper
presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4, 2016.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Policy Cascades: Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act. Paper
presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2016.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “The Contingency of Policy Feedback Effects: How Policy Features
Interact with Political Conditions and Motivations to Shape Public Opinion.” Prepared for presentation
at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 5, 2015, San Francisco.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Future of Health Care Reform: What is Driving
Enrollment?” Paper presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
September 3-6, 2015, San Francisco.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Contingent Policy Effects: The Influence and Limits of Health
Reform on Public Opinion.” Prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, April 16, 2015, Chicago, IL.
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Policy Cascades: Public Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act.”
Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2015.
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Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Taming Conservatism: The Policy Effects of the Affordable Care Act
on Attitudes Toward Taxation.” Prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2014
Timothy Callaghan and Lawrence Jacobs. “Dynamic Federalism and the Implementation of Medicaid Reform.”
Prepared for the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 29 - September 1,
2013.
Lawrence Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “How the reforming of health care is changing public opinion.” Paper
prepared for the Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 10-14, 2013.
Lawrence Jacobs. “Lord Bryce’s Curse: The Costs of Presidential Heroism and the Hope of Deliberative
Incrementalism. Paper prepared for the “Governing the U.S. in Polarized Times,” Oxford University,
England, UK, April 16-17, 2013.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. “Concealed Advantage: The Federal Reserve’s Financial
Interventions After 2007.” Paper Prepared for the “Governing the Fed” Conference, Nuffield College,
England, UK, October 5-6, 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King. “Governing the Fed: What the Fed Did and Why.” Paper Prepared for
the “Governing the Fed” Conference, Nuffield College, England, UK, October 5-6, 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol. “Progressive Federalism: The Implementation of Health Care
Reform.” Prepared for the American Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA,
August 3- September 2, 2012.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Suzanne Mettler. “Structural Framing: Health Care Reform and Changing American
Politics.” Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science
Association, Seattle, WA, September 1-4, 2011.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, “Health Care Reform and American Politics.” Paper prepared for
delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC,
September 2-5, 2010.
Joanne Miller and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Elections and Institutions: Ranked-Choice Voting and Its Attitudinal
and Behavioral Effects.” Paper prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2-5, 2010.
Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, “The Obama Presidency: Reconstituting the American State.” Nuffield
College, England, UK, March 2010
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Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King, “The Unsustainable American State.” Nuffield College, England, UK,
May 2008.
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Class War?” Nuffield College, England, UK, May 2008.
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Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, “Pragmatic Egalitarians: Economic Inequality and the American
Public.” Paper prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2008.
Lawrence Jacobs, “Institutionalizing Personal Charisma: American Presidents and the Pursuit of Legitimacy.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,
August 30 - September 2, 2007.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Strategic Populism: The Use and Misuse of Polls.” American Association for Public
Opinion Research, Anaheim, CA, May 17-20, 2007.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Paradox of the Vice Presidency: Institutional Position and Political Power.” Paper
Presented at the Carter Presidency” Conference, Athens, GA, January 19-22, 2007.
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Segmented Representation: The Reagan White House and
Disproportionate Representation.” Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science
Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 31 - September 3, 2006.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Promotional President and Policy Overreaching: Public Opinion, Institutions, and
Political Overconfidence.” Presented at “Politics and Polarization: The George W. Bush Presidency,”
RAI and Nuffield College, England, UK, 25-27 May 2006.
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Political Motivations, Information Gains, and Presidential Polling:
The Nixon and Reagan White Houses.” Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science
Association Meeting. September 1-4, 2005, Washington, D.C.
Michael Delli Carping, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Fay Lomax Cook. “Does Political Deliberation Matter? The
Impact of Discursive Participation on Civic and Political Behavior. Paper prepared for delivery at the
American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL September 2-6, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Benjamin Page. “Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy?” Princeton University and
American Political Science Association. Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science
Association Meeting, Chicago, IL September 2-6, 2004.
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Lumpers and Splitters: Presidential Polling from Nixon to Reagan.”
Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago IL,
September 2-6, 2004.
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence W. Jacobs. “The Media and the Foreign Policy Establishment.” Paper
prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago,
April 14-17, 2004.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Michael Delli Carpini, and Fay Lomax Cook. “How Do Americans Deliberate?” Paper
prepared for delivery at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting. Chicago, IL, April 15-19,
2004.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs and Benjamin Page. “Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy?” American Political Science
Association, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2003.
Fay Lomax Cook, Michael X. Delli Carpini, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Who Deliberates? Discursive Capital in
America.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August
27-31, 2003. .
Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs. “The Public Management of Market Forces: Why ‘Alternatives to
Government’ Make Government Grow.” Report to the Ford Foundation. 2003.
Melanie Burns, Lawrence Jacobs, and Gregory McAvoy. “Presidential Strategies for Managing Public
Approval: White House Decisions to Go Public and to Hide in the Rose Garden.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Benjamin Page. “The Disconnect of American Foreign Policy Makers from Public
Opinion: International Relations Theory and Practice.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 4-6, 2003.
Michael X. Delli Carpini, Fay Lomax Cook, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Talking Together: Discussing Capital
and Civic Deliberation in America.” Presented to the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting.
Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2003.
Melanie Burns, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Martin Kifer. “Presidential Strategy for Managing Public Approval:
The Liability of Visibility and The Utility of a Rose Garden Strategy.” Presented at the annual meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 3-7, 2003.
Lawrence Brown and Lawrence Jacobs. “From Panacea To Pandora: Politics, Markets, and Policy Cycles
in Education and Health.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Boston, MA, 2002.
Jacobs, Lawrence, Fay Lomax Cook, and Dukhong Kim. “Trusting What You Know: Information,
Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 2002.
James Druckman and Lawrence Jacobs. “Lumpers and Splitters: The Public Opinion Information That
Politicians Use.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Boston, MA.
Benjamin Page, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Gregory McAvoy. “What Presidents Talk About: The Nixon Case.”
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April
19-22, 2002.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Paradox of Presidential Public Opinion Research: Polling More and Responding
Less.” Presented to “Dilemmas of Democracy” Conference sponsored by the Institute for Leadership
Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 2002.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs and Gregory McAvoy. “Political Strategy and Public Uncertainty of Elite Policy Positions:
The Extensiveness, Frequency, and Ambiguity of Nixon’s Policy Statements.” Presented at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA, 2001.
Anne R. Kapuscinski, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Emily Pullins. “Making Safety First a Reality: Final Report of
the March 2-3, 2001 Workshop.” Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, August
2001.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, James Druckman, and Eric Ostermeier. “A Theory of Candidate Strategy: President
Nixon’s White House Polling on Policy Issues and Candidate Image.” Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 19-22, 2001.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Deliberative Democracy and Biotechnology: Restoring Public Trust through the Public
Airing of Disagreements.” Presented at “Safety First: Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for
Environment and Human Health Worldwide,” Minneapolis, MN, March 2001.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Participatory Democracy and the Limits of Technocracy: The Making of Safety First
Policy.” Presented at “Safety First: Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for Environment and
Human Health Worldwide,” Minneapolis, MN, March 2001.
Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Faulty Assumptions about Americans’ Attitudes Toward Social
Security: Popular Claims Meet Hard Data.” Paper Presented at the National Academy of Social
Insurance Annual Conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., January 24, 2001. Re-released
as a Working Paper by the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.
“Political Explanations for Health Disparities.” Paper Presented at the Conference on Inequality and the
Politics of Health, Annapolis, MD, October 4-5, 2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook and Michael Delli Carpini. “Talking Together: Public Deliberation and
Discursive Capital.” A Report to the Pew Charitable Trusts. September 2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda Jackson. “Reconciling the Influence of Policy Issues and Candidate Image on
Election Campaigns: The Private Polling and Campaign Strategy of the Nixon White House.” Presented
at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 2001.
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Presidents and Polling: Politicians, Pandering, and the Study of
Democratic Responsiveness.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, DC, 2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “It’s True, Politicians Don’t Pander,” Presented at Conference on
Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, May 13,
2000.
Anne R. Kapuscinski, Lawrence R. Jacobs, and Emily Pullins. “Making Safety First a Reality: Final Report of
the March 2-3, 2001 Workshop.” Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, August
2001.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs, James Druckman, and Eric Ostermeier. “A Theory of Candidate Strategy: President
Nixon’s White House Polling on Policy Issues and Candidate Image.” Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 19-22, 2001.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Deliberative Democracy and Biotechnology: Restoring Public Trust through the Public
Airing of Disagreements.” Presented at “Safety First: Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for
Environment and Human Health Worldwide,” Minneapolis, MN, March 2001.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Participatory Democracy and the Limits of Technocracy: The Making of Safety First
Policy.” Presented at “Safety First: Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for Environment and
Human Health Worldwide,” Minneapolis, MN, March 2001.
“Political Explanations for Health Disparities.” Paper Presented at the Conference on Inequality and
Politics of Health, Annapolis, MD, October 4-5, 2000.Politics of Health, Annapolis, MD, October 4-5,
2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook and Michael Delli Carpini. “Talking Together: Public Deliberation and
Discursive Capital.” A Report to the Pew Charitable Trusts, Washington, DC, September 2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Melinda Jackson. “Reconciling the Influence of Policy Issues and Candidate Image on
Election Campaigns: The Private Polling and Campaign Strategy of the Nixon White House.” Presented
at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 2000.
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Presidents and Polling: Politicians, Pandering, and the Study of
Democratic Responsiveness.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, DC, 2000.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “It’s True, Politicians Don’t Pander,” Presented at Conference on
Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL May 13,
2000.
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and Democracy,” Presented at
Conference on Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy, Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL, May 13, 2000.
Fay Lomax Cook, Jason Barabas and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Deliberative Democracy in Action: An Analysis of
the Effects of the Americans Discuss Social Security Deliberative Forums.” Presented at the 1999
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia and the 1999 Annual
Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
Greg Shaw and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Consensus and Dissensus over Health Care in Public Opinion and the
Media.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,
1999.
Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Public Opinion-Foreign Policy Linkage: U.S. Presidents and
Public Opinion.” Presented at the Conference on Public Opinion, the Mass Media, and
Foreign Policy, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 19-20, 1998.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Politics of Inequality: A Concept Paper on Political Explanations for Health
Inequality.” Presented at the fifth annual meeting of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator
Awards in Health Policy Research Program, Santa Fe, NM, October 15-17, 1998.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Presidential Power: Dilemmas of Democracy.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, 1998.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Myths and Misunderstandings About Public Opinion Toward
Social Security.” Presented at the annual conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance,
National Press Club, Washington, DC, January 29-30, 1998.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Pollwatch: The Media's Reporting and Distorting of Public
Opinion Toward Entitlements.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, DC, 1997.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Annenberg Public Policy Center Poll Watch: The 1996
Presidential Elections.” Report for Kathleen Hall Jamieson. November 4, 1996.
John Lapinski, Charles Riemann, Robert Y. Shapiro, Matthew Stevens, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The
Psychology of Work: A Comparative Perspective on Social Welfare and Unemployment.” Presented at
the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 1996.
Shmuel Lock Robert Y. Shapiro, and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Political Discontent: Reminding the Public What
the Federal Government Does -- An Experiment.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1996.
Robert Y. Shapiro, John Lapinski, Charles Rieman, Matthew Stevens, and Lawrence R. Jacobs.
Opinion Toward Unemployment, Work and Well-Being.” Report to the International Labour Office.
March 1996.
David Fan, Lawrence R. Jacobs, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Mark Watts. “The Media's Persuasive Influence on
Public Opinion: The Case of Social Security.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1995.
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Eric D. Lawrence, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Steven S. Smith. “Congressional Perceptions of
Public Opinion and Health Reform.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1995.
Greg Shaw, Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Searching Presidential Documents On-Line:
Advantages and Limitations.” Columbia University and University of Minnesota.
Greg Shaw, Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Privacy of Health Care Data: What Does the Public
Know? How Much Do They Care?” Report to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Summer
1995 (with Eleanor Singer and Robert Y. Shapiro).
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Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Cultural Crisis of the American Welfare State: The Barriers to National Health
Reform in America.” Presented at the Netherlands American Studies Association, Middleburg, the
Netherlands, June 7-9, 1995.
Robert Y. Shapiro, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Lynn Harvey. “Influences on Public Opinion Toward Health Care
Policy.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,
1995.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The News Media's Coverage of Social Security, January 1992-
July 1994.” Report for the National Academy of Social Insurance. November 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The News Media's Coverage of Social Security, 1977-1994.”
Report for the National Academy of Social Insurance. October 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion Toward Social Security.” Report for the National
Academy of Social Insurance. October 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Disorganized Democracy: The Institutionalization of Polling and
Public Opinion Analysis during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidencies.” Presented at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, and Public Opinion: Rethinking
Realists' Theory of Leadership.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, 1994.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Studying Substantive Democracy: Public Opinion, Institutions,
and Policymaking.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, 1993.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “The Public Presidency, Private Polls, and Policymaking.”
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 1993.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Opinion and Health Care: Individualism, Government, and
the Market.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, 1993.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Leadership in a Liberal Democracy: Johnson's Private Polls and
Public Announcements.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, 1993.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Leadership and Responsiveness: Some New Evidence on the
Johnson Presidency.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, IL, 1992.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “The Conditional Relevance of Public Opinion.” Presented at the Journal of Health,
Politics, Policy, and Law “Health Care Reform” Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC.
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Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Public Decisions, Private Polls: John F. Kennedy's Presidency.”
Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1992.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Democracy, Leadership, and the Private Polls of Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson: Beginnings during the Kennedy Campaign.” Presented at the annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1991.
Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro. “Democracy and Leadership: The Case of John F. Kennedy's
Private Polls.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
IL, 1991.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. “Recoil Effect: Public Opinion and Policymaking in the U.S. and Britain.” Presented at
the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1990.