Helmut Norpoth

Professor 

Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974.

Department of Political Science

Stony Brook University 
Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-4392

(631) 632-7640 (office)
(631) 632-4116 (fax)
helmut.norpoth@stonybrook.edu

Recent Publications

Helmut Norpoth, Unsurpassed: The Popular Appeal of Franklin Roosevelt. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Jeeyoung Park and Helmut Norpoth, “Policy Popularity: The Arizona Immigration Law,” Electoral Studies 44 (2016), 15-25.

Helmut Norpoth, “Primary Model Predicts Trump Victory,” PS: Political Science and Politics 49 (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520001353

John V. Kane and Helmut Norpoth, “No Love for Doves? Foreign Policy and Candidate Appeal,” Social Science Quarterly, 2017, 1-17.

Helmut Norpoth and Thomas Gschwend, “Chancellor Model Predicts a Changing of the Guards in Germany,” PS: Political Science and Politics 50 (July 2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000415

Helmut Norpoth. “Predicting Elections,” in Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science Alex Mintz and Lesley Terris (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 

Helmut Norpoth, “The 1932 Election: Evidence from a Confidential Survey,” PS: Political Science and Politics 51 (July 2018).  doi: 10.1017/S1049096518001014 

Helmut Norpoth, “America’s Largest Denomination: None,” PS: Political Science and Politics 52 (August 2019).doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519001264

Helmut Norpoth, “Lost in the New Deal Realignment: GI Joe,” PS: Political Science & Politics  53 (October 2020), 646 – 651. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096520000803

Helmut Norpoth, “Primary Model Predicts Trump Reelection,” PS: Political Science and Politics, published online 15 October 2020. Print edition Vol. 54, 63-66.

Stony Brook University

Course Offerings and Syllabi

Undergraduate

POL317 American Election Campaigns

POL318 Voters and Elections

POL336 U.S. Foreign Policy

Graduate

POL617 Electoral Behavior

Research Interests:

Electoral Behavior; Public Opinion; Wartime Elections; Economic Voting; Electoral Realignment (particularly New Deal); Electoral Forecasting