麻豆传媒

Associate Professor of Political Science

Year Joined RCNJ: 2007

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7761
• Email: unger@ramapo.edu
• Office: A-214
• Office Hours: By Appointment

ByEducation:

• B.A. State University of New York
• M.A. University of Texas at Austin
• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Courses Offered:

• The American Presidency
• The U.S. Supreme Court
• American Political Parties
• American Government
• Introduction to Political Science

Teaching Interests:

• American Political Institutions

Research Interests:

Scholarly Activity:

Publications

• McKenzie, Mark J., Cynthia Rugeley, and Michael A. Unger. 2012. 鈥淚nvestigating How Voters Weigh Issues and Partisanship in Judicial Elections,鈥� American Review of Politics Winter (2012).
• McKenzie, Mark J. and Michael A. Unger. 2011. 鈥溾�楴ew Style鈥� Campaigning, Citizen Knowledge and Sources of Legitimacy for State Courts: A Case Study in Texas,鈥� Politics and Policy 39 (5): 813-834.
• Unger, Michael A. 2008. 鈥淎fter the Supreme Word: The Effect Van Orden v. Perry and of McCreary v. ACLU on Support for Public Displays of the Ten Commandments,鈥� American Politics Research 36: 750 鈥� 776.

Recent Conference Presentations

• 鈥淧ublic Opinion, Constitutional Issues, and the Supreme Court鈥檚 2012 and 2013 Term鈥� (with Bruce G. Peabody and Peter J. Woolley). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwesest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2014.
• 鈥淭he Impact of the NJ Supreme Court in and Beyond New Jersey.鈥� Roundtable Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Political Science Association, New Brunswick, NJ, 2013.
• 鈥淓xperimentally testing voter responses to politicized judicial campaigning鈥� (with Mark McKenzie and Cynthia R. Rugeley). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, 2013.

Book Reviews

• Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the Supreme Court (Temple, 2009) by Rosalee Clawson and Eric Waltenburg for The Journal of Politics, 2010.
• Rethinking American Electoral Democracy by Matthew Streb (New York, Routledge, 2008. 226 pp. Cloth, $125.00; paper, $25.95) for Political Science Quarterly, 2009.