Martin P. Wattenberg is a

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at the

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. He is an expert on American

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and

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and is co-author of a popular undergraduate college text on American government, ''Government in America: People, Policy, and Politics'', published by Pearson Longman. He is also the author of ''Where Have All the Voters Gone: The Decline of American Political Parties'', ''Is Voting For Young People?'', ''The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics'', and "Obama: Year One". Wattenberg and his wife appear in Season 9 of the

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as the owners of a

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home which is undergoing a design renovation.

Publications

*Is Voting for Young People? Longman, 2007. *Where Have All the Voters Gone? Harvard University Press, 2002. *Parties Without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrialized Societies (co-edited with Russell Dalton). Oxford University Press, 2000. *Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds? (co-edited with Matthew Shugart). Oxford University Press, 2000. *The Decline of American Political Parties, (sixth edition). Harvard University Press, 1998. *The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics: Presidential Elections of the 1980s. Harvard University Press, 1991.

References

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