GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES

“Separate Ways…Worlds Apart?: The ‘Generation Gap’ in Vietnamese America As Seen Through the Mercury News Poll.” (with Nadine Selden). 2003. Amerasia Journal 29 (1): 199-217.

“Openness Begets Opportunity: Minor Parties and the Blanket Primary in California.” In Bruce E. Cain and Elizabeth Gerber, eds. 2002. Voting at the Political Faultline. Berkeley: University of California/Institute of Governmental Studies Press.

“Rethinking the Partisan Effects of Higher Turnout: So What’s the Question?” (with Bernard Grofman and Guillermo Owen). 1999. Public Choice 99: 357-376.

“The Polls – Trends: Third Parties and the Two Party System.” 1996. Public Opinion Quarterly 60 (Fall): 431-449.

Research Interests:

Ethnic and Racial Politics; Public Opinion and Survey Methodology; American Politics.

My research lies at the intersection of race and ethnicity, electoral behavior, and public opinion. I am particularly interested in questions of mobilization and strategic choice – how marginalized groups overcome barriers to attain power within electoral systems. This has manifested in published work on two subjects: minor, or “third,” political parties in the United States and Asian Americans. Building on my 2004-5 residency at Viet Nam National University in Saigon, as well as six years of research in Orange County’s Little Saigon and the San Francisco Bay Area, my current work focuses on the influence of transnationalism on the incorporation of Vietnamese Americans.

Courses:
Politics and Society in America
The American President
Public Opinion in the United States
American Identities
Global Attitudes
The Politics of the American Immigrant
Asian American Politics