Contact Information
Name: Danielle Joesten Martin
Title: Professor
Office Location: Tahoe 3110
Email: danielle.martin@csus.edu
Office Phone: (916) 278-6380
Mailing Address: Department of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6089
Where to find me : Tahoe Hall 3110
Courses that I teach
POLS 1, Essentials of Government
POLS 100, Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science
POLS 102, Quantitative Reasoning in Political Science
POLS 159A, Campaigns and Elections
POLS 200, Method and Scope in Political Science
Publications
- Kujala, Jordan and Danielle Joesten Martin. “Candidate Gender and District Ideological Alignment in U.S. Congressional Elections, 2002-2020.” Political Research Quarterly.
- Lee, Young-Im and Danielle Joesten Martin. 2025. “Grading for Equity? The Limits of Course-Level Interventions in Closing Achievement Gaps in Political Science Education.” Journal of Political Science Education 22(2): 233-248.
- Leiter, Debra and Danielle Joesten Martin. 2025. “Superbowl Forecasting: Turning the Big Game into a Big Lesson.” The Political Science Educator 28(2).
- Martin, Danielle Joesten, Brian E. Adams, and Edward L. Lascher, Jr. 2024. "Tribal Politics or Discerning Voters? Party and Policy in Local Elections." Urban Affairs Review 60(6): 1871-1897.
- Martin, Danielle Joesten and Meredith Conroy. 2024. "Female Candidates' Incumbency and Quality (Dis)Advantage in Local Elections." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 45(3):335-349.
- Martin, Danielle Joesten. 2022. "Ideological and partisan biases in ratings of candidate quality in U.S. House elections." Social Science Quarterly 103(3): 622-634.
- Adams, Brian E., Edward L. Lascher, Jr., and Danielle Joesten Martin. 2021. "Ballot Cues, Business Candidates, and Voter Choices in Local Elections." American Politics Research 49(2): 186-197.
- Conroy, Meredith, Danielle Joesten Martin, and Kim L. Nalder. 2020. “Gender, Sex, and the Role of Stereotypes in Evaluations of Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Presidential Candidates.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 41(2): 194-218.
- Barker, David C., Danielle Joesten Martin, and Kim L. Nalder. 2019. “Aggregated Fact-Checks, Partisanship, and Perceptions of Candidate Honesty.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. Online.
- Martin, Danielle Joesten. 2019. “Playing the Women’s Card: How Women Respond to Female Candidates’ Descriptive Versus Substantive Representation.” American Politics Research 47(3): 549-581.
- Barker, David C., Kim L. Nalder, and Danielle Joesten Martin. 2019. “Citizen Responses to Fact Checking.” Chapter in One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy, Eds. Morgan Marietta and David C. Barker. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Jones, Bradford and Danielle Joesten Martin. 2017. “Path to Citizenship or Deportation? How Elite Cues Shape Opinion on Immigration in the 2010 U.S. House Elections.” Political Behavior 39(1): 177-204.
- Adams, James, Erik Engstrom, Danielle Joesten Martin, Jon Rogowski, Boris Shor, and Walter J. Stone. 2017. “Do Moderate Voters Weigh Candidates’ Ideologies? Voters’ Decision Rules in the 2010 Congressional Elections.” Political Behavior 39(1): 205-227. Erratum.
- Joesten, Danielle A. and Walter J. Stone. 2014. "Reassessing Proximity Voting: Expertise, Party, and Choice in Congressional Elections." Journal of Politics, 76(3): 740-753.
Blog Posts
- “Local Elections are Less Partisan Because Voters Will Cross Party Lines when Issues Hit Close to Home.” The Conversation blog post with Edward L. Lascher, Jr. and Brian Adams. August 15, 2024.
- “Distrust of fact-checking is not restricted to the right.” Vox, Mischiefs of Faction blog post with David C. Barker and Kim L. Nalder. July 3, 2017.
- Nalder, Kimberly, Meredith Conroy, and Danielle Joesten Martin. "The Two Hillary Clinton's: How Supporters and Detractors Describe the Democratic Nominee." London School of Economics' American Politics and Policy (USAPP) blog post. July 2016.
View My CV (click here)
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Senior Faculty Associate, Project for an Informed Electorate (PIE).
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CSUS Representative, CSU Social Science Research & Instructional Center (SSRIC)
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