College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• PhD, Government, Georgetown University, 2017
• MA, distinction, Government, Georgetown University, 2009
• BA, honors, Political Science, McGill University, 2005

Research Interests:

• Electoral systems
• Political parties
• American politics

Bio:

Jon “Jack” Santucci is an assistant teaching professor of politics at Drexel University. He teaches online and face-to-face courses in American politics, political institutions, and research methods. Before coming to Drexel, Santucci taught urban politics at Georgetown University, political parties at James Madison University, and was a Research Fellow at the Democracy Fund.

Selected Publications:

• Santucci, Jack. 2020. "Did the Party System Change from 2012-2016?" Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, early version.
• Santucci, Jack. 2020. “Multiparty America?” The Journal of Politics 82 (4): e35-e39. https://doi.org/10.1086/708937.
• Santucci, Jack. Forthcoming. "Using Mixed Methods to Recover Electoral History: The American Path to Proportional Voting." SAGE Research Methods Cases. dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526462695
• Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Maine Ranked-choice Voting as a Case of Electoral System Change." Representation (early online version). doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2018.1502208
• Santucci, Jack. 2018. "Evidence of a Winning-cohesion Tradeoff under Multi-winner Ranked-choice Voting." Electoral Studies 52: 128-138. doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2017.11.003
• Santucci, Jack. 2017. "Party Splits, not Progressives: The Origins of Proportional Representation in American Local Government." American Politics Research 45(3): 494-526. doi.org/10.1177%2F1532673X16674774