Adam Chamberlain

Publications:

Chamberlain, Adam. 2023. “North Dakota’s Two William Lemke Campaigns in the 1936 Elections.” Great Plains Research, 33(1): 21-32. (Note: No DOI at this time; the link is to the issue’s table of contents.)

Chamberlain, Adam, James Strickland, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2023. “The Rise of Lobbying and Interest Groups in the States during the Progressive Era.” Frontiers in Political Science (Research Topic: Lobbying in Comparative Contexts, editors Anthony Nownes and Adam Newmark), 5.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2023. “The Southern Farmers’ Alliance, Populists, and Lynching.”  Social Science History 47(1): 121-144.  

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2023. “Managing Membership: Federated Voluntary Membership Associations in the United States.” Interest Groups & Advocacy 12(1): 1-23.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2022. “Shaping the Rise of Brotherhood: Social, Political, and Economic Contexts and the ‘Golden Age of Fraternalism’.” Social Science Quarterly 103(7): 1673-1686.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2022. “Do Pandemics Spawn Extremism?: Spanish Flu Deaths and the Ku Klux Klan.” Politics and the Life Sciences 41(2): 289-297.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2022. “An ‘Urban Voluntary Association’ in the Rural South?: Urbanity, Race, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1910-1930.” Politics, Groups, & Identities 10(5): 767-787.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2022. “ ‘Our One Great Hope’: The Growth of the Woman’s Relief Corps and the Decline of the Grand Army of the Republic.” Armed Forces & Society, 48(3): 679-700.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2022. “Density Dependence in Economic Sectors in the Progressive Era.” Interest Groups & Advocacy, 11(1): 1-25.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2021. “Policy Diffusion through Pressure Groups in the Gilded Age: The Case of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.” Journal of Policy History, 33(4): 345-372.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2021. “Evaluating Federated Voluntary Associations’ Membership Data: An Application of Benford’s Law.” Social Science Quarterly, 102(4): 1590-1601.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2021. “The Effect of ‘Do Everything’ on ‘Unity in Diversity’: A Neopluralist Examination of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.” Polity, 53(4): 645-665.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2021. “ ‘Unity in Diversity’: Neopluralism, the ESA Model, and the Rise of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 42(2): 156-175.

Chamberlain, Adam, and Alixandra B. Yanus. 2021. “Monuments as Mobilization?: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Memorialization of the Lost Cause.”  Social Science Quarterly, 102(1): 125-139.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2020. “Examining the Legend of a ‘Nation of Joiners’: A Research Note.” The Social Science Journal, 57(3): 326-333.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2020. “Group Presence, Population, and Interest Group Theory: A Case Study of the American Anti-Slavery Society.” Social Science Quarterly, 101(2): 989-1003.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2020. “The Southern Question: American Voluntary Association Development, 1876-1920.” Political Science Quarterly, 135(1): 103-129.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2020. “Expanding the Energy-Stability-Area Model: Voluntary Membership Associations in the Early 20th Century.” Interest Groups & Advocacy, 9(1): 57-79.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2019. “Uniting the Living through the Dead: How Voluntary Associations Made Death a Selective Benefit.” Interest Groups & Advocacy, 8(4): 600-620.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2019. “Revisiting the ESA Model: A Historical Test.” Interest Groups & Advocacy, 8(1): 23-43.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2018. “Perceptions and Policy Failure: Explaining President James Buchanan’s Policy Priorities through Latent Opinion.” Journal of Policy History, 30(3): 429-451.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2018. “From Pressure Group to Political Party: The Case of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty Party.” Social Science Quarterly, 99(1): 246-261.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2018. “Moral Suasion and Political Action.” American Political Thought, 7(1): 57-85.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2017. “From Reconstruction to Reform: Modernization and the Interest Group State, 1875-1900.” Social Science History, 41(4): 705-730.

Chamberlain, Adam and Carl Klarner. 2016. “Stealth Partisan Spoilers: Evaluating the Logic Behind Partisan Disaffiliation Requirements for Independent and Third-Party Candidates.” Election Law Journal, 15(4): 330-350.

Chamberlain, Adam, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Nicholas Pyeatt. 2016. “The Connection Between the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party.” SAGE Open, 6(4): 1-8.

Aidoo, Richard and Adam Chamberlain. 2015. “The Role of Minor Parties in Political Competition: Lessons from Ghana’s 2012 Elections.” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 50(2): 196-207.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2014. “Voter Coordination and the Rise of the Republican Party: Evidence from New England.” Social Science History, 38(3-4): 311-332.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2013. “The (Dis)Connection Between Political Culture and External Efficacy.” American Politics Research, 41(5): 761-782.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2013. “Fusion Ballots and the Question of Organizational Type.” Representation, 49(1): 45-54.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2012. “Fusion Ballots as a Candidate-Centered Reform: Evidence from Oregon.” The Social Science Journal, 49(4): 458-464.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2012. “The Growth of Third-Party Voting: An Empirical Case Study of Vermont, 1840-55.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 12(3): 344-362.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2012. “A Time Series Analysis of External Efficacy.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(1): 117-130.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2011. “Racial Threat or Racial Contact?: How Race Affected Third-Party Presidential Voting in the Antebellum North.” Social Science Quarterly, 92(2): 384-403.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2010. “An Inside-Outsider or an Outside-Insider? The Republican Party Primary Campaign of Ron Paul from a Third-Party Perspective.” Politics & Policy, 38(1): 97-116.

Chamberlain, Adam. 2009. “Population Ecology and Niche Seeking in the Development of Gay and Lesbian Rights Groups.” The Social Science Journal, 46(4): 656-670.

Ongoing Research:

Currently, I continue to work with Alixandra B. Yanus and other scholars on research related to large, federated voluntary associations and interest group politics.

I am also working on a book proposal and manuscript that seeks to explain how voluntary associations are central to understanding the role of minor political parties in the United States.

Data:

If you are interested in data from a solo-authored project, please reach out to me directly and I will be happy to provide it. If you are interested in data from a co-authored project, please include my co-author(s) on the email.

Additionally, I have collected much data on associations that remains unused in publications. If you have ideas or queries, please reach out to me directly and I will be sure to include any co-author(s) on those responses. Thank you!