Joel W. Johnson Ph.D.

Joel W. Johnson coordinates the Political Science Program at CSU Pueblo, and his teaching portfolio includes courses in Comparative Politics, American Politics, and Research Methods. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from UCSD. His research focuses on political institutions and political economy in developed and developing democracies. He is the author of Political Economy of the United States (Routledge, 2018), and his other published works include: 

• The Fiscal Politics of Turnover and Tenure: Partisan Competition and Interterm Cycles. (2025). Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 6 (1), 105-134. 
• Electoral Systems and Campaign Finance. (2017). Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems, 533–554.
• Presidential elections and corruption perceptions in Latin America. (2015). Journal of politics in Latin America 7 (1), 111-142.
• Campaign spending in proportional electoral systems: Incumbents versus challengers revisited. (2013). Comparative Political Studies 46 (8), 968-993​
• Beyond personal vote incentives: dividing the vote in preferential electoral systems. (2012). With Verónica Hoyo. Electoral Studies 31 (1), 131-142. 

Additional publications and works in progress can be found on his website and on Google Scholar and ORCiD.

• Media discussion topics: American Politics, Comparative Politics (especially European and Latin American politics)