Jason F. Jagemann

Jason Jagemann serves as the coordinator of the political science program for undergraduate students at Norwich University. His expertise lies in American politics, with emphases on public law, political behavior, and interest group politics. He also has additional scholarly and teaching interests in political theory and philosophy, particularly democratic theory and feminist political thought.

He received his MA and Ph.D. from Western Michigan University and his Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York, Potsdam, where he majored in political science and minored in U.S. history. At the undergraduate level, Jagemann regularly offers courses in the fields of public law (Constitutional Law; Civil Liberties) and political behavior (Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Interest Groups, Political Parties, and Social Media and Politics). He also offers the capstone senior seminar on a variety of topics, including Interest Groups and Lobbying, Democracy and Civil Society, the U.S. Supreme Court and Political Behavior. At the graduate level, Jagemann has taught the Research Methods Seminar in the Master of Public Administration program in the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies.

His research focuses on how institutions, such as Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court, shape the behavior of interest group coalition building and lobbying. Jagemann has published in the fields of interest group behavior and his most recent article “Abortion Politics in the Courts: New Judicial Federalism or the Federal Courts?” appears in the Vermont Bar Journal. Jagemann is also exploring the realm of social media and politics. Jagemann is currently working on an article examining Google Trends data and to what extent these data provide good proxies for issue saliency about the U.S. Supreme Court and its opinions. In the face of a paucity of survey data about public attitudes and interest in the U.S. Supreme Court and its decisions (at least relative to other actors, institutions, and issues in the realm of U.S. politics), Google Trends and analytics provide a useful tool to gauge saliency and public interest in the Court and its cases. Jagemann serves as the faculty advisor to the Political Science Club, the Pre-Law Society, and the Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.

Ph.D. Political Science, Western Michigan University
M.A. Political Science, Western Michigan University
B.A. Political Science, State University of New York College at Potsdam

PO 105 U.S. Politics
PO 106 Intro. Public Policy
PO 220 Research Methods
PO 300 Social Media and Politics
PO 313 Political Parties and Interest Groups
PO 315 Public Opinion
PO 321 U.S. Constitutional Law
PO 324 Civil Liberties 
PO 403 Internship 
PO 490 Honors in Political Science
PO 410 Capstone Seminar in Political Science

2011 “Abortion Politics in the Courts: New Judicial Federalism or Federal Courts?” Vermont Bar Journal 36 no. 4 (Winter) (with Dr. Ashlyn Kuersten).

2001. "Partisanship, Legitimacy and the Law: A Response to Seth Steinzor’s “J‘Accuse.” Vermont Bar Journal 27 no. 2 (Summer).

2000. “Does the Interest Group Choir Really ‘Sing With an Upper Class Accent?’ Coalitions of Race and Gender Groups before the Supreme Court,” Women and Politics 21 no. 3: 53-72.