Margie Hershey

Marjorie Randon Hershey is a professor of Political Science and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, specializing in political parties, campaigns, and political communications. She is the author of four books (one of which, Party Politics in America, is in its 16th edition) and about 45 articles in professional journals and book chapters. She has received a number of teaching awards. Her current work has to do with polarization among party activists and with the commonalities among the research on framing, persuasion, lobbying, constructing explanations for election results, political metaphors, and social movements' organizational development.