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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Dr. Jeffrey Lyons is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Political Science. Joining in 2015, Dr. Lyons came to Boise State University after being a Lecturer at the University of Denver. His research interests include political behavior, public opinion, and political psychology among others. Dr. Lyons earned a Ph.D. and a M.A in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Idaho.

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Dr. Jeffrey Lyons is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Political Science. Joining in 2015, Dr. Lyons came to Boise State University after being a Lecturer at the University of Denver. His research interests include political behavior, public opinion, and political psychology among others. Dr. Lyons earned a Ph.D. and a M.A in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Idaho.

2015 - Present	Assistant Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Political Science
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Political Science

American Politics, Empirical Theory and Methodology, and Economics

2011 & 2014 - Department of Political Science Graduate Teaching Award, University of Denver

Articles (15)

You’re Not From Here!: The Consequences of Urban and Rural Identities (Jeffrey Lyons and Stephen M. Utych) Political Behavior (2023)

As the American political landscape becomes increasingly divided along urban–rural lines, it raises the prospect of deepening social identities that are tied to one’s community-type. As community-type becomes an important social identity, it can lead ...

Is It Still a Mandate If We Don’t Enforce It?: The Politics of COVID-Related Mask Mandates in Conservative States (Jeffrey Lyons and Luke Fowler) State and Local Government Review (2021)

Questions of whether to enforce COVID-related mask mandates are complex. While enforced mandates are more effective at controlling community spread, government imposed behavioral controls have met significant opposition in conservative states, where a political bloc ...

The Fickle Financiers of Elections?: The Impact of Moving on Individual Contributions (Jaclyn J. Kettler and Jeffrey Lyons) Journal of Elections, Public Opinions and Parties (2021)

What is the effect of a change in geographic location on the behavior of campaign donors? Looking at people who move presents a unique opportunity to assess the ways in which political behavior is altered ...

Living with Inequality: Neighborhood Income Diversity and Perceptions of the Income Gap (Scott L. Minkoff and Jeffrey Lyons) American Politics Research (2019)

This article explores whether the places where people live—and specifically the diversity of incomes where people live—influence views about income inequality. Using a unique survey of New York City that contains geographic identifiers and questions ...

Moral Dialogs and Public Opinion Research (Jeffrey Lyons) The Social Science Journal (2018)

Etzioni’s article is thought provoking, and contains a series of arguments that would be useful lines of inquiry for scholars of public opinion. In many ways, these ideas link to, and can enrich existing areas ...

Discussion Networks, Issues, and Perceptions of Polarization in the American Electorate (Jeffrey Lyons and Anand E. Sokhey) Political Behavior (2017)

Drawing on the sizable literature on polarization in the American public, we consider the link between discussion network composition and perceptions of polarization. Participants in the 2008–2009 ANES panel study were asked to complete an ...

Political Knowledge and Policy Representation in the States (William P. Jaeger, Jeffrey Lyons and Jennifer Wolak) American Politics Research (2017)

Political knowledge is central to the success of representative democracy. However, public policy has been shown to follow public opinion even despite low levels of political information in the electorate. Does this mean that political ...

What Happens When Social Pressures Collide? The Role of Environmental Pressures Throughout Life (Jeffrey Lyons) Political Psychology (2017)

How do competing social influences shape individual partisanship over the course of the life cycle? People enter and exit a host of environments over the course of the lifespan, and these environments provide social pressures ...

Personality, Interpersonal Disagreement, and Electoral Information (Jeffrey Lyons, Anand E. Sokhey, Scott D. McClurg, et al.) The Journal of Politics (2016)

Interpersonal disagreement has been linked to a variety of democratic outcomes, and classic theories of social influence place it at the heart of opinion formation. We examine the relationship between exposure to disagreement and information ...

The Effect of Redistricting Commissions on District Bipartisanship and Member Ideology (Josh M. Ryan and Jeffrey Lyons) Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (2015)

Reformers advocate the use of commissions rather than legislatures to redistrict as a way of promoting less partisan districts and ideologically moderate congressional members. Much of the evidence in political science suggests that gerrymandering is ...

Explosive Dome Eruptions Modulated by Periodic Gas-Driven Inflation (Jeffrey B. Johnson, J. J. Lyons, B. J. Andrews, et al.) Geophysical Research Letters (2014)

Volcan Santiaguito (Guatemala) “breathes” with extraordinary regularity as the edifice's conduit system accumulates free gas, which periodically vents to the atmosphere. Periodic pressurization controls explosion timing, which nearly always occurs at peak inflation, as detected ...

Who Do Voters Blame for Policy Failure? Information and the Partisan Assignment of Blame (Jeffrey Lyons and William P. Jaeger) State Politics & Policy Quarterly (2014)

How do people assign blame in the wake of significant government failures? If the role of the citizenry in a representative democracy is to discipline elected officials for failing to meet collective expectations, then this ...

Emotion, Motivation, and Social Information Seeking About Politics (Jeffrey Lyons and Anand Sokhey) Political Communication (2014)

Do citizens engage in disagreeable discussion to acquire novel information about politics, or does such behavior reflect more social/expressive motives? In this article, we use emotion to illuminate why citizens would engage in political discussion ...

The Roots of Citizens’ Knowledge of State Politics (Jeffrey Lyons, William P. Jaeger and Jennifer Wolak) State Politics & Policy Quarterly (2013)

Do citizens have the information they need to hold state politicians accountable? We consider what people know about state politics and whether knowledge of state government is rooted in the same factors that explain knowledge ...

Where You Live and Who You Know: Political Environments, Social Pressures, and Partisan Stability (Jeffrey Lyons) American Politics Research (2011)

Do the social pressures individuals encounter from the political environments they reside in affect the stability of their partisanship? Are some citizens able to insulate themselves from such pressure through the composition of their discussion ...

Food for Thought: Attitudes on Growth in the Treasure Valley (Jeffrey Lyons and Vanessa Fry) Urban Land Institute of Idaho (2019)

2018 Idaho Elections in Review (Jaclyn Kettler and Jeffrey Lyons) Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Boise State University (2019)

Join Dr. Jaclyn Kettler and Dr. Jeffrey Lyons, both of the School of Public Service at Boise State University, as they provide analytical commentary and lead a discussion focused on the results of the 2018 ...

The Big Tent - Greg Hill, Jeff Lyons (Greg Hill, Jeff Lyons, Jen Schneider, et al.) The Big Tent, Boise Public Radio (2020)

Jen and Charlie sit with Boise State School of Public Service colleagues Greg Hill and Jeff Lyons to learn about the 2020 Statewide Idaho Policy Survey. Original air date February 13, 2020.

Surveying Idaho: Five Questions with Jeffrey Lyons (Jeffrey Lyons) The Blue Review (2020)

In our “Five Questions” feature we ask scholars, activists, and public officials five short questions about their work (and other things).Professor Jeffrey Lyons is the School of Public Service Survey Director and an Assistant Professor ...

In Idaho, Republicans' Support for Mask Mandates Falls if They are Enforced (Jeffrey Lyons and Luke Fowler) (2021)

Mask mandates are one policy tool state governments have used to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But does the enforcement of these mandates change the way Americans think about them? In new research, Luke Fowler ...

2019’s Most & Least Independent States (Adam McCann and Jeffrey Lyons) WalletHub (2019)

Americans value independence. We fought hard for it during the American Revolutionary War. Today, however, we celebrate not only our freedom from the British crown but also our strong ability to rely upon ourselves as ...