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Jane Junn is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, as well as the Director of the Association of American Universities (AAU) project, Assessing Quality in University Education and Research (AQUER). She received her A.B. from the University of Michigan , and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago . Dr. Junn's primary interests are political participation and elections in the U.S. , political behavior and attitudes among American minorities and immigrants, theories of democracy, survey research, and social science methodology. Her book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (with Norman Nie and Ken Stehlik-Barry) won the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published in political science in 1996. Other recent publications include: Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn (Yale University Press, 1998) with Richard Niemi; "Assimilating or Coloring Participation? Gender, Race, and Democratic Political Participation," in Women Transforming Politics (NYU Press, 1997) ed., Cathy J. Cohen et. al.; and "The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the U.S. , The American Behavioral Scientist (1999). She is currently at work on her third book, The Significance of Race for Political Participation: How Diversity and Immigration Change Politics in America.
The Political Costs of Unequal Education