Congressional Challengers

Costas Panagopoulos is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy and the graduate program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University. A leading expert on campaigns and elections, voting behavior, media and public opinion, political psychology and campaign finance, Professor Panagopoulos has co-authored or edited several books, including A Citizen's Guide to U.S. Elections (Routledge), Politicking Online: The Transformation of Election Campaigns Communications (Rutgers University Press), and Public Financing in American Elections (Temple University Press). He has published over 60 scholarly articles in outlets including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and Political Analysis. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Campaigns & Elections magazine, as Senior Editor of the Journal of Political Marketing, and as part of the NBC News Decision Desk team since the 2006 election cycle. In 1992, while an undergraduate at Harvard University, Professor Panagopoulos was a candidate for the Massachusetts State Legislature.