Her first book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America, was coauthored with Norman H. Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry and published in 1996.
[2] The book addresses a paradox that at the individual level, educational attainment has a very strong association with increased political engagement (as originally pointed out by Philip Converse), but as the number of educated people in the United States grew over the second half of the 20th century, there was no corresponding increase in political involvement.
[3] The authors propose and test a novel model to explain this paradox, building on previous work by Fred Hirsch.
[1] In 2013, Junn and Natalie Masuoka published the book The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration.
[9] Junn has been quoted and her work has been cited extensively in news outlets like The Washington Post,[10] The Atlantic,[11] The New York Times,[12] The Chicago Tribune,[13] and The Globe and Mail.