C-SoDA Conference – New Faces in Political Methodology II

New Faces in Political Methodology II was held on May 13, 2009, and featured:

Dino Christenson (Ohio State University).

"Information and Advertising: Multivariate Matching with Campaign Exposure."

Dino received his PhD in 2010 and is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harari Institute for Computational Science and Engineering.

Christopher Dawes (University of California, San Diego).

"Cognitive Ability Mediates the Relationship Betweeh the CHRM2 Gene and Turnout," co-authored with David Cesarini, James Fowler, Magnus Johannesson, Patrik Magnusson, and Sven Oskarsson. This paper was published (as "The Relationship between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Participation") in the American Journal of Political Science.

Chris received his PhD in 2011 is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University.

Justin Grimmer (Harvard University).

"A Bayesian Hierarchical Topic Model for Political Texts: Measuring Expressed Agendas in Senate Press Releases." This paper was published in Political Analysis, and the research was part of his book, Representational Style in Congress: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2013), which won the 2014 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book in legislative studies published in 2013.

Justin received his PhD in 2010 and is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University.

Erin Hartman (University of California, Berkeley).

"Employing Matching to Alleviate Bias in Survey Data."

Erin received her PhD in 2013. In 2012, she ran the polling operation for Obama for America's Analytics department, and later co-founded analytics and technology startup, BlueLabs. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Political Science at UCLA.

Julianna Pacheco (Pennsylvania State University).

"Two New Measures of Dynamic Public Opinion in the States Using Item Response Theory." This paper was published (as "Using National Surveys to Measure Dynamic US State Public Opinion: A Guideline for Scholars and an Application.") in State Politics & Policy Quarterly.

Julie earned her PhD in 2010 and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

Alejandro Quiroz Flores (New York University).

"Testing Copula Functions as a Method to Derive Bivariate Weibull Distributions."

Alex received his PhD in 2010 and is currently Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

Adam Ramey (University of Rochester).

"Weighing the Alternatives: Parties, Preferences, and Constituency in the US Congress." This paper was published in the Journal of Politics.

Adam received his PhD in 2010 and is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Aaron Strauss (Princeton University)

"Planning the Optimal Get-out-the-vote Campaign Using Randomized Field Experiments," co-authored with Kosuke Imai. This paper was published (as "Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Optimal Planning of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign") in Political Analysis.

Aaron received his PhD in 2009 and was the Director of Targeting and Data for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for 2012-13. He is currently Executive Director of the Analyst Institute.

Andrea Abel van Es (Stanford University).

"Spatial Election Modeling using the Information Filter."

Andrea received her PhD in 2011 and has served as a Research Consultant for the Global Commissoin for Elections, Democracy, and Security, a Principal Consultant for the International Policy Research and Evaluation Group, and as a Program Manager and Senior Research Fellow with the Electoral Integrity Project. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Economics and Peace.