Political Methodology:

- Mathematical and statistical models of politics

- Models of choice and survey response behavior

- Causal inference

- Nonparametric, semiparametric estimation and shape constrained inference

- Empirical tests of formal models

American and Comparative Politics

- Election campaigns and mass political behavior

- Interest groups and campaign finance

- Election administration, voting technology and voting irregularities

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Scholar 2006 --- 2008

W. Glenn Campbell And Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 2006 --- 2007

Robert H. Durr Award 2006, best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem.

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 1998--2000, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Harold Gosnell Award 1997, American Political Science Assoc., best conference methodology paper (with Walter Mebane)

Graduate

Political Methodology I: Probability and Mathematical Statistics

Political Methodology III: Advanced Topics

Workshop in Statistical Modeling

Statistics for Causal Inference in the Social Sciences

American Politics Field Seminar, I

Undergraduate

Polarized Politics and Special Interest Groups