Authors
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Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. He has received the Outstanding Statistical Application award from the American Statistical Association, the award for best article published in the American Political Science Review, and the Council of Presidents of Statistical Societies award for outstanding contributions by a person under the age of 40. His previous books include Bayesian Data Analysis and Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks.
Andrew has done research on a wide range of topics, including: why it is rational to vote; why campaign polls are so variable when elections are so predictable; why redistricting is good for democracy; reversals of death sentences; police stops in New York City, the statistical challenges of estimating small effects; the probability that your vote will be decisive; seats and votes in Congress; social network structure; arsenic in Bangladesh; radon in your basement; toxicology; medical imaging; and methods in surveys, experimental design, statistical inference, computation, and graphics.
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David K. Park is an assistant professor in political science at George Washington University. He was an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the political science and applied statistics departments before coming to George Washington. He currently is a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Applied Statistics Center. His works have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Political Science. He worked as an aerospace engineer before getting his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University. David's research focuses on the linkages between the public and their elected representatives.
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Boris Shor is an assistant professor at the Harris School for Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. Previously, he researched Eastern European political and economic reform at Freedom House. Boris is currently studying the links between public opinion, elite ideology, and policy. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis.
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Joseph Bafumi is an assistant professor in Government at Dartmouth College. Before receiving his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia, Joe worked in marketing research and on congressional campaigns. His current research focuses on public opinion and elections.
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Jeronimo Cortina is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston. He worked for the government of Mexico City before receiving his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University. Jeronimo's research focuses on immigration, public opinion, and the connections between the United States and Latin America.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Columbia University Applied Statistics Center, the National Institutes of Health, and Yahoo Research.