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Edgar Franco-Vivanco

Edgar Franco-Vivanco is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies. His research interests include Latin American politics, historical political economy, criminal violence, and indigenous politics. Prof. Franco-Vivanco is interested in implementing machine learning tools to improve the analysis of historical data, in particular handwritten documents. He ...

Christopher Fariss

My core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. I use computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but ...

Michael Traugott

Michael Traugott, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Political Studies and Adjunct Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research. Professor Traugott studies the mass media and their impact on American politics. This includes research ...

Brian Min

Brian Min, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Science in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Min holds secondary appointments as Research Associate Professor in the Center for Political Studies and the Institute for Social Research. Prof. Min studies the political economy of development with ...

Jowei Chen

Jowei Chen studies redistricting, political geography, distributive politics, and executive agencies. His research has examined the partisan and racial effects of redistricting maps and the effect of political geography on redistricting outcomes. He has studied how legislators’ pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts and how government spending influences voters. Finally, ...

Josh Pasek

Josh Pasek is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan, and a MIDAS Associate Director.  His substantive research explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors.  Josh also examines issues in the measurement of public ...

Walter Mebane

My primary project, election forensics, concerns using statistical analysis to try to determine whether election results are accurate.  Election forensics methods use data about voters and votes that are as highly disaggregated as possible.  Typically this means polling station (precinct) data, sometimes ballot box data.  Data can comprises hundreds of thousands or millions of observations.  ...

Joseph Ryan

Joseph Ryan, PhD, is Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies, ISR, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Ryan’s research and teaching build upon his direct practice experiences with child welfare and juvenile justice populations. Dr. Ryan is the Co-Director of the ...

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Jowei Chen

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSACenter for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Christopher Fariss

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Edgar Franco-Vivanco

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Walter Mebane

Professor, Political Science, LSA Center for Political Studies Statistics, LSA

Brian Min

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSA Center for Political Studies Institute for Social Research

Josh Pasek

Associate Professor, Communication Studies, LSACenter for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Joseph Ryan

Associate Professor, School of Social Work Center for Political Studies Population Studies Center

Michael Traugott

Research Professor, Center for Political Studies Political Science, LSA Communication Studies, LSA Institute for Social Research