Research

Projects

• bucky R package
• npideal R package
• CARMAgeddon R package
• Supreme Court Ideology Project (with Stephen Jessee)
• Conference on Ideal Point Models (with Devin Caughey, Bret Hanlon, Stephen Jessee, Chris Warshaw, and Teppei Yamamoto)

Interests

Statistics

• Political methodology
• Bayesian statistics
• Statistical analysis of roll call votes
• Survival analysis
• Machine learning

American politics

• Judicial politics
• Congress
• Political behavior
• Public opinion

Comparative politics

• Baltic Nations
• Former Soviet bloc
• Democratization