Joseph Bafumi
Assistant Professor of Government
Silsby 225
Joseph.Bafumi@dartmouth.edu
B.A., University of Connecticut
M.A., University of Connecticut
M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
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Recent Publications
- "Can Partisan Sponsored, Publicly Released Trail Heat Polls be Trusted." with Anthony Mozzi, (Under Review).
- “Ideological Balancing, Generic Polls and Midterm Congressional Elections.” with Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien, (Under Review).
- “The Regress of Political Sophisticates.” with Noah Kaplan, (Under Review).
- “Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: What’s the Matter with Connecticut?” with Andrew Gelman, Boris Shor, and David K. Park, (Under Review).
- “Animal Spirits: The Effect of Economic Sentiment on Economic Output and Politics.” (Under Review).
- "State-Level Opinions from National Surveys: Poststratification using Multilevel Logistic Regression," with David K. Park and Andrew Gelman, in Public Opinion in State Politics, ed. J. E. Cohen. Stanford University Press, 2005.
- "Practical Issues in Implementing and Understanding Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation," with Andrew Gelman, David K. Park, and Noah Kaplan, Political Analysis, 2005.
- "Standard Voting Power Indexes Don't Work: An Empirical Analysis," with Andrew Gelman and Jonathan N. Katz, British Journal of Political Science, 2004.
- "Bayesian Multilevel Estimation with Poststratification: State-Level Estimates from National Polls," with David K. Park and Andrew Gelman, Political Analysis, 12, 2004: 375–385.
Received the Miller Prize for the best work appearing in Political Analysis in 2004.
Research Interests
- American Government: Electoral Behavior, Ideology, Public Opinion; Supreme Court, Public Policy, Representation
- Political Methodology: Research Design; Bayesian Inference; Multilevel Modeling; Time Series; Ideal Point Estimation; Factor Analysis
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