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 Associate Professor of Government
Silsby 223
Michael.Herron@dartmouth.edu
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B.S. Mathematics and Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. Political Science, University of Dayton
M.S. Statistics, Stanford University
Ph.D. Business, Stanford University
Recent publications
- "Term Limits and Pork" with Kenneth W. Shotts, Legislative
Studies Quarterly, forthcoming, August 2006.
- "Ohio 2004 Election: Turnout, Residual Votes and Votes in Precincts
and Wards" with Walter R. Mebane, Jr., in "Democracy at Risk: The
2004 Election in Ohio," report published by the Democratic National
Committee, 2005.
- "Black Candidates and Black Voters: Assessing the Impact of Candidate
Race on Uncounted Vote Rates," with Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Journal of
Politics, 67(1): 154-177, February 2005.
- "Logical Inconsistency in EI-based Second Stage Regressions,"
with Kenneth W. Shotts, American Journal of Political Science, 48(1):
172-183, 2004.
- "Government Redistribution in the Shadow of Legislative
Elections: A Study of the Illinois Member Initiatives Grant Program," with
Brett A. Theodos, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 24(2): 287-312,
2004.
- "Overvoting and Representation: An examination of overvoted
presidential ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties," with Jasjeet S.
Sekhon, Electoral Studies 22: 21-47, 2003.
- "Using Ecological Inference Point Estimates as Dependent
Variables in Second Stage Linear Regressions," with Kenneth W. Shotts,
Political Analysis, 11(1): 44-64, 2003.
- "The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach
County Florida," with Jonathan N. Wand, Kenneth W. Shotts, Jasjeet S.
Sekhon, Walter R. Mebane, Jr., and Henry E. Brady, American Political
Science Review 95(4): 793-810, 2001.
Research interests
- Ballot abnormalities and residual votes
- Government redistribution
- Ecological inference
- Statistical Methods
Teaches
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