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  • Dartmouth "Quantitative History" Workshop (June 1 and 2, 2015)

    June 12, 2015

    Workshop Guest Speakers from Harvard University:Matthew Blackwell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He studies political methodology, with a focus on dynamic causal inference, missing data, panel data, and social network analysis. His substantive interests include American politics, negative advertising, and historical political economy. (source: http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/matthew-blackwell)

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  • "Chile's Electoral Reform"

    May 28, 2015

    Professor John Carey reviews Chile's overhaul of its system for electing legislators in Latin America Goes Global.  The link for his related paper is http://sites.dartmouth.edu/jcarey/files/2013/02/Malapportionment-and-ideological-bias-in-Chilean-electoral-districts.pdf.

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  • "How Will Congressmen Vote? Just Look at Their Social Circles, a Study Finds" (Science Daily)

    May 28, 2015

    American Congress members' social circles are more important in how they vote than their liberal or conservative beliefs or constituents' opinions, according to a new model of voting behavior created by Dartmouth College researchers Scott Pauls and Daniel Rockmore.  Read the article in Science Daily from May 26, 2015.  The link for the associated paper is https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053168015570415.

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  • New York Times Cites the Work of Professor Daniel Rockmore

    May 22, 2015

    A new quantitative analysis of Supreme Court opinions using linguistic software will be published next year in the Washington University Law Review.  This is co-authored by Daniel Rockmore, along with Keith Carlson, computer scientists at Dartmouth College, and Michael A. Livermore, a law professor at the University of Virginia.

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