Political Behavior Blog

The purpose of the blog is to make the seminar conversations and hallway chatter about political behavior at Harvard public and continuous. The blog will extend these face-to-face discussions on-line and include participants from outside the university.

What should you expect to see over the coming months? Look for summaries of the papers presented at PPBW (and audience responses), research questions currently occupying the attention of Harvard researchers, postings of papers, commentary on newly-released datasets, conference announcements, reactions to political behavior research that makes news, and thoughts on controversies in the field.

The blog team includes all of the people listed as Members on the left side of this page. Barry Burden is an associate professor in the Department of Government at Harvard. Traci Burch, Federico Ferrara, Phil Jones, Andrew Reeves, and Ian Yohai are graduate students there. Sarah Sled is a graduate student in political science at MIT. Between the seven of us we hope to post fairly regularly. We invite others to participate by submitting comments in response to our postings.