Project Co-Managers

Corwin Smidt & Dino Christenson

Corwin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. He studies American politics, including campaigns and elections, the media, political behavior, Parties, Congress, American political development, religion and politics. He is also interested in quantitative methods and computer programming, specifically: dynamic models, real-time data acquisition and analysis, natural language processing and bayesian methods.

Dino is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University. Formerly, he was a fellow in the Program for Statistics and Methodology (PRISM). He studies American politics, with a focus on voting behavior and survey research methodology. His subsequent interests include bureaucracies and interest groups. Methodologically he is interested in Bayesian methods, random effects, dynamic models and matching.

Support

The Visible Primary Project is made possible by technical support from the PRL . We are also indebted to PRISM for their continual focus on statistical methods.