Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Chair: Raymond D. Duvall

Shawn Treier

Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Quantitative methods
  • American political institutions (especially Congressional politics)
  • Electoral politics

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Political Science, Stanford University, 2004.
  • M.A.: Economics, Stanford University, 2003.
  • B.A.: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1996.

Publications

  • Democracy As a Latent Variable: Treier, Shawn A, Simon Jackman, American Journal of Political Science, 52(1): 201-217, 2009.
  • The Nature of Political Ideology in the Contemporary Electorate: Treier, Shawn A, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Public Opinion Quarterly, Forthcoming.
  • Where Does the President Stand? Measuring Presidential Ideology: Treier, Shawn A, Political Analysis, Forthcoming.

Courses Taught

  • POL 3085 Quantitative Analysis in Political Science
  • POL 8160 Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Discrete Choice
  • POL 8160 Bayesian Statistics
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