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Jeff Harden

Andrew J. McKenna Family College Professor

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Office
2058 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-7280
Email
jharden2@nd.edu

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Biography

Jeff Harden is the Andrew J. McKenna Family College Professor in the Department of Political Science, Concurrent Professor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, and Faculty Affiliate of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of specialty are American politics and political methodology. His research agenda in American politics focuses on legislative institutions and political representation, public policy diffusion, and state politics. His methodology interests include network inference and the interpretation and communication of statistical analyses. He co-directs the Representation and Politics in Legislatures Lab. He is also a co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly and co-editor of Cambridge Studies in American Legislatures.

Research Interests

Legislative institutions, Political representation, Public policy diffusion, State politics, Network inference, Causal inference

Affiliated Centers and Institutes

  • Rooney Democracy Institute

Awards/Honors/Grants

  • Emerging Scholar Award, APSA State Politics and Policy Section (2022)
  • Virginia Gray Book Award, APSA State Politics and Policy Section (2017)

 

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