American Politics Political Institutions Behavior & Identities Methods Political Communication
Research Interests:
Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics. She is co-author of The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). From 2003-2009, she taught at Harvard University, where she was the
Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and founding director of the Program on Survey Research.
Akande, O; Madson, G; Hillygus, DS; Reiter, JP, Leveraging Auxiliary Information on Marginal Distributions in Nonignorable Models for Item and Unit Nonresponse.,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series a (Statistics in Society), vol. 184 no. 2
(April, 2021),
pp. 643-662 [doi] [abs].
Madson, GJ; Hillygus, DS, All the Best Polls Agree with Me: Bias in Evaluations of Political Polling,
Political Behavior, vol. 42 no. 4
(December, 2020),
pp. 1055-1072 [doi] [abs].
Holbein, JB; Hillygus, DS; Lenard, MA; Gibson-Davis, C; Hill, DV, The Development of Students' Engagement in School, Community and Democracy,
British Journal of Political Science, vol. 50 no. 4
(October, 2020),
pp. 1439-1457 [doi] [abs].
Bail, CA; Guay, B; Maloney, E; Combs, A; Hillygus, DS; Merhout, F; Freelon, D; Volfovsky, A, Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117 no. 1
(January, 2020),
pp. 243-250 [doi] [abs].
Hillygus, DS, The practice of survey research: Changes and challenges,
in New Directions in Public Opinion
(November, 2019),
pp. 21-40 .
