D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor of Political Science and Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology

Contact Info:

Teaching (Fall 2018):

• POLSCI 201.01, PUBLIC OPINION Synopsis

  Social Sciences 124, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• POLSCI 390S-4.01, SPEC TOP IN POL BEHAVIOR & ID Synopsis

  Old Chem 003, M 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

Specialties:

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.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Holbein, JB; Hillygus, DS, Making Young Voters: The Impact of Preregistration on Youth Turnout, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 60 no. 2 (April, 2016), pp. 364-382 [repository], [doi] .
2. Si, Y; Reiter, JP; Hillygus, DS, Semi-parametric Selection Models for Potentially Non-ignorable Attrition in Panel Studies with Refreshment Samples, Political Analysis, vol. 23 no. 01 (2015), pp. 92-112 [doi] .
3. Hillygus, DS; Treul, SA, Assessing strategic voting in the 2008 US presidential primaries: the role of electoral context, institutional rules, and negative votes, Public Choice, vol. 161 no. 3-4 (December, 2014), pp. 517-536 [doi] .
4. Aldrich, JH; Bishop, BH; Hatch, RS; Hillygus, SD; Rohde, DW, Blame, Responsibility, and the Tea Party in the 2010 Midterm Elections, Political Behavior, vol. 36 no. 3 (September, 2014), pp. 471-491 [doi] .
5. Johnston, CD; Hillygus, DS; Bartels, BL, Ideology, the Affordable Care Act Ruling, and Supreme Court Legitimacy, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 78 no. 4 (2014), pp. 963-973 [doi] .