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.
Tang, J; Hillygus, DS; Reiter, JP, Using Auxiliary Marginal Distributions in Imputations for Nonresponse while Accounting for Survey Weights, with Application to Estimating Voter Turnout,
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, vol. 12 no. 1
(February, 2024),
pp. 155-182, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi] [abs].
Endres, K; Hillygus, DS; Debell, M; Iyengar, S, A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing,
Political Science Research and Methods, vol. 11 no. 1
(January, 2023),
pp. 144-159, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] [abs].
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].