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Nicholas Eubank

Assistant Research Professor of Political Science
Political Science

Overview


I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), where I study a range of topics related to political accountability, include gerrymandering, social networks, election administration and race and incarceration.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Research Professor of Political Science · 2023 - Present Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke · 2024 - Present Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
Assistant Research Professor in the Social Science Research Institute · 2024 - Present Social Science Research Institute, University Institutes and Centers

Recent Publications


Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Journal Article American Political Science Review · August 20, 2022 The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) fundamentally changed the distribution of electoral power in the US South. We examine the consequences of this mass enfranchisement of Black people for the use of the carceral state-police, the courts, and the prison system ... Full text Open Access Cite

Partisan Dislocation: A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering

Journal Article Political Analysis · July 30, 2022 We introduce a fine-grained measure of the extent to which electoral districts combine and split local communities of co-partisans in unnatural ways. Our indicator - which we term Partisan Dislocation - is a measure of the difference between the partisan c ... Full text Cite

Friends don’t let friends free ride

Journal Article Quarterly Journal of Political Science · October 18, 2021 Theory predicts that social sanctioning can solve the collective action problem, but only when people find out whether their peers participate. We evaluate this prediction using data from the near-universe of cell phone subscribers in Venezuela. Those whos ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 2016 Ph.D.

External Links


Personal Website