D. Sunshine Hillygus
Professor of Political Science
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 Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action
(Cambridge University Press, 2020), 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). She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (https://dism.duke.edu/
) and co-director of the Polarization Lab (https://www.polarizationlab.com/
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Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
- Director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology, Social Science Research Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2010
- Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2016
Contact Information
- 140 Science Drive, 203 Gross H, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
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hillygus@duke.edu
(919) 660-4341
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http://www.duke.edu/~hillygus/
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Stanford University 2003
- M.A., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1998
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2015
- Recognition
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In the News
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MAR 1, 2016 The Globe and Mail
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Awards & Honors
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Mobile technologies to screen for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic adults awarded by National Institutes of Health 2023 - 2028
- ANES WEB: American National Election Studies 2022-2026 awarded by University of Michigan 2018 - 2026
- Designing Social Media to Promote Intellectual Humility awarded by John Templeton Foundation 2022 - 2025
- Preparing for the Future of Survey Research awarded by National Science Foundation 2020 - 2021
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2021
- Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Account for Nonignorable Nonresponse awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2020
- The Link between Education, Engagement, and Well-being awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2017
- NCRN-MN:Triangle Census Research Network awarded by National Science Foundation 2011 - 2016
- Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies with Refreshment Samples awarded by National Science Foundation 2011 - 2014
- Workshop on Questionnaire Design Issues in Longitudinal & Repeated Cross-sectional Surveys: Balancing Continuity/Innov awarded by National Science Foundation 2011
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External Relationships
- Dialectica
- Elias Law
- Just Capital
- Northwestern University
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Holbein, John B., and D Sunshine Hillygus. Making Young Voters. Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108770446.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S., and T. G. Shields. The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns, 2014.
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Hillygus, D. S., and T. G. Shields. The persuadable voter: Wedge issues in presidential campaigns. Princeton University Press, 2009.
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Hillygus, D Sunshine, Norman H. Nie, Kenneth Prewitt, and Heili Pals. The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization. Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.
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Academic Articles
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Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Arthur Lupia, Ashley Amaya, Henry E. Brady, René Bautista, Joshua D. Clinton, Jill A. Dever, et al. “Protecting the integrity of survey research.” Pnas Nexus 2, no. 3 (March 2023): pgad049. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad049.Full Text
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Endres, K., D. S. Hillygus, M. Debell, and S. Iyengar. “A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing.” Political Science Research and Methods 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 144–59. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.30.Full Text
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Akande, Olanrewaju, Gabriel Madson, D Sunshine Hillygus, and Jerome P. Reiter. “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) 184, no. 2 (April 2021): 643–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12635.Full Text
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Madson, G. J., and D. S. Hillygus. “All the Best Polls Agree with Me: Bias in Evaluations of Political Polling.” Political Behavior 42, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 1055–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-019-09532-1.Full Text
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Holbein, J. B., D. S. Hillygus, M. A. Lenard, C. Gibson-Davis, and D. V. Hill. “The Development of Students' Engagement in School, Community and Democracy.” British Journal of Political Science 50, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 1439–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000712341800025X.Full Text
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Bail, Christopher A., Brian Guay, Emily Maloney, Aidan Combs, D Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Deen Freelon, and Alexander Volfovsky. “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 117, no. 1 (January 2020): 243–50. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906420116.Full Text
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Valentino, N. A., K. Zhirkov, D. S. Hillygus, and B. Guay. “The consequences of personality biases in online panels for measuring public opinion.” Public Opinion Quarterly 84, no. 2 (January 1, 2020): 446–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaa026.Full Text
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Ohayon, Maurice M., Michael Paskow, Anita Roach, Christine Filer, D Sunshine Hillygus, Michael C. Chen, Gary Langer, Max Hirshkowitz, and Max National Sleep Foundation Sleep Satisfaction Consensus Panel. “The National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Satisfaction Tool.” Sleep Health 5, no. 1 (February 2019): 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2018.10.003.Full Text
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Dounoucos, V. A., D. S. Hillygus, and C. Carlson. “The message and the medium: an experimental evaluation of the effects of Twitter commentary on campaign messages.” Journal of Information Technology and Politics 16, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 66–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1572566.Full Text
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Atkeson, Lonna, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Jeff Gill, D Sunshine Hillygus, Daniel J. Hopkins, Xun Pang, and Betsy Sinclair. “Comments on Single-Blind Reviewing from the Editorial Staff.” Political Analysis 26, no. 03 (July 2018): 255–57.
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Hillygus, D. S. “Navigating scholarly exchange in today’s media environment.” Journal of Politics 80, no. 3 (July 1, 2018): 1064–68. https://doi.org/10.1086/696615.Full Text
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Atkeson, Lonna, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Jeff Gill, D Sunshine Hillygus, Daniel J. Hopkins, Xun Pang, and Betsy Sinclair. “Comments on Single-Blind Reviewing from the Editorial Staff.” Political Analysis 26, no. 3 (July 2018): 255–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2018.34.Full Text
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Lopez, Jesse, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “Why So Serious?: Survey Trolls and Misinformation,” March 14, 2018.
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Knutson, Kristen L., Julie Phelan, Michael J. Paskow, Anita Roach, Kaitlyn Whiton, Gary Langer, D Sunshine Hillygus, et al. “The National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Health Index.” Sleep Health 3, no. 4 (August 2017): 234–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2017.05.011.Full Text
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Hillygus, D Sunshine, Seth C. McKee, and McKenzie Young. “Polls and ElectionsReversal of Fortune: The Political Behavior of White Migrants to the South.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 47, no. 2 (June 2017): 354–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12372.Full Text
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Holbein, J. B., and D. S. Hillygus. “Erratum to: Making Young Voters: The Impact of Preregistration on Youth Turnout: MAKING YOUNG VOTERS (American Journal of Political Science, (2016), 60, 2, (364-382), 10.1111/ajps.12177).” American Journal of Political Science 61, no. 2 (April 1, 2017): 505–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12293.Full Text
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DeYoreo, M., J. P. Reiter, and D. S. Hillygus. “Bayesian mixture models with focused clustering for mixed ordinal and nominal data.” Bayesian Analysis 12, no. 3 (January 1, 2017): 679–703. https://doi.org/10.1214/16-BA1020.Full Text
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Ballard, A. O., D. S. Hillygus, and T. Konitzer. “Campaigning Online: Web Display Ads in the 2012 Presidential Campaign.” Ps Political Science and Politics 49, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 414–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096516000780.Full Text
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Hillygus, D Sunshine, John B. Holbein, and Steven Snell. “The Nitty Gritty: The Unexplored Role of Grit and Perseverance in Voter Turnout,” June 21, 2016.
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Holbein, J. B., and D. S. Hillygus. “Making Young Voters: The Impact of Preregistration on Youth Turnout.” American Journal of Political Science 60, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 364–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12177.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Si, Y., J. P. Reiter, and D. S. Hillygus. “Bayesian latent pattern mixture models for handling attrition in panel studies with refreshment samples.” Annals of Applied Statistics 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 118–43. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS876.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Henderson, M., and D. S. Hillygus. “Changing the clock.” Public Opinion Quarterly 80, no. 3 (January 1, 2016): 761–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfw027.Full Text
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Hillygus, D Sunshine, and Jane Junn. “Norman H. Nie In Memoriam.” Ps Political Science & Politics 49, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 148–49.Link to Item
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Gerber, Alan S., Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2, no. 02 (December 2015): 216–29.
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Si, Yajuan, Jerome P. Reiter, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “Semi-parametric Selection Models for Potentially Non-ignorable Attrition in Panel Studies with Refreshment Samples.” Political Analysis 23, no. 01 (December 2015): 92–112.
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Schifeling, T. A., C. Cheng, J. P. Reiter, and D. S. Hillygus. “Accounting for nonignorable unit nonresponse and attrition in panel studies with refreshment samples.” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 265–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smv007.Full Text
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Gerber, A. S., K. Arceneaux, C. Boudreau, C. Dowling, and D. S. Hillygus. “Reporting Balance Tables, Response Rates and Manipulation Checks in Experimental Research: A Reply from the Committee that Prepared the Reporting Guidelines.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 2, no. 2 (January 1, 2015): 216–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2015.20.Full Text
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Si, Y., J. P. Reiter, and D. S. Hillygus. “Semi-parametric selection models for potentially non-ignorable attrition in panel studies with refreshment samples.” Political Analysis 23, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 92–112. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpu009.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S., and S. A. Treul. “Assessing strategic voting in the 2008 US presidential primaries: the role of electoral context, institutional rules, and negative votes.” Public Choice 161, no. 3–4 (December 1, 2014): 517–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0183-1.Full Text
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Aldrich, John H., Bradford H. Bishop, Rebecca S. Hatch, S. D. Hillygus, and David W. Rohde. “Blame, Responsibility, and the Tea Party in the 2010 Midterm Elections.” Political Behavior 36, no. 3 (September 2014): 471–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-013-9242-4.Full Text
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Frankel, Laura Lazarus, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “Looking Beyond Demographics: Panel Attrition in the ANES and GSS.” Political Analysis 22, no. 03 (June 2014): 336–53.
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Gerber, Alan, Kevin Arceneaux, Cheryl Boudreau, Conor Dowling, Sunshine Hillygus, Thomas Palfrey, Daniel R. Biggers, and David J. Hendry. “Reporting Guidelines for Experimental Research: A Report from the Experimental Research Section Standards Committee.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 1, no. 01 (March 2014): 81–98.
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Frankel, L. L., and D. S. Hillygus. “Looking beyond demographics: Panel attrition in the ANES and GSS.” Political Analysis 22, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 336–53. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpt020.Full Text
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Johnston, Christopher D., D Sunshine Hillygus, and Brandon L. Bartels. “Ideology, the Affordable Care Act Ruling, and Supreme Court Legitimacy.” Public Opinion Quarterly 78, no. 4 (2014): 963–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfu036.Full Text
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Deng, Y., D. S. Hillygus, J. P. Reiter, Y. Si, and S. Zheng. “Handling attrition in longitudinal studies: The case for refreshment samples.” Statistical Science 28, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 238–56. https://doi.org/10.1214/13-STS414.Full Text
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Frankel, Laura, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “Panel Attrition and the Survey Experience.” Political Analysis, 2013.
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Hillygus, D. S. “The evolution of election polling in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 75, no. 5 SPEC. ISSUE (December 1, 2011): 962–81. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfr054.Full Text
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Henderson, Michael, and D Sunshine Hillygus. “The dynamics of health care opinion, 2008-2010: partisanship, self-interest, and racial resentment.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36, no. 6 (December 2011): 945–60. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1460533.Full Text
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Henderson, M., and D. S. Hillygus. “The Dynamics of Health Care Opinion, 2008-2010.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2011.
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Elis, R., D. S. Hillygus, and N. Nie. “The dynamics of candidate evaluations and vote choice in 2008: Looking to the past or future?” Electoral Studies 29, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 582–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2010.04.005.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S., and M. Henderson. “Political issues and the Dynamics of vote choice in 2008.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 20, no. 2 (May 1, 2010): 241–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457281003697263.Full Text
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Henderson, M., D. S. Hillygus, and T. Tompson. “"Sour grapes" or rational voting? Voter decision making among thwarted primary voters in 2008.” Public Opinion Quarterly 74, no. 3 (March 1, 2010): 499–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfq008.Full Text
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Ellis, R., D. S. Hillygus, and N. Nie. “Retrospective or Prospective Voting in 2008.” Electoral Studies, 2010.
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Henderson, M., and D. S. Hillygus. “Policy Issues and the Dynamics of Vote Choice in the 2008 Presidential Election.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2010.
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Treier, S., and D. S. Hillygus. “The nature of political ideology in the contemporary electorate.” Public Opinion Quarterly 73, no. 4 (December 31, 2009): 679–703. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfp067.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S. “Understanding the 2008 Presidential Election: Introduction.” Public Opinion Quarterly 73, no. 5 (December 1, 2009): 841–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfp084.Full Text
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Burden, B., and D. S. Hillygus. “Opinion Formation, Polarization, and Presidential Reelection.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2009.
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HILLYGUS, D S. U. N. S. H. I. N. E. “The Dynamics of Voter Decision Making Among Minor-Party Supporters: The 2000 Presidential Election in the United States.” British Journal of Political Science 37, no. 2 (April 2007): 225–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123407000117.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S., and T. G. Shields. “Moral issues and voter decision making in the 2004 presidential election.” Ps Political Science and Politics 38, no. 2 (April 1, 2005): 201–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096505056301.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S. “The missing link: Exploring the relationship between higher education and political engagement.” Political Behavior 27, no. 1 (March 1, 2005): 25–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-005-3075-8.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S., and S. Jackman. “Voter Decision Making in Election 2000: Campaign Effects, Partisan Activation, and the Clinton Legacy.” American Journal of Political Science 47, no. 4 (October 1, 2003): 583–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-5907.00041.Full Text
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Book Sections
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Hillygus, D. S. “The practice of survey research: Changes and challenges.” In New Directions in Public Opinion, 21–40, 2019.
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Hillygus, D. S., and S. Snell. “Longitudinal Surveys: Issues and Opportunities.” In Oxford Handbook on Polling and Polling Methods, edited by M. Alvarez and L. Atkinson. Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015.Link to Item
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Hillygus, D. S., N. Jackson, and M. Young. “Professional respondents in nonprobability online panels.” In Online Panel Research: A Data Quality Perspective, 219–37, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118763520.ch10.Full Text
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Frankel, Laura, and D. S. Hillygus. “Niche Communication in Political Campaigns.” In Oxford Handbook on Political Communication, edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Hillygus, D. S., N. Jackson, and M. Young. ““Professional Respondents in Online Survey Panels,” Online Panel Research - A Data Quality Perspective.” In Online Panel Research - A Data Quality Perspective, edited by R Baker M Callegaro, P. Lavrakas, J. Krosnick, J. Bethlehem, and A. Gritz. Wiley, 2014.
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Hillygus, D. S., and B. Burden. “Mass Polarization in the Bush Presidency.” In The Presidency of George W. Bush: Perspectives on the Forty-Third President of the United States, edited by D. Kelly and T. Shields. Texas A&M Press, 2013.
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Bishop, B., and D. S. Hillygus. “Campaigning, Debating, Advertising.” In Oxford Handbook on Media and Public Opinion, edited by L. Jacobs and R. Shapiro. Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011.
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Hillygus, D. S. “The Need for Survey Reporting Standards in Political Science.” In The Future of Political Science: 100 Perspectives, 2009.
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Hillygus, D. S. “Campaign Effects on Vote Choice.” In Oxford Handbook on Political Behavior, 2009.
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Nie, N. H., D. S. Hillygus, and L. Erbring. “Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study.” In The Internet in Everyday Life, 213–43, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470774298.ch7.Full Text
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Hillygus, D. S. “Moral Values: Media, voters, and candidate strategy.” In A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election, 65–79, 2007.
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Conference Papers
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Spell, G. P., D. S. Hillygus, B. Guay, and L. Carin. “An embedding model for estimating legislative preferences from the frequency and sentiment of tweets.” In Emnlp 2020 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 627–41, 2020.
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Xing, Z., S. Hillygus, and L. Carin. “Evaluating U.S. Electoral representation with a joint statistical model of congressional roll-calls, legislative text, and voter registration data.” In Proceedings of the Acm Sigkdd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Part F129685:1205–14, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097983.3098151.Full Text
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Preprints
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Tang, Jiurui, D Sunshine Hillygus, and Jerome P. Reiter. “Using auxiliary marginal distributions in imputations for nonresponse while accounting for survey weights, with application to estimating voter turnout,” September 12, 2022.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Developing the Political Citizen: Uncovering the Origins of Political Attitudes and Opinions. 2019 - 2020 2019 - 2020
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout. 2018 - 2019 2018 - 2019
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout. August 2017 - May 2018 2017 - 2018
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