Michael Peress
Professor
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
N-743, Social and Behavioral Sciences Building
Department of Political Science
4392 SUNY
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4392
Biography
Michael Peress is a Professor at the Political Science Department. received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He has previously taught at the University of Rochester.
Research
Michael Peress’ research interests include voting behavior, legislative institutions, electoral systems, methodology, and formal theory. He is currently working on a major project."Accuracy and Bias in Media Coverage of the Economy and Analysis of 16 Developed Democracies," this looks at media coverage of the economy and coverage of growth unemployment and inflation across 16 countries. Along with that he is currently researching how TV ads affect candidates in presidential primary elections. He also studies representation, campaign finance, political advertising, clientelism, economic voting, and media coverage of the economy.
Recent Publications - Articles
Measuring the Research Productivity of Political Science Departments Using Google Scholar (PS: Political Science and Politics, 2019)
Dynamic estimation of ideal points for the US Congress (with Brandon Marshall) (Public Choice, 2018)
Requests Fulfilling: When citizens demand clientelist benefits (with Simeon Nichter) (Comparative Political Studies, 2017)
Targeting Political Advertising on Television (with Mitchell Lovett) (Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2015)
RECENT Publications - Forthcoming
Do Voters Know Enough to Punish Out-of-Step Congressional Candidates? (with Brandon Marshall) (Legislative Studies Quarterly, forthcoming) (data and replication code)
Large Scale Ideal Point Estimation (Political Analysis, forthcoming) (data and replication code)
Accuracy and Bias in Media Coverage of the Economy: An Analysis of Sixteen Developed Democracies (with Mark Kayser) (Quarterly Journal of Political Science, forthcoming)
How Many Seats in Congress is Control of Restricting Worth? (with Yangzi Zhao) (Legislative Studies Quarterly, forthcoming) (online appendix) (data and replication code)
Benchmarking Across Border: An Update and Response (with Mark Kayser) (British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming) (data and replication code)
Teaching
| Undergraduate: |
| POL 201: Introduction to Statistical Methods in Political Science |
| POL 323: US Congress |
| POL 351: Social Survey in Contemporary Society |
| Graduate: |
| POL 603: Applied Data Analysis II |
| POL 604: Applied Data Analysis III |
| POL 605: Foundations - American Politics |
| POL 615: Legislative Process |
| POL 676: Advanced Topics - Methods I |
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