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Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Expected 2010)
M.A. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)
A.B. Political Science (with Honors), Washington University in St. Louis (2002)
B.S. Applied Science (Computer Science), Washington University in St. Louis (2002)
CSDI Research Focus
Legislative Politics and Policymaking
Specializations
Legislative Politics, Political Economy, European Union Politics, and Methodology
Dan Pemstein
CSDI Fellow
Dan Pemstein's research focuses on comparative legislative politics, political economy, and methodology. Dan's dissertation examines how inter-institutional information asymmetries affect policy outcomes and legislative behavior in the European Union. His other current projects investigate how career ambition and party organization interact to determine legislative behavior and explore the selection processes underlying recorded roll call votes in Parliaments. Additionally, Dan is a co-author of multiple statistical software packages and a co-developer of the Unified Democracy Scores, a project that synthesizes the efforts of other scholars to produce a composite democracy scale, accompanied by estimates of measurement uncertainty.
Representative publications
- 2009. "Political Ambition and Legislative Behavior in the European Parliament." Journal of Politics. With Stephen Meserve and William Bernhard.
- 2009. "Political Ambition and Legislative Behavior in the European Parliament." Journal of Politics. With Stephen Meserve and William Bernhard.
- 2009. "Predicting Roll Calls with Legislative Text." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
- 2009. "Who Goes to Europe: Strategic Candidate Nomination in the European Parliament." Presented at The Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. With Stephen Meserve and William Bernhard.
- 2008. "Political Ambition and Legislative Effort in the European Parliament." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston. With William Bernhard.
- 2008. "Election Timing and Financial Market Behavior." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. With William Bernhard and David Leblang.
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