Research: American Politics, Political Institutions (Congress), Congressional Elections, Methodology, Geographic Information Systems
Teaching: American Government, Congress, Elections
Education:
| 2005 |
Ph.D. |
Political Science |
Michigan State University |
| 2002 |
M.A. |
Political Science |
Michigan State University |
| 2001 |
M.A. |
Political Science |
The University of Georgia |
| 1998 |
B.A. |
Political Science |
University of Rochester |
Statement of Interests :
Dr. Crespin 's general research interests include American politics and research methodology. His work focuses on the U.S. Congress and elections, with a particular concentration on the ways that institutions influence elite behavior and election outcomes. Dr. Crespin has written papers on such topics as redistricting, representation, polarization, appropriations earmarks, political rhetoric, and the voting behavior of elected officials. Before arriving at the University of Georgia, Dr. Crespin served as an APSA Congressional Fellow in the office of Congressman Daniel Lipinski.
Selected Publications/Presentations :
Crespin, Michael H. "Serving Two Masters: Redistricting and Voting in
the U.S. House of Representatives," Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
Quinn, Kevin M., Burt L. Monroe, Michael Colaresi, Michael H. Crespin,
Dragomir R. Radev. “How To Analyze Political Attention With Minimal
Assumptions And Costs,”, Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science
Crespin, Michael H. and Janna Dietz. "Gender and Individual Contributions to Congressional Candidates," Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
Crespin, Michael H. and Charles Finocchiaro. 2008. “Distributive and
Partisan Politics in the U.S. Senate: An Exploration of Earmarks, 1996 – 2005,” In Why Not Parties? Party Effects in the United States Senate, Nathan Monroe, Jason Roberts and David Rohde eds. University of Chicago Press.
Hassan, Ahmed, Anthony Fader, Michael Crespin, Burt Monroe, Kevin Quinn, Michael Colaresi and Dragomir Radev. 2008. "Tracking the Dynamic Evolution of Participants Salience in a Discussion," Proceedings of COLING (International Conference on Computational Linguistics) pages 313-320.
Fader, Anthony, Dragomir Radev, Michael H. Crespin, Burt L. Monroe, Kevin M. Quinn and Michael Colaresi. 2007. “MavenRank: Identifying Influential Members of the U.S. Senate using Lexical Centrality," Proceedings of the EMNLP (Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing), pages 658-666.
Carson, Jamie, Michael Crespin, Charles Finocchiaro and David Rohde. 2007. “Redistricting, Constituency Influence, and Party Polarization in Congress,” American Politics Research, 35(6): 878-904.
Crespin, Michael H. , Suzanne Gold and David W. Rohde . 2006 "Ideology, Electoral Incentives and Congressional Politics: The Republican House Class of 1994," American Politics Research 34: 135 - 158.
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