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Education
2004 to 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2000 to 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
1995 to 2000 Ph.D., Political Science, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
1989 to 1993 A.B., Government (cum laude), High Honors in Major, Jeffrey L. Pressman Prize, Rufus Choate Scholar, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire
Employment
2020 to Present Professor of Government & Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College
2013 to 2020 Interim Chair (Fall 2019), Professor (2015-20), Director of M.A. in Public Policy (2017-20), Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Recruitment (2013-15), Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University
2006 to 2013 Assistant to Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of Political Science, Florida State University
2001 to 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University
1993 to 1995 Dunn Fellow, Issues Director, & Assistant to the Governor (for Economic Policy), Springfield & Chicago, Illinois
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
Public Policy, Political Knowledge, and the Information Environment
[25] Barabas, Jason, Benjamin Carter, and Kevin Shan. 2020. “Analogical Framing: How Policy Comparisons Alter Political Support for Health Care Reform.” American Politics Research 48 (5): 596-611.
[24] Gaskins, Benjamin, Jason Barabas, and Jennifer Jerit. 2020. “Qualitative Quotes: The Prevalence and Effects of Survey Respondent Exemplars in Political News Coverage.” International Journal of Press/Politics 25 (1): 96-114.
[23] Jerit, Jennifer, and Jason Barabas. 2017. “Revisiting the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge.” Political Behavior 38 (December): 817-38.
[22] Barabas, Jason. 2016. “Democracy’s Denominator: Reassessing Responsiveness with Public Opinion on the National Policy Agenda.” Public Opinion Quarterly 80 (2): 437-59.
[21] Barabas, Jason, Jennifer Jerit, William Pollock, and Carlisle Rainey. 2014. “The Question(s) of Political Knowledge.” American Political Science Review 108 (November): 840-55.
[20] Jerit, Jennifer, and Jason Barabas. 2012. “Partisan Perceptual Bias and the Information Environment.” Journal of Politics 74 (July): 672-84.
[19] Barabas, Jason, and Jennifer Jerit. 2009. “Estimating the Causal Effects of Media Coverage on Policy-Specific Knowledge.” American Journal of Political Science 53 (January): 73-89.
[18] Barabas, Jason. 2009. “Not the Next IRA: How Health Savings Accounts Shape Public Opinion.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 34 (April): 181-217.
[17] Barabas, Jason. 2008. “Presidential Policy Initiatives: How the Public Learns about State of the Union Proposals from the Mass Media.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 38 (June): 195-222.
[16] Jerit, Jennifer, Jason Barabas, and Toby Bolsen. 2006. “Citizens, Knowledge, and the Information Environment.” American Journal of Political Science 50 (April): 266-82.
[15] Barabas, Jason. 2006. “Rational Exuberance: The Stock Market and Public Support for Social Security Privatization.” Journal of Politics 68 (February): 50-61.
[14] Jerit, Jennifer, and Jason Barabas. 2006. “Bankrupt Rhetoric: How Misleading Information Affects Knowledge about Social Security.” Public Opinion Quarterly 70 (Fall): 278-303.
[13] Barabas, Jason. 2004. “How Deliberation Affects Policy Opinions.” American Political Science Review 98 (November): 687-701.
[12] Barabas, Jason, and Jennifer Jerit. 2004. “Redistricting Principles and Racial Representation.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 4 (Winter): 415-35.
[11] Barabas, Jason. 2002 “Another Look at the Measurement of Political Knowledge.” Political Analysis 10 (Spring): 209.
[10] Cook, Fay Lomax, Jason Barabas, and Benjamin I. Page. 2002. “Invoking Public Opinion: Policy Elites and Social Security.” Public Opinion Quarterly 66 (Summer): 235- 64.
[9] Page, Benjamin I., and Jason Barabas. 2000. “Foreign Policy Gaps between Citizens and Leaders.” International Studies Quarterly 44: 339-64.
Experimental Methods, Research Design, and Statistical Analysis
[8] Jerit, Jennifer, and Jason Barabas. 2023. “Are Nonprobability Surveys Fit for Purpose? Public Opinion Quarterly. Forthcoming.
[7] Kane, John V., Yamil R. Velez, and Jason Barabas. 2023. “Analyze the Attentive & Bypass Bias: Mock Vignette Checks in Survey Experiments.” Political Science Research and Methods. 11(2): 293-310. doi:10.1017/psrm.2023.
[6] Kane, John V., and Jason Barabas. 2019. “No Harm in Checking: Using Factual Manipulation Checks to Assess Attentiveness in Experiments.” American Journal of Political Science 63 (1/January): 234-49.
[5] Banducci, Susan, Martijn Schoonvelde, Daniel Stevens, Jason Barabas, Jennifer Jerit, and William Pollock. 2017. “Model Selection in Observational Media Effects Research: A Systematic Review and Validation of Effects.” Political Science 69: 227-46.
[4] Jerit, Jennifer, Jason Barabas, William Pollock, Susan Banducci, Daniel Stevens, and Martijn Schoonvelde. 2016. “Manipulated vs. Measured: Using an Experimental Benchmark to Investigate the Performance of Self-Reported Media Exposure.” Communication Methods and Measures 10 (2-3): 99-114.
[3] Pollock, William, Jason Barabas, Jennifer Jerit, Martijn Schoonvelde, Susan Banducci, and Daniel Stevens. 2015. “Studying Media Events in the European Social Surveys Across Research Designs, Countries, Time, Issues, and Outcomes.” European Political Science 14: 394-421.
[2] Jerit, Jennifer, Jason Barabas, and Scott Clifford. 2013. “Comparing Contemporaneous Laboratory and Field Experiments on Media Effects.” Public Opinion Quarterly 77 (Spring): 256-82.
· Winner, Best Paper Award, Experimental Section of the American Political Science Association, 2011.
· Winner, Roberta Sigel Award for Best Paper at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 2012.
[1] Barabas, Jason, and Jennifer Jerit. 2010. “Are Survey Experiments Externally Valid?” American Political Science Review 104 (May): 226-42.
· Winner, Roberta Sigel Award for Best Paper at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, 2009.
Edited Book Chapters
[9] “Media, Electoral Accountability, and Issue Voting,” with Jennifer Jerit in Oxford Research Encyclopedia (2016), DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.135.
[8] “Social Security Knowledge,” in Consumer Knowledge and Financial Decisions, ed. Douglas Lambdin. New York: Springer (2012): 217-38.
[7] “Public Opinion, the Media, and Economic Well-Being,” in Oxford Handbook of Public Opinion and the Media, eds. Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence C. Jacobs. New York: Oxford University Press (2011): 589-604.
[6] “Exposure Measures and Content Analysis in Media Effects Studies,” with Jennifer Jerit in Oxford Handbook of Public Opinion, eds. Robert Y. Shapiro and Lawrence C. Jacobs. New York: Oxford University Press (2011): 139-55.
[5] “Political Knowledge,” with Jennifer Jerit in Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, eds. S. Best and B. Radcliff. Westport, CT: Greenwood (2005): 538-43.
[4] “Virtual Deliberation: Knowledge from Online Interaction versus Ordinary Discussion,” in Democracy Online, ed. Peter Shane. New York: Routledge (2004): 239-52.
[3] “Social Security,” in Public Opinion and Polling around the World, ed. John G. Geer. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (2004): 344-52.
[2] “Health Care,” with Jennifer Jerit in Public Opinion and Polling around the World, ed. John G. Geer. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (2004): 260-67.
[1] “Policy Elites Invoke Public Opinion: Polls, Policy Debates and the Future of Social Security,” in Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy, with Fay Lomax Cook and Benjamin I. Page, eds. Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook, and Benjamin I. Page. New York: Oxford University Press (2002): 141-70.
Working Papers
“Does Medicare Improve More than Health? Policy Feedback Effects & Public Learning.”
“Retire, Resign, or Run for Re-election: Representation and Public Attitudes toward Congressional Incumbents,” with Maia Round (Dartmouth Class of 2022).
“Rockefeller Republicans Redux: Political Moderates on the Right in New York State.”
“Using Administrative Voter Registration Data to Correct for Biased Participation in Survey Experiments,” with Jennifer Jerit.
Grants and Recognitions
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Grant, “Advancing Understanding in News Information: Political Knowledge and Media Systems,” with Susan Banducci, Dan Stevens, and Jennifer Jerit, 2012 (£199,412 or approximately $319,275).
Florida Dept. of Transportation Grant, “Customer Survey Research Analysis: Improving Representation in FDOT Customer Surveys,” with Mary Stutzman, 2012 ($30,800).
University Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida State University, 2012.
Pepper Institute for Aging and Public Policy, Faculty Development Grant, 2011 ($5,000).
National Science Foundation Grant, “Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement for Studying Media Effects with a New Approach and Improved Data," with Jennifer Jerit, 2010-2011 ($55,674).
National Science Foundation Grant, “Studying Media Effects with a New Approach and Improved Data,” with Jennifer Jerit, 2008-2010 ($239,700).
Florida State University, Council on Research and Creativity, Cornerstone Grant, “Laboratory, Survey, and Field Experiments Testing Voter Turnout Mobilization Messages” with J. Jerit, R. Jackson, C. Barrilleaux, R. Crew, C. Maestas, J. Grosser, and C. Schmertmann, 2008-2010 ($100,000).
Associate Faculty Member, The Pepper Center on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University, 2008.
Elected to be a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, 2007.
Florida State University, Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS), 2007, “The Effects of the Fairness Doctrine on Media Broadcast Diversity,” ($13,000 with student support).
Florida State University, First Year Assistant Professor Award, “The Policy Feedback Effects of Health Savings Accounts,” 2006, ($16,000).
Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), 2006, National Science Foundation funded project to field survey questions on a Knowledge Networks multi- investigator data collection platform (approximate value of data collection: $15,000) for “Exploring the External Validity of Treatments in Survey-Based Experiments.”
Florida State University, Planning Grant, “A Pilot Study to Test Theories of Information Updating and the External Validity of Survey-Based Experiments using the 2007 Medicare Trustees Report,” 2006-2007 ($12,000).
Co-Winner, Heinz Dissertation Award, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2001.
Grant Proposals
Principal Investigator, “Development and Delivery of Evaluation Learning Programme,” for the United Nations and UN System Staff College to train UNICEF staff worldwide in social science program evaluation methods, $3,509,781. Second Round Qualifier, Covid- 19 Pandemic Suspension of the Competition.
Book Reviews
Review of American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction by Adam Seth Levine with John V. Kane for Journal of Politics (2016).
American Public Opinion, Advocacy, and Policy in Congress: What the Public Wants and What It Gets by Paul Burstein for Perspectives on Politics (2015).
Propensity Score Matching: Statistical Methods and Applications by Shenyang Guo and Mark W. Fraser for Sage Publications (2011).
Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy by Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien in Public Opinion Quarterly. (2011) Vol. 75 (Spring): 192-200.
How Do You Know? The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge by Russell Hardin in Political Psychology (2010) Vol. 31 (Sept.): 789-92.
Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy by Diana C. Mutz in Journal of Politics (2007) Vol. 69 (Nov.): 1210-11.
Conferences and Invited Public Lectures (recent)
“Retire, Resign, or Run for Re-Election: Representation and Public Attitudes toward Congressional Incumbents,” with Maia Round ’22. Paper (to be) presented at the Elections, Public Opinion, and Behavior Conference, Tallahassee, FL, March 2023, and the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Assoc., Bretton Woods, NH, April 2022.
“Survey Data Transparency in an Era of Nonprobability Samples,” with Jennifer Jerit. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2022.
“Does Medicare Improve More than Health? Policy Feedback Effects & Public Learning.” Paper (to be) presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2022.
“Rockefeller Republicans Redux: Political Moderates on the Right in New York State,” with Cristina Javens ’23. Paper (to be) presented at the State Politics and Policy Conference, Florida State University, April 2022.
“Rockefeller Republicans in the 21st Century.” Political Economy Project (PEP) Lecture, Dartmouth College, Winter 2022.
“Analyze the Attentive & Bypass Bias: Mock Vignette Checks in Survey Experiments,” with John V. Kane and Yamil Velez. Paper presented (virtually) at the International Methods Colloquium and the Society for Political Methodology, Summer & Fall 2020.
“The Past, Present, and Future of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.” Rocky Watch Lecture, Dartmouth College, Fall 2020.
“Using Factual Manipulation Checks to Assess Attentiveness in Experiments” with John V. Kane. Paper presented at the 2020 Experimental Social Sciences Institute (WESSI), New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Univ. of Houston.
“Causal Inference in Social Science Research: Progress and Challenges,” Keynote address delivered at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China at the School of Public Affairs & Public Policy conference on “New Trends in Public Policy and Public Management Research: Behavior, Experiment, Prediction and Data Driven,” Fall/October 2019.
“Are Statistical Power Calculations Useful in Planning Experiments? Evidence from Replications,” Address delivered at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China at the School of Public Affairs & Public Policy, Fall/October 2019.
“Analogies in Public Policy Debates: Comparing Health Care Insurance to Automobile Insurance” with Kevin Shan and Benjamin Carter. Presented at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, Winter 2019.
“Analogical Reasoning in Politics: Does Health Care Insurance ≈ Car Insurance?,” with Kevin Shan and Benjamin Carter. Paper presented at the 2019 International Society for Political Psychology, the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Student Committees
Dissertation Committee, Chair, John Kane (Ph.D., Stony Brook University; Clinical Prof. NYU)
Dissertation Committee, Chair, Ben Gaskins (Ph.D., Florida State; Assoc. Prof., Lewis and Clark)
Dissertation Committee, Benjamin Carter (Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Postdoc at Dartmouth)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Andy Beger (Ph.D., FSU; Duke Univ. Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Scott Bokemper (Ph.D., Stony Brook University; Yale Postdoc)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Scott Clifford (Ph.D., FSU; Associate Professor, U. Houston)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Alessandro Del Ponte (Ph.D., Stony Brook; Yale Postdoc.)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Matthew Duell (ABD, Stony Brook University)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Tracy Goodwin (Ph.D., Stony Brook: Girl Scout Instit.)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Karen Halprin Cyphers (Ph.D., FSU; Ron Sachs Comm.)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Patrick Lown (Ph.D., Stony Brook; University of Essex)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Adam Ozer (Ph.D., University of Houston; London School of Econ.)
Dissertation Committee, Member, JoEllen Pederson (Ph.D., FSU; Associate Prof., Longwood)
Dissertation Committee, Member, William Pollock (Ph.D., Stony Brook; North Carolina St.Univ.)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Carlisle Rainey (Ph.D., FSU; Associate Prof., Florida State)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Yamil Velez (Ph.D., Stony Brook; AP Columbia University)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Meredith Whiteman (Ph.D., FSU; Charter Schools USA)
Dissertation Committee, Member, Joe Young (Ph.D., FSU; Associate Prof., American University)
Master’s Thesis, Member, Toby Bolsen, (M.A., SIU; Associate Professor, Georgia State Univ.)
Master’s Thesis, Member, Joseph Wachtel, (M.A., FSU; Senior Data Engineer at Cirium)
Senior Honor’s Thesis, Chair, Rachael Clark (B.A., Stony Brook University)
Senior Honor’s Thesis, Chair, Maia Round, (B.A. Student, Dartmouth College)
Senior Honor’s Thesis, Chair, Samantha Sanfilippo (B.A., Florida State University)
Senior Honor’s Thesis, Chair, Wondeok Seo (B.A., Stony Brook University)
Senior Honor’s Thesis, Chair, Kevin Shan (B.A., Stony Brook; Univ. of Florida)
Classes Taught
Ph.D. Courses
Public Opinion
Political Deliberation
Information, the Media, and Democracy
Linear Statistical Models
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Multilevel Models
Causal Inference
Experimental Methods a,b
a Co-Taught Class on Experimental Methods in Singapore (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023; cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to COVID-19) at the IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research at the National University of Singapore, https://fass.nus.edu.sg/methods- school/courses/experimental-methods/
b Faculty Mentor in 2020 at the Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute (WESSI) at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, https://sites.google.com/site/wessi2020nyuad/mentors
Undergraduate & M.A. Courses
Public Policy and Politics
Polling, Public Opinion, and Public Policy
Advanced Research Methods
Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
Politics of Investing and Privatization
Politics and the Mass Media
Public Policy and Politics
Health Care Statistics and Policy Analysis
Research Design
Professional Association Memberships
American Political Science Association, Member (Lifetime)
International Society for Political Psychology (Lifetime)
Midwest Political Science Association, Member (Lifetime)
National Academy of Social Insurance, Member
Professional Service
Editorial Board
Journal of Experimental Political Science, January 2023-Present
American Journal of Political Science, March 2014 to June 2018
Journal Reviewer
American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Politics; Political Analysis; American Politics Research; Public Opinion Quarterly; Political Communication; Political Psychology; Political Behavior; British Journal of Political Science; State Politics and Policy Quarterly; International Journal of Press/Politics; Health Affairs; American Politics Quarterly; Social Science Quarterly; Political Research Quarterly; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Social Science Quarterly; Policy Studies Journal; Political Science Quarterly; Journal of Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion; International Journal of Public Opinion Research; Quarterly Journal of Political Science; Political Studies; Journal of Health Politics, Policy, & Law; Journal of Experimental Political Science; Journal of Communication; Gender & Politics; PS: Political Science & Politics; Economics of Governance; Political Studies Quarterly; and others.
Grant/Fellowship/Proposal/Book Reviewer
National Science Foundation, National Academy of Social Insurance, Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), Sage Publications, University of Chicago Press, and others.
Conference Discussant/Chair
American Political Science Association
Canadian Political Science Association
International Society for Political Psychology
Midwest Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Book/Dissertation Award Committee
National Academy of Social Insurance, Heinz Dissertation Award, 2014-2019 Southern
Political Science Association, Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award, 2011, Chair
American Political Science Association, Experimental Methods, Dissertation Award, 2015
American Political Science Association, Political Psychology Dissertation Award, 2010, Chair
American Political Science Association, Political Psychology Dissertation Award, 2009
Departmental/University Service
Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2020-
Hiring Search Committee, Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, 2019-2020 Director of M.A. in Public Policy (MAPP) Program, Stony Brook University, 2017-2019
Director of Graduate Recruitment, Stony Brook University, 2013-2017
Graduate Studies Committee, Stony Brook University, 2013-2017
Political Economy Search, Chair, Stony Brook University, 2016-2017
Big Data Cluster Hiring Committee, Member, Stony Brook University, 2013-2014
Methodology Course Planning Committee, Stony Brook University, 2013-2018
Director of Graduate Admissions, Florida State University, 2009-2013
Executive Committee, Florida State University, 2009-2011; 2007-2008
Graduate Studies Committee, Florida State University, 2009-2011
Policy Field Representative, Florida State University, 2009-2013
Methods Field Representative, Florida State University, 2012-2013