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David Darmofal |
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Associate Professor Political Science University of South Carolina |
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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. I have substantive research interests in political behavior, political geography, and American political development and methodological interests in spatial analysis, survival analysis, and time series analysis. My research agenda is motivated by the questions of whether and how American democracy functions effectively. I address these concerns by examining two sets of interactions between political actors that are central to these questions. The first focuses on horizontal interactions, employing a geographic lens to examine how the spatial interactions and spatial locations of actors shape their behavior. The second examines vertical interactions with a focus on the nexus of elite and mass behaviors. My research in political geography and elite-mass interactions focuses on three political behaviors: political participation, voting behavior, and opinion formation. My research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Geography, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and American Politics Research. I recently completed a book manuscript, Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences (under contract for the Analytical Methods for Social Research series at Cambridge University Press). I am currently working on projects that examine issue emulation by candidates in campaigns, the effects of spatial dependence on survey inferences, the effects of spatial dependence on legislators’ roll-call voting behavior, and the effects of political competition on voter participation.
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Contact Info: Department of Political Science University of South Carolina 350 Gambrell Hall Columbia, SC 29208 Office: (803) 777-5440 darmofal@gmail.com darmofal@mailbox.sc.edu
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