Research In Progress
Which Voters are Persuadable?
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS
In a recent New York Times Book Review piece, the writer Jonathan Rauch assessed one of the broad splits in the conservative movement this way: "Libertarians and traditionalists disagree on the relative importance of liberty and virtue; many neocons care not a fig about abortion, while religious conservatives often seem to care about little else."
News & Publications
IQSS Faculty bring home awards
by Sebastian Stockman, IQSS
July 9, 2008
Two members of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science faculty -- IQSS Director Gary King and Faculty Associate Kevin Quinn -- received awards for papers from the Society for Political Methodology last month. Quinn, an Associate Professor of Government, received the Gosnell Prize -- for an unprecedented third time -- for his "What Can be Learned from a Simple Table?
Community
Post-Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
April 30, 2008
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is accepting applications for the Post-Graduate Fellowship program.
The vision of IHME is to make available high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems for all countries. We seek to
achieve this directly, by catalyzing the work of others and by training researchers and policy makers. Our goal is to improve the health of the world’s populations by providing
the best information.
Campaign Finance Institute: An opening for an ABD or postdoctoral researcher
March 13, 2008
The Campaign Finance Institute has an immediate opening for an ABD or postdoctoral researcher. The position can either be full or part-time and will last for at least one year, possibly longer dependent upon continued funding of the position.