Michael P. McDonald | |
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Born | 1967 (age 54–55) |
Known for | United States Elections Project |
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Thesis | Communicative Processes in Cultural Identity Formation: A Mediated Action Account |
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Website | electproject |
Michael P. McDonald (born 1967) [1] is an American political scientist. He is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida where he focuses on the United States elections.
McDonald earned his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD from the University of California,San Diego. [2]
Upon completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard-MIT Data Center,McDonald accepted an assistant professor position at Vanderbilt University in 1999. He stayed there for one year before transferring to the University of Illinois Springfield's department of political science. [3]
In 2004,McDonald,Jeff Gill,and Micah Altman co-authored Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, a book in the field of computational statistics which demonstrated that the reproducibility of statistical analyses used in social science are threatened by errors and limitations in the statistical computations and software used to estimate them. [4] [5] Based on this analysis,Altman,McDonald and Gill developed methods to detect issues in social science statistical models and provide more replicable and reliable estimates. [4] McDonald continued to collaborate with Altman throughout his career and in 2011,they founded the Public Mapping Project,which developed DistrictBuilder,an open-source software redistricting application designed to provide online mapping tools. It received one of Politico's Best Policy Innovation Award for 2011, [6] the 2012 Data Used for Social Impact award, [7] and the Brown Democracy Medal from Pennsylvania State University. [8] He is the director of the United States Election Project,which documents voter turnout statistics in US elections. [2]
The following is a list of selected publications [1]
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