Biography
I joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland in the Fall of 2007. I am also a Research Fellow with the University of Maryland’s Center for American Politics and Citizenship. I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 2004, a M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York College at Geneseo. From Fall 2004-Spring 2007 I was an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.
I specialize in American Politics, with a focus on voting behavior, public opinion, electoral reform, and political methodology. My dissertation, which is being revised as a book manuscript, investigates the effects of structural factors on turnout and party behavior in the United States. I am a co-author of Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). I’ve also published articles on vote-by-mail, election day registration, the over-reporting of voting in political surveys, the effect of changes in technology on lost votes, and voters’ attitudes toward voting systems. My current research investigates how mobilization and participation lead to changes in the ways citizens think about politics and their role as democratic citizens, the use of ecological inference estimators to understand split-ticket voting, the sensitivity of predictions in models of limited dependent variables, how the over-reporting of voting influences models of vote choice, the effect of ballot style on voter accuracy, the political behavior and attitudes of college students, and the legal and administrative procedures that govern the choice of college students to register in their hometown or college town.
I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and believe that the Buffalo Bills will someday win the Super Bowl. After growing up watching curling (think shuffle board on ice, not weight lifting) on CBC, I joined the Detroit Curling Club (http://www.detroitcurlingclub.com) during graduate school. I now curl at the Potomac Curling Club (http://www.curldc.org).
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Research
Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. (Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Michael J. Hanmer, Benjamin B. Bederson, Frederick G. Conrad, and Michael W. Traugott). Brookings Institution Press. Forthcoming, 2008.
“Losing Fewer Votes: The Impact of Changing Voting Systems on Residual Votes.” (Michael J. Hanmer, Won-ho Park, Michael W. Traugott, Richard G. Niemi, Paul S. Herrnson, Frederick G. Conrad, and Benjamin B. Bederson). Forthcoming, Political Research Quarterly.
“Voter Reactions to Electronic Voting Systems: Results from a Usability Field Test.” (Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Michael J. Hanmer, Peter L. Francia, Benjamin B. Bederson, Frederick G. Conrad, and Michael W. Traugott). Forthcoming, American Politics Research.
“An Alternative Approach to Estimating Who is Most Likely to Respond to Changes in Registration Laws.” Political Behavior, 29:1-30, 2007.
“Good Excuses: Understanding Who Votes with an Improved Turnout Question.” (Brian Duff, Michael J. Hanmer, Won-ho Park, and Ismail K. White). Public Opinion Quarterly, 71:67-90, 2007.
“The Impact of Vote-By-Mail on Voter Behavior.” (Michael J. Hanmer and Michael W. Traugott). American Politics Research, 32:375-405, 2004.
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