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D. Sunshine Hillygus
Professor of Political Science
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
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Ph.D., Stanford University (2003)
M.A., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1998)
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Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics. She is co-author of Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (https://dism.duke.edu/) and co-director of the Polarization Lab (https://www.polarizationlab.com/).
Representative Publications
All the Best Polls Agree with Me: Bias in Evaluations of Political Polling Political Behavior (12/2020)
The Development of Students' Engagement in School, Community and Democracy British Journal of Political Science (10/2020)
Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (01/2020)
The message and the medium: an experimental evaluation of the effects of Twitter commentary on campaign messages Journal of Information Technology & Politics (01/2019)
Comments on Single-Blind Reviewing from the Editorial Staff Political Analysis (07/2018)
Selected Grants
Preparing for the Future of Survey Research (Co-Principal Investigator)
ANES WEB: American National Election Studies 2018-2021 (Principal Investigator)
ANES WEB: American National Election Studies 2018-2021 (Principal Investigator)
Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Account for Nonignorable Nonresponse (Co-Principal Investigator)
Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (Principal Investigator)
The Link between Education, Engagement, and Well-being (Principal Investigator)
NCRN-MN:Triangle Census Research Network (Co Investigator)
Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies with Refreshment Samples (Co-Principal Investigator)