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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jake Bowers

Jake Bowers

Assistant Professor
231 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-1203
jwbowers@illinois.edu


Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

research interests:

  • Political Methodology and Applied Statistics
  • Political Behavior --- especially Political Participation and Social Movements

for more information:
Jake Bowers' website

Journal Articles

  • "Attributing Effects to A Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign." (with Ben Hansen) University of Michigan, Dept of Statistics Technical Report,  # 448, October 2006.
  • "Analyzing the 200 National Election Study" (with Nancy Burns, Michael Ensley, and Don Kinder). Political Analysis, 13(1):109-111, 2005.
  • "EDA for HLM: Visualization when Probabilistic Inference Fails" (with Katherine Drake). Political Analysis, 13(4):301-326, 2005.
  • "Using R to Keep it Simple: Exploring Structure in Multilevel Datasets." The Political Methodologist, Fall 2004.
  • "Does Moving Disrupt Campaign Activity?"  Political Psychology,  21(4):525-543, 2004.
  • "Issues in Analyzing Data from the Dual-Mode 2000 American National Election Study" (with Michael Ensley).  National Election Study Technical Report, # 64, 2003.
  • "Designing Multi-Level Studies: Sampling Voters and Electoral Contexts" (with Laura Stoker). Electoral Studies, 21(2):235-267 and Erratum in 21(3):535-536,  2002. 
    Also appearing in The Future of Election Studies,  2002. Eds. Christopher Wlezien and Mark Franklin. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
  • "Contextual Analysis and the NES" (with Laura Stoker). The Political Psychologist,  August 1997.
  • "Black Threat and Christian Fundamentalist Threat: A National Election Study 1997 Pilot Study Report.". National Election Study 1997 Pilot Report.
  • "NES Pilot Study Efforts to Measure Values and Predispositions."  National Election Study Technical Report # 18, 1995.