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Meet our new faculty: David Broockman, political science

Broockman studies how voters and politicians make decisions

Portrait of David Broockman

Portrait of David BroockmanName: David Broockman
Discipline: Political science
Degrees: B.A., Yale University, 2011; Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2015
Research interests: I study how voters and politicians make decisions, generally using real-world field experiments that allow for rigorous causal inferences. My recent research focuses on voter persuasion and how to measure how well voters’ views are represented.