Carsey, Thomas M.

Thomas M. Carsey is the Thomas J. Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests revolve around representation in American politics and quantitative methods. Within American politics, Carsey s work focuses on state politics, campaigns and elections, public opinion and mass behavior, partisanship and party polarization, and legislative politics. His methodological interests include all aspects of computational social science with specific interests