Andrew Hall
Davies Family Professor of Political Economy
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Professor of Political Science
Stanford University
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I study how to build more effective systems of democratic governance, combining large-scale datasets with econometric and machine-learning tools to quantify and understand how different ways of designing democratic systems affect political and societal outcomes. Specific topics include understanding how to reduce polarization, how to administer elections, how to increase electoral accountability, and the effects of money in politics.
I also work at the intersection of tech and society, advising tech companies, startups, blockchain protocols, and others on how to make better and more socially legitimate decisions, products, and policies. This includes work to design and build governance systems---systems of algorithms, rules, rule-making procedures, appeals processes, and other institutions that shape how people and communities use tech products and how they affect society.
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Academic Publications
- Who Runs for Congress? A Study of State Legislators and Congressional Polarization. Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Political Science. With Connor Phillips and Jim Snyder.
- How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S. Election? Science Advances 7(52). With Jesse Yoder, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers, Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu, and Chenoa Yorgason. [Replication materials]
- Decomposing the Source of the Gender Gap in Legislative Committee Service: Evidence from U.S. States. Forthcoming, Political Science Research & Methods. With Julia Payson and Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Forthcoming, American Political Science Review. With Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- Economic Distress and Voting: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis." Forthcoming, Political Science Research & Methods. With Jesse Yoder and Nishant Karandikar. [Replication materials]
- Universal Vote-by-Mail Has No Impact on Partisan Turnout or Vote Share. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(25): 14052-14056. With Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu, and Jesse Yoder. [Replication materials]
- Does Homeownership Influence Political Behavior? Evidence from Administrative Data. Forthcoming, Journal of Politics. With Jesse Yoder. [Replication materials]
- Wealth, Slave Ownership, and Fighting for the
Confederacy: An Empirical Study of the American
Civil War. American Political Science Review 113(3): 658-673. With Connor Huff and Shiro Kuriwaki. [Replication materials]
- Who Punishes Extremist Nominees? Candidate Ideology and Turning Out the Base in U.S. Elections. American Political Science Review 112(3): 509-524. With Daniel M. Thompson. [Replication materials]
- How Divisive Primaries Hurt Parties: Evidence From Near-Runoffs." Forthcoming, Journal of Politics. With Alexander Fouirnaies.
- Do Shark Attacks Influence Presidential Elections? Reassessing a Prominent Finding on Voter Competence. Journal of Politics 80(4): 1423--1437. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- How Do Interest Groups Seek Access to Committees? American Journal of Political Science 62(1): 132-147. With Alexander Fouirnaies. [Replication materials]
- How Newspapers Reveal Political Power. Forthcoming, Political Science Research and Methods. With Pamela Ban, Alexander Fouirnaies, and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- The Majority-Party Disadvantage: Revising Theories of Legislative Organization. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12(3): 269-300.With James J. Feigenbaum and Alexander Fouirnaies.
- Long-Term Consequences of Election Results. British Journal of Political Science 47(2): 351-372. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Systemic Effects of Campaign Spending: Evidence From Corporate Campaign Contribution Bans in State Legislatures. Political Science Research and Methods 4(2): 343--359. [Replication materials]
- The Elusive Quest for Convergence. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 11(1): 131--149. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Information and Wasted Votes: A Study of U.S. Primary Elections. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 10(4): 433-459. With James M. Snyder, Jr.
- Congressional Seniority and Pork: A Pig Fat Myth? European Journal of Political Economy 40: 42-56. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- How Legislators Respond to Localized Economic Shocks: Evidence from Chinese Import Competition. Journal of Politics 77(4): 1012--1030. With James J. Feigenbaum. [Replication materials]
- How Much of the Incumbency Advantage is Due to Scare-off? Political Science Research and Methods 3(3): 493--514. With James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- Assessing the External Validity of Election RD Estimates: An Investigation of the Incumbency Advantage. Journal of Politics 77(3): 707--720. With Jens Hainmueller and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries? American Political Science Review 109(1): 18-42. [Replication materials]
- On the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design for Estimating Electoral Effects: Evidence From Over 40,000 Close Races. American Journal of Political Science 59(1): 259-274. With Andrew C. Eggers, Anthony Fowler, Jens Hainmueller, and James M. Snyder, Jr. [Replication materials]
- Disentangling the Personal and Partisan Incumbency Advantages: Evidence from Close Elections and Term Limits. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9(4): 501-531. With Anthony Fowler. [Replication materials]
- Partisan Effects of Legislative Term Limits. Legislative Studies Quarterly 39(3): 407-429.
- The Financial Incumbency Advantage: Causes and Consequences. Journal of Politics 76(3): 711-724. With Alexander Fouirnaies.
- The Changing Value of Seniority in the U.S. House: Conditional Party Government Revised. Journal of Politics 76(1): 98--114. With Kenneth A. Shepsle.
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Working Papers
Writing on Tech and Product Governance
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Current Students (Year 3+)
Graduated Students (* = chair)
- Julia Payson, Assistant Professor, NYU Politics
- Shea Streeter, Assistant Professor, UMich Polisci
- Dan Thompson*, Assistant Professor, UCLA Political Science
- Jesse Yoder*, Research Scientist, Meta Platforms
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