Political Behavior Lab

New College of Florida

Welcome to the Political Behavior Lab at New College of Florida! We are an enthusiastic group of researchers focused on addressing questions about elections, public opinion, and political behavior. We use statistics and data science techniques to quantitatively analyze politics in the state of Florida, with particular emphases on geography (GIS), social networks (SNA), and reproducible research practices.

We are a team of undergraduate student researchers working under the supervision of Dr. Jack Reilly.

Projects

Florida Politics

Analyzing public data about Florida’s political, social, and economic landscape

Rural & Place-Based Politics

Evaluating the role geography plays in poltical preferences, behavior, and policy

Social Networks

Studying the influence of social context of politics, voting, and political discussion

Meet the Team

Principal Investigators

Jack Reilly

Associate Professor of Political Science

Political behavior, Quantitative social science, American politics

Current Students

Angela Kothe

Lab Member$:$ 2021 - 2022

Canadian politics, political institutions, political history & development

Carlos Gonzalez

Lab Member$:$ 2020 - 2022

Political geography, social capital, political participation

Sabine Wittmann

Lab Member$:$ 2021 - 2022

German politics, political institutions, Quantitative political analysis

Alumni

Annika Kufrovich

Lab Member$:$ 2018-2021

Dario Mitchell

Lab Member$:$ 2017-2018

Eugenia Quintanilla

Lab Member$:$ 2017-2018

Jack Belk

Lab Member$:$ 2017-2019; Lab Manager$:$ 2019-2021

Jacob Brody-Ogborn

Lab Member$:$ 2020 - 2021

International peace efforts, How people develop foreign policy positions

Jennifer Lin

Lab Member$:$ 2018 - 2020

Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Quantitative Social Science Research Methods

Mollie Saumier

Lab Member$:$ 2017-2018

Omar Guerrero

Lab Member$:$ 2020 - 2021

Political Economy, Latin American Politics

Rory Renzy

Lab Member$:$ 2018 - 2021

Policy evaluation, Equitable economic development, Political participation

Sarah McNitt

Lab Member$:$ 2020 - 2021

Political Participation, Quantitative Methods, Public Opinion

Recent Papers

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Mapping Health Distributions in Florida using Public State Data

In this project, I use publicly-available Florida data to map distributions of both health resources and environments by county. The …

Rory Renzy

Open Source Health Resources Health Environment

Drawing Campaign Finance Maps for Florida using FEC data

Drawing maps on campaign finance in Florida using FEC data.

Jennifer Lin

Open Source Writeup

Democrats and Republicans Communicate Different Moral Values through their 2016 National Convention Speeches

I analyze the 2016 Democrat and Republican National Convention speeches for patterns of moral appeals between politicians from both parties. The results show Republicans to be more likely to appeal to group values, traditions and religion.

Jennifer Lin, Catherine A. Cottrell, Jack Reilly

PDF Open Source

Rural Matters$:$ Rural and Urban Politics and the Problems of Measurement

Jack Belk, Jack Reilly

Scott, Nelson, DeSantis, Gillum & Beyond$:$ A Look at 2018 Florida Precinct Returns

Midterm elections are typically seen as a referendum on the sitting President of the United States. In 2018, general popular discontent …

Jack Reilly, Jack Belk, Annika Kufrovich, Jennifer Lin, Rory Renzy

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Contact

5800 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34243
Palmer C, Second Floor
pebl@ncf.edu