Max Weylandt.
Hello! I just graduated with my PhD in Political Science (and a concurrent Master's in Statistics) from Northwestern University.
In my dissertation, I researched what Americans think democracy means, how elites talk about democracy in three countries (U.K., U.S., RSA), and the relationship between prejudice and democratic attitudes. I also like thinking about how survey researchers can collect better data, and am working on tools that can make their life easier when analyzing data.
I'm a big fan of the R programming language, which I've used to make a package that allows easy detection of straightlining, some games, and this website.
Before coming to Northwestern, I worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research in Namibia — my work for them is here.
Publications
"The 2014 National Assembly and presidential elections in Namibia." Electoral Studies 38 (2015): 126-130. (link) (pdf)
Erratum:
There's a somewhat consequential typo here. I write The constitutional
amendments increased competitive seats in the National Assembly from 72 to 96, while presidential appointments to the NA doubled from four to eight.
Actually , presidential appointments went from 6 to 8. See the annotated Constitution Amendment Act (2014) as provided by the Legal Assistance Centre here, under Article 43.
Find me
Github Gitlab Twitter (mostly dormant) mweylandt@u.northwestern.edu CV (pdf)