Tyler is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan, with a concurrent M.A. in Statistics. He studies the elite origins and the societal foundations of political parties and party systems: how much power party elites wield when they build campaign platforms united, how much damage they inflict on the vehicles they built when factional interests pull them apart, and how the geographical distribution of racial and ethnic groups and the rise and fall of age cohorts drive the birth, death, and fragmentation of parties. Because answering these questions requires recovering how groups actually vote from aggregate election results and censuses, he also builds the ecological-inference tools to do so, including BACH, a simulation-based framework for estimating subgroup voting behavior where surveys are biased or missing.
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Walter Mebane