DANIEL J. LEE Last updated: December 15, 2016 Department of Political Science http://faculty.unlv.edu/dlee dan.lee@unlv.edu 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Box 455029 office: (702)895-4029 Las Vegas, NV 89154 EDUCATION Ph.D. Department of Political Science, Duke University, 2008 M.A. Political Science, Duke University, 2005 Certificate in Advanced Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, 2006 B.S. University of Wisconsin at Madison Economics and Political Science with Distinction, 2001 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2015 present Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, 2008 2015 Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, Michigan State University RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Congress, Political Parties, Elections, Positive Political Theory SELECTED PAPERS REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Jensen, Christian and Daniel J. Lee. Forthcoming. Predicting Ambiguity: Costs, Benefits, and Party Competition. Political Research Quarterly Aldrich, John H. and Daniel J. Lee. 2016. Why Two Parties? Ambition, Policy, and the Presidency. Political Science Research and Methods 4(2): 275-292. 1
BOOK CHAPTERS Lee, Daniel J. and Rachel Schutte. 2015 (Online first). Elite-level Issue Dynamics: Assessing Perspectives on Party Issue Change. Party Politics, DOI: 10.1177/1354068815588258 Brady, Michael C. and Daniel J. Lee. 2016. Another Tool in the Party Toolbox? Tracing the Strategic Expansion of Committee Size in the U.S. House, 1947-2010. Party Politics 22(6): 784-796. (First published online 2014) Lee, Daniel J. 2014. Third-Party Threat and the Dimensionality of Major-Party Roll Call Voting. Public Choice 159(3): 515-531. Lee, Daniel J. 2012 Take the Good with the Bad: Cross-Cutting Effects of Ballot Access Requirements on Third- Party Electoral Success. American Politics Research 40: 267-292. Lee, Daniel J. 2012. Anticipating Entry: Major Party Positioning and Third Party Threat. Political Research Quarterly 65: 138-150. Paul R. Abramson, John H. Aldrich, André Blais, Matthew Diamond, Abraham Diskin, Indridi H. Indridason, Daniel J. Lee, and Renan Levine. 2010. Comparing Strategic Voting under FPTP and PR. Comparative Political Studies 43: 61-90. Transue, John E., Daniel J. Lee, and John H. Aldrich. 2009. Treatment Spillover Effects Across Survey Experiments. Political Analysis 17(2): 143-161. Lee, Daniel J. 2008. Going Once, Going Twice, Sold! The Committee Assignment Process as an All-Pay Auction. Public Choice 135: 237-255. Abramson, Aldrich, Blais, Lee, and Levine. 2007. Coalition Considerations and the Vote, In The Elections in Israel, 2006, ed. Arian and Shamir. Transaction Publishers. WORKING PAPERS AND RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Predicting Ambiguity: Costs, Benefits, and Party Competition, with Christian Jensen. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association and 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (under title, More Than Words: Predicting Ambiguity and Position of Party Manifestos ). Microfoundations of Party Position Change: Member Shifts and Problems of Coordination, with Michael C. Brady. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (under title, Party Change in the US: Signaling, Coordination, and Progressive Ambition ). Polarization and Moderation in Congress: Partisanship, District Sorting, and Partisan Tides, with Jean-François Godbout. Presented at the 2014 Annual APSA Meeting, Washington, D.C. Cross-district Variation in Split Ticket Voting, with Robert Lupton. Presented at the 2012 and 2013 Annual MPSA Meetings, Chicago, IL. 2
An Indelible Imprint? Assessing the Evolution of Racial Politics in Shaping Conflict in Congress during the Civil Rights Era, with Michael C. Brady and Eric Gonzalez Juenke. Presented at the 2011 Annual MPSA Meeting, Chicago, IL; 2011 Annual APSA Meeting, Seattle, WA. Best paper best paper award for the Legislative Studies section at APSA 2011. Another Tool in the Party Toolbox? Tracing the Strategic Expansion and Contraction of Committee Size in the U.S. House, 1947-2010, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2011. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Polarization and Moderation in U.S. House Elections, 1972-2008, with Jean-François Godbout. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2010. Party Effects and Predictability of Voting in the U.S. House with Michael C. Brady. Presented at MPSA 2012 and prepared for presentation at APSA 2012. Lying and Punishment Costs in Politics: An Experimental Investigation with Ken Williams. Grant proposal. Throw Issues at the Voters and See What Sticks: Issue Agendas in U.S. Congressional Elections, with Matt Grossmann. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2010. Two Parties and the Two-Party System in the United States: The Presidency and Duopolistic Agenda Control, with John H. Aldrich. Presented at a Conference on Comparing Elections and Electoral Systems in North America and India, University of Pennsylvania, February 25-26, 2011. Not Just on the Outside Looking In: Third Party Effects on Roll Call Voting Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2009. Third Parties and Major Party Campaign Scope and Content, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2009. Going Once, Going Twice, Sold! The Committee Assignment Process as an All- Pay Auction. Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, and the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. TEACHING PSC 304: The Legislative Process (undergraduate): F2015 PSC 401G: Political Campaigns and Elections (undergraduate): F2016 3
Michigan State University Duke University PSC 401Z: Polarized Politics in the US (undergraduate): F2015 PSC 710R: Proseminar in American Politics: F2016 PSC 714: American National Government: Structure and Process (graduate): S2016 Introduction to American Government (undergraduate): S2012, F2012, S2013, F2013, F2014 American Legislative Process (undergraduate): F2008, F2009, S2011, F2011, S2013, S2014, S2015, F2015 Special topics: Congress and Polarization: S2011, S2015, F2015 Formal Theory (graduate): F2009, S2010, F2010, S2012, S2014 Congress (graduate): S2010, S2016 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Teaching Assistant, Political Methodology: Summer 2007 and 2008 Campaigns and Elections (undergraduate, Duke) Instructor, Duke University: F2006 Introductory Game Theory Visiting Lecturer, Humboldt University; Berlin, Germany: Summer 2005 UNDERGRADUATE HONOR S THESES AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Spring 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2011 Fall 2011 Spring 2010 Nick Skrocki, Committee Chair Andrew Kuhlman, Committee member Alex Ostrovsky, Committee Chair Matthew McKay, Committee member Shawn Stewart, Committee Chair AWARDS 2012 Best paper best paper award for the Legislative Studies section at the 2011 APSA Annual Meeting. 4
2007-2008 Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) Fellow, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Duke University 2007-2008 Humane Studies Fellowship, The Institute for Humane Studies 2006 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2015-Present Member on Committee on Community Engagement for Presidential Debate 2016 2016-Present 2016-Present Department of Political Science Personnel Committee Department of Political Science Graduate Committee 2015-2016 Department of Political Science Committee on Course and Curriculum 2015-2016 Department of Political Science Committee on General Education Constitutions Michigan State University 2013 Chair of the Selection Committee for Congressional Quarterly Prize for best paper on Legislative Studies presented at the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting 2011-2014 Quantitative Methods Field Committee, MSU 2011-2014 College of Social Science Graduate Committee, MSU 2009-2011 American Politics Field Committee, MSU 2008-09, 2010-11 Graduate Studies and Academic Standards Committee, MSU Duke University 2007-2008 Duke Political Science Graduate Student Government President Summer 2004 Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute Teaching Assistant Other Professional Activities Memberships Referee American Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Choice, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics 5