Ines Levin Department of Political Science University of Georgia Baldwin Hall 418 Athens, GA 30602 Phone: (+1) 706-583-0555 Email: ilevin@uga.edu Webpage: http://spia.uga.edu/faculty_pages/ilevin/ Academic Positions University of Georgia, Athens, GA Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Aug 2012 Present European University Institute, Florence, Italy Max Weber Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences Sep 2011 Aug 2012 Education California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA MS in Social Science (2008), PhD in Social Science (2012) Dissertation Title: A New Approach to the Study of Political Participation Universidad ORT, Montevideo, Uruguay Licenciada en Economía (2004) Peer-Reviewed Articles Ines Levin, J. Andrew Sinclair, and R. Michael Alvarez. Participation in the Wake of Adversity: Blame Attribution, Policy-Oriented Evaluations, and Civic Engagement. Forthcoming in Political Behavior. Gabriel Katz and Ines Levin. The Dynamics of Political Support in Emerging Democracies: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Peru. Forthcoming in International Journal of Public Opinion Research. Julia Pomares, Ines Levin, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2014. Do Voters and Poll Workers Differ in their Attitudes Toward e-voting? Evidence From the First e-election in Salta, Argentina. USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems 2(2): 1-10. R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Alexander H. Trechsel, and Kristjan Vassil. 2014. Voting Advice Applications: How Useful and For Whom? Journal of Information Technology & Politics 11(1): 82-101. R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Peter Mair, and Alexander H. Trechsel. 2014. Party Preferences in the Digital Age: The Impact of Voting Advice Applications. Party Politics 20(2): 227-36. R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Julia Pomares, and Marcelo Leiras. 2013. Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions. Political Science Research and Methods 1(1): 117-37. Ines Levin. 2013. Political Inclusion of Latino Immigrants: Becoming a Citizen and Political Participation. American Politics Research 41(4): 535-68. R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, and J. Andrew Sinclair. 2012. Making Voting Easier: Convenience Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election. Political Research Quarterly 65(2): 248-62. 1
Ines Levin and Gabriel Katz. 2011. Modeling Electoral Coordination: Voters, Parties and Legislative Lists in Uruguay. Journal of Politics in Latin America 3(2): 3-41. R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, Ines Levin, and Charles Stewart III. 2011. Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient? Election Law Journal 10(2): 73-87. Ines Levin, Gabe A. Cohn, Peter C. Ordeshook, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2009. Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context: An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela. Proceedings of the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 2009). Other Publications Ines Levin and Betsy Sinclair. Causal Inference with Complex Survey Designs: Generating Population Estimates Using Survey Weights. Forthcoming in R.M. Alvarez and L.R. Atkeson (Eds.), Handbook on Polling and Polling Methods. Oxford University Press. Ines Levin, Julia Pomares, and R. Michael Alvarez. Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Election Fraud. Forthcoming in R.M. Alvarez (Ed.), Computational Social Science: Discovery and Prediction. Cambridge University Press. Julia Pomares, Ines Levin, R. Michael Alvarez, Guillermo Lopez, and Teresa Ovejero. 2014. From Piloting to Roll-out: Voting Experience and Trust in the First Full e-election in Argentina. Proceedings of EVOTE2014: Verifying the Vote Ten-Year Anniversary Conference. Ines Levin and R. Michael Alvarez. 2012. Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Election Fraud and Electoral Integrity. Political Analysis, Virtual Issue: Election Integrity and Election Fraud. Fall 2012. R. Michael Alvarez, Alfonso Ayala Sanchez, and Ines Levin. 2012. Epílogo. In A. Ayala Sanchez (Ed.), Democracia en la Era Digital. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Selected Work in Progress Gabriel Katz and Ines Levin. Economic Determinants of Trust in Government: A Machine Learning Perspective. Under review. Sean Ingham and Ines Levin. Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform. Under review. Ines Levin. Learning about the Influence of Spatial and Temporal Proximity using Regression Trees. August 2015. Emily Beaulieu and Ines Levin. Violent Frames: The Impact of Candidate Assassination on Attitudes Toward Hegemonic Regimes. July 2015. R. Michael Alvarez and Ines Levin. Uncertain Neighbors: Bayesian Propensity Score Matching for Causal Inference. May 2015. R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, and Lucas Nunez. The Four Faces of Political Participation in Argentina: Using Latent Class Analysis To Study Political Behavior. April 2015. 2
Grants & Awards Co-recipient, Susette M. Talarico Award for Excellence in Teaching August 2015 NSF travel support to attend Visions in Methodology at the May 2015 University of Kentucky Best paper award, EVOTE2014 conference. Paper: From Piloting 2014 to Roll-out: Voting Experience and Trust in the First Full e-election in Argentina (with J. Pomares, R.M. Alvarez, G. Lopez, and T. Ovejero) Summer Research Grant ($5,000) 2014 School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia National Science Foundation (NSF), Time-sharing Experiments for the 2013 Social Sciences (TESS). Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform (with Sean Ingham) NSF travel support to attend the Annual Summer Meeting of the July 2013 Society for Political Methodology at the University of Virginia NSF travel support to attend Visions in Methodology at Florida April 2013 State University Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute 2011-2012 NSF travel support to attend the Annual Summer Meeting of the July 2011 Society for Political Methodology at Princeton University Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology 2006-2011 Premio a la Excelencia Académica, Universidad ORT Uruguay 2004 Conference Presentations & Invited Talks Learning about Spatial and Temporal Proximity to Events using Regression Trees. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 2015. Visions in Methodology (VIM), University of Kentucky, May 2015. Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation: New Approaches for Modeling Political Activity in Latin America. 2015. Guerrilla Violence and Voter Behavior: The Electoral Consequences of Shining Path Actions in Peru. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Voting behavior poster session. Chicago, April 2015. Uncertain Neighbors: Bayesian Propensity Score Matching for Causal Inference. St. Louis Area Methods Meeting (SLAMM), University of Minnesota, April 2014. Visions in Methodology (VIM), Florida State University, April 2013. Detecting Election Manipulation: An Ensemble Approach. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 3
2013. I Trust You, I Trust You Not : Dimensions of Trust in Government in Latin America. 2013. Political Participation is more than Just Resources: A New Approach to the Study of Civic Engagement. Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Orlando, January 2013. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Department of Political and Social Sciences, SPS Departmental Fellows Seminar, November 2011. IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, November 2011. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 2011. Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting, poster session for graduate students, Princeton University, July 2011. Annual Center for the Study of Democracy Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Irvine, May 2011. University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Political Science, 2010-11 Speaker Series, November 2010. Political Inclusion of Latino Immigrants: Becoming a Citizen and Political Participation. Max Weber Programme Conference, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2012. Economic Adversity, Blame Attribution, and Political Participation. 2012. Voter Rationality and Instant Runoff Elections. 2011. Beyond Voting: A Generalized Model of Political Participation. Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting, poster session for graduate students, University of Iowa, July 2010. Economic Policy in Times of Crisis and Political Participation: A Multilevel Modeling Approach. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2010. New Faces in Political Methodology III, Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Quantitative Social Science Initiative, May 2010. 2010. Voter Choice in the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election. Annual Center for the Study of Democracy Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Irvine, May 2010. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Poster Session, Toronto, September 2009. Acquisition of Citizenship and Political Involvement of Latino Immigrants. 4
2010. Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context: An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela. 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 09), Montreal, August 2009. A Theory of Voting, Electoral Fraud, and Post-Electoral Conflict Under Autocratic Competition. Society for Political Methodology Summer Meeting, poster session for graduate students, Yale University, July 2009. A Statistical Model of Electoral Coordination: Measuring the Determinants of the Supply and Demand of Candidates in Uruguay. 2009. Measuring the Effect of Voter Confidence on Turnout: An Application of Matching Methods to the Study of Participation in the 2006 Mexican Election. 2009. Teaching Experience Professional Service University of Georgia Special Topics in American Politics: Civic Engagement (POLS 4790; July 2015). American Government (POLS 1101; Fall 2015). American Government, Honors (POLS 1105H; Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2015). Public Opinion & American Democracy (POLS 4510; Fall 2013, Spring 2015). Introduction to Political Science (POLS 2000; Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2015). Special Topics in Research Methods, Causal Inference (POLS 8550; Spring 2014). Referee: American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; Annals of Telecommunications; Election Law Journal; Electoral Studies; Ethnic and Racial Studies; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Information Technology & Politics; Journal of Politics; Journal of Politics in Latin America; Party Politics; Political Analysis; Political Behavior; Political Science Research and Methods; Public Choice. Division head: Political Methodology Section, Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (New Orleans, January 2017). Political Methodology Section, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Philadelphia, September 2016). Panel chair: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2015, 2013); Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2015). Panel/session discussant: Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology (2014 graduate student poster session); Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2013, 2010). 5
Conference/event co-organizer: Annual Political Methodology Women s Dinner (2014); 6th Max Weber Fellows June Conference (2012). Committee/board member: Programme Committee, Annals of Telecommunications, special issue on The Role of Telecommunications in Electronic Voting (2015). Program Committee and Graduate Student Selection Committee, 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology (2014). International Advisory Board of the 2014 EP Election Project, European Union Democracy Observatory, European University Institute (2014). Panel co-organizer: Methods for Detecting Voter Fraud (APSA 2013); Voter Confidence and Electoral Integrity (APSA 2013). Graduate Editorial Assistant for Political Analysis (January 2010 July 2011). University Service Departmental committee member: Speakers Committee (2014-15, 2013-14); Faculty Executive Committee (2014-15). Political Methodology comprehensive exam committee, Fall 2015. American Politics comprehensive exam preparation, Spring 2015. Last updated: September 20, 2015 6