Daniel M. Butler Department of Political Science 77 Prospect St., Rm. C124 New Haven, CT 06520 203.432.6292 daniel.butler@yale.edu http://www.danielmarkbutler.com Professional Experience Washington University in St. Louis Associate Professor (untenured), 2014-present Yale University Associate Professor (untenured), 2013-2014 Assistant Professor, 2007-2013 Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 2007-present Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of American Politics, 2007-present Education Stanford University PhD, Political Science, June 2007 Fields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, and Methodology MA, Economics, June 2007 Brigham Young University BA, Political Science, August 2003 Minors: Russian Studies and Chemistry Publications Book Representing the Advantaged: How Politicians Reinforce Inequality. Forthcoming July 2014. Cambridge University Press. Peer Reviewed Articles Butler, Daniel M., and Eleanor Neff Powell. 2014. Understanding the Party Brand: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Valence Journal of Politics 76 (2): 492-505. Butler, Daniel M., Christopher Karpowitz, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2012. A Field Experiment on Legislators Home Style: Service versus Policy. Journal of Politics 74 (2): 474-486. 1
Butler, Daniel M., and David W. Nickerson. 2011. Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect how Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6 (1): 55-83. Butler, Daniel M., and David E. Broockman. 2011. Do Politicians Racially Discriminate against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators. American Journal of Political Science 55 (3): 463-477. [Chosen by Editors of Science for Editor s Choice: Highlights of the recent literature. Volume 333, Number 6041, Issue of 22 July 2011.] Butler, Daniel M., and Ana L. De La O. 2011. The Causal Effect of Media-Driven Political Interest on Political Attitudes and Behavior. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 5 (4): 321-337. Butler, Daniel M., and Richard J. Butler. 2011. Is the Internet Bridging the Gender Gap? The Case of Political Science Economics of Education Review 30 (4): 665-672. [Chosen by Editors of Science for Editor s Choice: Highlights of the recent literature. Volume 334, Number 6055, Issue of 28 October 2011.] Nie, Norman H., Derwin W. Miller, III, Saar Golde, Daniel M. Butler, and Kenneth Winneg. 2010. The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market. American Journal of Political Science 54 (2): 428-439. Butler, Daniel M. and Emily Schofield. 2010. Were Newspapers More Interested in pro-obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? Evidence from a Field Experiment. American Politics Research 38 (2): 356-371. Butler, Daniel M. 2009. The Effect of the Size of Voting Blocs on Incumbents' Roll- Call Voting and the Asymmetric Polarization of Congress. Legislative Studies Quarterly 34 (3): 297-318. Butler, Daniel M. 2009. A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Incumbency Advantage and Tenure in the U.S. House. Electoral Studies 28 (1): 123-128. Butler, Daniel M., Richard J. Butler, and Jesse Rich. 2008. The Equalizing Effect of the Internet on Access to Research Expertise in Political Science and Economics. PS: Political Science and Politics 41 (3): 579-584. Wilson, Sven, and Daniel M. Butler. 2007. A Lot More To Do: The Sensitivity of Time Series Cross-Section Analyses to Simple Alternative Specifications. Political Analysis 15 (2): 101-123. 2
Butler, Daniel M., and Matthew J. Butler. 2006. Splitting the Difference? Causal Inference and Theories of Split-party Delegations. Political Analysis 14 (4): 439-455. Butler, Daniel M. and Ray Christensen. 2003. Mixing and Matching: The Effect on Student Performance of Teaching Assistants of the Same Gender. PS: Political Science and Politics 36 (October): 781-786. [Reprinted in 2005. Quantitative Methods in Practice: Readings from PS. Ed. David A. Rochefort.] Other Publications Butler, Daniel M. 2010. Monitoring Bureaucratic Compliance: Using Field Experiments to Improve Governance. Public Sector Digest 2010 (winter): 41-44. Butler, Daniel M. 2007. Communication Costs, the Internet, and Female Academics. On Campus with Women 36 (no. 2) Brady, David W., Daniel M. Butler, and Jeremy C. Pope. 2007. The Midterm Revolution That Wasn t. Hoover Digest 2007 (no. 1) Working Manuscripts How do Public Goods Providers Play Public Goods Games? (with Thad Kousser) Revise and Resubmit at Legislative Studies Quarterly Progressive Ambition and Legislative Policy Proposals (with Josh Revesz) Revise and Resubmit at Quarterly Journal of Political Science Ideology, Learning and Policy Diffusion: Experimental Evidence (with Craig Volden, Adam Dynes, and Boris Shor) Under Review Discounting Disagreement: Experimental Evidence on How Legislators Rationalizations Contribute to Polarization Do Better Committee Assignments Meaningfully Benefit Legislators? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Arkansas State Legislature (with David Broockman) Invited Talks and Conference Presentations (past 5 years) Princeton University, May 2014 University of Chicago, May 2014 SUNY-Binghamton, April 2014 University of Rochester, April 2014 Temple University, February 2014 Washington University in St. Louis, October 2013 3
University of Michigan, October 2013 University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2013 American Political Science Association Meeting, August 2013 Annual State Politics Conference at University of Iowa, May 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2013 MIT/Harvard Seminar on Positive Political Economy, April 2013 Florida State University, March 2013 Council of State Government West, November 2012 Columbia University, American Politics Seminar, October 2012 Yale University, Yale-India Parliamentary Leadership Program, June 2012 West Coast Experiments Conference, May 2012 UC-Davis, May 2012 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2012 Annual State Politics Conference at Rice University, February 2012 Georgetown University, April 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2011 American Political Science Association Meeting, September 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, April 2010 9 th Annual State Politics Conference at UNC Chapel Hill, May 2009 NYU, Conference on Experimental Political Science, February 2010 Duke University, December 2009 University of Chicago, Harris School, October 2009 Harvard University, February 2009 Cornell University, February 2009 Awards and Fellowships Yale University, Center for the Study of American Politics, 2007-present. Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 2007-present. Yale University, Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2009-2010. Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. Research Fellow. 2005-07. National Science Foundation. Graduate Research Fellowship. 2003-2007. Pi Sigma Alpha/Howard Penniman Graduate Student Scholarship, 2003-2004. University and Departmental Service Yale Omnibus Assistant Professor Search (6 positions), 2008-2009 Yale CSAP Fellow Review Committee, 2009 Member of Methods Field Exam Committee. 2007-present Undergraduate Lead Advisor: American Politics Field, 2010-2012 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2011 Faculty Organizer - Yale Center for the Study of American Politics Speaker Series, 2012-2013 Committee for the Frank M. Patterson Prize and Percival Wood Clement Prize, Spring 2012; Spring 2013 4
Panelist Bulldog Days Social Science Forum, Spring 2012 Professional Service Committee member for the 2013 Fenno Prize for best book on Legislative Politics Cofounder and co-organizer of SPIRE (Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity) a biannual meeting of scholars doing research in Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States. Discussant/Chair at Annual State Politics and Policy Conference 2009; MPSA 2010; APSA 2010; MPSA 2011; MPSA 2012; Experiments in IR Conference 2012; APSA 2014. Referee for American Journal of Political Science, American Journal of Sociology, American Politics Research, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Business and Politics, Congress & Presidency, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, National Science Foundation, Party Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science and Research Methods, Politics and Gender, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Public Choice, Public Finance Review, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, State Politics and Policy Quarterly Dissertation Advising Adam Dynes (Dissertation committee member; start PhD 2009) Tiffany Davenport (Dissertation committee member; PhD 2011, Assistant Professor at United States Naval Academy) Mei Guan (Dissertation Reader; PhD 2010) Joel Middleton (Dissertation Reader; PhD 2011) Elizabeth Addonizio (Dissertation Reader; PhD 2011) Valerie Frey (Dissertation Reader, PhD 2012) 5