Kevin M. Quinn

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and faculty affiliate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. My area of specialty is political methodology. I have written on ideal point estimation, Supreme Court decision-making, party competition in multiparty democracies, and methods for ecological inference among other topics. Some current projects involve the use of methods from statistical natural language processing to analyze political rhetoric as well as work on how major newspapers cover Supreme Court decisions. I am also a co-author of the Scythe Statistical Library, an open source C++ library for statistical computation, and MCMCpack, an open source R package for performing Bayesian inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.

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