Ph.D Candidate @UHouston @UHPoliticalSci Methods | American Politics | AI/ML https://nitter.cf/t.co/9syDAcYfhV
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
The first release of my R package `fourthirtyfive` makes congressional district maps (2005-27, incl. those for next week's election) easily downloadable and mergeable, with hex/dotmaps, real shapefiles, descriptive names, and interactive overlays with #mapbox:
shirokuriwaki.com/fourthirty…
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core -
GRAEME BLAIR, ALEXANDER COPPOCK and MARGARET MOOR
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
Had a great time sharing my thoughts on using LLMs as a research assistant (or as an AIRA) for a @PrincetonDDSS workshop
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
I'm excited to share the dataset behind my book project: the Japanese Municipal Elections Dataset (JMED)!
👤 223,561 candidates
🗳️ 21,111 elections
🗾 2,027 municipalities
🗓️ 2005–2025
Explore the map or download the data: charlesmcclean.com/jmed/
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
New in @PNASNews:
In two large experiments (~18k obs from ~14.8k people), we find that brief conversations with AI can get people to take real political action - incl. signing real petitions and giving money to charity.
Surprisingly, the persuasion strategy that worked best for changing people's attitudes - packing convos with info - was the least effective at changing behavior!
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
1/3 🌟 UH Political Science Job Market Spotlight: Meet Songeun Emily Lee (@SongeunEmily), a Ph.D. candidate in methodology and American politics. Her dissertation studies how race and gender shape entry into local elections, voter evaluations, and careers in Congress.
ALT Portrait of Songeun Emily Lee at left. Navy panel reads “University of Houston Political Science,” “Songeun Emily Lee,” “American Politics · Race & Gender,” “Political Methodology,” and “Job Market Spotlight.”
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
宇賀先生の講演「研究生活の魅力」を拝聴。先生のお話を伺うのは学生時代以来30年ぶりだが、話し方は全くお変わりない。実に痛快な内容で、なんだか聞いているこちらまで碩学の泰斗であるかのような錯覚に陥ってしまった。 j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/2069/
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
Open sourcing my regression lectures 🍻
AI is changing how we teach. Here’s one way I’m adapting: I’ve open-sourced my regression course, POLI 450A, built on Jens Hainmueller’s original class.
The course is suitable for first-year political science PhDs, as well as advanced undergraduate students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
The materials include slides, R code, data, worksheets, and a short video for every lecture.
github.com/xuyiqing/regressi…
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
Forecasting the 2026 US Midterms
In a forecasting special issue of @ps_polisci for the U.S. midterm elections, all forecasters predict that Democrats will capture the House, but most anticipate a narrow Republican victory in the Senate.
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
New 2026 US House & Senate election forecasts, using all political science knowledge we could systematize, & our statistical methods from “If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe It’s the Wrong Model” with @DannyCEbanks and @Jonathan_N_Katz. GaryKing.org/electit
We make these forecasts available (including all the input data, methods, and procedures), not only for their possible public interest, but because academics learn by making themselves vulnerable to being proven wrong. We will make no changes to our post-primary forecasts (which do not use polls) but will update two other sets on this site incorporating poll results as new ones appear. Comments on the paper or forecasts are welcome!
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
From our FirstView: "The Representation Trap: How Minority Power Shapes Electoral Politics in India" by @FeyaadAllie. buff.ly/sEa2MlQ
ALT APSR abstract for "The Representation Trap: How Minority Power Shapes Electoral Politics in India," by Feyaad Allie, Studying Muslim representation in India, the author shows electing a Muslim representative divides Muslim votes while consolidating Hindu votes for the majoritarian party, driven by sub-identity and super-ordinate identity mobilization. Full abstract is available in linked article.
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
causalweight: Estimation Methods for Causal Inference Based on Inverse Probability Weighting and Doubly Robust Estimation
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
One month left to apply! The Rapoport Family Foundation Dissertation #Grants provide up to $15,000 for US-based PhD candidates conducting American politics survey research. Apply Now! Application Deadline: 10/21/26,11:59PM PT
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Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
We hope you can join us for the Political Science Undergraduate Association Graduate School Workshop!
September 24, 2026
4-5:30p
MH 113
Thinking about graduate school? Join PSUA to learn about applications, choosing the right program, funding opportunities, and how to prepare!
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
I’m really excited to have been quoted in a recent news story about the behavior of Latino voters based on my recent research, particularly on the importance of economic considerations. We’ll see how this manifests in the upcoming midterms! cnhi.com/rss_feed/latinos-vi…
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
Happy to share slides for six lectures on "causal panel analysis" based on my recent short course at Waseda.
github.com/xuyiqing/panel-le…
Written for applied researchers.
A little late, but I had to share some photos from my third APSA in Boston! :) I was so happy to present “Political Geography and Congressional Campaign Rhetoric” with Jennifer. Rob Oldham gave us really helpful comments and even shared his written notes afterward. So grateful!
Songeun Emily Lee retweeted
Meet Lucia Lopez, 2026 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient buff.ly/tzEowvP
