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Overview

Matt Golder is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. The main field of their research is Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Health, and Social Psychology.

Their research topics include Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Political Conflict and Governance, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Religion and Society Interactions, Religion, Society, and Development, Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, as well as LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Matt Golder cover various subjects and have been published in several venues:

  • Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2020, 2022, Electoral Studies
  • Secularization Theory and Religion, 2020, Politics and Religion
  • Evaluating Claims of Intersectionality, 2023, The Journal of Politics
  • Geo-Political Rivalry and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment: A Conjoint Experiment in 22 Countries, 2024, American Political Science Review
  • Citizen Representation and Electoral Systems, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

Matt Golder has published books through Cambridge University Press, including the 2023 title Interaction Models.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matt Golder include:

  • William R. Clark
  • Sona Golder
  • Nils-Christian Bormann
  • Ray Block
  • Kostanca Dhima

The main publication venues where Matt Golder's work appears are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Electoral Studies
  • Politics and Religion
  • The Journal of Politics
  • American Political Science Review

Best Publications

  • Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses

    Thomas Brambor;William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder

  • Explaining Variation In The Success Of Extreme Right Parties In Western Europe

    Matt Golder

  • Ideological Congruence and Electoral Institutions

    Matt Golder;Jacek Stramski

  • Far Right Parties in Europe

    Matt Golder

  • Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011

    Nils Christian Bormann;Matt Golder

  • Improving Tests of Theories Positing Interaction

    William D. Berry;Matt Golder;Daniel Milton

  • Rehabilitating Duverger’s Theory: Testing the Mechanical and Strategic Modifying Effects of Electoral Laws

    William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder

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  • Presidential Coattails and Legislative Fragmentation

    Matt Golder

  • Principles of Comparative Politics

    William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder;Sona Nadenichek Golder

  • A Simple Multivariate Test for Asymmetric Hypotheses

    William Roberts Clark;Michael J. Gilligan;Matt Golder

  • Big Data, Causal Inference, and Formal Theory: Contradictory Trends in Political Science?

    William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder

  • Electoral Institutions, Unemployment and Extreme Right Parties: A Correction

    Matt Golder

  • Are African party systems different

    Thomas Brambor;William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder

  • New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation

    Garrett Glasgow;Matt Golder;Sona N. Golder

  • Re‐evaluating the relationship between electoral rules and ideological congruence

    Matt Golder;Gabriella Lloyd

  • Modeling the Institutional Foundation of Parliamentary Government Formation

    Matt Golder;Sona N. Golder;David A. Siegel

  • Africa: Dictatorial and Democratic Electoral Systems since 1946

    Matt Golder;Leonard Wantchekon

  • Who “Wins”? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister

    Garrett Glasgow;Matt Golder;Sona N. Golder

  • It Is Not Only What You Say, It Is Also How You Say It: The Strategic Use of Campaign Sentiment

    Charles Crabtree;Matt Golder;Thomas Gschwend;Indridi H. Indridason

  • The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: An Exit, Voice and Loyalty Model of Politics

    William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder;Sona N. Golder

  • Religious Participation, Social Conservatism, and Human Development

    Ben Gaskins;Matt Golder;David A. Siegel

  • Religious Participation and Economic Conservatism

    Ben Gaskins;Matt Golder;David A. Siegel

  • Fiscal Policy and the Democratic Process in the European Union

    William Roberts Clark;Matt Golder;Sona Nadenichek Golder

  • Electoral Systems and Citizen-Elite Ideological Congruence

    Matt Golder;Benjamin Ferland

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Gschwend
Thomas Gschwend University of Mannheim
Leonard Wantchekon
Leonard Wantchekon Princeton University
Indridi H. Indridason
Indridi H. Indridason University of California, Riverside

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