David Park

Overview

David Park is a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis (Department of Political Science). His research spans public opinion, electoral behavior, and Bayesian methods in political science. He is a co-author of the Gelman-Shor-Bafumi-Park (2007) study on income, partisanship, and U.S. states.

Key Contributions

• Gelman-Shor-Bafumi-Park (2007): Co-author of the multilevel logistic analysis establishing that the income–Republican vote slope is a function of average state income ($b^\beta < 0$); contributed to the "secret weapon" repeated cross-sectional design revealing the post-1992 emergence of the pattern. See Bayesian Hierarchical Model.

Related

• Andrew Gelman
• Boris Shor
• Joseph Bafumi
• Gelman-Shor-Bafumi-Park (2007)
• Bayesian Hierarchical Model