Michael Bailey

Michael A. Bailey is the Colonel William J. Walsh Professor of American Government in the Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Bailey teaches and conducts research on public opinion, American politics and political economy. He directs the Data Science for Public Policy program at the McCourt School. He is working on three projects:

• a book that calls for a new paradigm for public opinion polling;
• analysis polarization in elections using social media;
• directing the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative, a platform for data sharing and code collaboration.

Bailey received M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. He is also conversational in Japanese and interested in Japanese politics.

The project

Ttile: Using Social Media to Understand Political Polarization

Keywords: Public opinion polls, U.S. politics, text-as-data, environmental data

Hosting institution: Sciences Po

Selection of publications

The Constrained Court: Law, Politics and the Decisions Justices Make from Princeton University Press.

Real Stats, Oxford University Press.

Real Econometrics, Oxford University Press.

Is Today’s Court the Most Conservative in Sixty Years?  Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Judicial Preferences.  Journal of Politics, 75, 3 (July 2013): 821-834.

Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data. with Anton Strezhnev and Erik Voeten.  Journal of Conflict Resolution, 61, 2 (February 2017): 430 – 456.