Sean J.

Westwood Curriculum Vitae

seanjw@stanford.edu | 775.229.3205
Academic Appointments
2014-2015 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Princeton University
Education
2014 Ph.D. in Political Communication
Committee: Shanto Iyengar, Justin Grimmer, James Hamilton and Jeremy Bailenson
Stanford University
2008 MSc in Media
The London School of Economics and Political Science
2007 BA in Political Science
Magna Cum Laude
University of Nevada
Books
The Impression of Inuence: How Legislator Communication and Government Spending Cultivate a Personal Vote.
with Justin Grimmer and Solomon Messing
Princeton University Press, 2014
The Myth of Bipartisanship
In progress
Journal Articles
How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Eect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit
Allocation
with Justin Grimmer and Solomon Messing
American Political Science Review, 2012. 106 (4), 703-719.
Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization
with Shanto Iyengar
American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming
Selective Exposure in the Age of Social Media: Endorsements Trump Partisan Source Aliation when Selecting Online
News Media
with Solomon Messing
Communication Research, forthcoming.
The Role of Persuasion in Deliberative Opinion Change
Political Communication, Revise and Resubmit
Articles Under Review
The Nature and Limits of Partisan Prejudice
with Yphtach Lelkes
Under Review
How Social Distance Structures Selectivity and Evaluation of Content in Social Media
with Solomon Messing
Under Review
Deliberation and the Illusion of Democracy: The Eects of Articial Deliberation on Public Attitudes
with Rebecca Weiss
Under Review
Racing to the Polls: How Local Pre-election Polls Increase Turnout
with David Vannette
Under Review
Papers in Progress
Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Eects and the Eects of Heterogeneous Treatments with Ensemble Methods
with Justin Grimmer and Solomon Messing
Hating the Other Side: How Aective Polarization Changes Political Decision-Making
Grants
2010 $60,333 Google Research
Networking the News: The Impact of Social News Ratings on Media Consumption Heuristics and
Agenda Setting
2009 $1,000 Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University
Networking the News: The Impact of Social News Ratings on Media Consumption Heuristics and
Agenda Setting
Refereed Conference Papers
APSA: 2011 (2), 2012, 2013
MPSA: 2011 (2), 2012 (2), 2013, 2014 (2)
PolMeth: 2013
AAPOR: 2011 (3), 2013
PAPOR: 2010, 2013
MAPOR: 2009
NCA: 2010 (2)
ICA: 2010 (2), 2013 (2)
Computational Social Science
Professional experience with: python, Java, php, JavaScript, mongoDB (NoSQL database), SQL (mysql and SQL server),
Amazon EC2
Tools: R, Unix, Qualtrics, L
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Service
Political Communication, Assistant Editor (2012)
Reviewer
Political Communication
Public Opinion Quarterly
Legislative Studies Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Political Science
Journalism
Journal of Mixed Methods Research
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