IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar – Rocio Titiunik

Rocío Titiunik is the James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She specializes in quantitative methodology for the social sciences, with emphasis on quasi-experimental methods for causal inference and political methodology. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political science, political economy, and applied statistics, particularly on the development and application of quantitative methods to the study of political institutions. Her recent methodological research includes the development of statistical methods for the analysis and interpretation of treatment effects and program evaluation, with emphasis on regression discontinuity (RD) designs. Her recent substantive research centers on democratic accountability and the role of party systems in developing democracies. Rocio’s work appears in various journals in the social sciences and statistics, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. In 2016, she received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Political Methodology, which honors a young researcher who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology. She is a member of the leadership team of the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, member-at-large of the Society for Poltical Methodology, and member of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). She is also an Associate Editor for Political Science Research and Methods and the American Journal of Political Science, and has served in the advisory panel for the Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics program of the National Science Foundation.