Adam Dynes

I research how US governments represent their constituents. More specifically, I use quantitative methods to examine factors (like electoral institutions and partisanship) that potentially influence policy outcomes and politicians’ behavior and perceptions of their constituents. Though my work spans all levels of government in the United States, most of it involves municipal politics and politicians (i.e., mayors and city councils). My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

I received my Ph.D. from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, I worked in state politics on education policy for 4 years in Utah and attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate. I was born and raised in the suburbs of Houston, TX.