1. JEFFREY J. HARDEN
Curriculum Vitæ
Last update: June 2014
Contact Information
Department of Political Science Phone: 303.492.2492
University of Colorado Boulder E-mail: jeffrey.harden@colorado.edu
136 Ketchum, UCB 333 Web: spot.colorado.edu/∼jeha9919
Boulder, CO 80309
Education
• 2012: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science
Dissertation: “Multidimensional Democracy: The Supply and Demand of Political Representation”
◦ Co-recipient of the 2013 Christopher Z. Mooney Award for the best dissertation on state politics
and policy from the APSA State Politics and Policy Section
• 2009: M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science
• 2007: B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Political Science
Employment
• 2013–present: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Publications
Book
• Carsey, Thomas M. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2013. Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods
for Social Science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Journal Articles
American Politics
• Gray, Virginia, John Cluverius, Jeffrey J. Harden, Boris Shor, and David Lowery. 2014. “Party
Competition, Party Polarization, and the Changing Demand for Lobbying in the American States.”
Forthcoming, American Politics Research. [2012 Impact Factor: 0.667; 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.970].
• Harden, Jeffrey J. 2013. “Multidimensional Responsiveness: The Determinants of Legislators’ Rep-
resentational Priorities.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 38 (2): 155–184. [2012 Impact Factor: 0.976;
5-Year Impact Factor: 1.063].
• Lowery, David, Virginia Gray, John Cluverius, and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2013. “Explaining the Anoma-
lous Growth of Public Sector Lobbying in the American States, 1997–2007.” Publius: The Journal of
Federalism 43 (4): 580–599. [2012 Impact Factor: 1.000; 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.224].
• Lowery, David, Virginia Gray, Justin Kirkland, and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2012. “Generalist Interest
Organizations and Interest System Density: A Test of the Competitive Exclusion Hypothesis.” Social
Science Quarterly 93 (1): 21–41. [2012 Impact Factor: 0.930; 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.407].
• Harden, Jeffrey J. and Thomas M. Carsey. 2012. “Balancing Constituency Representation and Party
Responsiveness in the U.S. Senate: The Conditioning Effect of State Ideological Heterogeneity.”
Public Choice 150 (1-2): 137–154. [2012 Impact Factor: 0.878; 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.255].
• Carsey, Thomas M. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2010. “New Measures of Partisanship, Ideology, and
Policy Mood in the American States.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 10 (2): 136–156. [2010
Impact Factor: 0.600; 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.078].
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2. Quantitative Methodology
• Desmarais, Bruce A. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2014. “An Unbiased Model Comparison Test Using
Cross-Validation.” Forthcoming, Quality & Quantity. [2012 Impact Factor: 0.728; 5-Year Impact
Factor: 1.242].
• Bollen, Kenneth A., Jeffrey J. Harden, Surajit Ray, and Jane Zavisca. 2014. “BIC and Alternative
Bayesian Information Criteria in the Selection of Structural Equation Models.” Structural Equation
Modeling 21 (1): 1–19. [2012 Impact Factor: 4.242; 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.340].
• Desmarais, Bruce A. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2013. “Testing for Zero-Inflation in Count Models:
Bias Correction for the Vuong Test.” The Stata Journal 13 (4): 810–835. [2012 Impact Factor: 1.310;
5-Year Impact Factor: 3.636].
• Bollen, Kenneth A., Surajit Ray, Jane Zavisca, and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2012. “A Comparison of Bayes
Factor Approximation Methods Including Two New Methods.” Sociological Methods & Research 41
(2): 294–324. [2012 Impact Factor: 1.844; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.477].
• Desmarais, Bruce A. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2012. “Comparing Partial Likelihood and Robust
Estimation Methods for the Cox Regression Model.” Political Analysis 20 (1): 113–135. [2012
Impact Factor: 2.231; 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.856].
• Harden, Jeffrey J. 2012. “Improving Statistical Inference with Clustered Data.” Statistics, Politics,
and Policy 3 (1): 1–27. [No Impact Factor Data].
• Harden, Jeffrey J. and Bruce A. Desmarais. 2011. “Linear Models with Outliers: Choosing Between
Conditional-Mean and Conditional-Median Methods.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 11 (4): 371–
389. [2011 Impact Factor: 0.333; 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.860].
• Harden, Jeffrey J. 2011. “A Bootstrap Method for Conducting Statistical Inference with Clustered
Data.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 11 (2): 223–246. [2011 Impact Factor: 0.333; 5-Year Impact
Factor: 0.860].
Other Peer-Reviewed Articles
• Freeman, Allison T. and Jeffrey J. Harden. 2014. “Affordable Homeownership: The Incidence and
Effect of Downpayment Assistance.” Forthcoming, Housing Policy Debate. [2012 Impact Factor:
0.706; 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.909].
Current Research
Under Review
• Harden, Jeffrey J. Multidimensional Democracy: The Supply and Demand of Political Representa-
tion. Book manuscript, under review.
• Desmarais, Bruce A., Jeffrey J. Harden, and Frederick J. Boehmke. “Persistent Policy Pathways:
Inferring Policy Diffusion Networks in the American States.” Revise and resubmit.
• Harden, Jeffrey J. and Christopher J. Clark. “A Legislature or a Legislator Like Me? The Determi-
nants of Citizen Demand for Collective and Dyadic Political Representation.” Under review.
• Harden, Jeffrey J. and Justin H. Kirkland. “Do Campaign Donors Influence Polarization? Evidence
from Public Financing in the American States.” Under review.
• Carsey, Thomas M. and Jeffrey J. Harden. “Can You Repeat that Please? Using Monte Carlo
Simulation in Graduate Research Methods Classes.” Revise and resubmit.
• Hall, Matthew E.K., Jeffrey J. Harden, and Jason H. Windett. “Institutional Design, Electoral Com-
petition, and Policy Responsiveness on State Supreme Courts.” Under review.
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3. In Preparation
• Birkhead, Nathaniel, Jeffrey J. Harden, and Jason H. Windett. “Understanding Executive Vetoes in
the American States.” In preparation.
• Clark, Christopher J. and Jeffrey J. Harden. “Substance or Symbolism? African American Prefer-
ences for the Political Style of Descriptive Representatives.” In preparation.
• Kropko, Jonathan and Jeffrey J. Harden. “The Hazards of Hazard Ratios: Generating Expected
Event Times from the Cox Proportional Hazards Model.” In preparation.
Grants and Awards
• 2014: Summer Instructional Grant, CU-Boulder, “Representation in American Politics,” $6,000.
• 2013: Best conference paper, APSA Political Networks Section, “Persistent Policy Pathways: Infer-
ring Policy Diffusion Networks in the American States” (with Bruce A. Desmarais and Frederick J.
Boehmke).
• 2013: Research grant, Rutgers University, Eagleton Institute Center on the American Governor,
$10,000: $5,000 awarded, $5,000 matched by CU-Boulder (with Nathaniel Birkhead).
• 2013: Co-recipient, Christopher Z. Mooney Dissertation Award, APSA State Politics and Policy Sec-
tion (best dissertation on state politics and policy).
• 2011–2012: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation,
$12,000 (SES-1119697).
• 2011: Thomas M. Uhlman Summer Research Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Political
Science, $2,000.
• 2010: Thomas F. Ferdinand Summer Research Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School, $3,500.
• 2009: James W. Prothro Award, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Political Science, $250 (Best M.A.
thesis).
• 2008: American Politics Research Group Summer Research Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill Depart-
ment of Political Science, $3,000.
Conference Presentations
• American Political Science Association: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• Midwest Political Science Association: 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012
• Society for Political Methodology: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• State Politics and Policy Conference: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
Teaching Experience
CU-Boulder
• Advanced Political Data Analysis II (graduate)
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Generalized Linear Models (graduate)
• Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (graduate)
• State Government & Politics (undergraduate)
• Representation in American Politics (undergraduate)
UNC-Chapel Hill
• Generalized Linear Models (graduate)
• Introduction to R (H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science)
• Introduction to LATEX(H.W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science)
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4. ICPSR
• Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Scientists (Teaching assistant, Summer
Program Short Course, Chapel Hill, NC)
• Advanced Bayesian Analysis (Co-instructor, Summer Program, Ann Arbor, MI)
University and Departmental Service (CU-Boulder)
• 2014: Senior thesis advisor, Peter Osnes (now graduate student in Political Science at UC-Berkeley)
• 2013–2014: Methodology comprehensive exam committee member; Budget committee member; Li-
brary liaison
• 2013–present: Dissertation committee member, Adam Cayton (graduate student in Political Science
at CU-Boulder)
• 2012–2013: MA thesis committee member, Morgan Holmgren (graduate student in Political Science
at CU-Boulder)
Professional Service
Reviewer
• American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, American Political Science Re-
view, Business and Politics, Journal of Politics, Housing Policy Debate, Legislative Studies Quarterly,
Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, State Pol-
itics & Policy Quarterly
Conference Participation
• Committee member, SPSA Malcolm Jewell Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper (2014–
2015)
• Panel discussant, State Politics and Policy Conference (2011, 2012, 2013)
• Committee member, APSA State Politics and Policy Section Best Paper Award (2013)
• Committee member, Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Society for Political Methodology Annual
Summer Meeting (PolMeth XXX), July 18–20, 2013
• Graduate student coordinator, Society for Political Methodology Annual Summer Meeting (PolMeth
XXIX), July 19–21, 2012
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