Rebecca Morton

Course: Experimental Methods (2014, 2013, 2012)

Rebecca B. Morton (1954-2020) was Professor of Politics at New York University. She was a graduate of Louisiana State University and earned her PhD at Tulane University. She was the author of Analyzing Elections (2006) and Methods and Models. A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science (1999), co-author of Learning by Voting. Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections (2001) and Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality. From Nature to the Lab (2010), as well as co-editor of Experimental Political Science: Principles and Practices (2012). In addition to experimental methods, here interests included the study of elections and electoral processes, the empirical analysis of formal models, and research on personality traits and ideology. She also taught at the IPSA Summer School at the University of São Paulo, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques at the University of Ljubljana, the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, and the EITM Institute.