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Contact Information
Soren Jordan
Updated: April 2014
Department of Political Science Office: (979) 845-2511
Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 847-8924
4348 TAMU Phone: On Request
College Station, TX, 77843-4348
E-mail: sorenjordan@pols.tamu.edu
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Web: www.sorenjordan.com
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, May 2015 (Expected)
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Fields: American Politics, Methodology
Committee: Kim Quaile Hill (Chair), B. Dan Wood, Patricia A. Hurley, and
J. Kevin Barge
Provisional Title: Partisan Polarization, Lawmaking, and Representation in the
United States Congress
B.A. in Political Science (4.0), 2010
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Working Papers
Hill, Kim Quaile and Soren Jordan. “The Validation of Proxy Measures of Concepts:
With a Construct-Validity Assessment for the Proxy Measurement of Constituency
Ideology.”
Jordan, Soren. “Empathy, Identity Politics, and Deliberative Democracy.”
Jordan, Soren. “Separating Ambivalence from Indifference.”
Jordan, Soren. “Investigating the Dynamics of Partisan Congressional Approval.”
Jordan, Soren, Clayton McLaughlin Webb, and B. Dan Wood. “Polarization and the
Party Platforms, 1944-2012.” Under review.

Working Books
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Hill, Kim Quaile, Soren Jordan, and Patricia A. Hurley. Subject: The partisan cleavage
and issue complexity theory of dyadic representation elaborated and extended
with original tests and full explication of the theory. Under review.
Wood, B. Dan and Soren Jordan. Subject: Polarization and its measurement and
implications over time.
Conference Participation
“Polarization and Lawmaking Over Time: A Detailed Test of Conditional Party
Government.” To be presented at the Conference on Parties and Polarization in
American Government, College Station, TX, April 2014.
“When Winning Means Losing: Economic Managers and Economic Perceptions.” To
be presented at the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, April 2014.
With Clayton McLaughlin Webb.
“Dynamic Measures of Special Rules.” At the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, IL, April 2014.
“Polarization and the Party Platforms, 1944-2012.” At the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 2013. With B. Dan Wood and Clayton Webb.
“Investigating the Dynamics of Partisan Congressional Approval.” At the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2013.
“The Representational Behavior of Switched-Seat Members of Congress: A Revisionist
Characterization from General Theory.” At the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 2013. With Kim Quaile Hill and Patricia A. Hurley.
“Separating Ambivalence from Indifference.”
Chapel Hill, NC, July 2012.
At the Summer Methods Meeting,
“Electoral Polarization: A Cause or Consequence of Elite Polarization.” At the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2012. With B. Dan Wood.
“Artificially Decreased Variance and Survey Measurement of Ideology.” At the Southern
Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2012. With Grant Ferguson.

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“Electoral Marginality and Constituency Representation: In Search of Theoretically
Unified Findings.” At the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA,
September 2011. With Kim Quaile Hill.
“Electoral Polarization: Definition, Measurement, and Evaluation.” At the American
Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011. With B. Dan Wood.
“Voter Participation in Elections and Dyadic Representation: With Elaborations of
the Theory of Partisan Issue Representation.” At the Southern Political Science
Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2011. With Kim Quaile Hill.
“Voter Participation in Elections and Dyadic Representation: With Elaborations of
the Theory of Partisan Issue Representation.” At the Conference on Democratic
Representation, College Station, TX, November 2010. With Kim Quaile Hill.
Research and Teaching Interests
Representation
Polarization
Public opinion
Methodology
Congress and lawmaking
Research Positions
Research assistant: Kim Quaile Hill (Fall 2010 to Present)
Research assistant: B. Dan Wood (Fall 2010 to Present)
Teaching Positions
Supplemental Instruction
Teaching assistant, Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Generalized Linear Models
(First Session) and Longitudinal Analysis (Second Session), Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods of Social Research. Graded homework assignments, created homework keys,
ran lab sessions (R, Stata, and SAS), and held regular office hours for supplemental
instruction. Instructors (respectively): Dean P. Lacy and Michael L. Berbaum. Ann
Arbor, MI, Summer 2013.

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Supplemental instructor, POLS 602: Quantitative Political Analysis I. Designed and
graded homework assignments and held office hours for supplemental instruction of
graduate-level introduction to statistics seminar. Instructor: Paul M. Kellstedt. Fall
2012; Fall 2013.
Guest Lectures
Guest lecturer, POLS 435: Voting Behavior. Lectured on theories and new research
methods regarding elite and mass polarization. November 19, 2012; April 18, 2013;
November 13, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 209: Introduction to Political Science Research. Lectured on
introduction to ordinary least squares and hypothesis testing. November 8, 2012;
November 8, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 602: Quantitative Political Analysis I. Lectured on the introduction
to bivariate regression, including derivations. September 12, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 209: Introduction to Political Science Research. Lectured on
causality and the four hurdles to causality. September 11, 2013; September 12, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 209: Introduction to Political Science Research. Lectured on
data available for research in American politics. October 3, 2012; February 22, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 209: Introduction to Political Science Research. Lectured on
hypothesis formation and testing. February 14, 2013.
Guest lecturer, POLS 209: Introduction to Political Science Research. Lectured on
developing theory through formal models. September 6, 2012.
Guest lecturer, POLS 319: The American Presidency.
development of the Presidency. February 15, 2012.
Lectured on the historical
Guest lecturer, POLS 319: The American Presidency. Lectured on the relationship
between the President and the Congress. April 11 and 13, 2011.
Professional Activities and Service
Conference
Discussant, Western Political Science Association, April 2014. Panel topic: Institutional
Effects on Elections.

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Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2014. Panel topic: The Debt
Ceiling, Shutdown, and Tea Party Politics.
Department and College
Member, College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Advisory Committee, Office of the Dean of
Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 2013.
President, Graduate Student Association, Department of Political Science, Texas
A&M University, 2012-2013.
Member, Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance Undergraduate Essay
Award Committee for Gender Politics, Texas A&M University, 2012, 2013.
Member, Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance Undergraduate Essay
Award Committee for Latino Politics, Texas A&M University, 2012, 2013.
Referee
American Journal of Political Science
American Politics Research
Memberships
American Political Science Association
Southern Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Honors and Awards
Recipient, College of Liberal Arts Professional Development Grant, Texas A&M University,
2013.
Recipient, Bryan Jones Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, Texas A&M University,
2011.
Recipient, Emerging Scholar Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2010.

Other Qualifications
Computing
Intermediate: R, L A TEX
Beginner: Stata, SPSS, Excel, RATS, SAS
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Methodological Training
Time series
Maximum likelihood estimation
Formal modeling
Bayesian analysis
Hierarchical linear models
Cross-sectional time series
Experimental methods

References
Kim Quaile Hill
Cullen-McFadden Professor and Eppright Professor in Teaching Excellence
Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, 77843-4348
E-mail: e339kq@pols.tamu.edu
B. Dan Wood
Professor, Cornerstone Fellow and Director of the American Politics Program
Department of Political Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX, 77843-4348
E-mail: b-wood@pols.tamu.edu
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