Max Weylandt.

Hello! I just graduated with my PhD in Political Science (and a concurrent Master's in Statistics) from Northwestern University.

In my dissertation, I researched what Americans think democracy means, how elites talk about democracy in three countries (U.K., U.S., RSA), and the relationship between prejudice and democratic attitudes. I also like thinking about how survey researchers can collect better data, and am working on tools that can make their life easier when analyzing data.

I'm a big fan of the R programming language, which I've used to make a library that allows easy detection of straightlining, some games, and this website.

Before coming to Northwestern, I worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research in Namibia — my work for them is here.

Publications

"The 2014 National Assembly and presidential elections in Namibia." Electoral Studies 38 (2015): 126-130. (link) (pdf)

Erratum: There's a somewhat consequential typo here. I write
The constitutional amendments increased competitive seats in the National Assembly from 72 to 96, while presidential appointments to the NA doubled from four to eight.

Actually , presidential appointments went from 6 to 8. See the annotated Constitution Amendment Act (2014) as provided by the Legal Assistance Centre here, under Article 43.

Find me

Github
Gitlab
Twitter (mostly dormant)
mweylandt@u.northwestern.edu
CV (pdf)

Posts

Dataset: Namibian National Assembly Elections, 1989-2019 2024-09-30
Getting Longer Responses to Open-Ended Questions 2024-09-07
Northwestern University Dissertation Template - Quarto 2024-07-02
Straightliner: a package for detecting inattentive respondents 2024-02-11
Dropping interactions from modelsummary tables 2024-01-18
gameRoom: some turn-based games for the R console 2024-01-08
A null result: induced threat from immigration doesnt seem to affect efficacy (a fair bit later in the survey) 2023-12-28
Enlarging the HTML edit box in Qualtrics with one click 2023-11-19
Qualtrics text file format for importing surveys has some undocumented features 2023-07-07
How this website works 2023-01-10
Drag and drop pandoc conversion using batch 2023-01-03