Dr Shawn Treier
Biography
Dr. Shawn Treier is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at The Australian National University and a visiting scholar at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Previously, he has been an assistant professor at University of Georgia and the University of Minnesota, and lecturer at the University of Virginia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University in 2011-2012. His work has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly and elsewhere. He is also the co-author, with Jeremy C. Pope, of the 2020 book Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution.
https://www.press.umich.edu/11388330/founding_factions
His research concerns the development of Bayesian models of measurement and application to American political institutions, behaviour and development, and the measurement of democracy.
Publications
- Shawn Treier. 2021. Review of "Handbook of Item Response Theory, Volume Two: Statistical Tools" edited by Wim J. van der Linden. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives. 19(2): 124-139.
- Jeremy C. Pope and Shawn Treier. 2020. Founding Factions: How Majorities Shifted and Aligned to Shape the U.S. Constitution. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
- Shawn Treier. 2020. “Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation”. SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations, vol 2. Luigi Curini and Robert Franzese (eds.). pp. 910-936. London: SAGE Publications.
- Pope, J & Treier, S 2015, 'Voting for a Founding: Testing the Effect of Economic Interests at the Federal Convention of 1787', Journal of Politics, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 519-534.
- Haire, S, Moyer, L & Treier, S 2013, 'Diversity, Deliberation, and Judicial Opinion Writing', Journal of Law and Courts, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 303-330.
- Pope, J & Treier, S 2012, 'Mapping Dimensions of Conflict at the Federal Convention of 1787', Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 145-174.
- Pope, J & Treier, S 2011, 'Reconsidering the Great Compromise at the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and Agenda Effects on the Senate and Slavery', American Journal of Political Science, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 289-306.
- Treier, S 2011, 'Comparing Ideal Points Across Institutions and Time', American Politics Research, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 804- 831.
- Treier, S 2010, 'Where Does the President Stand? Measuring Presidential Ideology', Political Analysis, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 124-136.
- Treier, S & Hillygus, D 2009, 'The Nature of Political Ideology in the Contemporary Electorate', Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 679-703.
- Shawn Treier and Simon Jackman. 2008. "Democracy As a Latent Variable," American Journal of Political Science. 52(1): 201-217. Winner, 2010 Gregory Luebert Article Award for best article in comparative politics.