Jonathan N. Katz
Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990; M.A., University of California (San Diego), 1992; Ph.D., 1995. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 1995-98; Associate Professor, 1998; 1999-2003; Professor, 2003-11; Sugahara Professor, 2012-; Executive Officer for the Social Sciences, 2007; Director, Linde Institute, 2013-14; Division Chair, 2007-14.
Profile
Jonathan N. Katz's interests lie at the intersection of political science, economics, and statistics. His research focuses primarily on the development of statistical methods for the social sciences and their empirical applications, particularly to elections and other public policy questions. Katz is the Deputy Editor for Social Sciences at Science Advances, the open access journal of the American Association for the Advancement
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Research Summary
Statistics; Political Methodology; Formal Theory; Political Economy; American Politics
Caltech Affiliations
- Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
- The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences
- Information and Data Sciences (Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Division of Engineering and Applied Science)
External Affiliations
- Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)
- Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology (2008)
Featured News
Jonathan N. Katz Wins Career Achievement Award in Political Methodology
November 08, 2024
Katz, the Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics, has won a career achievement award from the Society for Political Methodology.
Does the Electoral College still work as intended, and could it be fairer?
November 05, 2024
From the Caltech Science Exchange: Learn more about the history and mechanics of the Electoral College from Professor Jonathan Katz
The Election Experts
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November 02, 2020
Caltech political scientists, historians, computational social scientists, and data scientists examine the systems, policies, and technologies that underlie elections and other democratic processes.
Selected Publications
- Katz, Jonathan N.;King, Gary et al. (2023) The Essential Role of Statistical Inference in Evaluating Electoral Systems: A Response to DeFord et al.Political Analysis
- Katz, Jonathan N.;King, Gary et al. (2023) Rejoinder: Concluding Remarks on Scholarly CommunicationsPolitical Analysis
- Katz, Jonathan N.;King, Gary et al. (2020) Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based DemocraciesAmerican Political Science Review
- Alvarez, R. Michael;Katz, Jonathan N. et al. (2020) Hidden Donors: The Censoring Problem in U.S. Federal Campaign Finance Data
- Robison, Joshua;Stevenson, Randy T. et al. (2018) An Audit of Political Behavior ResearchSAGE Open
- Katz, Jonathan N.;McCubbins, Mathew D. (2018) Constitutions of Exception: The Constitutional Foundations of the Interruption of Executive and Legislative FunctionJournal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
- Katz, Jonathan N.;Spitzer, Matthew L. (2014) What's age got to do with it? Supreme Court appointees and the long run location of the Supreme Court median justiceArizona State Law Journal
- Beck, Nathaniel L.;Katz, Jonathan N. et al. (2014) Of Nickell Bias and its Cures: Comment on Gaibulloev, Sandler, and SulPolitical Analysis
- Čopič, Jernej;Katz, Jonathan N. (2014) Scheduling Auctions and Proto-Parties in Legislatures
- Thomas, A. C.;Gelman, Andrew et al. (2013) Estimating Partisan Bias of the Electoral College Under Proposed Changes in Elector ApportionmentStatistics, Politics and Policy
Working Papers
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