Derek Holliday
Derek Holliday
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Full-time
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Professor Holliday's research focuses broadly on political representation in American politics, at the intersection of political behavior and institutions. He is specifically interested in how partisan identification and animosity structures behavior across all levels of U.S. politics (national, state, and local) and the consequences of political polarization on democratic functioning. His work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, PNAS Nexus, and the Election Law Journal. His dissertation was awarded the Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize by the APSA State Politics and Policy Section.
American Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, State and Local Politics, Representation, Political Methodology
PSC 2223 - Campaigns and Elections
PSC 3192W - Nationalization of U.S. Politics
PSC 8124 - Multilevel Modeling
PSC 3192W - Nationalization of U.S. Politics
PSC 8124 - Multilevel Modeling
PSC 8185 - Topics in Empirical and Formal Political Analysis
Ph.D. (Political Science), UCLA, 2023
M.S. (Statistics), UCLA, 2023
B.A. (Political Science, Philosophy), Rice University, 2016
- Tausanovitch, Chris and Derek Holliday. Forthcoming. “Income, Education, and Policy Priorities.” Political Science Research and Methods.
- Holliday, Derek, Justin Grimmer, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2025. “Who are the Election Skeptics? Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections.” Election Law Journal 24 (1): 1-17.
- Holliday, Derek, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “The July 2024 Trump Assassination Attempt was Followed by Lower In-Group Support for Partisan Violence and Increased Group Unity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (49).
- Holliday, Derek, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “Affective Polarization is Uniformly Distributed Across American States.” PNAS Nexus 3 (10).
- Holliday, Derek, Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood. 2024. “Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (13).
- Hamel, Brian and Derek Holliday. 2024 “Unequal Responsiveness in City Service Delivery: Evidence from 42 Million 311 Calls.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 19 (3): 243-274.
- Not Another Politics Podcast (UChicago Harris School of Public Policy): “Do City Services Move Faster for Affluent and White Neighborhoods?”
- Guerin, Rebecca J., Arash Naeim, Ryan Baxter-King, Andrea H. Okun, Derek Holliday, and Lynn Vavreck. 2022. “Parental intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19: Findings from a U.S. National Survey.” Vaccine 41 (1): 101-108.
- Naeim, Arash, Rebecca Guerin, Ryan Baxter-King, Andrea Okun, Neil Wenger, Karen Sepucha, Annette Stanton, Aaron Rudkin, Derek Holliday, Alexander Rossell Hayes, and Lynn Vavreck. 2022. “Strategies to increase the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19: Findings from a nationally representative survey of US adults, October 2020 to October 2021.” Vaccine 40 (52): 7571-7578.