Donald Philip Green (born June 23, 1961) is a

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and

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methodologist at

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. Green's primary research interests lie in the development of statistical methods for

field experiments Field experiments are experiments carried out outside of laboratory settings. They randomly assign subjects (or other sampling units) to either treatment or control groups in order to test claims of causal relationships. Random assignment help ...

and their application to American voting behavior.

Biography

In 1983, Green graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science and history from

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. In 1984 he earned an M.A. and in 1988 a Ph.D. in political science at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

for thesis titled ''Self-interest, public opinion, and mass political behavior''. Green's career in academia began in 1989, when he became an assistant professor in the department of political science at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

. He was there until 2011, when he moved to Columbia University. At Yale, he also served as the director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale's center for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and public policy, from 1996 to 2011. To date, Green has authored or coauthored four books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. The varied topics of his scholarship include experimental research methods, voter turnout and persuasion, political party identification, prejudice and hate crime, rational choice theory, public opinion, and statistical methods. He was elected to the

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in 2003 and was awarded the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the ''

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'' during 2009. He is an affiliate of the

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. In December 2014, Green and

graduate student Michael LaCour published a highly publicized study, ''

When contact changes minds "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality" is a fraudulent article by then-UCLA political science graduate student Michael LaCour and Columbia University political science professor Donald Green. Th ...

'', on attitudes towards same-sex marriage, in ''

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''. In May 2015, however, Green requested that the article be withdrawn after colleagues and former students identified misrepresentations and data "irregularities" in the paper. In 2016, Green was appointed the John William Burgess Professor at Columbia University. He was named Faculty Advisor of the Year by Columbia's Political Science Graduate Student Council.

Inventions

Donald Green has designed several boardgames. Green has invented OCTI, OCTI-for-Kids, Jumpin' Java, Mouse Island, Razzle Dazzle, Knight Moves, Fishpond Mancala, and Dupe. In 1999, OCTI was named "Best Abstract Strategy Game of the Year" by Games magazine.

Selected publications

*''Pathologies of rational choice theory: A critique of applications in political science'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), with

Ian Shapiro Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is a Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventio ...

*''Partisan hearts and minds: Political parties and the social identities of voters'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), with Eric Schickler and Bradley Palmquist *''Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation''. (New York: W.W. Norton., 2012), with Alan S. Gerber * Retracted. * ''Get Out The Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout'', Third Edition. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015), with Alan S. Gerber

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Donald 1961 births Living people American political scientists University of California, Los Angeles alumni Yale University faculty Columbia University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences