Jack Reilly

Welcome. I am an Associate Teaching Professor in the Public Adminstration and International Affairs Department at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, with a particular focus on the Policy Studies undergraduate program. I am also Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute. Previously, I was a Professor at New College of Florida, teaching in the Political Science and Quantitative Social Science programs. I received my PhD from the University of California, Davis and my BA from Reed College.

I study how the social, political, racial, and geographic contexts in which individuals are embedded structure their policy choices, attitudes, preferences, and behavior. I teach courses on data analysis, policy, politics, and quantitative social science.

Courses: Syracuse University

• PST 315: Methods of Public Policy Analysis and Presentation (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
• PAI 721: Introduction to Statistics (Fall 2024)
• MAX 201: Quantitative Methods for Social Science (Spring 2025)
• PAI 300: Artificial Intelligence Policy (Spring 2025)

Courses: New College

• American Government & Civics (Introduction) (Fall 2022)
• US Campaigns & Elections (Fall 2022)
• Public Opinion & Polarization (Spring 2022)
• Political Parties & Political Realignment (Spring 2020)
• Contemporary Republican Theory (Spring 2019)
• Social Networks and the Context of Political Behavior (Spring 2023)
• Political Geography (Spring 2021)
• Rural Politics in the United States (Spring 2021)

• Quantitative Political Analysis I (Spring 2024)
• Quantitative Political Analysis II (Spring 2023)
• Research Design Workshop (Spring 2024)
• R for GIS and Political Geography (Spring 2021)
• R for Social Network Analysis and Visualization (Tutorial)
• Reproducible Research in Social Science (Tutorial)
• Statistical Programming in R for Social Science (Tutorial)
• Experiments in Political Science (Tutorial)

Research: Selected Papers

• "Political and Social Discussion Network Survey Items Are Not Interchangeable" (with Jack K. Belk Jr.) 2023. Journal of Experimental Political Science.
• "The crowding of social distancing: How social context and interpersonal connections affect individual responses to the coronavirus" (with Debra Leiter and Beth Vonnahme.) 2021. Social Science Quarterly.
• "Echoing Certainty in Uncertain Times: Network Partisan Agreement and the Quality of Citizen Forecasts in the 2015 Canadian Election" (with Debra Leiter and Mary Stegmaier.) 2020. Electoral Studies.
• "From Respondents to Networks: Bridging the Gap between Individuals, Discussants, and the Network in the Study of Political Discussion" (with Matthew T. Pietryka, Dan Maliniak, Patrick Miller, Ronald Rapoport, and Robert Huckfeldt.) 2018. Political Behavior.
• "Third Parties, Turnout, and Social Influence: Why Third Party Entry May Decrease Turnout in Plurality Systems" (with Debra Leiter and Joel Bremson). 2017. Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas.
• "Social Connectedness and Political Behavior." 2017. Research & Politics.
• "Noise, Bias, and Expertise in Political Communication Networks" (with Robert Huckfeldt and Matthew T. Pietryka). 2014. Social Networks.

Past Projects

• The Political Behavior Lab, an undergraduate research lab at New College of Florida focused on political behavior in Florida and elsewhere.