Donald Green

For the Australian cricketer, see Donald Green (cricketer).

Donald Philip Green (born June 23, 1961) is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist at Columbia University. Green's primary research interests lie in the development of statistical methods for field experiments and their application to American voting behavior.[1]

Biography

In 1983, Green graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science and history from UCLA. In 1984 he earned an M.A. and in 1988 a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Berkeley[2] for thesis titled Self-interest, public opinion, and mass political behavior.[3]

Green's career in academia began in 1989, when he became an assistant professor in the department of political science at Yale University. He was there until 2011, when he moved to Columbia University.[4] 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.[5]

To date, Green has authored or coauthored four books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and was awarded the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the American Political Science Review during 2009.[6] Green was named a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, for which he was to receive a $200,000 award to support his research, but the fellowship was not taken up.[7]

In December 2014, Green and UCLA graduate student Michael LaCour published a highly publicized study, When contact changes minds, on attitudes towards same-sex marriage, in Science.[8] In May 2015, however, Green requested that the article be withdrawn after colleagues and former students identified misrepresentations and data "irregularities" in the paper.[9]

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.[10][11] In 1999, OCTI was named “Best Abstract Strategy Game of the Year” by Games magazine.[12]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Biography". Donald P. Green. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Curriculum vita". Donald P. Green. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Self-interest, public opinion, and mass political behavior / by Donald Philip Green.". UCB Library Catalog. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  4. ↑ "Curriculum vita". Donald P. Green. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  5. ↑ "As ISPS director, Hacker to focus on "real-world" problems". Yale News. 2011-07-18. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Leadership". Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "ANDREW CARNEGIE FELLOWS 2015". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Lacour, M. J.; Green, D. P. (2014). "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality". Science 346 (6215): 1366–9. doi:10.1126/science.1256151. PMID 25504721.
  9. ↑ Barbash, Fred (May 20, 2015), "Co-author disavows highly publicized study on public opinion and same-sex marriage", Morning Mix, Washington Post
  10. ↑ Baker, Dorie (21 June 1999). "Boredom with board games prompts Green to invent new one". Yale Bulletin. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  11. ↑ "Donald Green CV" (PDF). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  12. ↑ McCarthy, Peggy (11 November 1999). "Professor Sees a Toy, Then Invents Game". New York Times. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
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