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Coppock earned his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2016 and has served on the political science faculty at Yale University before joining Northwestern University in 2025. He is the author of 'Persuasion Parallel,' which synthesizes evidence from 23 randomized experiments to show how groups differ significantly in their baseline attitudes and how they respond to new information. He also coauthored 'Research Design in the Social Sciences: Declaration, Diagnosis, Redesign,' a textbook that introduces a new language for describing research designs and evaluating their properties. His current work focuses on meta-reanalysis, aiming to illustrate how this specific research design can help social scientists draw generalized causal inferences. He and his colleagues have applied meta-reanalysis in various contexts, including employment audit studies on gender-based discrimination and experiments assessing political attitudes.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Associate Professor in Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research.
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