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Devin Caughey is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he joined the faculty in 2012. He obtained his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, after studying history at Yale. His academic work primarily focuses on American politics, with an emphasis on American political development and the representational connections between citizens, government officials, and public policies. Professor Caughey is known for his contributions to methodological topics, including Bayesian measurement models, regression-discontinuity designs, and survey experiments. He has published extensively in these areas and has dabbled in comparative politics and international relations. His notable works include 'Unsolid South,' which examines electoral competition and congressional representation in the context of the one-party South during the New Deal era, and 'Dynamic Democracy' (co-authored with Christopher Warshaw), which analyzes the relationship between public opinion and state policymaking over the past eight decades. Caughey teaches undergraduate courses on American politics and elections, as well as graduate courses on American political institutions, research design, methodology, and political economy.