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Michael Hanmer
Research Fellow
Email: mhanmer@gvpt.umd.edu
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/hanmer/

Michael Hanmer is a Research Fellow with the Center for American Politics and Citizenship. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan in 2004, a M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York College at Geneseo. From Fall 2004-Spring 2007 Hanmer was an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

Hanmer specialize in American politics and political methodology, with a focus on how electoral institutions shape behavior. His latest book, Discount Voting: Voter Registration Reforms and Their Effects (Cambridge University Press, 2009), investigates the effects of registration laws on turnout, the composition of the electorate, and party behavior in the United States. He is a co-author of Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). He has also published articles on vote-by-mail, election day registration, voting systems, the over-reporting of voting in surveys, and the laws and administrative procedures that govern the ability of college students to register in their college towns. Hanmer's current research investigates the effect of ballot style on electoral outcomes, how mobilization by parties and other organized interests shapes the behavior and attitudes of citizens, the sensitivity of predictions in models of limited dependent variables, the use of ecological inference estimators to understand split-ticket voting, and question wording effects.

Hanmer was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and believe that the Buffalo Bills will someday win the Super Bowl. After growing up watching curling (think shuffle board on ice, not weight lifting) on CBC, he joined the Detroit Curling Club during graduate school. He now curls at the Potomac Curling Club.