Donald Philip Green (born June 23, 1961) is a

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and

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methodologist at

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. Green's primary research interests lie in the development of statistical methods for

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and their application to American voting behavior.

Biography

In 1983, Green graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in political science and history from

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

. In 1984, he earned an M.A. and in 1988 a Ph.D. in political science at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

for thesis titled ''Self-interest, public opinion, and mass political behavior''. Green's career in academia began in 1989, when he became an assistant professor in the department of political science at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. He was there until 2011, when he moved to Columbia University. 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. To date, Green has authored or coauthored four books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. The varied topics of his scholarship include experimental research methods, voter turnout and persuasion, political party identification, prejudice and hate crime, rational choice theory, public opinion, and statistical methods. He was elected to the

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in 2003 and was awarded the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the ''

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'' during 2009. He is an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In December 2014, Green and

graduate student Michael LaCour published a highly publicized study, '' When contact changes minds'', on attitudes towards same-sex marriage, in ''

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''. In May 2015, however, Green requested that the article be withdrawn after colleagues and former students identified misrepresentations and data "irregularities" in the paper. In 2016, Green was appointed the John William Burgess Professor at Columbia University. He was named Faculty Advisor of the Year by Columbia's Political Science Graduate Student Council.

Inventions

Donald Green has designed several boardgames. Green has invented

OCTI Octi is an abstract strategy game designed by Donald Green for 2 or 4 players. The game was first published in 1999 by The Great American Trading Company. The game was originally designed to be played on a 9-by-9 board. A smaller version of the ...

, OCTI-for-Kids, Jumpin' Java, Mouse Island, Razzle Dazzle, Knight Moves, Fishpond Mancala, and Dupe. In 1999, OCTI was named "Best Abstract Strategy Game of the Year" by Games magazine.

Selected publications

*''Pathologies of rational choice theory: A critique of applications in political science'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), with

Ian Shapiro Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is an American legal scholar and political scientist who serves as the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale Univ ...

*''Partisan hearts and minds: Political parties and the social identities of voters'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), with Eric Schickler and Bradley Palmquist *''Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation''. (New York: W.W. Norton., 2012), with Alan S. Gerber * * ''Get Out The Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout'', Third Edition. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015), with Alan S. Gerber

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Donald 1961 births Living people American political scientists University of California, Los Angeles alumni Yale University faculty Columbia University faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American board game designers