Donald Green

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.

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 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. He was there until 2011, when he moved to Columbia University.

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 is an affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

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. In May 2015, however, Green requested that the article be withdrawn after colleagues and former students identified misrepresentations and data "irregularities" in the paper.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 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 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