T. Ryan Johnson

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in Saint Louis. I study political behavior surrounding election reform in the United States and develop spatial methodology for general applications in the social sciences. I have a broad interest in understanding the ways that institutional rules and market forces combine to shape the behaviors and attitudes of party elites, candidates, and voters.

Research Interests

• American Politics: representation and electoral systems
• Political Methodology: computational social science, spatial statistics

Publication

Software

• gpd (Gaussian process derivatives), an addon for the gpml toolkit.

Working Papers

• "Campaign Spending in Top Two Runoffs: Evidence from California"
• "A Machine Learning Method for Indeterminate Spatial Effects in Legacy Studies"
• "Spies in a Barrel: When to Reel in Espionage" w/ Afiq bin Oslan

Work in Progress

• “Candidate Entry After Top-Two Primary Reform: The Washington Experience”
• “Modeling Spatial Effects with Gaussian Processes”
• “Approval Voting With a Run-Off”

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