Devin Caughey

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Devin Caughey is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Devin Caughey has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Devin Caughey's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (24 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (7 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers). Devin Caughey is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (24 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (7 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (6 papers). Devin Caughey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Devin Caughey's co-authors include Christopher Warshaw, Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang, Tom O’Grady, Yiqing Xu, Eric Schickler, Chris Tausanovitch, Jason Seawright and Erin Hartman and has published in prestigious journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology).

In The Last Decade

Devin Caughey

37 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments
    2018 206 citations Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang et al. Political Analysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Devin Caughey United States 15 858 519 309 193 184 40 1.3k
Andrew B. Hall United States 18 871 1.0× 452 0.9× 323 1.0× 196 1.0× 355 1.9× 48 1.2k
Joseph Bafumi United States 14 979 1.1× 532 1.0× 387 1.3× 194 1.0× 220 1.2× 28 1.5k
Matthew Lebo United States 18 899 1.0× 464 0.9× 411 1.3× 145 0.8× 268 1.5× 38 1.3k
Justin Phillips United States 19 1.3k 1.6× 498 1.0× 585 1.9× 315 1.6× 400 2.2× 48 1.9k
Kathleen Knight United Kingdom 15 664 0.8× 558 1.1× 319 1.0× 129 0.7× 119 0.6× 40 1.2k
Benjamin Highton United States 21 1.3k 1.5× 712 1.4× 259 0.8× 358 1.9× 177 1.0× 42 1.6k
Eric Schickler United States 20 1.2k 1.4× 487 0.9× 260 0.8× 209 1.1× 319 1.7× 63 1.4k
Noam Lupu United States 21 1.6k 1.9× 1.0k 2.0× 278 0.9× 418 2.2× 169 0.9× 45 2.2k
Olle Folke Sweden 20 925 1.1× 443 0.9× 403 1.3× 639 3.3× 174 0.9× 37 1.4k
Peter K. Enns United States 19 811 0.9× 854 1.6× 317 1.0× 174 0.9× 127 0.7× 45 1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Devin Caughey

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All Works

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Caughey, Devin, et al.. (2025). MODGIRT: Multidimensional Dynamic Scaling of Aggregate Survey Data. Political Analysis. 33(2). 91–106. 2 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin & Christopher Warshaw. (2022). Dynamic Democracy. 23 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin & Eric Schickler. (2021). The Democratic-CIO Alliance: The Benefits of Friendship. Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. 18(3). 120–125. 1 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, et al.. (2019). Dynamic Ecological Inference for Time-Varying Population Distributions Based on Sparse, Irregular, and Noisy Marginal Data. Political Analysis. 27(3). 388–396. 5 indexed citations
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Dafoe, Allan, Baobao Zhang, & Devin Caughey. (2018). Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments. Political Analysis. 26(4). 399–416. 206 indexed citations breakdown →
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Caughey, Devin. (2018). The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 5 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin. (2018). The Unsolid South. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, et al.. (2018). The ideological nationalization of partisan subconstituencies in the American States. Public Choice. 176(1-2). 133–151. 24 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, Chris Tausanovitch, & Christopher Warshaw. (2017). Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process: Effects on Roll-Call Voting and State Policies. Election Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy. 16(4). 453–469. 24 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, Allan Dafoe, & Jason Seawright. (2017). Nonparametric Combination (NPC): A Framework for Testing Elaborate Theories. The Journal of Politics. 79(2). 688–701. 21 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin & Christopher Warshaw. (2017). Policy Preferences and Policy Change: Dynamic Responsiveness in the American States, 1936–2014. American Political Science Review. 112(2). 249–266. 171 indexed citations
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Dafoe, Allan & Devin Caughey. (2016). Honor and War. World Politics. 68(2). 341–381. 37 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, et al.. (2016). Polarization and Partisan Divergence in the American Public, 1946-2012. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin & Christopher Warshaw. (2015). The Dynamics of State Policy Liberalism, 1936–2014. American Journal of Political Science. 60(4). 899–913. 135 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, Christopher Warshaw, & Yiqing Xu. (2015). The Policy Effects of the Partisan Composition of State Government. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, Tom O’Grady, & Christopher Warshaw. (2015). Ideology in the European Mass Public: A Dynamic Perspective. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Dafoe, Allan, Baobao Zhang, & Devin Caughey. (2014). Confounding in Survey Experiments. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 11 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin & Christopher Warshaw. (2014). Dynamic Representation in the American States, 196002012. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Schickler, Eric & Devin Caughey. (2011). Public Opinion, Organized Labor, and the Limits of New Deal Liberalism, 1936–1945. Studies in American Political Development. 25(2). 162–189. 30 indexed citations
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Caughey, Devin, et al.. (2009). Defining, Mapping, and Measuring Bureaucratic Autonomy. 4 indexed citations

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