Expertise: elections, voting, statistics

Ines Levin, political science assistant professor, studies questions related to elections, voter behavior and public opinion. She uses statistical modeling to understand electoral outcomes and participation in democratic decision-making. 

Her past research has included studies on e-voting and convenience voting, the impact of voting advice applications, political participation of Latino immigrants, and political support in emerging democracies. Her work on these topics has been published in Political Behavior, Political Science Research and Methods, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, American Politics Research, and Political Research Quarterly, to name a few. In 2014, one of her articles received the best paper award from the EVOTE2014 conference for her study on voting experience and trust in Argentina’s first full e-election. Her research has been supported by the NSF-funded program Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) and by the Max Weber Programme.

Before joining the UCI faculty this fall Levin was an assistant professor at the University of Georgia where she was a past recipient of the Susette M. Talarico Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Department of Political Science. Prior to her time in Georgia, Levin spent a year at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy as a Max Weber Fellow. The multidisciplinary character of the School of Social Sciences and UCI more broadly was a big draw for her move to the Irvine campus, she says.

Levin earned her bachelor’s in economics at Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay and her Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology.

 

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