Faculty Profiles

BIO

Josh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science, Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, and Core Faculty of the Michigan Institute for Data Science at the University of Michigan.  His research explores how new media and psychological processes each shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors. Josh also examines issues in the measurement of public opinion including techniques for reducing measurement error and improving population inferences. His work explores how both accurate and inaccurate political information influences public opinion and voter decision-making, evaluates whether the use of online social networking sites are changing the political information environment, and assesses conditions under which nontraditional social data sources, such as data obtained using analyses of open text or samples of Internet volunteers can lead to conclusions similar to those of traditional probability samples.  His work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Communication, Communication Research, and the Journal of Communication among other outlets.  He maintains the R packages anesrake and weights and is a coauthor of the books Words That Matter and Democracy Amid Crises.