Michael W Traugott
Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Political Studies and Adjunct Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
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Michael Traugott is serving as Interim Director of the Center for Political Studies for the year 2025-2026.
Professor Traugott studies the mass media and their impact on American politics. This includes research on the use of the media by candidates in their campaigns and its impact on voters, as well as the ways that campaigns are covered and the impact of this coverage on candidates. He has a particular interest in the use of surveys and polls and the way news organizations employ them to cover campaigns and elections
- Singh, Lisa, Bao, Le, Bode, Leticia, Ceren Budak, Josh Pasek, Trivellore E Raghunathan, Michael W Traugott, Wang, Yanchen, Wycoff, Nathan. 2024. Understanding the rationales and information environments for early, late, and nonadopters of the COVID-19 vaccine. npj Vaccines 9(1):1-12.
- Ozan Kuru, Josh Pasek, Michael W Traugott. 2020. When Pundits Weigh In: Do Expert and Partisan Critiques in News Reports Shape Ordinary Individuals? Interpretations of Polls?. Mass Communication and Society :628-655.
- Traugott, Michael W, Lavrakas, P J, Kennedy, C , de Leeuw, E D, Holbrook, A . 2019. Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment.
- Pasek, Josh, Traugott, Michael W, Kuru, Ozan . 2019. When Polls Disagree: How Competitive Results and Methodological Quality Shape Partisan Perceptions of Polls and Electoral Predictions. International Journal of Public Opinion Research
- Traugott, Michael W, Lavrakas, Paul J, Miller, Peter V. 2019. Presidential Polls and the News Media. :243.
- Traugott, Michael W. 2019. Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President-What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know. Public Opinion Quarterly 83(1):166-168.
- Traugott, Michael W, Jardina, Ashley . 2019. The Genesis of the Birther Rumor: Partisanship, Racial Attitudes, and Political Knowledge. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics 4(1):60-80.
- West, Brady Thomas, Traugott, Michael W, Lavrakas, Paul J, Kennedy, Courtney , Leeuw, Edith D. de, Holbrook, Allyson L. 2019. Probability Survey-Based Experimentation and the Balancing of Internal and External Validity Concerns. Experimental Methods in Survey Research :1-18.
- Josh Pasek, Bode, Leticia , Ceren Budak, Ladd, Jonathan M, Newport, Frank , Michael W Traugott. 2018. Words That Matter How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign..
- Pasek, Josh, Traugott, Michael W, Kuru, Ozan . 2017. Motivated Reasoning in the Perceived Credibility of Public Opinion Polls. Public Opinion Quarterly 81(2):422-446.