Daniel J. Hopkins

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Research Statement

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Daniel J. Hopkins studies how citizens form attitudes toward immigration and how local political context shapes those attitudes. His most-cited indexed work, politicized places theory, explains when and where immigrant arrivals provoke local opposition, while a conjoint analysis of attitudes toward immigrants revealed a hidden American consensus beneath apparently polarized views. Related work examines whether correcting misinformation about immigration changes attitudes, finding notably muted effects. Across these studies, the through-line is a methodological commitment to measuring attitudes precisely, including anchoring vignettes designed to correct interpersonal incomparability in surveys. Beyond these, Hopkins contributed as a middle author to causal inference in conjoint analysis, a widely cited framework for understanding multidimensional stated-preference experiments, and to political ideology prediction from Twitter users, bridging computational text analysis with political behavior research. His earlier automated nonparametric content analysis method for social science reflects the same quantitative orientation. No software, datasets, grants, or patents are indexed beyond these publications. Taken together, the works trace a coherent arc: from text-as-data methods and survey measurement toward a substantive research program on immigration attitudes, local politics, and experimental design.

Most Cited Works

Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies

Daniel J. Hopkins, Hans Noel

American Political Science Review2022

65Citations

Local demographic changes and US presidential voting, 2012 to 2016

Seth J Hill, Daniel J Hopkins, Gregory A Huber

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2019

57Citations

Research Areas

Electoral Systems and Political ParticipMedia Influence and PoliticsMigration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial and Intergroup PsychologyPopulism, Right-Wing Movements

Affiliations & Education

Employment

2009–2026
University of Pennsylvania(US)

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Daniel J. Hopkins

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