Erin Rossiter
Political Science
Nancy Reeves Dreux Assistant Professor of Political Science
- American Politics
- Methodology
- Dynamics of interpersonal political communications
- American political behavior, with a specific interest in political discussion and polarization
- Advancing quantitative methodologies, namely text-as-data and experimental methods, for settings involving interpersonal communication
- Consequences of conversations that cross partisan lines on how Americans feel about opposing party members
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Swifties Band Together to Show Palestinian Solidarity at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour
June 25, 2024
Erin Rossiter, one of the researchers, says that while it’s not clear the extent to which Swifties’ complaints led to the U.S. Department of Justice suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, she and her colleague “like to think and speculate” that this grassroots effort among Swifties “shed light on this issue.”
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Concert ticket fiasco got Taylor Swift fans into politics
June 05, 2024
University of Notre Dame researchers Erin Rossiter, a professor of political science, and Jeff Harden, a professor in the political science department, tested a political science theory called “issue publics.”