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Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour
Email: T.Leeper@lse.ac.uk
Office: CON 3.21, Connaught House
Office Hours: Mondays 14:30 - 15:30 and Fridays 09:30 - 10:30 (by appointment)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7191
Website: thomasleeper.com
Twitter: @thosjleeper
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Biography
Dr. Thomas J. Leeper joined the Department of Government in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour. He was previously a Postdoc at Aarhus University and received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University.
Research Interests
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Public opinion
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Political psychology, reasoning, and cognition
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Media exposure and political communication
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Political parties in Europe and the United States
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Survey and experimental methods
Teaching Responsibilities
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GV249: Research Design in Political Science
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GV4J3: Public Opinion, Political Psychology and Citizenship
Publications
Thomas J. Leeper. 2014. “Cognitive Style and the Survey Response.” Public Opinion Quarterly 78(4): 974–983.
Thomas J. Leeper. 2014. “Archiving Reproducible Research with R and Dataverse.” The R Journal 6(1): 151–158.
Thomas J. Leeper. 2014. “The Informational Basis for Mass Polarization.” Public Opinion Quarterly 78(1): 27–46.
Thomas J. Leeper, and Rune Slothuus. 2014. “Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation.” Political Psychology 35 (Supplement 1): 129–156.
Toby Bolsen, Thomas J. Leeper, and Matthew Shapiro. 2014. “Doing What Others Do: Norms, Science, and Collective Action on Global Warming.” American Politics Research 42(1): 65–89.