Sam Harper

Graduate Instructor
Doctoral Candidate
Biography

Drop-in hours: T 10:00 – 11:00am, W and Th 2:00– 3:00pm, or by appointment

Sam is a doctoral candidate studying state government, public opinion, and policy diffusion at the University of Iowa. His dissertation, "Second-Hand Policy Feedback," is on the effect that state policy adoptions have on public opinion about those policies throughout the United States. His research collaborations include work on the ballot initiative's impact on turnout, the diffusion of election law, and the diffusion of Covid policy in the early days of the pandemic.

 

Research areas
  • American Politics
  • Comparative Politics
Sam Harper 2024
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Education
BA in Political Science and History, University of Arkansas, 2020
Contact Information
Address

313 Schaeffer Hall (SH)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States