Devin Caughey

Devin Caughey is the Class of 1949 Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at MIT, with affiliations in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. His research examines American political development, representation, electoral systems, and advanced methodological approaches to political analysis.

Professor Caughey holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (2012) and has received numerous awards including the Virginia Gray Book Award and Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award. His work spans historical analyses of political realignments, dynamic modeling of public opinion, and methodological innovations in causal inference and survey analysis.

His empirical research focuses on the relationship between public opinion and policy outcomes across U.S. states, employing advanced statistical techniques to analyze long-term political trends. Recent work includes studies on multidimensional scaling of survey data, randomization inference methods, and causal inference in historical contexts.