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David Darmofal is a Professor and Department Vice Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on political behavior, American political development, and political methodology, with a particular emphasis on spatial analysis, survival analysis, and time series analysis. He authored Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press) and co-authored Demography, Politics, and Partisan Polarization in the United States, 1828–2016 (Springer).
His work examines how political geography and spatial interactions shape political actors' behavior, including studies on roll-call voting, legislative geography, and electoral polarization. His methodology-driven research bridges quantitative techniques like spatial lag models and geographically weighted regressions with substantive political questions. Notable contributions include analyzing the political geography of presidential elections, partisan polarization trends, and the impact of federalism on labor unions.
His publications span journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Political Geography, and Political Psychology. Despite his prolific output, no scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided texts. His advising record is not detailed here, and no lab affiliations are mentioned, though his work likely intersects with research teams in spatial and quantitative political science.
