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Joan C. Timoneda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes, democratic backsliding, and the application of big data and natural language processing techniques to comparative politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park (2019), MPhil in Latin American Studies from Oxford University (2011), M.A. in Political Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and B.A. from Arizona State University.
- Ph.D.: Political Science, University of Maryland, College Park (2019)
- MPhil: Latin American Studies, Oxford University, St Antony's College (2011)
- M.A.: Political Science, University of Maryland, College Park
- B.A.: Arizona State University
Timoneda's research spans authoritarian regime dynamics, democratic erosion, and computational methods. His book project How Dictators Survive examines institutional personalization in authoritarian regimes using archival work and NLP. He also develops forecasting models for political trends via Twitter and Google Trends, and contributes to methodological advancements in panel data analysis and political text classification. At Purdue, he co-leads the Advanced Methods at Purdue program and teaches courses on political methodology and dictatorship dynamics.
Recent publications highlight his work on power personalization, social media's role in democratic subversion, transformer model performance in political science, and economic shocks in authoritarian systems. His projects include detecting racism in Spanish texts, analyzing cabinet formation in dictatorships, and addressing rare events data challenges in logistic regression.
