Valentina A. Bali

Valentina A. Bali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, where she has been a faculty member since 2001. Her research focuses on policy processes, state politics, education policy, representation, electoral behavior, and quantitative methods. She holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (2001).

Her work includes analyzing schools' mission statements using text analytics, examining psychological motives behind voting behavior, and studying the impact of electoral calendars on terrorism. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in quantitative methods, policy processes, and education policy.

Key research contributions span topics such as public opinion on school quality, effects of electoral timing on terrorism, and citizen opinions on national identification systems. Her publications appear in journals like Educational Policy, Electoral Studies, and Social Science Quarterly.