Gabriel S. Lenz

Gabriel Lenz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He studies American politics, with a focus on campaigns and elections, political psychology, and public opinion. Although his research centers on American politics, his work often strays into other countries, especially Canada and Britain, and into methodology, especially research design and quantitative methods. Lenz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College in 1999, and received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2006.

Subjects

17.20
Introduction to the American Political Process
17.243/17.952
Media Politics
17.264
Electoral Politics
17.871
Political Science Lab

Papers

"Looking the part: Television leads less informed citizens
to vote based on candidates’ appearance" | Supplemental Materials
"Learning and Opinion Change, Not Priming: Reconsidering the Evidence for the Priming Hypothesis" American Journal of Political Science 53, no. 4 (forthcoming, October 2009) | Internet Appendix
"Exploiting a Rare Communication Shift to Document the Persuasive Power of the News Media" (with Jonathan Ladd). American Journal of Political Science 53, no. 2 (April 2009) pp.394-410 | Internet Appendix
"Reassessing the Role of Anxiety in Vote Choice" (with Jonathan Ladd). Political Pyschology 29, no. 2. (April 2008) pp. 275-296.
"The Consequences of Income Inequality for Redistributive Policy in the United States" In Kathryn N. Neckerman, ed., Social Inequality (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004).

Gabriel Lenz

Office: E53-463
Phone: 617-253-6959
email: glenz@mit.edu

Curriculum Vitae (12/08, pdf)

A helpful survey software tool used in my online experiments: SurveyGizmo