Jason Windett

Jason Windett
Professor, School of Data Science
Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program
Dr. Windett’s research agenda focuses broadly on the area of representation in American politics with a focus on state politics, state courts, and gender and politics. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy and others. His current research on state courts of last resort and policy diffusion has been supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation.
His dissertation, Understanding Female Candidates and Campaigns for Governor, was awarded the Christopher Z. Mooney Award for the best dissertation in the area of State Politics by the American Political Science Association. He teach courses on public policy, data science in public policy, state and local politics, gender and politics, economic development, and research methods.
Recent Publications:
- Banda, K. K., & Windett, J. H. (2021). Candidate appearance in campaign advertisements. Electoral Studies, 70, 102275.
- Raudla, R., Douglas, J. W., & Windett, J. H. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Financial Bureaucracies of Europe: The Influence of Policy Sector Vs Administrative Tradition on the Attitudes of Finance Officials. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 23(4), 393-415.
- Almadan, A., Maher, M. L., & Windett, J. (2023, February). Stance Detection for Gauging Public Opinion: A Statistical Analysis. In Advances in Information and Communication: Proceedings of the 2023 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), Volume 1 (Vol. 651, p. 358). Springer Nature.
- Han, D., Nayeem, A. A. R., Windett, J., & Cho, I. (2023, February). Pdviz: A visual analytics approach for state policy data. In Computer graphics forum (Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 305-318).
- Atkinson, M. L., Mousavi, R., & Windett, J. H. (2023). Detecting diverse perspectives: using text analytics to reveal sex differences in congressional debate about defense. Political Research Quarterly, 76(1), 75-89.
- Han, D., Nayeem, A. A. R., Windett, J., Dai, Y., Radford, B., & Cho, I. (2024). A survey on visualization approaches in political science for social and political factors: Progress to date and future opportunities. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05947.
- Kelly, N. J., Windett, J. H., & Witko, C. (2025). Subnational Governments as Alternative Venues for Addressing Inequality in the United States. Territories of Inequality: How Federalism and Redistribution Interact, 12, 318.
- Birkhead, N. A., Harden, J. J., & Windett, J. H. (2025). Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis.