Mason Reece

PhD Candidate in Political Science at MIT

Hi, I’m Mason Reece, and I’m a PhD candidate in MIT’s Political Science department focusing on American Politics and Models & Methods. I am interested in local politics, election administration, and novel methods to use large, original, datasets. My dissertation uses cast vote records to study local politics.

To bring a practical lens to my research, I have served as the lead poll worker in Houston and Cambridge and organized a youth voters conference. In my free time, I love riding my bike, hiking, and trying food from around the world. You can find my CV here.

Selected Working Papers

• Mason Reece, Joseph R. Loffredo, Alejandro Flores, Samuel Baltz, and Charles H. Stewart III. (2024+) "Hidden Partisanship in American Elections."
  Most Recent Draft
• Mason Reece. (2024+) "The Democratic and the Republican Way to Clean the Street: Estimating Partisan Voting in Nonpartisan Offices Using Cast Vote Records."
  Most Recent Draft Github
• Mason Reece. (2024+) "Judges as Candidates: Responsiveness to Judicial Selection Methods."
  Most Recent Draft Github

Publications

• Lonna Atkeson, MV Hood III, Colin Jones, Mason Reece, and Robert M Stein. (2022) "Postal Voting in the 2020 Election." Journal of Election Administration, Research and Practice.
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Datasets

• Shiro Kuriwaki, Mason Reece, Samuel Baltz, Aleksandra Conevska, Joseph R. Loffredo, Can E. Mutlu, Taran Samarth, Kevin E. Acevedo Jetter, Zachary Djanogly Garai, Kate Murray, Shigeo Hirano, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James M. Snyder Jr., and Charles H. Stewart III. (2024) "Cast vote records: A database of ballots from the 2020 U.S. Election." Nature Scientific Data.
  Link Github Dataverse