Nick Campos
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Hello! My name is Nick Campos and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science with focuses in American Politics, Political Methodology, and Political Psychology. My research explores how people use groups to make sense of the political world. Politics is complicated and constantly changing, but groups can help the average citizen form their political beliefs. My interests have manifested in two lines of work. The first explores rising partisan affective polarization in the United States. I have published work on the conceptualization and measurement of affective polarization, and am currently working on projects that examine the relationship between affective polarization and anti-democratic attitudes, ideological belief systems, and media use. The second, beginning as my dissertation, questions why groups such as immigrants or transgender people have become so politically salient despite making up a small portion of the population. I argue that people hold durable attitudes towards many social groups and care about the substantive political interests of those groups. Contrary to identity models of political behavior, I find that people's attitudes toward groups they don't identify with produce their partisan attachments, issue positions, and affective polarization. Methodologically, I have a special interest in the measurement of political concepts. My work employs a host of quantitative methods such as psychometric, experimental, and panel methods.
Educational Background
- B.A. : Psychology and Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2022
Specialties
- Political Psychology
- American Politics
- Affective Polarization
- Political Methodology
- Measurement