I am a Political Science PhD student at the University of Maryland studying Congress, Representation, Bureaucratic Politics, and Political Economy. I use computational methods to model how congressional party leaders engage with defection and coalition building amongst rank-and-file members.
Areas of Interest
- Congress
- Representation
- Computational Social Science
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Degrees
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Degree TypeBSDegree DetailsPolitical Science - Towson University
Research Topics
- American Politics
- Methodology
Email
rbookste [at] umd.edu