Evan Crawford
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of San Diego
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About Evan
Crawford studies elections and voting behavior at the local level, with a particular emphasis on the politics of school board elections. Prior to graduate school he was a history and government teacher in both middle school and high school settings. He has a Master’s degree in Education and a Bachelor’s degree in History.
Contributions
In the News
"Partisan vs. Nonpartisan Board Elections," Evan Crawford, Board Savvy Superintendent, School Administrator, June 1, 2018.
Evan Crawford quoted by Jessie Pounds, "For Guilford's School Board, Party Lines aren't Dividing Lines" News & Record, January 22, 2018.
Publications
"How Nonpartisan Ballot Design Conceals Partisanship: A Survey Experiment of School Board Members in Two States" Political Research Quarterly 71, no. 1 (2018): 143-156.
Reveals a group of "polarized nonpartisans" who tend to express more partisan views about public policy than their co-partisans elected in an explicitly partisan system. Reveals the need for continued research into the behavioral consequences of nonpartisan ballots.