Professor Christenson studies American political behavior and quantitative methods.
Dino Pinterpe Christenson's recent work explores voting behavior and campaign dynamics, the coalition strategies of interest groups, judicial decision-making, and public opinion and the media environment of institutional outcomes. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, among other outlets. His work has received the Editors’ Choice Article Award from Political Analysis, the Best Article Award by the Law & Courts Section of APSA, as well as the Best Article Award from Political Research Quarterly. He is coauthor of The Myth of the Imperial Presidency: How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive (University of Chicago Press, 2020) and Applied Social Science Methodology: An Introductory Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism in Political Science (Oxford University Press, 2026). He has received project grants from several organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Dirksen Congressional Center.
