Betsy Sinclair

Betsy Sinclair is the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science, chair of political science, and assistant vice provost for digital transformation at WashU. Sinclair’s research interests include American politics and political methodology with an emphasis on individual political behavior. She focuses on the social foundations of participatory democracy — the ways in which social media influences voting, donating, choosing a candidate or identifying with a particular party. She is interested broadly in voting and elections and her focus ranges from evaluating the consequences of different voting technologies to developing techniques to draw additional causal inferences in randomized field experiments.