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Ciriculum Vitae for Delton T. Daigle Contact Information Delton T. Daigle Education
Doctor of Philosophy 2002 – 2006 (expected) The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio Dissertation Synopsis: During election cycles, pollsters use a variety of techniques to estimate which political parties are gaining or losing ground in the eyes of the electorate. Frequently however, survey research firms will base their estimates upon attitudinal or behavioral factors that are endogenously related to the reports of partisan support. My research has two fundamental goals: First, examining the effectiveness of a variety of attitudinal and behavioral weighting schemes to assess and predict voter behavior. Second, the research examines the link between media poll reports and changes to people’s attitudes and self reports of expected behavior. Ultimately this combined approach weighs in on both the best practices of survey research and the relationship that responsible poll reporting plays in informing the electorate. Master of Arts 2005, Graduate Inter-Disciplinary Specialization in Survey Research The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Research Interests: American Government (Public Opinion and the Media, Voting Behavior), Research Methodology (Survey Research, Econometric Modeling)
* Research Advisor – Herb Weisberg (PhD Michigan 1968; distinguished scholar in electoral behavior and survey research). * Coursework includes advanced regression courses, maximum likelihood estimation, econometric time-series, scaling and dimensional analysis, Bayesian inference (Charles Franklin), event history modeling (Janet Box-Steffensmeier) survey research including questionnaire design (Jon Krosnick), and probability sampling. More broadly, methodologies have focused on data modeling from surveys and experimental designs. * Summer Institute in Political Psychology at OSU in 2003. * Research interests have included developing analytic tools, research designs for sequential and proximity priming effects across various communication modes and using AI algorithms for the reduction of survey non-response error. Substantive research on different weighting schemes for vote projection models. * Graduate research associate at the Ohio State University Center for Survey Research (Director Jerry Kosicki). Involved in planning studies, designing surveys, programming Ci3 for WinCATI or web based data collection, supervising call center, evaluating interviewers, executing focus groups, and participating in team collaboration projects. Master of Arts 2002 McGill University, Montreal Quebec Research Interests: Canadian Politics, Public Opinion, Elections, and Quantitative Research Methodology.
* Research Advisor – Elisabeth Gidengil (PhD McGill 1986; Principle Researcher for 1993, 1997, 2000 Canadian Elections Studies). * MA Research Essay – “Are young Canadians less partisan than their parents?” archived at McGill University Humanities & Social Sciences McLennan Bldg AS42 M36 2003 D354. Bachelor of Arts 1996 (with distinction) Brock University, St. Catherine's Ontario Major: Politics (Canadian Politics, Research Methodology, and Philosophy) Academic Work Experience: Research and Teaching Experience McGill University 2000 – 2002; The Ohio State University 2003 - 2005 Research* Worked as a supervisor in OSU’s Center for Survey research. Duties included designing surveys in WinCATI for both telephone and web-based deployment, Supervised call center, organized focus groups and supported focus group moderators, compiled customer databases and wrote data analysis reports. * Extracted data sets from live samples and archives, general data massaging, recoded variables for use with STATA, SPSS and SAS, ran basic statistics for initial inspection. * Built a variety of sophisticated models using standard regression techniques such as OLS as well as more complex Maximum Likelihood Eslimation (MLE) modelling. * Provided executive summary style overview of results. * Conducted general literature review research, including regarding cross-national elections studies and the provided country dependant macro data for use with the new European Social Survey (first round released for summer, 2003), the National Annenberg Election Study (released 2003) and the National Elections Study (1948 – 2004). * Extracted and analyzed statistics from Canadian Elections Studies databases for analysis and publication. (Extensive quantitative research involving SPSS data manipulation.) * Conducted literature surveys in a variety of academic disciplines including but not limited to Canadian Health Care Policy, Public Opinion and Elections in Canada. * Developed HTML Web Pages for instruction and research projects. Was instrumental in assisting the implementation of an online course using WebCT. While so doing translated lecture notes for an entire course into aesthetically appealing, graphics intensive and animated in-class as well as online presentations. * Extensively monitored media in a variety of subject areas for qualitative content research analysis. Lecturing and Classroom Experience * As a primary course instructor, I prepared and delivered lectures to undergraduate students, evaluated their work, advised students on research strategies, and administered courses. * As a teaching assistant instructed conferences of up to 50 students per section in discussions on weekly lecture and reading material. * Designed exam review guidelines, led exam reviews. * Graded exams and term papers. * Course subjects include: Techniques of Political Analysis (Research Methodology), US Legislative Politics (Congress and the Senate), Introduction to US Politics and Introduction to Canadian Politics. Non-Academic Work Experiences: Systems Support Analyst STS Systems 1998 - 2000 * Customer liaison for hardware and software support related issues including but not limited to: * Networks, including protocols (mostly TCP/IP and NetBEUI) hardware configuration and cabling * PC hardware trouble-shooting and configuration * Custom Developed Applications (Primarily Retail POS and communications) * Third party software (such as MS DOS, MS Windows 3.11, MS Windows 95, MS Windows NT 3.51, MS Windows NT 4.0 Server and Workstation, Trimax POS Express, Sybase SQL Server, LANtastic, and many more.) * Telephone Call Center Support and Second Level Support * Bug reporting, when discovered, resolution recommendation and implementation. Operationa Management Canadian Niagara Hotels 1995 - 1997 * Manager originally hired to open parking facility during and after construction. * Hired, scheduled, and discharged employees as required. Total of 5 Management staff and 30 security guard/parking attendants. * Operated $14 million facility with revenues in excess of $6 million annually. * Contractor negotiations. * Designed and implemented cash control system in absence of automated parking machines. * Wrote and distributed operations manual for newly created business. * Responsible for purchasing, receiving and inventory of all maintenance and cleaning supplies. * Liaison with Casino Niagara Traffic Controller and Front Services, Niagara Regional Police and the Government of Ontario Ministry of Transportation. * Originally hired to set up Sun Unix based parking control system. * Responsible for food and beverage systems programming and management level training on the MICROS (4700 and 8700) point of sale system for all revenue centers within a Multi-Hotel/Casino Entertainment Center and all subsequent database manipulation. Volunteer and Other Experiences: During my College and University education and at other times, I have had the opportunity to work in both volunteer and paid positions. Foremost among those include as a Graphics Designer at Bombardier Aerospace, doing Social Research for McGill University, Brock University and the City of St. Catherine’s, Ontario. Also involved in other endeavors such as student government, sitting as an executive on a student faculty organization, and not the least note worthy (as it paid the bills through my undergraduate education) working in the hospitality industry as a Waiter, Bartender, and Maitre d’. More recently, I assisted in the coordination, organization and execution of a fall 2002 conference on the future of Canadian public policy “The Banff Forum 2002” which brought together young and energetic leaders across a variety of disciplines including business, academia, government and not-for-profit sectors. In addition I was involved in a collaborative project sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust that was executed during the 2004 US Presidential election. The research involved collecting and analyzing “527” (non-candidate) media spending data. The resulting book fromf the project is available from Pew at: PEW Trusts
Professional Association Memberships: * Canadian Political Science Association * American Political Science Association * American Association of Public Opinion Researchers * International Society of Political Psychology |
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