Jack Reilly

• 2024 Fall
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • PST 315 Methods of Public Policy Analysis and Presentation

Jack Reilly (he/him/his) joins the Public Administration and International Affairs Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in Fall 2024 as an associate teaching professor. He will teach Methods of Public Policy Analysis and Introduction to Statistics.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Reilly was an associate professor with tenure at New College of Florida from 2018 to 2024, and an assistant professor from 2013 to 2018 where he taught Quantitative Political Analysis, Social Networks, Political Geography, and the Context of Political Behavior.

Reilly’s research explores the social, political and geographic contexts that influence individuals' political choices, preferences and behaviors. He coauthored a chapter in the book “Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism Since the New Deal,” published by Cambridge University Press. His work has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Sciences Quarterly and Electoral Studies.

In 2020, Reilly was a recipient of the Hayek Fund for Scholars Award from the Institute of Humane Studies. His research has been funded by the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center Research Grant.

While at the New College of Florida, Reilly received the Summer Faculty Development Grant in 2023. In 2024, he chaired the Provost’s Advisory Committee.

Reilly earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in 2013 from the University of California, Davis, and a B.A. from Reed College in 2005. 

"How Personal Relationships Shape Attitudes Towards Government in a Time of Crisis", Sponsored by Hayek Fund for Scholars: The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS).

"The Crowding of Social Distancing: How Personal Relationships Shape Attitudes Towards Government in a Time of Crisis", Sponsored by APSA Centennial Center Research Grant.

"Measurement and Rural Politics", Sponsored by APSA Centennial Center Research Grant.

• Journal Articles
  • Reilly, J., Belk, J., ""Political" and "Social" Discussion Network Survey Items are Not Interchangeable." Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2023.
  • Leiter, D., Reilly, J. and Vonnahme, B., "The Crowding of Social Distancing: How Social Context and Interpersonal Connections Affect Individual Responses to the Coronavirus." Social Science Quarterly, 2021.
  • Leiter, D., Reilly, J. and Stegmaier, M., "Echoing certainty in uncertain times: Network partisan agreement and the quality of citizen forecasts in the 2015 Canadian election." Electoral Studies, 2020.
  • Leiter, D., Reilly, J., "Using An Agent-Based Model to Test Institutional Variation: Creating a Counterfactual World." Sage Research Methods Cases: Politics & International Relations, 2019.
  • Rapoport, R., Reilly, J. and Stone, W. J., "It's Trump's Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To." The Forum, 2019.
  • Pietryka, M. T., Reilly, J., Maliniak, D., Miller, P., Huckfeldt, R. and Rapoport, R., "From Respondents to Networks: Bridging the Gap between Individuals, Discussants, and the Network in the Study of Political Discussion." Political Behavior, 2018.
  • Reilly, J., "Social Connectedness and Political Behavior." Research & Politics, 2017.
• Book Chapters
  • Engstrom, E. J., Huckfeldt, R. and Reilly, J., "Chapter 4: Civil Rights and Populism: The 1957 Civil Rights Act in the U.S. Senate." In Race, Class, and Social Welfare: Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism Since the New Deal. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  • Huckfeldt, R., Pietryka, M. T., Reilly, J., Ahn, T. K. and Ryan, J. B., "Chapter 10: The Complex Dynamics of Political Communication." In Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens: Are Electorates Self-Educating?. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • Huckfeldt , R., Pietryka, M. T., Reilly, J., Ahn, T. K. and Ryan, J. B., "Chapter 9: Noise, Bias, and Expertise: The Dynamics of Becoming Informed." In Experts, Activists, and Interdependent Citizens: Are Electorates Self-Educating?. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Chapter, Edited Volume
  • Huckfeldt , R., Mondak, J. J., Hayes, M., Pietryka, M. T. and Reilly, J., "Chapter 21: Networks, Interdependence, and Social Influence in Politics." In The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. Huddy, L., Sears, D. O. and Levy, J. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Conference Proceeding
  • Leiter , D., Reilly, J. and Bremson, J., "Third Parties, Turnout, and Social Influence: Why Third Part Entry May Decrease Turnout in Plurality Systems." Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, 2018.
• Scholarly Reports
  • Reilly, J., Belk Jr., J. K., Kufrovich, A., Lin, J. and Renzy, R., "Scott, Nelson, DeSantis, Gillum & Beyond: A Look at 2018 Florida Precinct Returns." In Florida Political Science Chronicle. , 2019.
  • Boydstun, A. E., Feezell, J. T., Glazier, R. A., Jurka, T., Pietryka, . T. and Reilly, J., "Bringing Teaching and Research Together: A Report of the 2012 React Labs Educate Presidential Study." In The Political Science Educator. , 2012.

Belk, J., Reilly, J., International Social Networks Conference (Sunbelt), "Fairness, Legitimacy, and Reform: Discussion Networks and Attitudes towards the 2020 Election" (2023)

Belk, J., Reilly, J., Election, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Annual Conference, "Individual Attitudes towards Electoral Processes in the 2020 Election" (2023)

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Let's Talk About People Talking About Politics: Media and Political Communication" (2023)

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Partisanship and Voting Behavior: Comparative Political Behavior and Electoral Systems" (2023)

Gonzalez, C., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Paving over Democracy: The Effects of Highways on Voter Turnout" (2023)

Leiter, D., Saumier, M., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Rural Politics, Skepticism, and Citizen Attitudes in the 2015 Canadian Election" (2023)

Annual Meeting of the Computational Social Science Society of the Americas, "The Persistence of Heterogeneity: Revisiting the Axelrod Culture Model" (2023)

Bedell, R., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Unpaid Labor, Social Reproduction Theory, & Capitalisms Oppressive Contradiction" (2023)

Leiter, D., Vonnahme, B., Reilly, J., Southwestern Social Science Association, "My Friends Say It's Fine: Social Connections and Support for Government Handling of the Coronavirus" (2022)

Gonzalez, C., Reilly, J., Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Paving over Democracy: The Effects of Highways on Voter Turnout" (2022)

Gonzalez, C., Reilly, J., Michigan Emerging Scholars in Political Science Conference, "Paving over Democracy: The Effects of Highways on Voter Turnout" (2022)

Kothe, A., Reilly, J., Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Pluralism in Political Time: A Theory of Political Transition" (2022)

Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "State and Local Government: Voting, Dwelling, and Foreign Investments" (2022)

Leiter, D., Stegmaier, M., Reilly, J., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "What Forecasting Does for You: How Citizen Forecasts Shape Political Behavior" (2022)

Kufrovich, A., Belk, J., Skripnikov, A., Reilly, J., Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, "Distance, Movement, and Turnout: The Relationship between Precinct Polling Locations and Turning Out to Vote" (2021)

Leiter, D., Reilly, J., International Studies Association Midwest Conference, "Networks, Turnout, and Strategic Voting in the 2015 Canadian Election" (2021)

Renzy, R., Belk, J., Reilly, J., Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, "Rurality and Policy Congruence at the National Level: Disconnect Between Public Opinion and Representative Behavior?" (2021)

Leiter, D., Vonnahme, B., Reilly, J., Southwestern Social Science Association, "The Crowding of Social Distancing: How Personal Relationships Shape Attitudes Towards Government in a Time of Crisis" (2021)

Renzy, R., Reilly, J., Florida Undergraduate Research Conference, "Time to Clock In: Work-Sharing Policy in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021)

Lin, J., Reilly, J., Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, "Democrats and Republicans Communicate Different Moral Values in National Convention Speeches" (2020)

Lin, J., Cottrell, C., Reilly, J., Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Democrats and Republicans Communicate Different Moral Values through their 2016 National Convention Speeches" (2020)

Leiter, D., Stegmaier, M., Reilly, J., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Partisanship Over Friendship: Networks and Partisanship in Citizen Forecasting" (2020)

Belk, J., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Rural Matters: Rural and Urban Politics and the Problems of Measurement" (2020)

Leiter, D., Vonnahme, B., Reilly, J., International Social Networks Conference (Sunbelt), "The Crowding of Social Distancing: How Personal Relationships Shape Attitudes Towards Government in a Time of Crisis" (2020)

Rapoport, R., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "The Tea Party and Trump: Factionalism in the Republican Party, 2010-2016" (2020)

Belk, J., Kufrovich, A., Li, J., Renzy, R., Reilly, J., Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "A Look at the 2018 Florida Precinct Returns" (2019)

Leiter, D., Stegmaier, M., Reilly, J., American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Citizen Forecasting and Partisan Networks in the 2018 US Elections" (2019)

Rapoport, R., Stone, W., Kujala, J., Reilly, J., Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "It's Trump's Party" (2019)

Leiter, D., Reilly, J., International Studies Association-Midwest, "Let's Talk, Canada: How Social Networks Influence Political Behavior in Multiparty Plurality Systems" (2019)

Leiter, D., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "Networks, Turnout, and Strategic Voting in the 2015 Canadian Election" (2019)

Belk, J., Reilly, J., Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "On the ?uestion of Rural Measurement" (2019)

Thompson, E., Reilly, J., Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "The Politics of the Human-Animal Relationship" (2019)

Rapoport, R., Stone, W., Kujala, J., Reilly, J., Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, "The Tea Party and Trump Too: Factionalism in the Republican Party, 2010-2016" (2019)

Conference Travel Fellowship, Political Networks Conference (2017)

Artinian Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association (2015)

Conference Travel Fellowship, Political Networks Conference (2015)

Conference Travel Fellowship, Political Networks Conference (2014)

Conference Travel Fellowship, Political Networks Conference (2013)