William McAllister
Affiliations
- Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Organizer, Project on Security, the Military and US Society Seminar Series
- Co-Director, Project on Security, Military, and U.S. Society
Research
William McAllister is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, where he also directs its Graduate Fellows Program and teaches in its Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program. His current research interests include political elites; methods for analyzing biographical information; homelessness and homeless policymaking; and the importance of time and change in explaining political phenomena. At present, his research on political elites analyzes how changes in elite recruitment structures shaped and were formed by the development of the U.S. national state. His research on homelessness addresses the problematic logic of homeless prevention and the dynamics of homelessness. And he is carrying out a study that compares the utility of different statistical methods for incorporating the trajectories of individuals' biographies in social science research. This work currently focuses on the impact of social interventions, particularly those for homeless people. He is also developing a project to study the sources of the increased criminalization and militarization of U.S. society since World War II.
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by William McAllister
- Seed grant: Climbing the Sky: State-Building and Transformations in Elite Recruitment
- Working papers by William McAllister
