Research

My research explores how people form political beliefs and make decisions in complex information environments. I study topics at the intersection of political behavior, public opinion, and digital media, using survey and internet data alongside computational methods. My published work spans survey design, voter turnout, and experiences with voting technologies. Current projects examine youth political maturity, the spread of electoral conspiracy theories, orientations toward online cybersecurity and privacy, and behavioral data from platforms like Reddit, Wikipedia, and Google Trends.

Google Scholar profile

Selected Work in Progress

• Pedro Antenucci and Ines Levin. Measuring Mode Effects on Political Attitudes: A Comparison of Web and Face-to-Face Surveys in Argentina.
• Ines Levin. The Surveillance Trap: Why Democracies Struggle to Bounce Back from Security Shocks.

Working Papers

• Ines Levin. The Politics of Digital Privacy.
• Ines Levin and Sebastian Rivera. Searching for Change: Economic Instability and the Rise of Milei in Argentina. Under Review. [Latest version.]
• Benjamin Forman-Barzilai and Ines Levin. Permutation-Based Testing of Topic Co-occurrence: A Network Analysis of Reddit Debates on DOGE, Tariffs, and the Big Beautiful Bill. Revise & Resubmit. [Latest version.]

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Ines Levin. Are 16-Year-Olds Mature Enough to Vote? Evidence from the Voto Joven in Latin America. Forthcoming in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties. [Pre-publication version.]
• Ines Levin and Gabriel Katz. 2025. From Reporting Delay to Conspiracy Theory: An Analysis of the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses. GI Proceedings, E-Vote-ID 2025. [Pre-publication version.]
• Ines Levin. 2022. “Learning about Spatial and Temporal Proximity using Tree-Based Methods.” Statistics, Politics and Policy 13(1): 73-95. [ Pre-publication version.]
• Ines Levin, Alexandra Filindra, and Jeffrey S. Kopstein. 2022. “Validating and Testing a Measure of Anti-Semitism on Support for QAnon and Vote Intention for Trump in 2020.” Social Science Quarterly 103(4): 794-809.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Gabriel Katz, Ines Levin, and Lucas Nuñez. 2021. “Conventional and Unconventional Participation in Latin America: A Hierarchical Latent Class Approach.” Political Science Research and Methods 9(4): 878-888. [Replication Materials.]
• Mali Zhang, R. Michael Alvarez, and Ines Levin. 2019. “Election Forensics: Using Machine Learning and Synthetic Data for Possible Election Anomaly Detection.” PLOS ONE 14(10): e0223950. [Replication materials.]
• R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Atkeson, Ines Levin, and Yimeng Li. 2019. “Paying Attention to Inattentive Survey Respondents.” Political Analysis 27(2): 145-162. [Replication materials.]
• R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Ines Levin. 2018. “Low-Information Voting: Evidence from Instant-Runoff Elections.” American Politics Research 46(6): 1012-1038.
• Sean Ingham and Ines Levin. 2018. “Can Deliberative Minipublics Influence Public Opinion? Theory and Experimental Evidence.” Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 654-667. [Replication materials.]
• Gabriel Katz and Ines Levin. 2018 “A General Model of Abstention under Compulsory Voting.” Political Science Research and Methods 6(3): 489-508. [Replication materials.]
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, and Yimeng Li. 2018. “Fraud, Convenience, and e-voting: How Voting Experiences Shape Opinions about Voting Technology.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 15(2): 94-105.
• Gabriel Katz and Ines Levin. 2018. “Varieties of Political Support in Emerging Democracies: A Cross-National Analysis.” Social Science Research 70: 55-70.
• Sean Ingham and Ines Levin. 2018. “Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform.”International Journal of Public Opinion Research 30(1): 51-68.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, and Lucas Nuñez. 2017. “The Four Faces of Political Participation in Argentina: Using Latent Class Analysis To Study Political Behavior.” Journal of Politics 79(4): 1386-402. [Replication materials.]
• Gabriel Katz and Ines Levin. 2016. “The Dynamics of Political Support in Emerging Democracies: Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Peru.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 28(2): 173-195.
• Ines Levin, J. Andrew Sinclair, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2016. “Participation in the Wake of Adversity: Blame Attribution, Policy-Oriented Evaluations, and Civic Engagement.” Political Behavior 38(1): 203-28.
• Julia Pomares, Ines Levin, R. Michael Alvarez, Guillermo Lopez, and Teresa Ovejero. 2014. “From Piloting to Roll-out: Voting Experience and Trust in the First Full e-election in Argentina.” Proceedings of EVOTE2014: Verifying the Vote Ten-Year Anniversary Conference.
• Julia Pomares, Ines Levin, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2014. “Do Voters and Poll Workers Differ in their Attitudes Toward e-voting? Evidence From the First e-election in Salta, Argentina.” USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems 2(2): 1-10.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Alexander H. Trechsel, and Kristjan Vassil. 2014. “Voting Advice Applications: How Useful and For Whom?” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 11(1): 82-101.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Peter Mair, and Alexander H. Trechsel. 2014. “Party Preferences in the Digital Age: The Impact of Voting Advice Applications.” Party Politics 20(2): 227-36.
• Ines Levin. 2013. “Political Inclusion of Latino Immigrants: Becoming a Citizen and Political Participation.” American Politics Research 41(4): 535-68.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, Julia Pomares, and Marcelo Leiras. 2013. “Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions.” Political Science Research and Methods 1(1): 117-37. [Replication materials.]
• R. Michael Alvarez, Ines Levin, and J. Andrew Sinclair. 2012. “Making Voting Easier: Convenience Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election.” Political Research Quarterly 65(2): 248-62.
• Ines Levin and Gabriel Katz. 2011. “Modeling Electoral Coordination: Voters, Parties and Legislative Lists in Uruguay.” Journal of Politics in Latin America 3(2): 3-41.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, Ines Levin, and Charles Stewart III. 2011. “Voter Opinions about Election Reform: Do They Support Making Voting More Convenient?” Election Law Journal 10(2): 73-87.
• Ines Levin, Gabe A. Cohn, Peter C. Ordeshook, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2009. “Detecting Voter Fraud in an Electronic Voting Context: An Analysis of the Unlimited Reelection Vote in Venezuela.” Proceedings of the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE 2009).

Other Publications

• Erin Hartman and Ines Levin. 2020. “Accounting for Complex Survey Designs: Strategies for Post-stratification and Weighting of Internet Surveys.” In B. Grofman, E. Suhay, and A.H. Trechsel (Eds.), Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford University Press. Pre-publication version.
• Ines Levin and Betsy Sinclair. 2018. “Causal Inference with Complex Survey Designs: Generating Population Estimates Using Survey Weights.” In R.M. Alvarez and L.R. Atkeson (Eds.), Handbook of Polling and Survey Methods. Oxford University Press. [Replication materials.]
• Ines Levin, Julia Pomares, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2016. “Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Election Fraud.” In R.M. Alvarez (Ed.), Computational Social Science: Discovery and Prediction. Cambridge University Press.
• Ines Levin and R. Michael Alvarez. 2012. “Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Election Fraud and Electoral Integrity.” Political Analysis, Virtual Issue: Election Integrity and Election Fraud. Fall 2012.
• R. Michael Alvarez, Alfonso Ayala Sanchez, and Ines Levin. 2012. “Epílogo.” In A. Ayala Sanchez (Ed.), Democracia en la Era Digital. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.