Neil Malhotra

Education

Ph.D. and M.A., political science, Stanford University

Summary of Experience

Professor Malhotra specializes in survey methodology, political behavior, applied empirical research, and corporate social responsibility and ethics. His methodological research examines how survey design choices affect response quality, measurement validity, and inference. Professor Malhotra’s work addresses issues such as question complexity, response order effects, satisficing behavior, survey mode and sampling differences, interviewer effects, nonresponse bias, and post-stratification weighting. He participated in an industry–academic collaboration that studied the role of social media in politics and society (the US 2020 Facebook–Instagram Election Study), the results of which were published in Science, Nature, and other outlets. Professor Malhotra has authored more than 100 academic articles on topics including social media and politics, political polarization, political behavior, public opinion and survey research, experimental methods, statistical methodology, the role of business in society, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and corporate self-regulation. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and he also coauthored the book Leading with Values. He has served as associate editor of Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Politics and has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Professor Malhotra has been recognized with honors such as the Emerging Scholar Award in the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Section and the Best Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association.