Adam M. Dynes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy. He researchs how US governments represent their constituents. More specifically, he uses quantitative methods to examine factors (like electoral institutions and partisanship) that potentially influence election and policy outcomes as well as politicians’ behavior and perceptions of their constituents. Though his work spans all levels of government in the United States, most of it involves municipal politics and politicians (i.e., mayors and city councils) and gathering novel data on a wide variety of municipalities and their officials. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, he worked in state politics on education policy for 4 years in Utah and attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate. He was born and raised in the suburbs of Houston, TX.