Jozef Rivest

PhD Student, Political Science & Scientific Computing
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Vote share (avg. 2017-2024)
LDP vote share (avg. 2017-2024)
Japan shinkansen network by line
Shinkansen network

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. My research is situated at the intersection of public opinion, comparative politics, and international relations, with a regional focus on East Asia and the Indo-Pacific. I am currently interested in public good provisions, spatial analysis, public opinion, voting behavior, bayesian analysis, and multilevel models. I currently study how infrastructure and the built environment shape political engagement. My research are anchored in Japan, but extend to South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

I also study research methods, with a primary focus on measurement and scaling techniques. I have published several papers on the use of AI in the social sciences, examining its accuracy in predicting and classifying political phenomena.

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Publications

  1. "Prompting the Machine: Introducing an LLM Data Extraction Method for Social Scientists"

    Foisy, L.-O. M., Proulx, É., Cadieux, H., Gilbert, J., Rivest, J., Bouillon, A., & Dufresne, Y.

    Social Science Computer Review, 2025

    doi:10.1177/08944393251344865 ↗

  2. "Ain't no party like a GPT party: assessing OpenAI's GPT political alignment classification capabilities"

    Foisy, L. M., Drouin, J., Pelletier, C., Rivest, J., Cadieux, H., & Dufresne, Y.

    Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2025, 1–13

    doi:10.1080/19331681.2024.2444587 ↗

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