Each election cycle experts appear in the news talking about polling data. Many of these experts are political scientists and are often the only contact audiences may have with political scientists. While polling research is important to the field, there are other kinds of quantitative research in political science that can get overlooked. We learned about some of them today on this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Kevin Reuning.

Kevin Reuning is an assistant professor of political science at Miami University whose work focuses on political parties and social movements in the United States, and takes a particular interest in how political activity can be measured and quantified. He also maintains a website, mapping union elections in the United States.