Professor Hopkins’ research addresses a variety of questions related to American political behavior and policymaking. He is the author of 26 academic articles and is currently completing a book manuscript on the nationalization of American politics. Among other topics, his research has examined the role of media framing in shaping attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act. In 2015, he served on the U.S. federal government’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, where he assisted in the analysis of an experiment testing different messages to shoppers on the federal health insurance exchange. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2007, is the co-coordinator of the Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative, and is an occasional writer for FiveThirtyEight.com.