Graeme Blair

Graeme Blair is currently working on a project on the enforcement of immigration laws in the contemporary United States. He is working to make public, analyze, and write on data on immigration enforcement obtained under through the Freedom of Information Act.

Blair is a professor of political science at UCLA and faculty affiliate in statistics and the California Center for Population Research. He is co-director of the Deportation Data Project. He studies state violence and how to make social science more credible, ethical, and useful. Blair’s book Research Design in the Social Sciences (Princeton University Press, 2023) won the best book award from the American Political Science Association Experiments Section. His second book, Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing, was published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative Politics series. His articles are published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. Blair’s statistical software, including DeclareDesign, has been downloaded over a million times. He is the recipient of awards including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award.