Angelo Dagonel

PhD candidate

Department of Government

Harvard University


dagonel [at] g.harvard.edu

Welcome!  I'm Angelo, a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University.

Broadly, my research focuses on how American political institutions implement policies towards minority groups.  My dissertation examines the bureaucratic agencies overseeing immigration policy, and asks why different political actors prioritize between contrasting responsibilities of enforcement and service.

Previously, I was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School.  Prior to graduate school, I worked for the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, the Harvard Digital Lab for the Social Sciences, and was a post-baccalaureate fellow in the Harvard Research Scholar Initiative

In 2018, I graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Political Science, after transferring from Pasadena City College.

When not hunched over my PC, I enjoy: record collecting, film screenings, and photography.

Publications

Kuriwaki, Shiro, Stephen Ansolabehere, Angelo Dagonel, and Soichiro Yamauchi, The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level. American Political Science Review, 2023.


Working Papers

Dagonel, Angelo and Asya Magazinnik, "How Responsive Is Local Law Enforcement to Constituency Immigration Preferences?"

Carpenter, Daniel, Angelo Dagonel, Devin Judge-Lord, Christopher T. Kenny, Brian Libgober, Steven Rashin, Jacob Waggoner, Susan Webb Yackee, Inequality in Administrative Democracy: Methods and Evidence from Financial Rulemaking. Herbert Kaufman Award for best paper in Public Administration presented at APSA 2021


Data

Dagonel, Angelo, "Cumulative CCES Policy Preferences." Harvard Dataverse, V3, 2023.

Non-peer reviewed publications

Cao, Diana, Angelo Dagonel and Pia Deshpande, "Election Administration Challenges in Pennsylvania." Lawfare, October 9, 2020.

Curiel, John A., and Angelo Dagonel, "Election Administration Challenges and Effects in Wisconsin." Lawfare, September 25, 2020.