Articles and Conference Papers by Dr DeBats

Below are downloadable pdf files of papers related to this project by Dr. Don DeBats.
Articles in Press
Pietryka, Matthew T. and Donald A. DeBats, "It's Not Just What You Have, but Who You Know: Networds, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections." American Political Science (Forthcoming 2017).
Published Articles
Donald A. DeBats, "Political Consequences of Spatial Organization: Contrasting Patterns in Two Nineteenth-Century Small Cities." Social Science History 35:4 (Winter 2011). Download the abstract here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, "A Tale of Two Cities: Using Tax Records to develop GIS Files for Mapping and Understanding Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities." Historical Methods 41:1 (Winter 2008). Download the abstract here.
 
Conference Papers
 
Donald A. DeBats, GIS and the Social Patterning of Women in Two Contrasting 19th Century American Cities (2013, Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Social and Spatial Patterning in Minority Communities in Nineteenth Century America (2012, Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Race, Space, and Politics: Using GIS to Explore the Social Logic of Politics in Urban and Rural Settings in Nineteenth Century America (2012, European Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Social and Political Heterogeneity: Discovering and Understanding Spatial Patterns in Two Nineteenth Century American Cities (2010, European Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Political Power and Political Engagement: The Social Logic of Past Politics (2010, Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Understanding Commercial Space in Small Cities (2009, Social Science History Conference). Download the pdf file here.
 
Appendices and Explanatory Essays
 
Donald A. DeBats, Social Networks in Alexandria and Newport (2 pages). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Patronage Politics in Small Cities in Nineteenth Century America: Evidence from Alexandria, Virginia and Newport, Kentucky (5 pages). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, Could the Methodologies Used to Discover Politically Significant Social Networks in Nineteenth Century Alexandria and Newport Be Replicated in a US City Today? (4 pages). Download the pdf file here.
 
Donald A. DeBats, The Emergence of Candidates for Public Office (7 pages). Download the pdf file here.