W. Rafferty Thompson

PhD Candidate in Sociology   

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My interests are in economic sociology, political sociology, comparative methodology, and the sociology of morality. I study political prediction markets. How do political prediction market traders balance their economic interests and political interests? How do individual actors, firms, and regulators in the prediction market field think about the moral status of trading? That is, do they consider it to be a form of gambling? And, more broadly, how did political prediction markets emerge as a new technology to gauge public opinion?