Democracy and Security Network

R. Gordon Rinderknecht is a nonresident fellow with GMF’s Democracy and Security Network. A specialist in survey design and public opinion measurement, he researches public attitudes in the United States toward the politicization of the military.

Rinderknecht served previously as a behavioral scientist at RAND, where his research examined non-monetary caregiving burdens and personnel issues in the US military. Prior to that, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His research there—part of the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study—focused on digital-technology-related and pandemic-related impacts on daily life and well-being in the United States.

Rinderknecht received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland in 2020. His co-authored book on the situational predictors of loneliness is forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing.

Drew Hogan serves as research analyst for the Democracy and Security Network (DSN). He leads its research agenda on military politicization and public opinion, including overseeing the creation of the military politicization index.

In late 2026 Hogan will graduate from the University of Minnesota with a PhD in political science. In the 2025-2026 academic year, he was a predoctoral fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Security and Conflict Studies. He was a Hans Morgenthau fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center from 2022-2023, and prior to graduate school he worked in state government in Missouri.

Hogan holds a master's degree in international security from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor's degree in political science from Kenyon College. His co-authored work has been published by Cambridge University Press, and he has written for Minerva.