Nathaniel Beck
Research Interests: Political Methodology; Political Economy.
Core Faculty
Steven Brams
Research Interests: Game theory; social choice theory; fair division; voting and elections; international politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Research Interests: International Relations
Amy Catalinac
Research Interests: International relations, comparative politics, Japanese politics, quantitative text analysis.
Kanchan Chandra
Research Interests: Comparative Ethnic Politics, Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Elections, Violence, Comparative Research Methods, Patronage and Clientelism
Chris Dawes
Research Interests: Political behavior with an emphasis on voter turnout; genopolitics; experimental methods
Eric Dickson
Research Interests: Political Methodology; Political Economy
Tiberiu Dragu
Research Interests: Political Economy
Patrick Egan
Research Interests: Political attitudes and behavior regarding partisanship, public policy and identity
Michael Gilligan
Research Interests: International intervention in civil conflict, formal models of international cooperation
Sanford Gordon
Research Interests: US political institutions, political economy, private influence in government decision making, bureaucratic and administrative politics.
Catherine Hafer
Research Interests: property rights, conflict, deliberation, lobbying
Christine Harrington
Research Interests: Public Law and Law & Society
Anna Harvey
Research Interests: Criminal Justice, policing, judicial politics, political economy
Dimitri Landa
Research Interests: Deliberation, representation, legal and political institutions
Rahsaan Maxwell
Research Interests: Comparative politics, political behavior, immigration, diversity, national boundaries, Western Europe
Gwyneth McClendon
Research Interests: Comparative political behavior, religious and ethnic politics, political participation with regional foci in Sub-Saharan Africa and the U.S.
Lawrence Mead
Research Interests: American politics and policy making; social policy; implementation; America as a world power
Bryant Moy
Research Interests: American politics, urban & local politics, race & ethnic politics, data science
Jonathan Nagler
Research Interests: Methodology; voting behavior; social-media, turnout; Latino voting; the economy and campaigns and elections
Gaétan Nandong
Research Interests: Comparative politics and Political economy
Bertell Ollman
Research Interests: Marxism, dialectical method, fascism, history of political thought.
Pasquale Pasquino
Research Interests: Normative political theory; comparative constitutions
Ryan Pevnick
Research Interests: Political theory
Pablo Querubin
Research Interests: political economy of development, elites, economic and political institutions
Peter Rosendorff
Research Interests: International Relations, International Political Economy, Formal Methods
Arturas Rozenas
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Statistics
Cyrus Samii
Research Interests: Research design; field experiments
Shanker Satyanath
Research Interests: International relations, political economy, comparative politics
Melissa Schwartzberg
Research Interests: Democratic theory, constitutionalism, ancient political institutions and thought, history of political thought
Nicole Simonelli
Research Interests: International relations, international cooperation and organizations
Tara Slough
Research Interests: Comparative politics, political economy, methods
Alastair Smith
Research Interests: International Relations
David Stasavage
Research Interests: Political economy
Joshua Tucker
Research Interests: Comparative political behavior: elections, voting, partisanship, protest and social media; post-communist politics.
Erik Wang
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Historical political economy, China, State-building, methods
Congyi Zhou
Research Interests: Political economy, formal model, comparative politics and public policy