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

Hye Young You
Research Interests: Political Economy, Interest Groups, Lobbying and Campaign Contributions, American Political Institutions

Congyi Zhou
Research Interests: Political economy, formal model, comparative politics and public policy