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Faculty
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Daniel Butler, Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007, is an assistant professor of political science. His primary research focus is on representation in American politics. Many of his current research projects use field experiments on public officials to determine what factors affect their level of responsiveness. In the political science department, Dan also teaches courses in American politics and statistics. Phone: (203) 432-6292 Email: daniel.butler@yale.edu |
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Seok–ju Cho, Ph. D., University of Rochester, 2005 is Assistant Professor in Political Science. His research concerns political bargaining and electoral competition under alternative constitutional or institutional arrangements. In 2005–2006, he will be teaching “Positive Political Theory,” “Fundamentals of Modeling II,” and “Models of Bargaining.” Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 309 Phone: (203) 432–5262 Email: seok–ju.cho@yale.edu |
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Alexandre Debs is Assistant Professor in Political Science. His research interests include the political economy of dictatorship, development and war. His previous research has appeared in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. In 2009-2010, Alexandre will teach courses on the political economy of development and the relationship between domestic politics and international conflict. He received a Ph.D. degree in Economics from M.I.T., an M.Phil. from Oxford University and a B.Sc. from Universite de Montreal. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 311 Email: alexandre.debs@yale.edu |
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Ana L. De La O, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is also affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 2007. Her research interests include causes and consequences of redistribution, politics of public goods provision, effects of anti–poverty programs on the political behavior of recipients in developing countries, particularly Latin America, and the use of field experimental research methods. In 2007–2008 Ana will teach courses on political economy and politics of poverty alleviation. Campus address: 124 Prospect Street, Room 310 Phone: (203) 432–5234 Email: ana.delao@yale.edu |
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Thad Dunning, Assistant Professor of Political Science, a research fellow at Yale’s Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the International Studies major. His current research focuses on the influence of natural resource wealth on political regimes; other recent articles investigate the influence of foreign aid on democratization and the role of information technology in economic development. He conducts field research in Latin America and has written on a range of methodological topics, including econometric corrections for selection effects and the use of natural experiments in the social sciences. Dunning’s previous work has appeared in International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geopolitics and in a forthcoming Handbook of Methodology (Sage Publications). He received a Ph.D. degree in political science and an M.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Brown University. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 420 Phone: (203) 432–6063 Email: thad.dunning@yale.edu |
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Justin Fox, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 2004, is Assistant Professor in Political Science. His research interests include political economy and American political institutions. His current research addresses the impact that fundraising considerations have on the policies pursued by lawmakers. He will be teaching Elections and Representation and Fundamentals of Modeling II. Campus address: 87 Trumbull Street, Room 24 Phone: (203) 432–5724 Email: justin.fox@yale.edu |
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Giovanni Maggi, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1994, is the Howard H. Leach Professor of Economics & International Affairs. He is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and faculty research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research. He also serves as the co–director of the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University. His research and teaching interests include international trade, political economy, and industrial organizations. He has written numerous articles for a variety of economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Campus address: 37 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 27 Phone: (203) 432–3569 Email: giovanni.maggi@yale.edu |
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John Roemer, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, (Economics), 1974, is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. His research concerns political economy, and distributive justice. He is currently teaching Political Competition and a Workshop in Political Economy. Publications include: Political Competition, Harvard University Press, 2001; Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998, Theories of Distributive Justice, Harvard University Press, 1996. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 313 Phone: (203) 432–5249 Email: john.roemer@yale.edu |
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Susan Rose–Ackerman, Ph.D., Yale University, 1970, is Henry R, Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) and is Co–Director for the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy Yale Law School. She has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a Fellow at Collegium Budapest and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto. She is co–director of the Project on Honesty and Trust in Post–Socialist Scoieties at Collegium Budapest. Her research concerns corruption and economic development, Public Accountability in Emerging Democracies, law and political economy, [bureaucracy and public accountability], and the political economy of foreign direct investment. She currently is teaching Corruption, Democracy and Development (jointly taught at the Law School and Graduate School), and Administrative Law. Publications include Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, Cambridge University Press, 1999, Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and United States, Yale University Press, 1995, Rethinking the Progressive Agenda, Free Press, 1992. Campus address: Law School, 217 Wall Street, Room 217 Phone: (203) 432–4891 Email: susan.rose–ackerman@yale.edu |
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Frances Rosenbluth, Frances Rosenbluth, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988, is the Damon Wells
Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political
Science. She has received research support from the Fulbright Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Council on Foreign Affairs, and the Abe Foundation. She was awarded the Leubbert Prize for best book in comparative politics in 1997, best paper from the Comparative Section of the APSA in 2003, and best paper from the Political Economy Section of the APSA in 2004. Her current research concerns war and constitutions, the political economy of gender, and Japanese politics and political economy. Her most recent book is The Political Economy of Japan’s Low Fertility (edited, forthcoming). Other recent publications include “The Political Economy of Gender” (with Torben Iversen, American Journal of Political Science, 2006) and “Long versus Short Coalitions” (with Kathleen Bawn, American Journal of Political Science, 2006). Her previous books are The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Prewar Japan, 1995; Japan’s Political Marketplace, 1993 (both co–authored with Mark Ramseyer); and Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan, 1989. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 308 Phone: (203) 432–5256 Email: frances.rosenbluth@yale.edu |
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Kenneth Scheve, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000, is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University where he teaches courses in political economy and quantitative methods. He also serves as the co–director of the Leitner Program. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy and comparative political behavior. His current research projects include studying the mass politics of globalization; the determinants of income inequality and welfare state development; and the electoral behavior of voters and elites in ethnically heterogeneous societies and the consequences of this behavior for economic policymaking and democratic performance. His research has been published in numerous academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics, the European Union Politics, International Organization, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the author, with Matthew Slaughter, of the book entitled, Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers (Institute for International Economics, 2001) examining American public opinion about the liberalization of trade, immigration, and foreign direct investment policies. He has recently been a fellow–in–residence at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2005–2006) and has previously been a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and London School of Economics. Campus address: 115 Prospect Street, Room 435 Phone: (203) 432–6109 Email: kenneth.scheve@yale.edu |
