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Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of Politics
Office location and address
S284 Gibson Hall
1540 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22903
Education
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.
My research centers broadly on political institutions in dictatorships and authoritarian durability, using game theory and statistical methods. In particular, I examine party building in autocratic regimes with the goal of understanding why we see variation in the institutional capacity of ruling organizations.
Publications
Courses
Credits: 3
Intensive analysis of selected issues and concepts in comparative government. Prerequisite: One course in PLCP or instructor permission.
Credits: 1–3
Independent study, under faculty supervision, for intensive research on a specific topic. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
Game theory is the analytic study of strategic interactions among individuals, firms, governments, or other groups of people. This course demonstrates the usefulness of this powerful analytic approach, through numerous real-world and scholarly applications and through an examination of lab experiments built upon game theoretic modeling techniques. Cross-listed with PPOL 7045.