Joshua A. Tucker
joshua.tucker_at_nyu.edu
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Employment
New York University,
Associate Professor of Politics with tenure,
September 2006 – present.
Affiliated Appointment, Department of Russian and
Slavic Studies, 2007- present.
Princeton University,
Assistant Professor of Politics and International
Affairs, joint in the
Instructor of Politics and International Affairs,
July 2000 – January 2001.
Education
Harvard University,
Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science,
November, 2000.
Winner of Edward M. Chase
Dissertation Prize.
Jagellonian University,
Intensive Polish Language Certificate,
July 1996
University of Birmingham,
M.I.S. (Master of International
Studies), December 1994.
Winner of
Harvard University,
B.A. magna cum laude and phi beta
kappa in Social Studies, June 1993.
Winner of Thomas Hoopes Prize for
Excellence in Research.
Awards
2006. Emerging Scholar Award,
Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American
Political Science Association, for the top scholar in the field within 10 years
of the doctorate.
2005.
2003. National Election Studies Visiting
Scholar,
2003.
2001. Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize,
1999. Westview Press Award, Mid-West
Political Science Association, 1999, for the best paper by a graduate student
presented at the 1998 MPSA Annual Conference (co-authored with Ted Brader).
1999. East European Dissertation
Fellowship, American Council for Learned Societies.
1999. Dissertation Fellowship, Institute
for the Study of World Politics.
1998. Dissertation Research Fellowship,
Mellon Foundation.
1997. Bok Center Certificates of
Distinction (2),
1997. Foreign Language Area Studies Full
Academic Year Fellowship:
1996. Predoctoral Fellowship for the
Performance of Democracies, Sawyer Foundation
1996. Foreign Language Area Studies Summer
Fellowship:
1995. Foreign Language Area Studies Full
Academic Year Fellowship:
1994. Graduate School of International
Studies Prize,
1993. Rotary Ambassadorial Graduate
Scholarship.
1993. Commencement Speaker.
Books
2006. Regional Economic Voting:
Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia, 1990-99,
Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics; Comparative
Political Studies; The Journal of Politics; Foreign Affairs; Slavic
Review; The Russia Review; Canadian Journal of Politics
2009. “Disenchanted or Discerning? Voter
Turnout in Post-Communist Countries” with Alexander Pacek and Grigore
Pop-Eleches, forthcoming at
2009. Euroskepticism and the Emergence of
Political Parties in Poland with Radoslaw Markowski, forthcoming at Party Politics
2008. “Pathways to
Partisanship: Evidence from Russia” with Ted Brader, Post-Soviet Affairs, 24(3):1-38.
2007. “Enough!
Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and the "2nd Wave" of
Post-Communist Democratic Revolutions”, Perspectives
on Politics, 5(3): 537-553.
2007. "Strategic Voting and Information Transmission
in Sequential Elections: Run Boris Run", with Adam Meirowitz,
2006. “‘Don’t Knows’ and Public Opinion Towards Economic
Reform: Evidence from Russia”, with
2005. "Pocketbooks, Politics, and Parties: A Macro
and Micro Analysis of the June 2003 Polish Referendum on EU Membership,”
with Radoslaw Markowski, Electoral
Studies, 24(3): 409-433.
2005. “Feeding the Hand that Bit You: Voting for
Ex-Authoritarian Rulers in Russia and Bolivia”, with Amber Seligson, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet
Democratization, 13(1): 11-42.
2004. “Learning from Terrorist Markets” with
Adam Meirowitz, Perspectives on Politics,
2(2): 331-6.
2002. "Transitional
Winners and Losers: Attitudes Toward EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries"
with Alexander Pacek and
2002. "The First Decade of Post-Communist Elections and
Voting: What Have We Studied, and How Have We Studied It?", Annual Review of Political Science, 5:
271-304.
2002. “An Easy
and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data”, with Michael
Tomz and Jason
2001. "Economic
Conditions and the Vote for Incumbent Parties in Russia, Poland, Hungary,
Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from 1990-1996", Post Soviet Affairs, 17(4): 309-331.
2001. "The
Emergence of Mass Partisanship in Russia, 1993-96," with Ted Brader, American Journal of Political Science,
45(1): 69-83.
1995. "Walking the Tightrope: An
Exploration of the Political Culture Concept and its Applications for Foreign
Policy Analysis," Paradigms: The
Kent Journal of International Relations, 9(1): 37-61.
NOTE: Articles should be downloaded for
personal use only.
Looking to the Future: A Better Way to
Study Prospective Economic Voting (with Kristin Michelitch, Marco Morales,
and Andrew Owen), revise and resubmit at Electoral
Studies.
Past is Still Present: Micro-level
Comparisons of Conventional vs. Transitional Economic Voting in Three Polish
Elections (with Andrew Owen)
What’s Left Behind When the
Party’s Over: Survey Experiments on the Effects of Partisan Cues in Putin’s
Russia (with Ted Brader)
Do Party Cues Affect Policy Opinions in
New Party Systems? Survey Experiments in Three Post-Communist Countries
(with Ted Brader)
Money, Effort, and Votes: The
Non-Emergence of a Political Party (with
Which Way is the Rich Way? The Micro-Macro Paradox of EU Accession
(with Alexander Herzog)
New Approaches to Electoral
Volatility: Evidence from Postcommunist Countries (with Eleanor Powell)
Reflective
and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence on the Links between
Information, Opinion, and Party Identification (with Ted Brader)
Subjective vs. Objective
Proximity in Poland: New Directions for the Empirical Study of Political
Representation (with Radoslaw Markowski)
Chapters in Edited
Volumes
2009. “
2008. “Conventional vs. Transitional Economic
Voting: Evidence from
2007. “Political Representation and Euroskepticism: Evidence from
Poland”, with Radoslaw Markowski, in Michael Marsh, Slava Mikhaylov and Hermann
Schmitt, eds., European Elections after Eastern Enlargement: Preliminary
Results from the European Election Study 2004, Mannheim, Germany: The
Connex Report Series No. 1.
Book Reviews
2007. “Review of Rizman, Rudolf Martin, 2006, Uncertain Path: Democratic Transition and Consolidation in
2004. “Review of Rose, Richard and
Neil Munro, Elections without Order :
Opinions and Media
Appearances
2008. “Next Stop: Ukraine?”, The New Republic, online edition, October 15, 2008. Published in Ukrainian at: http://inozmi.glavred.info/articles/300.html
2008. Featured Speaker at Citizen Joe: Policy on Politics event on “How Your Mind Votes”
2008. “Speak Loudly and
Carry a Small Stick”, The New Republic,
online edition August 14, 2008, (http://tinyurl.com/6rrzdb)
2004. “After
Beslan: A Glimmer of Hope in Putin’s Power Grab,” International Herald
Tribune, September 18-19, 2004, p.4. Translated into
Russian and published online at
ИноСМИ.Ru, September 20, 2004.
2004. Guest on “Russia
After Beslan: Putin’s Shake up of the Government,” Weekday, Seattle
Public Radio (KUOW), September 23, 2004.
Invited Presentations
2009.
2009.
2008. Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg,
2008.
2008.
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2008.
Conference on New Approaches to Political Economy,
2008.
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2007. The New
Economic School,
2007.
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Kennan Institute Workshop on Ukrainian Civil Society,
2006.
2006.
Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium.
2006.
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Columbia University, Harriman Institute.
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Meridian Center,
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1998.
Faculty Research Grants
2007. The National
Academies’
2005. University Committee
on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant for “Polish
National Election Study”, September 2005 – April 2006.
2005. Princeton Institute for
International and Regional Studies, Research Grant for “Experimental Analysis
of Partisan Attachment in
2005. Office of the Vice
President for Research, University of Michigan, Research Grant for “Experimental
Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia” (with Ted Brader), July 2005 –
December 2006.
2005. Center for Political
Studies,
2005. University Committee
on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant for
Subvention of Publication Costs for Regional
Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic,
1990-99. July 2005 – September 2005.
2003. National Council for
Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), National Research Competition,
“Transitional Economic Voting: Economic Conditions and Election Results in
2003.
2003. The National
Academies’
2002.
2001. University Committee
on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant “Transition
to Democratic Political Systems in the Former USSR and East Central Europe.” May
2001 – Aug. 2001.
Teaching
NYU
Graduate
G53.3500.001:
Politics of Post-Communism, Spring 2009
G53.3500.002: Comparative Political Behavior, Fall
2008, Spring 2007
G53.3501.001: Parties and Partisanship, Fall 2007
G53.3995:
Graduate Pre-Dissertation Workshop, Fall 2006.
Undergraduate
V53.0500: Introduction to Comparative Politics,
Fall 2007
Graduate
Politics 594:
Comparative Politics Graduate Research Workshop, Full Year 2002-2003.
Undergraduate
Politics 230: Introduction to
Comparative Politics: Spring 2003, 2005, Fall 2000, 2001.
Politics 354, 431: Comparative Politics of
Elections and Voting: Fall 2002, Spring 2002.
Woodrow Wilson School 402g: Preparing Poland for EU
Membership, Spring 2003.
Woodrow Wilson School 402f:
American Electoral Reform, Spring 2002.
Woodrow Wilson School 401e: Designing Russian Electoral
Institutions, Fall 2000.
Departmental and University Service
Omnibus Departmental Search Committee, Department of Politics, New York
University, 2007-2009.
Comparative Politics Field Director, Department of Politics, New York
University, 2007-2008.
Undergraduate Awards Committee, Department of Politics, New York
University, 2007-2008.
Russian-Eurasian Studies Faculty Program Committee,
Planning Board, Princeton Program on National Security,
Executive Board Member, Center for Study of Democratic Politics,
Chair’s Advisory Committee, Department of Politics,
Undergraduate Affairs Committee,
Senior Thesis Prize Committee,
Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Department of Politics, 2002.
Comparative Politics Search Committee, Department of Politics,
Academic Advisor (2002 - 2003) and Fellow (2001 - 2006),
Director, Post-Communist Politics Workshop,
Professional Service
2009. Section Head: Post-Communist Politics,
Mid-West Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
2008. Best Paper Award Committee, American
Political Science Association, European Politics Section
2008. Co-Founder and Organizer: NYU-CESS Annual Conference on
Experiments in Political Science
2007. Section Head: Post-Communist Politics,
Mid-West Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Invited External Book Manuscript Discussant:
External Dissertation Reader:
Editorial Board, Electoral Studies,
2004 - present.
Associate Editor, World Politics, 2001- 2006.
Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, American
Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge
University Press, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies,
Comparative Politics, Congressional Quarterly Press, Economics and Politics,
Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Union
Politics, Governance: An International Journal of Policy,
Administration and Institutions, The Journal of Elections, Public Opinion,
and Parties, The Journal of Social Power and Political Theory,
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