Joshua A. Tucker
Associate Professor of Politics
Wilf Family Department of Politics
New York University
This Page Contains Links to:
My CV in PDF or HTML
format
My book Regional Economic Voting
My other Publications and Working Papers
I am an Associate Professor
of Politics at New York
University. My major
field is comparative politics with with an emphasis on mass politics, including
elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion
formation, and, more recently, political representation and
democratization. My primary regional specialization is in Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union.
My first book, Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia,
and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999, has just been published by Cambridge
University Press and is now available for purchase in paperback,
hardcover,
and e-book
format. It examines the effect of economic conditions on election results
in twenty national elections that took place between 1990-99 in Russia, Poland,
Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
Click here for an abstract and more information or here
for reviews in Perspectives
on Politics; Comparative
Political Studies; The Journal of Politics, Foreign
Affairs; Slavic Review; The Russia Review; and the Canadian Journal of Politics
I am now working on a new
book-length project examining the development of partisan attachment in newly
competitive party systems, tentatively titled The Nature and Origins of
Party Identification. I am also working on a project that focuses on
the mass politics aspects of European Union (EU) accession in Poland, which
builds on earlier work on public opinion formation towards EU membership in a
variety of post-communist countries. Other work in progress examines political
representation, the micro-level foundations of economic voting in transitional
countries, and patterns of turnout in post-communist elections. I have
also published articles on the phenomenon of strategic voting in sequential
elections, why citizens vote for ex-authoritarian leaders, the "2nd
Wave" of post-communist electoral revolutions, statistical models for the
analysis of multi-party elections, non-response bias in survey measurement of
attitudes towards economic reform in Russia, and information markets.
Papers and abstracts from all projects can be found on my publications
and working papers page.