Joshua A. Tucker

 

19 West 4th Street, Room 430

New York, NY 10012

joshua.tucker_at_nyu.edu

 

 

 

Abstracts of all publications and working papers can be found by clicking here.

 

 

 

Employment

 

New York University, New York, NY

Associate Professor of Politics with tenure, September 2006 – present.

Affiliated Appointment, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, 2007- present.

 

Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, July 2005 – August 2006.

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, joint in the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, February 2001 – August 2006.

Instructor of Politics and International Affairs, July 2000 – January 2001.

 

Education

 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

            Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, November, 2000.

            Winner of Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize.

 

Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland

            Intensive Polish Language Certificate, July 1996

 

University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

            M.I.S. (Master of International Studies), December 1994.

            Winner of Graduate School of International Studies Prize.

 

Harvard University, Cambirdge, MA

            B.A. magna cum laude and phi beta kappa in Social Studies, June 1993.

            Winner of Thomas Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Research.

 

 

Awards

 

2010. Visiting Professor. Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain.

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. Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, Princeton University, 2005- 2008.  Competitive position awarded to junior faculty providing leave and research fund (Declined last two years).

2003. National Election Studies Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, 2003.

2003. Center of International Studies Junior Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003. 

2001. Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 2001.

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. Center for European Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Harvard University.

1998. Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mellon Foundation.

1997. Bok Center Certificates of Distinction (2), Harvard University, for excellence in teaching, 1997.

1997. Foreign Language Area Studies Full Academic Year Fellowship: Russia and Eastern Europe, United States Department of Education.

1996. Predoctoral Fellowship for the Performance of Democracies, Sawyer Foundation

1996. Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship: Russia and Eastern Europe, United States Department of Education.

1995. Foreign Language Area Studies Full Academic Year Fellowship: Russia and Eastern Europe, United States Department of Education.

1994. Graduate School of International Studies Prize, University of Birmingham, for best results.

1993. Rotary Ambassadorial Graduate Scholarship.

1993. Commencement Speaker. Harvard College Speaker.  Harvard University.

 

Books

 

2006. Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Russia, 1990-99, New York: Cambridge University Press. 

           

Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics; Comparative Political Studies; The Journal of Politics; Foreign Affairs; Slavic Review; The Russia Review; Canadian Journal of Politics; Journal of Regional Science; Central East European Reviews

 

 

Refereed Journal Articles

 

2010. “The Dynamics of Dissent: The Winners-Losers Gap in Attitudes Towards EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries”, with Alexander Herzog, European Political Science Review, forthcoming.

2010. “Past is Still Present: Micro-level Comparisons of Conventional vs. Transitional Economic Voting in Three Polish Elections”, with Andrew Owen, Electoral Studies, forthcoming.

2009. Euroskepticism and the Emergence of Political Parties in Poland with Radoslaw Markowski, Party Politics, forthcoming.

2009. “Disenchanted or Discerning? Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries” with Alexander Pacek and Grigore Pop-Eleches, The Journal of Politics, 71(2): 473-491.

2009. “What’s Left Behind When the Party’s Over: Survey Experiments on the Effects of Partisan Cues in Putin’s Russia” with Ted Brader, Politics and Policy. 37(4): 843-868.

2008. “Pathways to Partisanship: Evidence from Russia” with Ted Brader, Post-Soviet Affairs, 24(3):263-300.

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, The Journal of Politics, 69:1, 88-99.

2006. “‘Don’t Knows’ and Public Opinion Towards Economic Reform: Evidence from Russia”, with Adam Berinsky, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 39(1), 73-99.

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 Adam Berinsky, American Journal of Political Science, 46(3): 557-71.

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 Wittenberg, Political Analysis, 10(1): 66-83.

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.

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Articles Under Review

 

New Approaches to Electoral Volatility: Evidence from Postcommunist Countries (with Eleanor Powell)

Communism’s Shadow: Post-Communist Legacies and Political Behavior (with Grigore Pop-Eleches)

Looking to the Future: A Better Way to Study Prospective Economic Voting (with Kristin Michelitch, Marco Morales, and Andrew Owen)

 

 

Additional Working Papers

 

Follow the Leader: Party Cues, Partisans, and Public Opinion in Old and New Democracies (with Ted Brader)

Beyond the Colored Revolutions: A Dynamic Model of Protest (with Adam Meirowitz)

Money, Effort, and Votes: The Non-Emergence of a Political Party (with Konstantin Sonin)

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)

People Power or a One-Shot Deal? The Legacy of the Colored Revolutions Considered from a Collective Action Framework

Red, Brown, and Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic from 1990-99

Transitional Economic Voting: Economic Conditions and Election Results in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Russia from 1990-1999

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes

 

2009. “Orange in a Shade of Grey: Electoral Fraud, Corruption, and Protest in the Orange Revolution”, in Paul D'Anieri, ed., Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine: From Revolution to Civil Society?, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

2008. “Conventional vs. Transitional Economic Voting: Evidence from Poland, 1997-2005” (with Andrew Owen)  Center for Advanced Studies Working Paper Series: WP 12/2008/04,  Center for Advanced Studies, The Higher School for Economics, Moscow, Russia.

 

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 Slovenia, Texas A&M University Press”, Slavic Review, 66(3): 542-3.

 

2004. “Review of Rose, Richard and Neil Munro, Elections without Order : Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin, Cambridge University Press”, Political Science Quarterly, 18(4): 691-2.

 

 

Opinions and Media Appearances

2009. “The Hard Sell: How Obama should play the politics of an Afghanistan troop surge”, The New Republic, October 22, 2009 (with Patrick J. Egan).

2009. “Obama's Correct and Difficult Missile Shield Move”, Real Clear World, September 22, 2009.

2009. “Guessing Game: What we still don't know about the Russian-Georgian War”, The New Republic, online edition, August 8, 2009.  Republished on CBS News Online under title “Georgia-Russia: What We Still Don't Know”.

2009. “Obama’s Russia Gamble”, The New Republic, online edition, July 7, 2009

2009. “How Should U.S. Engage Russia?”, Real Clear World, June 30, 2009 (with Jim Arkedis).  Republished in Arabic at: http://www.aljarida.com/aljarida/Article.aspx?id=118680

2009. “From Kiev to Tehran: Can Ukraine’s Orange Revolution teach us anything about today’s protests in Iran?”, The New Republic, online edition, June 15, 2009.

2009.  Added as co-author of “The Monkey Cage”, a political science and policy blog.

2009. “Twitter Revolution: Social Networking and the Future of Protest”, Real Clear World, April 16, 2009.

2009. “From Obama with Love”, The New Republic, online edition, March 05, 2009

2009.  Permanent contributor to the “Arena” on Politico, web-based political newsmagazine.  Past comments available at: http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/joshua_a_tucker.html

2009. “Don’t Forget About the Bear”, guest blog on All Our Might national security blog, February 9, 2009.

2008. “Russia: Putin’s Cards Still Hidden”, The Journal (Edinburgh, Scotland), December 9, 2008,

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,

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. University of Michigan, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Politics and Policy, Center for Pol. Studies

2009. Princeton University, Democratic Politics Colloquium, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics

2009. Vanderbilt University, Department of Political Science.

2009. Washington University, Political Economy Seminar.

2008. Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany, Workshop on Experimental Political Science

2008. Harvard University, Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop.

2008. University of Ottawa, Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies.

2008. Yale University, Comparative Politics Seminar.

2008. Conference on New Approaches to Political Economy, Moscow, Russia

2008. Stanford University, Comparative Politics Seminar

2008. Columbia University, Quantitative Political Science Seminar

2008. Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

2007. The New Economic School, Moscow, Russia.

2007. University of California Los Angeles, Comparative Politics Workshop.

2007. Columbia University, New York/New Jersey Post-Communist Politics Workshop.

2007. Princeton University, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.

2007. Yale University, Conference on Elections and Political Identities in New Democracies.

2006. Columbia University, Ukrainian Studies Program and the Orange Circle.

2006. University of Ottawa, Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies.

2006. University of Wisconsin, Political Economy Seminar.

2006. Kennan Institute Workshop on Ukrainian Civil Society, Woodrow Wilson Center.

2006. University of Michigan, Workshop on Democratic Politics.

2006. Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium.

2006. Oxford University, Nuffield College.

2006. University of Essex, Department of Politics.

2005. New York University, Department of Politics.

2005. Columbia University, Harriman Institute.

2005. University of Ottawa, Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies.

2005. University of Michigan, New Challenges for Political Parties and Representation Conference.

2005. Syracuse University, Maxwell Center for European Studies.

2005. Rutgers University, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Workshop on Markets as Predictive Devices.

2004. Middlebury College, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

2004. Center for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow, Russia.

2004. New York University, Department of Politics.

2004. Indiana University, Public Opinion about the EU in Eastern Europe Conference.

2004. University of Michigan, National Election Study Workshop.

2004. Indiana University, Kremlin Power and 2003-4 Russian Elections Conference.

2004. University of Michigan, National Election Study Workshop.

2003. Yale University, Post-Communist Politics Workshop.

2003. Emory University, Institute for Comparative and International Studies.

2003. Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

2002. Meridian Center, Washington D.C.

2002. Texas A&M University, Department of Political Science.

2002. Rutgers University, Center for European Studies.

2002. Ohio State University, Comparative Politics Workshop.

2002. University of Michigan, ICPSR Summer Workshops in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.

1998. University of Chicago, Comparative Politics Workshop.

 

Faculty Research Grants

2007. Emergency Research Challenge Fund, New York University, “The Nature and Origins of Party Identification”, September 2007 – May 2008.

2007. University Research Challenge Fund, New York University, “The Nature and Origins of Party Identification”, July 2007 – May 2008.

2007. The National Academies’ National Research Center: Office for Central Europe and Eurasia.  Twinning Grant for “Polish Politics and EU Accession: Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, and Political Representation.” Supplementary Award: June 2007 – October 2007.

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 Russia” (with Ted Brader), July 2005 – August 2006.

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, University of Michigan, Seed Grant for “Experimental Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia” (with Ted Brader) January, 2005 – December 2006.

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.

2004. University Committee on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant “Experimental Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia” July 2004 – September 2004.

2003. National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), National Research Competition, “Transitional Economic Voting: Economic Conditions and Election Results in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, 1990-99.” October 2003 – August 2006.

2003. Center of International Studies, Princeton University.  Faculty Research Grant for “Economic Conditions and Election Results in Post-Communist Countries.” July 2003 – July 2004.

2003. The National Academies’ National Research Center: Office for Central Europe and Eurasia.  Twinning Grant for “Polish Politics and EU Accession: Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, and Political Representation.”  February 2003 – October 2006.

2002. Center of International Studies, Princeton University.  Faculty Research Grant for “Economic Conditions and Election Results in Post-Communist Countries.” July 2002 – July 2003.

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, Spring 2009, Fall 2009

V53.0505: Elections and Voting, Spring 2007

Princeton

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.

 

Department and University Service

 

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University, 2007-2010

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, Princeton University, 2006.

Planning Board, Princeton Program on National Security, Princeton University, 2004 – present.

Executive Board Member, Center for Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2001 - 2003.

Chair’s Advisory Committee, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2003.

Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2001 - 2003.

Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2002 & 2003.

Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Department of Politics, 2002.

Comparative Politics Search Committee, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2001 - 2002.

Academic Advisor (2002 - 2003) and Fellow (2001 - 2006), Butler College, Princeton University.

Director, Post-Communist Politics Workshop, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 1995-1999.

 

Professional Service

 

2009. Best Paper Award Committee, American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization Section

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: University of Wisconsin (Scott Gelbach); Harvard University (Monica Nalepa)

External Dissertation Reader: Columbia University (Graeme Robertson; Georgia Kernell), New School for Social Research (Michael Smith)

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, Europe-Asia 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, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Theoretical Politics, The National Science Foundation, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Social Science Research Council, Slavic Review, Studies in Comparative and International Development, St. Martin’s Press, Yale University Press, World Politics

 

Language Training

 

Russian (4.5 years university-level), Polish (2.5 years university-level), French (8 years pre-university).

 

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