Joshua A. Tucker Wilf Family Department of Politics 212-998-7598 19 West 4 th Street, Rm. 430 joshua.tucker @ nyu.edu New York, N.Y. 10012 http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jat7/ ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT New York University, New York, NY Associate Professor of Politics with tenure, September 2006 - present. Princeton University, Princeton NJ Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, July 2005 August 2006. Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, 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, Kraków, 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, Cambridge, MA B.A. magna cum laude in Social Studies and phi beta kappa, June 1993. Winner of Thomas Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Research. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS 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, 2006. Ralph O. Glendinning University Preceptor, Princeton University, 2005-2008. Competitive position awarded to promising junior faculty providing leave and research fund (Declined last two years). National Election Studies Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan, 2003. Center of International Studies Junior Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003. Edward M. Chase Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 2001. 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). Bok Center Certificates of Distinction (2), Harvard University, for excellence in teaching, 1997.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Comparative politics, mass politics in post-communist countries, elections and voting, partisanship and partisan attachment, public opinion formation, political representation, democratization. BOOKS Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999, 2006, New York: Cambridge University Press. The Nature and Origins of Partisan Identification (with Ted Brader, manuscript in progress). REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions, forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics. Run Boris Run: Strategic Voting and Information Transmission in Sequential Elections, with Adam Meirowitz, 2007, The Journal of Politics, 69(1): 88-99. Don t Knows and Public Opinion Towards Economic Reform: Evidence from Russia with Adam Berinsky, 2006, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 39(1): 73-99. Pocketbooks, Politics, and Parties: A Macro and Micro Analysis of the June 2003 Polish Referendum on EU Membership with Radoslaw Markowski, 2005, Electoral Studies, 24(3): 409-433. Feeding the Hand that Bit You: Voting for Ex-Authoritarian Rulers in Russia and Bolivia, with Amber Seligson, 2005, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 13(1): 11-42. Learning from Terrorist Markets with Adam Meirowitz, 2004, Perspectives on Politics, 2(2): 331-6. "Transitional Winners and Losers: Attitudes Toward EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries" with Alexander Pacek and Adam Berinsky, 2002, American Journal of Political Science, 46(3): 557-71. The First Decade of Post-Communist Elections and Voting: What Have We Studied, and How Have We Studied It? 2002, Annual Review of Political Science, 5: 271-304. An Easy and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data with Michael Tomz and Jason Wittenberg, 2002, Political Analysis, 10(1): 66-83. The Emergence of Mass Partisanship in Russia from 1993-6 with Ted Brader, 2001, American Journal of Political Science, 45(1): 69-83. Economic Conditions and the Vote for Incumbent Parties in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from 1990-1996, 2001, Post Soviet Affairs, 17(4): 309-331. Walking the Tightrope: An Exploration of the Political Culture Concept and its Applications for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1995, Paradigms: The Kent Journal of International Relations, 9(1): 37-61. Tucker - 2
ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW Voting More When It Matters More: Turnout in Post-Communist Countries (with Alexander Pacek and Grigore Pop-Eleches) CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES Orange in a Shade of Grey: Electoral Fraud, Corruption, and Protest in the Orange Revolution, forthcoming in The Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine, Paul D'Anieri, ed., Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Political Representation and Euroskepticism: Evidence from Poland, with Radoslaw Markowski, in Michael Marsh, Slava Mikhaylov and Hermann Schmitt, eds., 2007, European Elections after Eastern Enlargement: Preliminary Results from the European Election Study 2004, Mannheim, Germany: The Connex Report Series No. 1. WORKING PAPERS (available at http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jat7/) Euroskepticism and the Emergence of Political Parties in Poland (with Radoslaw Markowski) Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification (with Ted Brader) Red, Brown, and Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from 1990-99 Pathways to Partisanship in Russia (with Ted Brader) It s Noting Personal: The Appeal of Party Leaders and the Development of Partisanship in Russia (with Ted Brader) Political Representation and EU Accession: Evidence from Poland (with Radoslaw Markowski) The Potency and Pliability of Nascent Party Identification: A Research Prospectus (with Ted Brader) BOOK REVIEWS Review of Rizman, Rudolf Martin, 2006, Uncertain Path: Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Slovenia, College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming in Slavic Review Review of Rose, Richard and Neil Munro, Elections without Order : Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Political Science Quarterly, Vol.18, no.4 (Winter, 2003-2004) 691-2. Tucker - 3
OPINIONS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES 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 (http://www.inosmi.ru/text/translation/213102.html). Guest on Russia After Beslan: Putin s Shake up of the Government, Weekday, Seattle Public Radio (KUOW), September 23, 2004. Tucker - 4
FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS University Committee on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant for Polish National Election Study, September 2005 April 2006. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Research Grant for Experimental Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia (with Ted Brader), July 2005 August 2006. 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. Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, Seed Grant for Experimental Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia (with Ted Brader) January, 2005 December 2006. 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. University Committee on Research in Social Sciences, Princeton University, Faculty Grant Experimental Analysis of Partisan Attachment in Russia July 2004 September 2004. 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. Center of International Studies, Princeton University. Faculty Research Grant for Economic Conditions and Election Results in Post-Communist Countries. July 2003 July 2004. The National Academies National Research Center: Office for Central Europe and Eurasia. Twinning Grant for collaborative research with Radoslaw Markowski of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute for the Study of Politics on Polish Politics and EU Accession: Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, and Political Representation. February 2003 October 2006. Center of International Studies, Princeton University. Faculty Research Grant for Economic Conditions and Election Results in Post-Communist Countries. July 2002 July 2003. 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. Tucker - 5
INVITED PRESENTATIONS University of California Los Angeles, Comparative Politics Workshop, May 2007 Columbia University, New York/New Jersey Post-Communist Politics Workshop, May 2007 Princeton University, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, April 2007 Yale University, Conference on Elections and Political Identities in New Democracies, April 2007 Columbia University, Ukrainian Studies Program and the Orange Circle, November 2006 University of Ottawa, Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, October, 2006. University of Wisconsin, Political Economy Seminar, September 2006. Kennan Institute Workshop on Ukrainian Civil Society, Woodrow Wilson Center, May 2006 University of Michigan, Workshop on Democratic Politics, March 2006 Penn-Temple European Studies Colloquium, February 2006 Oxford University, Nuffield College, January 2006 University of Essex, Department of Politics, January 2006 New York University, Department of Politics, October 2005 Columbia University, Harriman Institute, October 2005 University of Ottawa, Danyliw Research Seminar in Contemporary Ukrainian Studies, September 2005 University of Michigan, New Challenges for Political Parties and Representation Conference, May 2005 Syracuse University, Maxwell Center for European Studies, February 2005 Rutgers University, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Workshop on Markets as Predictive Devices, February 2005 Middlebury College, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, November 2004 Center for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow, Russia, July 2004 New York University, Department of Politics, April 2004 Indiana University, Public Opinion about the EU in Eastern Europe Conference, March 2004 University of Michigan, National Election Study Workshop, March 2004 Indiana University, Kremlin Power and 2003-4 Russian Elections Conference, February 2004 University of Michigan, National Election Study Workshop, January 2004 Yale University, Post-Communist Politics Workshop, October 2003 Emory University, Institute for Comparative and International Studies, October 2003 Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, March 2003 Meridian Center, Washington D.C., October 2002 Texas A&M University, Department of Political Science, October 2002 Rutgers University, Center for European Studies, October 2002 Ohio State University, Comparative Politics Workshop, February 2002 University of Michigan, ICPSR Summer Workshops in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Aug. 2002 University of Chicago, Comparative Politics Workshop, April 1998 Tucker - 6
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC HONORS East European Dissertation Fellowship, American Council for Learned Societies, 1999-2000. Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1999. Center for European Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Harvard University, 1998-99. Dissertation Research Fellowship, Mellon Foundation, 1998. Foreign Language Area Studies Full Academic Year Fellowship: Russia and Eastern Europe, United States Department of Education, 1997-98, 1995-96. Predoctoral Fellowship for the Performance of Democracies, Sawyer Foundation, 1996-7. Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship: Russia and Eastern Europe, United States Department of Education, 1996. Graduate School of International Studies Prize, University of Birmingham, for best results, 1994. Rotary Ambassadorial Graduate Scholarship, 1993-4. Commencement Speaker, Harvard College, 1993. TEACHING NYU Graduate G53.3995: Graduate Pre-Dissertation Workshop, Fall 2006. G53.3500.002: Comparative Political Behavior, Spring 2007 Undergraduate V53.0505: The Electoral Process in Comparative Perspective, Spring 2007 Princeton Graduate Politics 594: Comparative Politics Graduate Research Workshop, Full Year 2002-2003. Undergraduate Politics 230: Introduction to Comparative Politics: Spring 2005, 2003 Fall 2001, 2000. 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. Tucker - 7
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE Russian-Eurasian Studies Faculty Program Committee, Princeton University, 2006. Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2001-03, 2004-05. Executive Board Member, Center for Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2001-2003. Chair s Advisory Committee, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2003. Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2002 & 2003. Senior Thesis Prize Committee, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2002. Comparative Politics Search Committee, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2001-2002. Planning Board, Princeton Program on National Security, Princeton University, 2004 present. 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 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, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Social Power and Political Theory, The Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, National Science Foundation, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Post-Soviet Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, Slavic Review, St. Martin s Press, Yale University Press, World Politics. Section Head: Post-Communist Politics, 2007 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). CONSULTING CLIENTS Economic Consulting Services LLC, Booz Allen Hamilton ADDITIONAL SKILLS Languages. Russian (4.5 years university level instruction), Polish (2.5 years university level), French (8 years pre-university). Tucker - 8