YOTAM M. MARGALIT Assistant Professor Department of Political Science 420 W. 118 th St. New York, NY 10027 Phone: (212) 854-7540 ym2297@columbia.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Columbia University (2009-present) Post-doctoral Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (2008-2009) E D UCATION Stanford University PhD, Political Science, 2009 The Hebrew University, Israel BA, Economics, 1999 (with Distinction) BA, History, 1999 (with Distinction) R ESEARCH Publications Explaining Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from the Great Recession, American Political Science Review, forthcoming. Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing Between Prevalence and Magnitude (with Neil Malhotra and Cecilia Mo), American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. Measuring Individual Identity: Experimental Evidence (with Alex Kuo), 2012. Comparative Politics, Vol. 44, No. 04, pp. 459-479. Lost in Globalization: Economic Integration and the Politics of Discontent, 2012, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 46, pp. 484-500. Costly Jobs: Trade-related Layoffs, Government Compensation and Voting in the U.S., 2011. American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, No. 1.
Short-Term Communication Effects or Longstanding Dispositions? The Public's Response to the Financial Crisis of 2008, (with Neil Malhotra), 2010, The Journal of Politics, Volume 72, Issue 03, pp 852-867. Working Papers and Manuscripts Under Review Sharing the Pain: Values, Self-interest, and Mass Support for International Financial Bailouts (with Michael Bechtel and Jens Hainmueller) Does FDI have electoral consequences? Evidence from Israel s Development Towns Do Concerns about Labour Market Competition Shape Attitudes Toward Immigration? New Evidence from U.S. Workers (with Jens Hainmueller and Michael Hiscox) Commerce and Oppositions: The Political Responses of Globalization s Losers Walking the Talk? Measuring Consumer Demand for Fair Trade (with Aner Sela) "Producer, Consumer, Family Member: The Relationship between Trade Attitudes and Family Status", (with Judith Goldstein and Douglas Rivers) Work in Progress "Studying Public Opinion on Multi-Dimensional Policies: The Case of the Euro Zone Bailouts", (with Michael Bechtel and Jens Hainmueller) The Left-Right Divide in Historical Perspective What Makes Some Developing Countries More Attractive to FDI Than Others? (with Tom Kenyon) Religion and Political Compromise (with Danny Cohen-Zada and Oren Rigbi) Are Campaign Finance Regulations Protection Shields' for Incumbents? The January 2010 Supreme Court Ruling as a Natural Experiment, (with Jeff Lax and Justin Philips) FELLOW S HI PS, GRANTS A ND AWARDS Wallerstein Prize for best Published Paper in Political Economy, first runner-up, 2012 ETH Zurich Cooper Fund Research Grant, Project Exploring Support for International Bailout Packages", (Co-PI) 2011 Summer Research Support for Junior Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Office of the Vice-President for Arts and Sciences Columbia University, 2010. Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISERP), grant for Are Campaign Finance Regulations Protection Shields' for Incumbents? The January 2010 Supreme Court Ruling as a Natural Experiment, (Co-PI), 2010.
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Research Award Grant, 2010 Faculty Resident Member, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University (2009 - present) Faculty Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISERP), Columbia University (2009 - present) Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Global Justice Program, Fellowship for academic year 2008-2009. Mellon Foundation Award granted by the Humanities and Sciences Division for the academic year 2007-2008. The Sawyer Fellowship for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, granted Spring 2007. National Science Foundation, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), with Alex Kuo, 2005 Graduate Research Opportunity Dissertation Grant, Stanford University, Spring 2005 Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN) Fellowship, 2004-2005. Stanford Political Science Scholarship for five years of doctoral study, granted by the Political Science Department, Stanford University, Fall 2003. Promising Scholar Grant, School of Government and Public Policy, Hebrew University, 2003 and 2004. I NVITED LECTUR ES A ND C O NFERENCE PRESE NTATIONS Invited talks - Change in Political Attitudes: Panels and Experiments Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain June 7th, 2012 - London School of Economics, May 18, 2012 - Workshop on Comparative Approaches to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity (discussant), Princeton University, May 12, 2012 - Permanent speaker series, Juan March Institute, Madrid April 20, 2012 - Yale University, March 28, 2012 - International Political Economy Colloquium, Pittsburgh University, March 22. 2012 - Behavior and Institutions Workshop, Duke University, March 14, 2012 - IICAS and ILAR International Relations Speaker Series, UCSD, February 16, 2012 - Comparative Politics Workshop, Princeton University, November 16, 2011 - Leitner Seminar in Political Economy, Yale, October 10, 2011. - Conference on Political Science and Political Economy, NYU, May 20th, 2011.
- Political Economy Seminar, Hertie School of Government, Berlin, May 12, 2011. - Workshop on Redistributive Preferences in Comparative Perspective, Merton College, Oxford, April 15, 2011. - Workshop on Comparative Approaches to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity, Princeton, March 18, 2011 - Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI), Jerusalem, December 24, 2009. - American Society and Politics Workshop, Columbia University, November 23, 2009 - American Empirical Series (AES), Stanford University, May 11 th, 2009 - Workshop on Global Justice, Stanford University, April 16, 2009 - Supply Chain of the Future Roundtable, Stanford University, January 29 th, 2009 - Just Supply Chains Conference; Stanford, May 16 th, 2008 - Conference on Domestic Preferences and Foreign Economic Policy, Princeton University, April 18th, 2008. - International Politics Workshop, Stanford, February 2007 - The Society for Comparative Research, Yale, May 2006 - Comparative Politics Workshop, Stanford, April 2006 Annual Conferences (papers presented): - APSA 2005, 2006 (x2), 2007 (x2), 2008, 2009, 2010 (x2), 2011 (x2) - MPSA - 2007, 2009, 2010 (x2) - IPES - 2008, 2009, 2010 (x2), 2011 - EPSA 2011, 2012 TEACHING Undergraduate Seminar in political economy: Left versus Right in a Globalizing Economy, Spring 2009, 2010, 2011 Graduate Colloquium: International Political Economy Survey (co-taught with Prof. Pablo Pinto), Fall 2009, 2010 Undergraduate Lecture Course: International political economy, Fall 2011 SERVICE Graduate Admissions Committee (2010, 2011, 2012) Member of the Graduate Program Review Committee (2012) Member of the Award Committee, Doria Prize for best paper by a PhD student, (2012)
Faculty Organizer, Graduate Student Research Ideas Workshop (2012) Faculty Organizer, Columbia University International Politics Speaker Series (2010, 2011) Faculty Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Columbia University (2009-Present) Faculty Resident Member, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University (2009-Present) Professional Manuscript Referee: American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Economics and Politics, Journal of Politics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Review of International Political Economy, Timeshare Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), World Politics Member of the following Professional Associations: American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, International Political Economy Society [Ver. Aug. 2012]