Rebecca B. Morton Professor of Politics Ph.D. 1984 (politics), Tulane University; M.P.A. 1977; B.S. 1976, Louisiana State University. Email: Phone:  (212) 998-3706 Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  329 For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: American elections, empirical analysis of formal models of politics, and experimental methods.

Select Publications:
Experimental Methods

• "Incentives, Complexity and Motivations in Experiments"
• "From Nature to the Lab: Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality" (with Kenneth C. Williams)
• "Experimentation in Political Science" (with Kenneth C. Williams)
• "Why the Centipede Game is Important for Political Science"

Research on Strategic Voting, Information, and Sequence

• "Information and Pivotal Voter Models in Large Laboratory Elections"
• "The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory"
• "Efficiency, Equity, and Timing in Voting Mechanisms"(forthcoming in the American Political Science Review)
• "Proportionality versus Perfectness: Experiments in Majoritarian Bargaining"

Research on the Electoral Process

• "How the Delegation of Voting Rights Affects the Measurement of Voting Behavior"
• "Seperation of Powers and Turnout"
• "Analyzing Elections"
• "All Style and No Substance? The Strategic Calculus of Campaign Advertising"
• "Decisiveness of Contributors' Perceptions in Elections"
• "Primaries and Turnout"
• "Delegating Disenfranchisement Decisions"

Books

• "Analyzing Elections"
• "Learning by Voting: Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections"
• "Methods and Models: A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science"

Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007-08 Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2004-05 National Science Foundation, grant.

External Affiliations: National Science Foundation review panels; editorial boards of the American Political Science Review and Political Analysis.