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Eric Dickson

Assistant Professor of Politics
B.S. 1996, Caltech; M.A. 1997, Princeton; A.M. 1999, Ph.D. 2003, Harvard.

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Phone:  (212) 992-8697
Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
Office Room Number:  306

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For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: Political Methodology; Political Economy

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Working Papers & Submissions:

· Social Identity, Electoral Institutions, and the Number of Candidates.  (with Kenneth Scheve) 

    currently R&R at British Journal of Political Science

· Do Participants and Observers Assess Intentions Differently During Bargaining and Conflict?  An Experiment.   under review

· Enforcement and Compliance in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Investigation.  (with Sanford Gordon and Gregory Huber)  under review

· On the (In)Effectiveness of Collective Punishment: An Experimental Investigation.  under review

· Emotions, Strategy, and Identity Change in Social Group Conflicts.  under review

· Expected Utility Violations Evolve Under Status-Based Selection Mechanisms.  under review

· Leadership, Followership, and Beliefs About the World: Theory and Experiment.  under review

· 'Soft Power' and Perceptions of Hard Power: Counterterrorism Under Uncertainty.  coming soon

Peer-Reviewed Articles:


· Cognition and Strategy: A Deliberation Experiment.  (with Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa

    Journal of Politics, conditionally accepted (2008)

· The Propaganda of the Deed: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Mobilization.  (with Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

    American Journal of Political Science 51(2):364-381 (2007)

· Rational Choice Epistemology and Belief Formation in Mass Politics. 

    Journal of Theoretical Politics 18(4):455-498 (2006)

· Social Identity, Political Speech, and Electoral Competition.  (with Kenneth Scheve

    Journal of Theoretical Politics 18(1):5-39 (2006)

· Working and Shirking: Equilibrium in Public Goods Games with Overlapping Generations of Players.  (with Kenneth Shepsle

    Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 17:285-318 (2001)

· Dynamical Tide in Solar-Type Binaries.  (with Jeremy Goodman) 

    Astrophysical Journal 507:938 (1998)

· The Discovery of Five Quasars at z>4 Using the Second Palomar Sky Survey (with J.D. Kennefick et al) 

    Astronomical Journal 110:78 (1995)