Sanford Gordon Associate Professor of Politics B.A. 1994, Cornell; M.A. 1996, Princeton; Ph.D 1999, Princeton Email: Phone:  (212) 998-3708 Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  311 For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: American Politics, Political Methodology

About Me: Sanford Gordon's Bio

My Current Work: Interests in American politics, bureaucratic and administrative politics, political economy of regulation, elections, law and public policy, quantitative political methodology

Select Publications:

• Consumption or Investment? On Motivations for Political Giving (With Catherine Hafer and Dimitri Landa). Journal of Politics (2007).See also the Online Appendix.
  

• Directing Retribution: On the Political Control of Lower Court Judges (With Gregory A. Huber). Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2007)
• Challenger Entry and Voter Learning (With Gregory A. Huber and Dimitri Landa). American Political Science Review (2007)
• Corporate Influence and the Regulatory Mandate (With Catherine Hafer). Journal of Politics (2007)
• The Effect of Electoral Competitiveness on Incumbent Behavior (With Gregory A. Huber). Quarterly Journal of Political Science (May 2007)
• Flexing Muscle: Corporate Political Expenditures as Signals to the Bureaucracy (With Catherine Hafer). American Political Science Review (2005)
• Qualitative Leverage and the Epistemology of Expert Opinion (With Alastair Smith). Political Analysis (2005)
• Accountability and Coercion: Is Justice Blind when It Runs for Office? (With Gregory A. Huber). American Journal of Political Science (2004)
• Quantitative Leverage through Qualitative Knowledge: Augmenting the Statistical Analysis of Complex Causes (With Alastair Smith). Political Analysis (2004)
• Citizen Oversight and the Electoral Incentives of Criminal Prosecutors (With Gregory A. Huber). American Journal of Political Science (2002)
• Stochastic Dependence in Competing Risks. American Journal of Political Science (2002)

• Enforcement and Compliance in an Uncertain World: An Experimental Investigation (With Eric Dickson and Gregory Huber)
• Voter Responses to Challenger Opportunity Costs (With Gregory Huber and Dimitri Landa).
• The Rule of Law, Anonymity, and Elite Incentives. Prepared for the Modeling Law conference at the NYU Law School, October 2005
• Assessing Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions. Coming Soon
• Corporate Lobbying Coalitions (With Catherine Hafer). Coming Soon