Jonathan Hanson

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Degree

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007

Specialties

Comparative politics

Personal Website

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/johanson

Courses

Political Economy and Political Development

Game Theory and Formal Modeling

Research Interests

Political institutions and economic performance

Politics of East Asia, especially China

Research Projects

I study the relationship of political and economic change.  I am starting work on a book project based on my dissertation which develops and tests a new framework to generate context specific predictions concerning the ways in which, and the channels through which, political institutions affect economic performance.

Other projects include an examination of how political institutions mediate the effects of heterogeneity on public goods delivery, a test of the "selectorate theory" in the East Asian context, and study of the trade-off between constraints on rulers and state power in the process of development.