Professor Snyder’s primary research and teaching interests are in American politics, with a focus on political representation. He has written on elections, campaign finance, legislative behavior and institutions, interest groups, direct democracy, the media, and corruption. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and many other journals and edited volumes. He is co-author of Primary Elections in the United States and The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics. Professor Snyder is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Contact
617/496-1089
jsnyder@gov.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 413
Subfields
American Politics
Academic Interests
Legislatures | Parties, Campaigns & Elections | Voter Behavior
Research Methods
Formal Theory | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
United States