Mark A Pickup                                                                       

                                        

Mark Pickup (Ph.D. UBC) is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His central preoccupation is with political methodology, public opinion, elections, and democratic representation. As a political methodologist in longitudinal data analysis, his interests include the development of networks over time generally and testing hypotheses about the nature of the interdependence between countries in the formation of trade ties specifically. His current projects include examining the link between trade agreement networks and democratization, showing that trade agreement ties and democracy are mutually determined and reinforcing, and that countries choose to form new ties depending on their relative position given by existing ties. Collaborators on this project are Mark Manger (McGill University) and Tom Snijders (University of Oxford).