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Andy Eggers

Senior Research Fellow
Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago

Research Interests: Electoral systems, corruption/accountability, the relationship between money and politics, and political development in the US, Britain, and France.

I am a political scientist whose research focuses on electoral systems, corruption/accountability, the relationship between money and politics, and political development in the US, Britain, and France. I also have an interest in research methodology.

I am a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. From 2014 to 2021 I was a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, and Director of the Oxford QStep Centre, and previous to that I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. I received my PhD in 2010 from Harvard.

Andy Eggers

Publications

(with Nick Vivyan), 'Who votes more strategically?', American Political Science Review, forthcoming. 

(with R. Freier, V. Grembi, and T. Nannicini), 'Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions', American Journal of Political Science, January, 2018.

'Proportionality and Turnout: Evidence from French Municipalities', Comparative Political Studies, 48(2): 135-167, 2015.

'Partisanship and Electoral Accountability: Evidence from the UK Expenses Scandal', Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 9(4): 441-472, 2014..

(with A. Spirling), 'Guarding the Guardians: Partisanship, Corruption and Delegation in Victorian Britain' , Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 9(3): 337-370, 2014.

(with J. Hainmueller), 'MPs For Sale? Returns to Office in Post-War British Politics' , American Political Science Review, 2009.