Nolan McCarty


Nolan Matthew McCarty is an American political scientist specializing in U.S. politics, democratic political institutions, and political methodology. He has made notable contributions to the study of partisan polarization, the politics of economic inequality, theories of policy-making, and the statistical analysis of legislative voting.
He is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Biography

McCarty graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in economics in 1990. He received a MS in political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, and a PhD also in political economy from Carnegie Mellon in 1993.
Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton in 2001, he taught at University of Southern California and Columbia University.
At Princeton, McCarty has served as associate dean at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2005 to 2011; acting dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs ; as a member of the executive committees for the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Finance and Public Policy and Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. In 2010, he and Princeton President emeritus Harold Shapiro co-chaired a significant curricular reform of Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Program.
Along with Keith Krehbiel, he founded the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, a journal that focuses on innovative research in analytical political science. In 2010, McCarty was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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