University of Rochester Political Science Department

Mark A. Kayser
Assistant Professor of Political Science

PhD, UCLA, 2002. International economic effects on domestic politics, election timing, electoral systems, economic voting, and comparative institutions. Currently working on a coauthored book on the effect of electoral system design on the representation of organized and diffuse interests. Recent articles include "How Domestic is Domestic Politics? Globalization and Elections," Annual Review of Political Science (2007), "Trade and the Timing of Elections," British Journal of Political Science (2006), "Who Surfs, Who Manipulates? The Determinants of Opportunistic Election Timing and Electorally Motivated Economic Intervention," American Political Science Review (2005), and "Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Consumer Power: Price-Level Evidence from the OECD Countries," with Ronald Rogowski, American Journal of Political Science (2002). Teaches courses in comparative political economy, the political consequences of economic globalization, and applied data analysis.

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Courses:

PSC 200	Applied Data Analysis
PSC 262	Globalization Past and Present
PSC 268W	Economics and Elections
PSC 364/564	Comparative Political Economy