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I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer in the UK) of Economics in the Department of Political Economy and a member of the Quantitative Political Economy Group at King's College London. Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at LSE's Department of Government (2013 - 2015) and a visiting assistant professor in Political Economy at the University of Rochester's Wallis Institute. I have completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick (2012).

My primary research fields are Political Economy, Positive Political Science, Public Economics and Applied Microeconomics. In my research, I utilize both formal modelling and systematic empirical analysis. 

I am particularly interested in the political economy of redistribution and inequality, the politics of identity and race, the design of electoral institutions and their effects on polarization, electoral competition and participation, machine politics and corruption, electoral behavior and formal models of elections. 

My most recent work, published in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis among others, focuses on the linkages between economic and political inequality, the effects of electoral institutions on electoral competition and polarization, the structure of the party-system, and intra-party dynamics, and the political repercussions of mass migration and identity politics.

Selected peer-reviewed publications (for a full list see here)

                         

Does Exposure to the Refugee Crisis Make Natives More Hostile? American Political Science Review, 113(2), 2019 (with E. Dinas, D. Hangartner, M. Marbach, and D. Xefteris)

Divide and Rule: Redistribution in a Model with Differentiated Candidates, Economic Theory, 63(4): pp. 867-902 (2016), (with D. Xefteris)

    

Electoral Rule Disproportionality and Platform Polarization, American Journal of Political Science, 60(4): pp. 1026-43 (2016), (with O. Troumpounis & D. Xefteris) (WP version)

"Take Back Control?" The Effects of Supranational Integration on Party-system Polarization, The Review of International Organizations (2019), 14 (2): pp. 297-333 (with N. Konstantinidis and H. Mutlu-Eren)   

Electoral Rules, Strategic Entry and Polarization forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics (with D. Bol, O. Troumpounis and D. Xefteris) 

Class vs. Identity: Candidates' Race and the Inequality-Redistribution Nexus forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science (with D. Xefteris)