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I am a political scientist whose research focuses on democratic institutions and the relationship between money and politics in the U.S., Britain, and France.
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. During academic year 2010-2011 I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Leitner Program at Yale.
I received my PhD in 2010 from Harvard, where I worked and studied with Gary King, Jim Snyder, Kevin Quinn, Jeff Frieden, Ken Shepsle, and Jim Robinson, among others. My current coauthors include Jens Hainmueller and Arthur Spirling.
My CV (updated Sept 24, 2012) is here.
I can be contacted at aeggers [at] gmail.com.
Recent papers
- On The Validity Of The Regression Discontinuity Design For Estimating Electoral Effects: New Evidence From Over 40,000 Close Races (pdf), May 15, 2013
- Representation and District Magnitude in Plurality Systems (pdf), March 15, 2013.
- Proportionality and Turnout: Evidence from French Municipalities (pdf), March 13, 2013.
- Partisanship and Electoral Accountability: Evidence from the UK Expenses Scandal (pdf), December 7, 2012.
- Guarding the Guardians: Partisanship, Corruption and Delegation in Victorian Britain (pdf), December 14, 2012.
- Capitol Losses: The Mediocre Performance of Congressional Stock Portfolios (pdf) (published in JOP), April 2013.
Selected blog posts
- Friedman: Capitalism and Freedom (The Woodshed)
- Covariate balance, Mill’s methods, and falsificationism (The Woodshed)
- Elster (2000) on institutional solutions for procrastination-prone political institutions (The Woodshed)
- Levi: “Quasi-Voluntary Compliance” (The Woodshed)
- Cherry picking (in reporting on research) (The Woodshed)