About me

I am the Class of 1949 Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining MIT in 2012, I studied at Yale (History BA), Clare College, Cambridge (History MPhil), and UC Berkeley (Political Science PhD).

Most of my research focuses on American politics, but I have also published on comparative politics, international relations, and political methodology. I am particularly interested in how representation and accountability have evolved over the course of American history, and I often use a combination of Bayesian measurement models and causal inference methods to study these questions.

Among my current responsibilities are:

• Director of Graduate Studies for the MIT Political Science Department
• Editorial board of the American Political Science Review
• Co-chair of the American Political Economy section at APSA 2026
• Board of the Consortium on the American Political Economy
• Chair of the Politics and History section’s J. David Greenstone Book Prize committee

The most recent version of my CV can be found here.

p.s. I pronounce my surname so that it rhymes with “doughy” (IPA: ‘koʊi).