About Joshua Tucker

Affiliation: New York University

Joshua Tucker is a Professor of Politics at New York University with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and New York University-Abu Dhabi; He spent last spring as a Visiting Professor at the Juan March Foundation’s Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.

Professor Tuckers major field is comparative politics with an emphasis on mass politics, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, and, political protest. His primary regional specialization is in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

In 2006, he became the first scholar of post-communist politics to be awarded the Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field of Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior within 10 years of receiving the Ph.D.

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