MIGUEL R. RUEDA

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University. Before joining Emory, I was a Post-doctoral Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (2013–2014). I earned my PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2014, and I hold an M.Sc. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics from La Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

My research focuses on electoral accountability, political violence, and political methodology. I examine how politicians circumvent formal rules to gain electoral advantage, how elected officials allocate benefits to donors and political brokers who mobilized voters in prior campaigns, and why noncombatants are sometimes deliberately targeted in civil war. My methodological work studies the role of covariate adjustment in observational research. I use formal theory and quantitative methods to address these questions.

My work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, and Sociological Methods and Research.