Background
McCarty, Nolan M. was born on December 10, 1967 in Odessa, Texas, United States. Son of Bill Leonard and Clara Elizabeth (Chew) McCarty.
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Income Redistribution & the Realignment of American Politics (AEI Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality)
(What kinds of considerations have historically had an imp...)
What kinds of considerations have historically had an important influence on congressional voting patterns? This analysis demonstrates that income redistribution implications have had a strong and persistent effect on national policy.
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Nolan M. McCarty
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McCarty graduated from the University of Chicago with an Bachelor in economics in 1990. He received a Mississippi in political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, and a Doctor of Philosophy also in political economy from Carnegie Mellon in 1993.
Career
He has made notable contributions to the study of partisan polarization, the politics of economic inequality, theories of policy-making, and the statistical analysis of legislative voting. He is the chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University and the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prior to joining the faculty at Princeton in 2001, he taught at University of Southern California and Columbia University.
In 2010, he and Princeton President emeritus Harold Shapiro co-chaired a significant curricular reform of Woodrow Wilson School Undergraduate Program.
Along with Keith Krehbiel, he founded the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, a journal that focuses on innovative research in analytical political science.
Achievements
Works
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Income Redistribution & the Realignment of American Politics (AEI Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality)
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Income Redistribution & the Realignment of American Politics (AEI Studies on Understanding Economic Inequality)
Politics
The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures (with Boris Shor) (American Political Science Review 105(3):530-551, 2011)
Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform (with John Huber) (American Political Science Review 98(3): 481-494, 2004)
The Hunt for Party Discipline (with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal (American Political Science Review 95(3):673-687, 2001).
Membership
At Princeton, McCarty has served as associate dean at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 2005 to 2011. Acting dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (2007-2008). As a member of the executive committees for the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Finance and Public Policy and Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.
In 2010, McCarty was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Interests
Connections
Married Janie Rae Davis, July 14, 1990. 1 child, Lachlan.
