Joshua A. Tucker is an Associate Professor of Politics in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (NYU). He earned his B.A. in Social Studies (1993) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (2000) from Harvard  University. In addition, he received his Master of International Studies from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom (1994), where he studied at the Graduate School of International Studies and the Centre for Russian and East European Studies.  Professor Tucker’s primary research area is comparative politics with an emphasis on mass political behavior in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, and public opinion formation.  He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which was described as a “magisterial study of the phenomenon of economic voting in postcommunist countries” by one review and “pathbreaking” by another. His work has appeared in numerous academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Annual Review of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Post-Soviet Affairs. In 2006, he was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior for the top scholar in the field within 10 years of the doctorate; he is the first scholar of communist and post-communist politics to have received this honor.  His research has been supported by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, and the Mellon Foundations.  He was an Associate Editor of World Politics and currently serves on the editorial board of Electoral Studies.   His opinions have been published in the International Herald Tribune and The New Republic,  and he has appeared as a guest on National Public Radio.