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Alexander Tahk
Alexander Tahk (Stanford Ph.D., 2010) is an assistant professor of political science. His research and teaching interests are in political methodology, judicial politics, and mass behavior. His article, “Institutions and Equilibrium in the United States Supreme Court,” appeared in the American Political Science Review. His current research includes projects studying the behavior of the judiciary through the statistical analysis of judicial citations and roll-call votes, the factors that determine the policy in Supreme Court opinions, the relationship between media attention and public concern, and the effect of ballot order on vote choice.
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Recent Publications
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Alexander Tahk, Stephen Jessee. "What Can We Learn About the Ideology of the Newest Supreme Court Justices?" PS: Political Science and Politics 44, 3 (2011): 524–29.
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Alexander Tahk, Neil Malhotra. "Specification Issues in Assessing the Moderating Role of Issue Importance: A Comment on Grynaviski and Corrigan (2006)." Political Analysis 19, 3 (2011): 342–50.
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Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013
835 - Game Theory and Political Analysis
Instructors: Alexander Tahk Field: Political Methodology
Section Number: 001
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989 - American Politics Workshop
Instructors: Alexander Tahk Field: American Politics
Section Number: 001
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