Prof. Mark Andreas Kayser, PhD

Professor of Applied Methods & Comparative Politics

Mark Kayser teaches applied quantitative methods and comparative politics. His research focuses on comparative and international political economy, with an emphasis on domestic political institutions, elections, redistribution, and political intervention in the economy. He earned his BA from New York University, MA from the University of Chicago, and PhD, in 2002, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before coming to the Hertie School of Governance, he served as a postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. He is the coauthor of a book on the effect of electoral systems on regulation and price levels (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the author or coauthor of articles in leading journals on topics including opportunistic election timing, political business cycles, the electoral effects of international business cycles and the relationship between globalisation and electoral politics.