Ph.D. Student Texas A&M University Department of Political Science
Biography
I am a Ph.D. candidate and Avilés-Johnson Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. I study how elite and mass behaviors both influence and are influenced by administrative institutions in the comparative and American context. Furthermore, I am interested in developing and applying quantitative methods in political science. In my dissertation, I argue that historical agricultural endowments explain why regional differences in the state's ability to collect and organize information have persisted in some countries and converged in others during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Recently, my work has been published in Social Science Quarterly.
Recent Publication
Robert Harmel and Leon B. Kockaya. "The Party of Reagan: External (but not internal) Personalization." Social Science Quarterly, 2024.