Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Research: strategic logic of electoral manipulation
Residency: January 3, 2011, through March 31, 2011

Simpser is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Generally, he focuses on the political economy of development; his recent work specifically focuses on electoral manipulation, election monitoring, mechanisms of authoritarian political control, redistributive spending, and subnational governance. His current book manuscript, More than Winning: Why Parties and Governments Manipulate Elections, is a comparative study of the incentives underpinning electoral manipulation around the world.