Orit Kedar

Orit Kedar, Associate Professor of Political Science, studies comparative politics. Her work focuses on electoral politics, the interaction of political institutions and behavior, party systems, electoral systems, parliamentary politics, and European integration. Other interests of hers include multilevel explanations in comparative politics, federalism, representation, identity, social choice, and spatial models of voting.

Professor Kedar teaches courses in comparative politics, and particularly in comparative electoral politics, electoral institutions, parliamentary democracy, elections in Europe, and European integration, as well as quantitative research methods. Her work appeared in such venues as the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, and Political Analysis. Her book project, Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate for Power Sharing (in production, Cambridge University Press), analyzes voter strategy under different mechanisms of power sharing.

Professor Kedar holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University, MA in Political Science from Brown University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Prior to joining MIT, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she was also affiliated with the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research and Center for European Studies. She was also a member of the Parties Research Group at UM.

For more of Professor Kedar's research, publications, and course syllabi, please see her personal website.