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Christopher Adolph
Assistant Professor

Office: Padelford C14-E
(206) 616-9483
cadolph@u.washington.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Christopher Adolph (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington and a core faculty member of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He works in the fields of comparative political economy and political methodology. He studies the interaction of political interests and political institutions, and the effects of this interaction on the economy. His recent research has looked at how political parties, central banks, and labor market institutions shape macro-economic policy. Other research interests include the visual display of quantitative information, legislative redistricting, and the political economy of economic inequality.

Adolph’s teaching interests include quantitative methods, covering data visualization, maximum likelihood estimation, categorical data analysis, models of counts, contingency tables, and simulation. He has also taught an undergraduate course in comparative political economy.