Transcript CV - New York University

Tiberiu C. Dragu
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Politics
New York University
19 West 4th Street
Office 220; Phone: 212-998-8513
Email: [email protected]
https://files.nyu.edu/tcd224/public/
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, New York University, September 2012-Present
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009-2012
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University, June 2009
Dissertation: “Essays on Executive Power”
Committee: Joshua Cohen, James Fearon, John Ferejohn, and Terry Moe
M.A., Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, August 2005
B.A., Political Science and European Studies, Babes Bolyai University, Romania, June 2002
PUBLICATIONS
Tiberiu Dragu. 2011. “Is There a Trade-off Between Security and Liberty? Executive Bias,
Privacy Protections, and Terrorism Prevention,” American Political Science Review 105 (1): 64-78.
Tiberiu Dragu and Jonathan Rodden. 2011. “Representation and Redistribution in Federations,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (21): 8601-8604.
Tiberiu Dragu and Mattias Polborn. 2013. “The Administrative Foundation of the Rule of Law,”
Journal of Politics 75 (4): 1038-1050.
Tiberiu Dragu, Xiaochen Fan and James Kuklinski. 2014. “Designing Checks and Balances,”
Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9 (1): 45-86
Tiberiu Dragu and Mattias Polborn. 2014. “The Rule of Law in the Fight against Terrorism,”
American Journal of Political Science 58 (2): 511-524
“Tiberiu Dragu and Oliver Board. “On Judicial Review in a Separation of Powers System,” Political Science Research & Methods, Forthcoming.
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BOOK PROJECT
“The Preventive State: Terrorism, Security and Liberty”
Working Papers
“Democracy and Counterterrorism”
“Self-Enforcing Legal Limits”
“On Repression and its Effectiveness”
“Freedom of Speech and Terrorism”
“An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition” (with Xiaochen Fan)
“Designing Judicial Review” (with Hannah Simpson)
“Malapportionment, Wealth, and Redistribution in Federations” (with Jonathan Rodden)
“Presidential Rulemaking: An Empirical Analysis”
Work in Progress
“Electoral Accountability and Policy Efficiency”
“The Strategies of Authoritarian Control” (with Xiaochen Fan)
“Causality and the Use of Big Data in Counterterrorism Policy” (with Mattias Polborn)
“Procedural Justice and Human Rights” (with Arturas Rozenas)
“What make a “good” model of politics? A “good” normative basis for critical axioms” (with
Mik Laver)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Mancur Olson Award for Best Dissertation in Field of Political Economy, American Political Science Association, 2011.
List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students, UIUC, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, PS 300: The
Rule of Law.
Department of Political Science Fellowship, Stanford University, 2005-2009
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Faculty of Arts and Science Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2003, 2004
European Union Center Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2003, 2004
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCES
Columbia University Political Economy Conference (discussant), December 2014; Formal Theory
and Comparative Politics Conference (participant), Washington University, October 2014; NYULSE Conference, London School of Economics, June 2014; University of Rochester, Political Economy and Public Law Conference, May 2014; Princeton Conference on Political Economy, April
2014 (participant); Emory University, Conference on Institutions and Law-Making, February 2014;
Columbia University, October 2013; Washington University, Political Economy and Public Law
Conference, June 2013 (discussant); University of California, Berkeley (February 2013); University of Virginia, Political Economy and Public Law Conference (May 2012); University of Michigan (December 2011); Harvard University (November 2011); New York University (October 2011,
November 2008); Wallis Annual Political Economy Conference, University of Rochester, October
2011, September 2013 (participant); Indiana University Bloomington (September 2011); Harvard
University, Political Economy and Public Law Conference (June 2011); University of Chicago Harris School (November 2010, December 2008); Washington University (April 2010, November 2008);
Duke University (November 2008); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (November 2008);
University of Pennsylvania (November 2008); University of Texas at Austin (October, 2008).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2015, “On Repression and its Effectiveness,” Paper to be presented at the International Studies
Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
2014, “Self-Enforcing Legal Limits,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington DC.
2014, “Self-Enforcing Legal Limits,” Paper presented at the MPSA Annual National Conference,
Chicago, IL.
2013, “An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition,” Paper presented at UECE Lisbon
Meetings 2013: Game Theory and Applications.
2013, “An Agenda-Setting Theory of Electoral Competition,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
2013, “Designing Checks and Balances,” Paper presented at the Conference on Economic Design,
Lund, Sweden.
2013, “The Administrative Foundation of the Rule of Law,” Paper presented at MPSA Annual
National Conference, Chicago, IL
2012, “Designing Checks and Balances,” Paper presented at the Fourth Congress of the Game
Theory Society, Istanbul, Turkey
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2012, “Designing Checks and Balances,” Paper presented at MPSA Annual National Conference,
Chicago, IL
2011, “Designing Checks and Balances,” Paper presented at UECE Lisbon Meetings 2011: Game
Theory and Applications
2011, “Political Rulers, Administrators, and the Efficacy of Law,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA
2011, “Political Rulers, Administrators, and the Efficacy of Law,” Paper presented at the MPSA
Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL
2010, “Institutional Constraints in Times of Crisis: Counter-Terrorism and Electoral Accountability,” Paper presented at the MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL
2010, “Executive Discretion and Legal Accountability,” Paper presented at the MPSA Annual
National Conference, Chicago, IL
2009, “Anti-Terrorism and Executive Power,” Paper presented at the MPSA Annual National
Conference, Chicago, IL
2009, “Executive Power and the Law,” Paper presented at the MPSA Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL
2008,“Regulating the Regulators: OMB Intervention in Agency Rulemaking as a Latent Variable,”
Poster presented at the Annual Summer Conference of the Society for Political Methodology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2007,“Organizing the Executive,” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL
2005, “Presidential Veto Power, ” Paper presented at the International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY
TEACHING
New York University: The Rule of Law (undergraduate), The Political Economy of Institutional
Design (graduate), Mathematics for Political Scientists (graduate), The Political Economy of Prevention (graduate).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Analytical Politics (undergraduate), The Rule of Law
(undergraduate), Law and Politics (undergraduate), Formal Theory II (graduate).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Editorial Board: Journal of Theoretical Politics: 2014Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; Economics of
Governance; Ethics and International Affairs; Journal of European Economic Association; Journal
of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Politics; Journal of Public Economics; Journal
of Theoretical Politics, International Organization; Oxford Economic Papers; Political Science Research and Methods, Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association, American Economics Association
LANGUAGES
Romanian (Native), English (fluent), French (fair), Italian (fair).
REFERENCES
Available upon request
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