I am currently a lecturer in the politics department at NYU, the Center for Data Science at NYU and the Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (QMSS) program at Columbia University. The main areas of my research are comparative politics and political methodology.

Central to my research is understanding the relationship between political decision making and public finance. In my dissertation, I analyze whether and how the sources of revenues of a state are connected to the behavior of its political actors. In particular, I focused on the relationship between taxation and accountability, with a focus on the effects of natural resources on the quality of institutions and elections as tools of accountability. More recently, I have been interested in the origins of the modern fiscal state and fiscal capacity. 

Much of my research is empirical in nature, often trying to leverage cross-national as well as subnational variation, as in some ongoing projects about Brazil and Germany. 

How did I get here?

I received my B.A. in Economics and Political Science from New York University (2004, summa cum laude), a Masters in Economics from Stanford University (2012), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University (2012). After a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University (2010-11), I was a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University (2012-2016) in a project entitled "The reform capacity of governments". I am currently a lecturer in the politics department at NYU and the Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences (QMSS) program at Columbia University.

​Office Mail
Department of Politics
New York University
c/o Thomas Brambor
19 West 4th St. 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012

Office Location
Columbia University
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)
International Affairs Building
420 West 118th St
Suite 509E
New York, NY 10027​

Mobile (US): +1 (415) 802-9594
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http://thomas.brambor.com

A current C.V. is here (Nov 2017). 

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Last updated: January, 2018