Karine Van Der Straeten

Biography

Karine Van der Straeten is Directrice de Recherche CNRS at the Toulouse School of Economics. Her research interests include Political Economy, Experimental Economics and Formal Political Science. She does research on electoral campaigns and voting rules, and in particular studies, using both formal models and experiments, how different electoral institutions shape the way democracy works in practice. She is a member of the Making Electoral Democracy Work project (http://electoraldemocracy.com/) and an associate editor of Mathematical Social Sciences (Elsevier). She has published her work in journal such as the British Journal of Political Science, Experimental Economics and the Journal of Public Economics, and wrote (with Woojin Lee and John E. Roemer) Racism, Xenophobia and Distribution: A Study of Multi-Issue Politics in Advanced Democracies, published in 2007 by Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation Press.

Research Interest

Political Economy Experimental Economics