Mark Kayser
Professor
Comparative Politics
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Mark Kayser is Professor of Applied Methods and Comparative Politics at the Hertie School of Governance. He is Senior Co-editor for comparative political economy for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia and serves on the editorial boards of multiple journals. Before joining the Hertie School faculty, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester and was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Kayser earned his PhD in 2002 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Research Interest
His research primarily focuses on elections and political economy. Kayser’s major projects centre on partisan asymmetries in electoral accountability, media reporting on the economy, and the effect of electoral competitiveness on incumbent behaviour.
Publications
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Rogowski, Ronald and Mark Andreas Kasyer. Majoritarian Electoral Systems and Con - sumer Power: Price - Level Evidence from the OECD Countries. With Rona ld Rogowski. American Journal of Political Science 46(3): 526 - 39.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas. Who Surfs, Who Manipulates? The Determinants of Oppor - tunistic Election Timing and Electorally Motivated Economic Intervention. American Political Science Review 99(1): 17 - 28.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas. Trade and the Timing of Elections. British Journal of Political Science 36(3): 437 - 57.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas. How Domestic Is Domestic Politics? Globalization and Elections.
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Chang, Eric C.C., Mark Andreas Kayser and Ronald Rogowsk i. Electoral Systems and Real Prices: Panel Evidence for the OECD Countries 1970 - 2000. British Journal of Political Science 38(4): 739 - 51.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas. Partisan Waves: International Business Cycles and Electoral Choice. American Journal of Political Science 53(4): 950 - 70.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas and Christopher Wlezien. Performance Pressure: Patterns of Partisanship and the Economic Vote. With Christopher Wlezien. European Journal of Political Research, 50(3):365 - 94.
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Blaydes, Lisa and Mark Andreas Kayser. Counting Calories: Democracy and Distri - bution in the Developing World. With Lisa Blaydes. International Studies Quarterly, 55(4): 887 - 908.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas and Michael Peress. Benchmarking across Borders: Electoral Ac - countability and the Necessity of Comparison. With Michael Peress. American Political Science Review, 106(3): 661 - 84.
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Kayser, Mark Andreas and Ren Ìe Lindst ̈adt. A Cross - National Measure of Electoral Competitiveness. Political Analysis, 23 (2): 242 - 253. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpv001.
