Carissa L. Tudor

Assistant Professor
University of Amsterdam

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, where I am part of the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) program group. I received my Ph.D. in  comparative politics from Princeton University in April 2022 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in International & Public Affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University from 2021-2023.

My current research interests span historical and comparative political economy and gender and political development with a regional focus in Europe. I study how long-term institutional and economic changes, such as state-building, democratization, and economic development, shape and are shaped by gender relations, family structures, and women’s rights.  My dissertation-based book project, which won the Walter Dean Burnham Award for the Best Dissertation in History and Politics from the American Political Science Association, provides novel evidence of the existence of women’s political rights long before the 20th century and shows how the establishment of modern political and legal institutions led to regressions in women's rights and their formal exclusion from the political sphere. Related work examines the intimate relationship between the distribution of power and resources in the family and women's political and economic rights. My earlier professional work and research focused on international fiscal integration, corporate tax policy, and debt crises.

I have a Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics from Princeton, an M.S. in Applied Math and Statistics from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Government from Claremont McKenna College. Previously I worked at the International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
 
My publications include:

• "Gender and the Editorial Process: World Politics, 2007-2017" (with Deborah Yashar) PS: Political Science & Politics, 2018, Vol. 51 (4): 870-880 - related blog post featured by Cambridge Press: Gender-Submission Gap and Women's Underrepresentationin Political Science Journals.

• “Is Eastern Europe to Blame for Falling Corporate Taxes in Europe? The Politics of Tax Competition Following EU Enlargement” (with Hilary Appel) East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 2016, Vol 30 (4): 855-884.
• “The Sovereign Debt Crisis, Bailout Politics, and Fiscal Coordination in the European Union” (with Hilary Appel) in Boyka M. Stefanova’s The European Union Beyond the Crisis: Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics, 2015.
• “A Review of Textual Analysis in Economics and Finance,” (with Clara Vega) in Roderick P. Hart's Commu[1]nication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World, 2014.