Chris Tausanovitch
Chris Tausanovitch
Associate Professor
Department Faculty
Office: 3383 Bunche Hall
Email: ctausanovitch@polisci.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-4331
Biography
Chris Tausanovitch received his PhD from Stanford University in 2013 and is currently an Assistant Professor of political science at UCLA.
His areas of research are Representation, American Politics, Public Opinion, Congress, and Methodology. In particular, he is interested in understanding how citizens provide incentives for legislative position taking and how legislators respond to those incentives. In other words, he studies the mechanics of democratic representation.In 2012 Professor Tausanovitch worked on the Senate Finance Committee as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.
Education
Stanford University, 2013
