Adam Ramey

Adam Ramey is a scholar of American politics, political methodology, legislative institutions, political psychology, and historical political economy

His research primarily focuses on understanding both the psychological underpinnings of legislative behavior as well as the long-run consequences of historical events and institutions. Ramey has published a book with the University of Chicago Press exploring how legislators' personality traits explains their policy and tactical choices over the last three decades. His other work appears in many top journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Journal of Politics, and Political Behavior.

Currently, he is working on developing language-based machine learning models to predict over 60 different psychological constructs using linguistic cues.

Education:

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y

• Ph.D. Political Science (2010)
  • Dissertation: “Essays on the Microfoundations of Legislative Decisionmaking”
  • Committee: Lawrence Rothenberg (chair), Curtis Signorino, David Primo, Michael Herron
  • Field Exams: American politics, Methodology (A-level), and Formal theory
• M.A., Political Science (2008)

George Washington University, Washington, D.C

• B.A., Political Science (2004)
  Summa Cum Laude, Honors in Political Science

Research Areas:

• American Politics; Legislative Institutions; Political Methodology

Courses Taught

• CSTS-UH 1015 Legitimacy
• CSTS-UH 1041J Ideology
• POLSC-UH 2310 Political Psychology
• POLSC-UH 2327 Political Parties
• POLSC-UH 2410X Comparative Politics of the Middle East
• POLSC-UH 2412 Power and Politics in America
• POLSC-UH 2427J Practicing Politics and Government in the Age of Disruption
• POLSC-UH 4000 Capstone Seminar
• POLSC-UH 4001 Capstone Project