Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics, an affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, and an affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University. He is the Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for Advanced Study of Russia. He is one of the co-founders and co-Directors of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP).
Professor Tucker’s original research was in comparative politics with an emphasis on mass political behavior in East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, and mass protest, as well as the use of social media in facilitating all forms of political participation. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and co-author of the Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017).
More recently, through his work at the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics, which he co-founded, Professor Tucker has been at the forefront of efforts to explore the intersection of social media and politics, as well as developing methods for utilizing social media data to study politics in new ways. His research has included studies on the effects of network diversity on tolerance, partisan echo chambers, online hate speech, the effects of exposure to social media on political knowledge, online networks and protest, disinformation and fake news, how authoritarian regimes respond to online opposition, and Russian bots and trolls. He is the co-editor the edited volume Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, and the co-Chair of the external academic research team on the U.S. 2020 Facebook & Instagram Election Study.
His work has appeared in in over two-dozen scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Nature Human Behavior, Nature Communications, Political Analysis, Political Communication, Political Science and Research Methods, Political Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Social Media and Society, Science, Science Advances and the Annual Review of Political Science. His research has been supported by funding from a wide range of philanthropic foundations, as well as the National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field of Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior within 10 years of the doctorate.
Professor Tucker serves on the Editorial Board of multiple academic journals and academic research centers, as well the Advisory Board of the American National Election Study and the Planning Commission of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. and was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Juan March Institute in Madrid, Spain and Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. An internationally recognized scholar, he has served as a keynote speaker for conferences in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States, and has given over 200 invited research presentations at top domestic and international universities and research centers.
For over a decade, Professor Tucker served as a co-author and co-editor of The Monkey Cage, a political science and policy blog published at The Washington Post. The goal of the blog was to share what political science research has to offer for our understanding of important political developments and policy debates. The Monkey Cage was awarded the 2010 Blog of the Year award by The Week Magazine, becoming the first academic blog to receive this honor. In addition, Time Magazine named The Monkey Cage a Top 25 Blog of 2012, and the blog also received the Online Achievement in International Studies “Best Group Blog” award in 2015 and 2016. His opinions have also been published in the International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, and Al Jazeera English.
Contact
Email: joshua.tucker[at]nyu.edu
Twitter: @j_a_tucker
Lab: csmapnyu.org
Blog: The Monkey Cage