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Dan Kselman

 

Daniel Kselman, Duke University Department of Political Science

My name is Daniel Kselman, I am currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. In January of 2010 I will begin a three-year position as a Junior Research Associate at the Juan March Institute in Madrid, Spain. I received my PhD from Duke University’s Department of Political Science, and also received a Masters Degree from the Duke University Department of Economics. My dissertation, competed in March of 2009, is entitled Electoral Institutions, Intra-Party Competition, and Political Conflict. The research employs advanced techniques in game theoretic modeling to understand the impact that political parties’ internal organizational structures have on a variety of important socio-political outcomes, including ideological polarization, economic redistribution, and political violence. Its most important hypotheses are tested using informant/interview-based, archival, and quantitative information gathered during 10 months of intensive fieldwork in Turkey.

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