Robi Ragan Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Duke University    • Home  • CV  • Research  • Teaching  • Personal  • Contact and Links

Home I am currently the Searle Visiting Assistant Professor and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at Duke University.  My research interests include American political institutions, computational political science, and political economy. In my research, I use a mix of formal modeling, computational modeling (agent based and simulation), and empirical methods to investigate various aspects of American politics. The core of my research centers on studying the U.S. Congress as a complex adaptive system within a larger macro-political context. You can read more about my research projects on the research page. My teaching interests include Congressional politics, political economy, American politics, formal/computational models and political methodology. You can find more information about my teaching experience on the teaching page. I am also the editor of the Computational Political Science Group's website. If you are interested in this growing field, drop by the website and sign up for our listserv and/or membership list.