Christopher Li
I am an assistant professor of economics and political science at Vanderbilt University.
My primary research field is political economy.
Email: christopher.m.li@vanderbilt.edu
CV: [PDF]
Work in Progress:
Group talk (with Brian Libgober)
Hierarchical Control (with Greg Sasso and Ian Turner)
Electoral Intermediaries (with Jorge Gallego and Leonard Wantchekon)
Publications:
Incumbent Performance and Electoral Control: a Comment (with Germán Gieczewski) Quarterly Journal of Political Science, forthcoming
Polarization and Policy Design (with Giovanni Andreottola) Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2024
Learning by Choosing: Career Concerns with Observable Actions (with T. Tony Ke and Mikhail Safronov ) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023
Dynamics of Polarization: Affective Partisanship and Policy Divergence (with Daniel Diermeier) British Journal of Political Science, 2023
Dynamic Policy Sabotage (with Germán Gieczewski) American Journal of Political Science, 2022
Indirect Accountability of Political Appointees Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022
A Theory of Strategic Voting with Non-Instrumental Motives (with Ricardo Pique) Social Choice and Welfare, 2020
Partisan Affect and Elite Polarization (with Daniel Diermeier) American Political Science Review, 2019
Laboratories of Democracy (with Chen Cheng) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019
Electoral Control With Behavioral Voters (with Daniel Diermeier) Journal of Politics, 2017