Justin Fox is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His research applies game theory to the study of American political institutions. His current work examines how the prospect of judicial invalidation of legislation affects the quality and extremity of bills that lawmakers craft. Past work has dealt with the influence of campaign giving on policymaking, and the effects of legislative delegation on political accountability.
His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Analysis, and Public Choice.
Professor Fox received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Prior to joining Washington University, he was a faculty member at Yale University, where he taught courses on elections, political institutions. political economy and game theory.
“Being a CSAP Postdoctoral Associate played a crucial role in my intellectual and professional development, which, in turn, helped me obtain a position as a tenure-track professor, first at Yale and now at Washington University in St. Louis. I learned a lot about how to be a scholar while at CSAP — in particular, the elements that go into sound research design — by interacting with the faculty, who are among the best in the world at what they do, and by attending the weekly American politics seminars and listening to the questions the faculty asked. I recently compared the most recent syllabus of a course I teach on elections and representation with the version I used as a CSAP postdoc in the spring of 2005, and was struck by how much more we now know about such topics than we did nine years ago. What was even more striking was how much of that knowledge was created by the faculty at Yale associated with CSAP and the fellows and postdocs who have visited CSAP over the years. All in all, I count myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of CSAP, as the experience improved both my research and my teaching.”