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John Carey, Government Professor

I currently serve as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Social Sciences. I was the chair of Dartmouth’s Department of Government from 2009-2015. I am a co-founder of BrightLineWatch, which monitors threats to democracy in the United States.

I’ve published the following books:

as well as lots of academic journal articles, book chapters, and assorted commentaries. For access to articles, papers, and data, click on the navigation menu at the top of this page.

I received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, in 1994. I came to Dartmouth in 2003.  Before that, I was at the University of Rochester (1994-1997) and Washington University in St. Louis (1997-2003). I’ve also taught at the Universidad Católica de Chile, at Harvard, and at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Spain.

In 2012, I was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.  In 2014, my co-author Matthew Shugart and I received the George H. Hallet Award from the American Political Science Association for our 1992 book, Presidents & Assemblies, judged to have made a lasting contribution to the study of representation and elections. Over the years, I’ve done consulting on electoral system design in Afghanistan, Canada, Israel, Jordan, Nepal, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen.

Click here for my Google Scholar profile.

Click here for a full CV.

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