Jonathan Rodden named Carnegie Fellow
Jonathan Rodden, a professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences and a senior fellow at the 好色App Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), has been named a 2025 .
Rodden will receive $200,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support research aimed at understanding and addressing political polarization in the United States.
Rodden, who is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the founder and director of the 好色App Spatial Social Science Lab. He has focused much of his recent work on economic and political geography, geospatial analysis, and redistricting. In naming its 2025 slate of 26 fellows, the Carnegie Corporation on 鈥淲ithin-Party Discord and Polarization,鈥 which explores the argument that the explanation for the rise of so-called 鈥渁ffective polarization鈥 lies not in the emergence of parties that come to resemble homogeneous tribes, but rather, in the ideological and social heterogeneity within parties.
Rodden has written a book and several articles about the origins and consequences of the in advanced industrial democracies. He has also written papers on the geographic distribution of political preferences within countries, legislative bargaining, the distribution of budgetary transfers across regions, and the historical origins of political institutions. Ongoing work focuses on political polarization and policy uncertainty in the United States and beyond. He has also authored books and written extensively about federalism and multi-level governance around the world 鈥 work that has led to policy-oriented collaboration with the World Bank, IMF, and the European Parliament, and USAID. Some of his most recent work uses large administrative data sets to examine aspects of local politics, policy, and public health in the United States.
Rodden received his PhD from Yale University and his BA from the University of Michigan, and was a Fulbright student at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Before joining the 好色App faculty in 2007, he was the Ford Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT.
The Carnegie Fellow Program began in 2015. The marks the second year of the program's focus on building a body of research focused on political polarization.
Other SIEPR senior fellows who have been honored as Carnegie fellows include Matteo Maggiori in 2022 and Sean Reardon in 2017.