Amelia Malpas is a first-year Ph.D. student in Government studying American and comparative politics. She is broadly interested in the relationship between politics and the distribution of material resources in society. Her primary research agenda to address this topic concerns how political parties’ and intraparty factions’ policy programs exacerbate, maintain, or ameliorate socioeconomic inequalities. Put most directly, she studies the political economy of parties with special attention to factional conflict within party coalitions over distributional issues. Her work on the Democratic Party has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and popular outlets. Before beginning her Ph.D., she earned an A.B. in Politics and Geography from Mount Holyoke College and worked as a pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University.
Contact
amalpas@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Legislatures | Parties, Campaigns, & Elections | Public Policy | Social Policy & the Welfare State | State-society Relations
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Europe | North America | United States