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Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Yuki Atsusaka, Assistant Professor at the Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston, for a presentation titled, "How Incumbency Affects Electoral Competition in Ranked-Choice Voting". Abstract forthcoming. 

Yuki Atsusaka is an assistant professor at the Hobby School of Public Affairs with expertise in American politics and applied statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a Master of Arts in Statistics from Rice University. Atsusaka also holds a Master of Arts in American Studies with a focus on African American history and culture from Doshisha University. Before joining the Hobby School, he was a Guarini Dean’s Fellow in the Politics of Race and Ethnicity at Dartmouth College.

Atsusaka’s work lies at the intersection of electoral systems, race and representation and political methodology. His research develops statistical, computational and theoretical tools to study the effect of electoral system designs on minority representation. His dissertation titled Political Methodologies for Electoral Engineering and Minority Representation received the John W. Gardner Award for the Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences at Rice University. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and Political Analysis.