Alexander Trubowitz

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Yale, where I study comparative and historical political economy. From September 2025, I will be a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. My work focuses on the political consequences of labor market change in western Europe. In my book project, I draw on archival research in the United Kingdom and Germany to examine how unions and governments responded to the labor market risks created by technological change in manufacturing during the second half of the twentieth century.

My other research uses quantitative methods to study how workers respond to economic shocks and to clarify the institutional conditions under which politicians are most strongly incentivized to supply inequality-reducing public policy. My joint work with Isabela Mares on electoral politics in interwar France was recently awarded Best Paper by APSA's European Politics section and the CQ Press Award for best paper by APSA's Legislative Studies section. Some of my other work, joint with Natalie Hernandez and Sam Zacher, was recently published at Political Behavior.

I graduated summa from Tufts University in 2017 with a B.A. in Classics and Political Science. I was formerly a political theorist and some of my work on the French Enlightenment was published in the journal History of European Ideas. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I was a visiting researcher at the Cluster on the Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz. In the fall of 2023, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Bonn's Chair of Political Economy. I am currently a fellow of Yale's European Studies Council and an editorial assistant at the APSR. 

You can contact me at alexander (dot) trubowitz (at) yale.edu