Associate Professor of Public Administration and Statistics (by courtesy)
Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Fellow, Center for International Trade and Security

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Dr. Anastasopoulos is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Statistics, a Faculty Fellow at the Center for International Trade and Security (CITS), and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

He studies the political economy of technology, public administration and international political economy. He also does work on political methodology focusing on causal inference and machine learning. He teaches classes on politics and technology, the governance of artificial intelligence, public administration, statistical methodology, natural language processing and machine learning.

Dr. Anastasopoulos’ work has been published in Governance, the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, the Public Administration Review, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Electoral Studies, and  American Politics Research.

 

Education
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PhD, University of California-Berkeley, Political Science
MA, Harvard University, Statistics
BS, Cornell University, Industrial and Labor Relations

Areas of Expertise
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  • Political Economy of Technology
  • Machine Learning and Causal Inference
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
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Dr. Anastasopoulos has received several awards and grants for his work including: a Ruth Simmons Visiting Fellowship at the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown University, a Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant from the University of Georgia, a John L. Knight Foundation Freedom of the Press Award, the Institute for Humane Studies Hayek Fund Scholarship, the APSA Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant and a Peter G. Peterson Foundation U.S. 2050 Grant.

Dr. Anastasopoulos has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Emory, UC Berkeley and Harvard.

Affiliations
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Dr. Anastasopoulos has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Emory, UC Berkeley, and Harvard.

Selected Publications
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Anastasopoulos, L. Jason and Jason Lian. “Delegation Across Democracies: Using AI to Study Political Institutions at Scale” \textit{Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy} \textit{Forthcoming}.
Anastasopoulos, L. J., & Whitford, A. B. (2019). “Machine learning for public administration research, with application to organizational reputation”. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(3), 491-510.
Anastasopoulos, L. J., & Bertelli, A. M. (2020). “Understanding delegation through machine learning: A method and application to the European Union”. American Political Science Review, 114(1), 291-301.

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