Asya Magazinnik

Asya Magazinnik

Assistant Professor of Political Science

American political institutions; political methodology; causal inference; local political economy; federalism; political geography; representation; immigration.

Biography

Asya Magazinnik is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. She studies American political institutions, electoral geography, quantitative methods, and causal inference. Her research sits at the intersection of federalism and democratic representation, exploring the strategic interactions between national, state, and local governments and their respective constituencies as they engage in the policy process. Her recent and ongoing projects focus on the politics of local immigration policing; on the impacts of the California Voting Rights Act on minority representation in local government, and on housing and land use; and on developing methodologies to learn more about preferences from conjoint experiments. Asya received her PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. 

News

First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists

MIT News Office

The Climate Grand Challenges competition launched in July 2020 with the goal of mobilizing the entire MIT research community around transformative projects that have the potential to make major advances in solving the big problems that stand in the way of effective global climate response.

Taking the pulse of local politics

Leda Zimmerman MIT Political Science

With research that captures and analyzes information from large databases, Magazinnik is revealing that local governance and execution of federal policies varies widely, and does not uniformly advance democratic norms.

Biography

Asya Magazinnik is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. She studies American political institutions, electoral geography, quantitative methods, and causal inference. Her research sits at the intersection of federalism and democratic representation, exploring the strategic interactions between national, state, and local governments and their respective constituencies as they engage in the policy process. Her recent and ongoing projects focus on the politics of local immigration policing; on the impacts of the California Voting Rights Act on minority representation in local government, and on housing and land use; and on developing methodologies to learn more about preferences from conjoint experiments. Asya received her PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. 

News

First-ever Climate Grand Challenges recognizes 27 finalists

MIT News Office

The Climate Grand Challenges competition launched in July 2020 with the goal of mobilizing the entire MIT research community around transformative projects that have the potential to make major advances in solving the big problems that stand in the way of effective global climate response.

Taking the pulse of local politics

Leda Zimmerman MIT Political Science

With research that captures and analyzes information from large databases, Magazinnik is revealing that local governance and execution of federal policies varies widely, and does not uniformly advance democratic norms.