Amelia Malpas

Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Harvard University working in American Politics and Comparative Politics. I am also a graduate affiliate of Harvard's Center for American Political Studies, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 

I am broadly interested in the connection between elite politics and societal distribution of resources. I address this topic via two lines of work, the first oriented around contemporary and the second around historical outcomes. My primary research agenda concerns the political economy of political parties, with attention to factional or other group conflict within parties over distributional issues. My nascent secondary research agenda pertains to the relationship between the core's and the periphery's democratic and welfare state development within states or empires. 

My co-authored work on parties has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Perspectives on Politics, Party Politics, and The Forum and solo work in popular outlets such as the Washington Post Monkey Cage. In addition to being cited by scholars, these have been cited in publications like the New York Times, The Nation, and FiveThirtyEight. 

Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned an A.B. in Politics and Geography from Mount Holyoke College and worked as a pre-doctoral fellow at Yale University. I am originally from northern California.