Team directory
Team directory
Zachary Liscow, Professor of Law
Zachary Liscow is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His wide-ranging work in law and economics currently covers tax policy, benefit-cost analysis, and infrastructure construction costs. He is particularly interested in developing cost-effective policies to address inequality and understanding what drives the high costs of building U.S. infrastructure. He has also worked in a variety of other areas, including environmental policy and empirical legal studies.
Mackenzie Lockhart, External Postdoctoral Associate
Mackenzie Lockhart is an external Postdoctoral Associate with the Democratic Innovations program at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego in 2023. His research focuses on elections, representation, and public opinion with particular focus on how voters behave in American elections and consequences for representation.
Alexander Love, Postdoctoral Associate
Alexander Love is a Democratic Innovations postdoctoral associate at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he earned his M.A. in political science from UNC and his B.A. in public policy and data analytics from William & Mary.
Itay Machtei, Postdoctoral Associate
Itay Machtei is a postdoctoral associate with the Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) based at the ISPS’s American Political Economy eXchange (APEX) program. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025. His research agenda broadly focuses on the social and distributive outcomes of state and market institutions and is organized around two complementary strands.
Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science
Isabela Mares is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and the director of the European Union Center at Yale. She specializes in the comparative politics of Europe. Professor Mares has written extensively on labor market and social policy reforms, the political economy of taxation, electoral clientelism, reforms limiting electoral corruption. Her current research examines the political responses to antiparliamentarism in both contemporary and historical settings.
David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
David Mayhew is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science.
Isobel McClure, ISPS Director's Fellow, 2026
Isobel McClure is a sophomore at Yale College, pursuing a major in English literature, with a concentration in French. She is interested in campaign finance practices and regulation, as well as the intersection between state and federal government. Her coursework also includes German language and political science studies. Outside of the classroom, Isobel covers University policy and finances as a reporter at the Yale Daily News. She currently serves as the newspaper’s head copy editor.
Costas Meghir, Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics and Professor of Management
Costas Meghir is the Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics at Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Manchester University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow of the Econometric Society, fellow of the British Academy, and fellow of the Society for Labor Economics. He was awarded the Ragnar Frisch medal by the Econometric Society in 2000 and the Bodosakis Foundation prize in 1997. He has been co-editor of Econometrica and joint managing editor of the Economic Journal.
Adam Meirowitz, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science
Adam Meirowitz is the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Prior to that he was the Kem C. Gardner Professor of Finance in the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah where he taught from 2015-2022. Before that he was the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics at Princeton University, where he taught between 2002 and 2015.