Eli Rau

Eli Rau is a postdoctoral associate with the Democratic Innovations program at ISPS and the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. His primary areas of research include comparative electoral institutions, voter turnout, and democratic erosion. In current research projects, he examines the link between economic inequality and democratic erosion; whether compulsory voting is good for democracy; and how norms of reciprocity can enable democratic erosion even in the absence of strong partisanship.

Prior to joining ISPS, he earned his PhD in Political Science at Yale and held postdoctoral positions at Princeton and Vanderbilt. He is also an assistant professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.