Ian Turner

Ian Turner is an assistant professor of political science at Yale University, where he is also a resident fellow in the Institution of Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics and a faculty affiliate of the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy.

He has broad research interests in American political institutions, executive branch and bureaucratic politics, special interest politics, political economy, and applied game theory and formal modeling. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. His teaching spans courses on American political institutions, bureaucratic politics, money in politics, game theory, and applied formal modeling. Ian was awarded the Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation Award for excellence in teaching in 2024.