Perry Carter
Postdoctoral Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA (Hons) University of Canterbury; MA Princeton University; PhD Princeton University
Research Areas: Comparative politics; Post-Communist Politics; Political Networks; Historical Political Economy; Legacies of Conflict
Perry Carter is a postdoctoral research associate specializing in historical political economy at NYU Abu Dhabi. He received a PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2024, where he was a fellow in the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science.
Carter's research concentrates on the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the legacies of territorial conflicts, especially in the former Soviet Union. He also has a particular interest in the application of network theory to political processes, ranging from the social spread of narratives to the mechanics of electoral clientelism.
Other ongoing projects explore the role of social structure in determining the incentives politicians face to subvert formal election rules through vote-buying and patronage, and the sources of judicial independence in authoritarian regimes. I also work actively on the development of new methodologies, and am the co-author with Dahyun Choi of the scR package for R, which allows researchers to determine the necessary sample size to apply any machine learning algorithm.