Georgy Tarasenko
Ph.D. student in Government
Cornell University
I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Government at Cornell University with a major in Comparative Politics and minors in Political Theory and Methods. This year I am a part of the 2024/25 inaugural cohort of the Center on Global Democracy’s graduate fellows. Last summer I was a 2024 Kohut Fellow at the Roper Center For Public Opinion Research. Before this, I worked as a research assistant at the Center of Institutional Studies at HSE University and was a resident at the Digital Humanities Center at ITMO University. I have also contributed to various academic programs as a lecturer and teaching fellow. I hold a Master's degree in Sociology and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science (both with honors) with a minor in Data Science from HSE University.
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research
I use tools and approaches of political economy, behavioral sciences and cliometrics to study politics. Substantively, I am particularly interested in exploring historical political economy of cognitive predispositions (e.g. beliefs, attitudes and preferences), psychology of public opinion in non-democratic regimes, and long-run comparative development. Besides that, I am interested in studying freedom as a concept at the intersection of politics, economics, humanities, and psychology. I apply various computational methods of statistics, econometrics, and machine learning to surveys and natural experiments, and in the context of causal modeling in qualitative research designs.