Dr. Jack Nagel studies democratic theory, voting systems, social choice, and political participation. He has explored those themes with empirical research on the United States, New Zealand, and Britain. He is author of “The Descriptive Analysis of Power,” “Participation,” and many papers, including articles in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics and elsewhere. Nagel has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, an NSF grantee, and an IRIS Scholar.