Keith Schnakenberg

Professor of Political Science
Washington University in St. Louis

I am a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from WashU in 2014 and have also worked at the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky. My specialization is formal theory, meaning theoretical political science expressed in the language of mathematics.

My current research interests include money in politics; the relationship between economic and political inequality; the capacity of democratic institutions to support informed and intelligent decision-making (i.e., epistemic democracy); the use of social science methods to study the practice of science itself; and the integration of political psychology into formal theoretical models.

Recent work

Democratic Accountability with Citizen CoproductionAccepted

with Jie Ma and Ian Turner · American Political Science Review

Dark Money and Politician LearningForthcoming

with Ian Turner · Journal of Politics

Dark Money and Voter LearningR&R

with Collin Schumock and Ian Turner

Informative Campaigns, Overpromising, and Policy BargainingAccepted

with Dahjin Kim and Gechun Lin · Journal of Theoretical Politics

Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence

with Ian Turner · Annual Review of Political Science

All publications and working papers →

Teaching

Washington University in St. Louis

Martin School, University of Kentucky