Kristen R. Monroe

KRISTEN R. MONROE is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California – Irvine. Professor Monroe’s studies are in political economy and empirical political theory. She has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She earned her PhD at the University of Chicago.  Her primary research interests have been constructing econometric models of the economy’s political importance. Her chapter  with Maurice Levi in the current work is part of a broader research attempt to develop a microlevel theory of how expectations and uncertainty affect individual political behavior, a theory which weds the economists’ emphasis on rationality as a conscious calculation of costs and benefits with the social psychological emphasis on behavior derived from preconscious and subconscious impulses.