Research Interests: Historical Legacies, Politics of Territory, Identity Politics, Social Networks, Vote Buying
Perry Carter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research concentrates on the intersection of international and domestic politics, drawing on with a particular focus on the role played by transnational group identities in post-imperial contexts. His dissertation examines the consequences of territorial loss for the structure of domestic politics, using a mixed-methods approach based on a combination of formal decision modelling, survey and laboratory experiments, geographical causal identification, and field and archival work in Georgia and the Caucasus to establish links between individual behavior and system-level outcomes. 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 relationship between economic vulnerability and group identification in political cognition.
Prior to Princeton, Perry worked as a professional bassoonist, performing solo and with orchestras and ensembles throughout New Zealand. He holds two BA (Hons) degrees from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, with majors in International Relations, Russian Language, and Music.
Dissertation Title: The Politics of Loss
