Jonathan Rodden

Jonathan Rodden
Born	Jonathan Andrew Rodden (1971-08-18) August 18, 1971 (age 54) St. Louis, Missouri
Education	University of Michigan Yale University
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
Thesis	Federalism and soft budget constraints  (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Geoffrey Garrett Susan Rose-Ackerman

Jonathan A. Rodden (born August 18, 1971) is an American political scientist. He is a professor of political science at the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. ^[1]

Rodden was born August 18, 1971, in St. Louis. He completed a B.A. in political science at University of Michigan in 1993. Rodden was a Fulbright Scholar at the Leipzig University from 1993 to 1994. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at Yale University in 2000. ^[2]

Award

• 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow ^[3]

Selected works

• Rodden, Jonathan A. (2006). Hamilton's Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-84269-3.
• Rodden, Jonathan A.; Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Litvack, Jennie Ilene, eds. (2003). Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-18229-4.
• Rodden, Jonathan A.; Wibbels, Erik, eds. (2019). Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-108-49790-9.
• Rodden, Jonathan A. (2019). Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide. Basic Books. ISBN   978-1-5416-4425-0.

References

1. "Jonathan Rodden | Political Science". politicalscience.stanford.edu. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
2. Rodden, Jonathan (October 19, 2020). "Curriculum Vitae". Stanford University. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
3. "Jonthan Rodden named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow | Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences". humsci.stanford.edu. April 16, 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2025.

External links

• Faculty page
• Jonathan Rodden publications indexed by Google Scholar