As I've gone through the Public Policy sequence thus far, I've realized that the way policy intersects political science, economics, and sociology is my favorite part of studying my major. It's fascinating to be sitting in my comparative politics class and apply economic concepts, like rational choice theory to the analysis of political behaviors. It's this junction where different disciplines can be applied to each other in different policy applications that energizes me. In particular, I'm interested in the ways micro-level behaviors in political institutions produce macro-level policy outcomes, a topic that applies sociological theory to political analysis within an economic frame of view.

What is your academic passion?