Jared Abbott

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University

Jared Abbott is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University. He holds a Ph.D in political science from Harvard University (2020). His research explores why large-scale experiments in citizen participation beyond elections (from participatory budgeting and public hearings to referenda and citizen initiatives) emerge in some places but not others, and the conditions under which citizen engagement can generate meaningful effects on the quality of democracy and governance.