Olga Shvetsova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Binghamton University. She received her PhD from the California Institute of Technology, and previously taught at Washington University, St Louis and Duke University. Shvetsova works in the fields of constitutional political economy and institutional design. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Constitutional Political Economy, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Law and Society Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and other peer-reviewed journals. She has authored a number of chapters in edited volumes, and is the co-author of Designing Federalism (Cambridge, 2004).