Tofigh Maboudi
Associate Professor
Comparative Politics
Graduate Program Director for International Affairs
Professor Maboudi’s research and teaching interests include climate laws and policies, comparative constitutional studies, democratization, authoritarianism, and Middle Eastern politics. His most recent research focuses on the impact of environmental laws and policies on climate outcomes. Maboudi is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation grant (2025-2028) for a research project—Evaluating Climate Laws, Institutions, Policies and Practices in Nation-States—investigating the robustness of climate mitigation and adaptation laws and policies across 80 countries. He is also the author of two books. His co-authored book, Constituents before Assembly: Participation, Deliberation, and Representation in the Crafting of New Constitutions (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examines the impact of citizen participation in constitution-making on levels of democracy across 118 countries. His second book, The “Fall” of the Arab Spring: Democracy’s Challenges and Efforts to Reconstitute the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2022), looks at the Arab Spring constitutions and democracy’s pathways of success and failure in the Middle East and North Africa. Maboudi’s work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Environmental Policy and Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Government and Opposition, Journal of North African Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and Studies in Comparative International Development.
Education
Ph.D., American University, 2016