نيل مالهوترا

يشغل مالهوترا منصب مدير مركز الابتكار الاجتماعي، الذي يحمل اسم لويز وكلود ن. روزنبرغ جونيور، منذ عام 2015. وفي عام 2017، عُيّن أستاذاً للاقتصاد السياسي يحمل اسم إديث م. كورنيل، ^{[ 1 ]} وفي عام 2019، عُيّن زميلاً لأعضاء هيئة التدريس في كلية إدارة الأعمال بجامعة ستانفورد، يحمل اسم سوزان فورد دورسي. ^{[ 3 ]}

Malhotra has published work on American politics, voting behavior in elections and other forms of political behavior, and the methodology of survey research.^[1] His work on voter behavior includes research on the problem of retrospective voting, and how strongly voters consider past events when arriving at a vote choice.^[4] Malhotra has also published work on disaster response by governments, and how that response is rewarded or punished by voters. In 2009 he published the study "Myopic voters and natural disaster policy" in the American Political Science Review,^[5] which led to consultations with the Federal Emergency Management Agency about optimal disaster preparedness.^[2] The study showed evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster relief spending, but not for disaster preparedness spending.^[2][6][7]

Since 2018, Malhotra has been a frequent contributor to Forbes.^[8] He has been quoted or cited in The Washington Post regarding topics such as government crisis response strategies,^[9] the effects of major external events on elections,^[10] and corporate responsibility,^[11] and on similar topics in venues like The Atlantic,^[6]The New York Times,^[12][13] and Fortune.^[14]

During 2012–2013, Malhotra was the recipient of a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to study how voters weight recent events compared to events in the distant past, which is related to the question of retrospective voting in American politics.^[4]

In 2015, Poets & Quants listed Malhotra as one of the top 40 professors under 40 years old.^[2] In 2016, Malhotra won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association, which "is awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD".^[15] In 2024, he was selected to the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship program.^[16]