Working smart and hard? Agency effort, judicial review, and policy precision

The lion’s share of policy in the United States is made by administrative agencies. Agencies not only make policy choices, they must also implement policy effectively. Oversight institutions play an integral role in the policymaking process by monitoring, through review of agency policy actions, both policymaking tasks. Through analysis of a formal model I develop a theory of policymaking…

Ideology signaling in electoral politics

This paper considers an electoral model in which an incumbent and a challenger have ideological policy preferences that are private information. The incumbent may bias pre-electoral policies to signal preferences to the electorate with the aim of affecting the outcome of the election. When the two candidates are of completely different types, such a policy bias can occur only in a moder…

How uncertainty about judicial nominees can distort the confirmation process

Why are judicial nominees allowed to refuse to answer questions about important issues that could come before the courts? We address this question by examining the information environment surrounding judicial nominations. Using the Supreme Court as our example, we formulate a model that departs from the existing literature by incorporating the fact that the Senate often does not know what…

May’s theorem in one dimension

This paper provides three versions of May’s theorem on majority rule, adapted to the one- dimensional model common in formal political modeling applications. The key contribution is that single peakedness of voter preferences allows us to drop May’s restrictive positive responsiveness axiom. The simplest statement of the result holds when voter preferences are single peaked and linear (n…

Comparative Political Studies, Volume 50, Number 5, April 2017

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Evaluation, Volume 23, Number 2, April 2017

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Evaluation, Volume 23, Number 1, January 2017

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Critical Social Policy, Volume 37, Number 1, February 2017

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World Politics, Volume 69, Number 2, April 2017

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World Politics, Volume 69, Number 1, January 2017

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Small Group Research, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2017

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Small Group Research, Volume 48, Number 1, February 2017

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Journal of Theoretical Politics, Volume 29, Number 2, April 2017

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Journal of Theoretical Politics, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2017

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Gender & Society, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2017

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Gender & Society, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2017

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Journal of Democracy, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2017

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The Rise of Localism in Hong Kong

The 2016 Legislative Council (LegCo) election marked a watershed in the political development of Hong Kong. The vote reflected the emergence of increasing divisions within the democratic and pro-Beijing (or pro-establishment) camps, the institutionalization of post-Umbrella Movement activism, and especially the rise of localism. At its heart, Localism signifies a commitment to protecting the in…