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Director:
Thomas Romer
Research Interests: Political
economy of federalism; campaign finance and electoral
competition
Selected Publications:
"Economic Incentives and Political Institutions: Spending and Voting in School Budget
Referenda" (with Howard Rosenthal and Vincent Munley),
Journal of Public Economics, October 1992.
"An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of PAC Contributions"
(with James Snyder), American Journal of Political Science, August 1994.
"Interjurisdictional Sorting and Majority Rule: An Empirical Analysis"
(with Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg), Econometrica, November 2001.
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Affiliated
Faculty:
Douglas Arnold
Research Interests: Legislative
politics, representation, economic policymaking, social
insurance.
Selected Publications:
Congress and the Bureaucracy: A Theory of Influence, Yale University Press, 1979.
The Logic of Congressional Action, Yale University Press, 1990.
Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics,
Brookings Institution Press, 1998 (with Michael Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell, eds.)
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Larry Bartels
Research Interests: Public opinion, electoral politics, democratic theory, political
methodology.
Selected Publications:
Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice, Princeton University Press, 1988.
"Partisanship and Voting Behavior," American Journal of Political
Science, 2000.
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age,
Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Marco Battaglini
Research Interests: Information
transmission in economics and politics; economic theory;
political economy, contract theory.
Selected Publications:
"Multiple Referrals and Multidimensional Cheap Talk",
Econometrica, 2002.
"Self-Control in Peer Groups" (with Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole), CEPR
Discussion Paper, 2001.
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Roland Benabou
Research Interests: Inequality,
redistributive policies, and growth; education and school
finance; social mobility; cities, economic geography;
psychology and economics
Selected Publications:
"Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social
Contract," American Economic Review, March 2000.
"Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: The POUM Hypothesis"
(with Efe Ok), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001.
"Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics" (with Jean Tirole), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006.
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Carles Boix
Research Interests: State formation; democratization; political representation; political economy of growth
Selected Publications:
Democracy and Redistribution, Cambridge U. Press, 2003.
"Endogenous Democratization" (with Susan Stokes), World Politics, 2003.<
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"Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness" (with Alicia Adsera), International Organization, 2003.
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Charles Cameron
Research Interests: Political institutions, law and politics, political history, political economics, applied formal theory
Selected Publications:
"Formal Theory Meets Data" (with Rebecca Morton), in The State of the Discipline, Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner (eds), W.W. Norton (2002).
"Strategic Auditing in a Political Hierarchy: An Informational Model of the Supreme Court's Certiorari Decisions" (with Jeffrey Segal and Donald Songer), American Political Science Review, March 2000.
Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Brandice Canes-Wrone
Research
Interests: Political institutions, the American presidency,
politicians' accountability to mass opinion, political methodology,
formal theory
Selected Publications:
Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy Making, and the Mass
Public, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
"Bureaucratic Decisions and the Composition of the Lower Courts," American Journal of Political Science, 2003.
"Out of Step, Out of Office: Electoral Accountability and House
Members' Voting" (with David W. Brady and John F. Cogan), American
Political Science Review, 2002.
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Anne Case
Research Interests: Political
economy of social assistance programs in developed and
developing countries; the impact of political constraints
on economic decision making at the state and local level
Selected Publications:
"Incumbent Behavior: Vote-Seeking, Tax-Setting and Yardstick
Competition" (with Timothy
Besley), American Economic Review, March 1995, 25-45.
"Election Goals and Income Redistribution: Recent Evidence From
Albania", European Economic Review, March 2001.
"Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United
States" (with Timothy Besley), Journal of Economic Literature March 2003.
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Avinash Dixit
Research Interests:State and non-state institutions of economic governance; organizations and incentives in public-sector agencies.
Selected Publications:
Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance, Princeton University Press, 2004.
"Political Polarization" (with Jörgen Weibull), Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, May 1, 2007.
"Predatory States and Failing States: An Agency Perspective."
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Henry Farber
Research Interests: Wage
dynamics and worker mobility; dispute resolution (arbitration,
litigation, strikes, military disputes, war); empirical
analysis of elections and voting; jury behavior; political
economy of public policy in the labor market.
Selected Publications:
"Learning and Wage Dynamics" (with R. Gibbons), Quarterly Journal
of Economics, November 1996.
"Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic
Peace" (with J. Gowa), Journal of Politics, 1997.
"The Litigious Plaintiff Hypothesis: Case Selection and Resolution"
(with T. Eisenberg), Rand Journal of Economics, 1997.
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Joanne Gowa
Research Interests: International
political economy; impact of polity types on war; influence
of domestic politics on the use of force abroad
Selected Publications:
Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade, Princeton
University Press 1994.
"Politics at the Water's Edge: Rational Voters, Parties, and the
Use of Force Abroad," International Organization, 1998.
Ballots and Bullets: The Elusive Democratic Peace, Princeton
University Press 1999.
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Gene Grossman
Research Interests: Role
of special interest groups in policy formation; transmission
of information in political settings; political economy
of trade policy
Selected Publications:
"Protection for Sale," (with Elhanan Helpman) American Economic Review, vol. 84, no.4,
September,1994.
Special Interest Politics (with Elhanan Helpman), MIT Press, 2001.
Interest Groups and Trade
Policy (with Elhanan Helpman), Princeton University Press, 2002.
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Robert Keohane
Research
Interests: Global governance and
institutional change; accountability and
legitimacy in multilateral institutions;
Anti-Americanism
Selected Publications:
After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
(Princeton University Press 1984; reprinted with a new preface, 2005).
Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (Routledge, 2002).
"Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics" (with Ruth W.
Grant), American Political Science Review, 2005.
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Paul Krugman
Research Interests: International
trade, market structure and trade policy, the self-organizing
economy, globalization and the inequality of nations
Selected Publications:
The Self-Organizing Economy, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
"It's Baack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap,"
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998.
The Spatial Economy (with M. Fujita and A. Venables), MIT
Press, 1999.
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Ilyana Kuziemko
Research Interests:The criminal justice system; education; political corruption and foreign aid
Selected Publications:
"How Much is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? Foreign Aid and Bribery at the United Nations" (with E. Werker), Journal of Political Economy, October 2006.
"Does the Threat of the Death Penalty Affect Plea-Bargaining in Murder Cases? Evidence from New York's 1995 Reinstatement of Capital Punishment", American Law and Economics Review, Spring 2006.
"Using Shocks to School Enrollment to Estimate the Effect of School Size on Student Achievement," Economics of Education Review, February 2006.
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David Lee
Research Interests: Empirical analysis of elections; electoral competition; analysis of unions
Selected Publications:
"Randomized Experiments from Non-Randomized Selection in the U.S. House of Representatives," Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
"Economic Impacts of New Unionization on U.S. Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004.
"Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004.
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John Londregan
Research Interests: Political
economy, comparative politics, political methodology,
formal theory
Selected Publications:
"Estimating Legislators' Preferred Points," Political
Analysis, 2000.
"Political Power and the Credibility of Government Debt" (with
Avinash Dixit), Journal of Economic Theory, 2000.
Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile, Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
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Nolan
McCarty
Research Interests: American
political institutions, formal theory, research methods
Selected Publications:
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (with Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal), MIT Press, 2006.
"Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform" (with John Huber), American Political Science Review, 2004.
"The Appointments Dilemma," American Journal of Political Science, 2004.
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Adam Meirowitz
Research Interests: Information aggregation and learning in political institutions; electoral politics; congressional politics; crisis bargaining and investment.
Selected Publications:
"Pivots versus signals in elections" (with K. Shotts), Journal of Economic Theory, 2009.
"Electoral contests, incumbency advantages, and campaign finance" Journal of Politics, 2008.
"Strategic uncertainty as a cause of war" (with A. Sartori), Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2008.
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Helen Milner
Research Interests: International and comparative political economy; globalization; foreign aid and development; international trade and the environment; international economic cooperation; two-level bargaining games
Selected Publications:
"Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries" (with the assistance of Keiko Kubota), International Organization, forthcoming, Winter 2005.
"Partisanship, Trade Policy and Globalization: Is there a Left-Right Party Divide on Trade Policy?" (with Benjamin Judkins), International Studies Quarterly, March 2004.
"Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements" (with Edward Mansfield and B. Peter Rosendorff), International Organization, Summer 2002.
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Stephen Morris
Research Interests: Economic
theory; the role of information in public policy
Selected Publications:
"On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests" (with Stephen Coate), Journal of Political Economy, 1995.
"Policy Persistence" (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review 1999.
"Political Correctness," Journal of Political Economy, 2001.
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Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Research Interests: Economic
theory; information in economics and politics
Selected Publications:
"Voting Behavior and Information Aggregation in Elections with Private
Information" (with Timothy Feddersen), Econometrica 1997.
"Convicting the Innocent: The Inferiority of Unanimous Jury Verdicts" (with Timothy Feddersen), American Political Science
Review, March 1998.
"Abstention in Elections with Asymmetric Information and Diverse Preferences" (with Timothy Feddersen), American Political Science
Review, June 1999.
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Jonas Pontusson
Research Interests: Comparative political economy of OECD countries, with special focus on Western Europe; labor market institutions and welfare states; wage inequality, income distribution, redistributive policies and partisanship.
Selected Publications:
Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe versus Liberal America. Cornell University Press, 2005.
"Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries" (with Lane Kenworthy), Perspectives on Politics, 2005.
"The American Welfare State in Comparative Perspective," Perspectives on Politics, 2006.
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Grigore Pop-Eleches
Research Interests: Economic reforms and democratization in
ex-communist countries and Latin America; politics of external
conditionality (IMF, EU); electoral responses to economic reforms
Selected Publications:
"Separated at Birth or Separated by Birth? The
Communist Successor Parties in Romania and Hungary",
East European Politics and Societies, Winter 1999.
"Squaring the Circle: External Pressures and Domestic
Economic and Political Reforms", working paper, 2003.
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Kristopher Ramsay
Research Interests:Bargaining and international conflict, applied game theory, and political methodology
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Lars Svensson
Research Interests: Monetary policy,
monetary macroeconomics,
open-economy macroeconomics, international finance
Selected Publications:
"Inflation Targeting as a Monetary Policy Rule," Journal of Monetary
Economics, 1999.
"What Is Wrong with Taylor Rules? Using Judgment in Monetary Policy through
Targeting Rules," Journal of Economic Literature, June 2003.
"Time Consistency of Fiscal and Monetary Policy: A Solution" (with Mats Persson and Torsten Persson), Econometrica, 2006.
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Andrea Vindigni
Research Interests:Political economy of constitutions and of regime transitions, inequality and income redistribution, politics of labor market institutions
Selected Publications:
"Endogenous Constitutions" (with Davide Ticchi), IIES Seminar Paper No. 726, Stockholm University, November 2003.
"On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West." (with Davide Ticchi), Faculty of Economics, University of Urbino, Working Paper 81, August 2003.
"Democracy and Armies" (with Davide Ticchi). Faculty of Economics, University of Urbino, Working Paper 83, September 2003.
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