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New Research – When House Members Don’t Like Pork
Pam Clouser McCann and I have published a paper in Legislative Studies Quarterly that examines the influence of decentralized administration through grant-in-aid programs on congressional role call voting. The last working paper version can be accessed on SSRN and the abstract appears below. Congress packages pork-barrel spending in complicated proposals that belie theories of distributive politics. We […]
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Haldane Prize for Shrinking the State Project Paper
My coauthors Andy Sinclair, Haram Lee, and I are honored and delighted to have won the 2016 Haldane Prize for the best article published in Public Administration in 2015. The article selected is entitled “Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in Britain” and is an output of the Shrinking the State project funded by the […]
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New Research – Agency Termination and Democratic Accountability
The third paper from my pillar of the Shrinking the State project, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, has now been accepted for publication. Democratic Accountability and the Politics of Mass Administrative Reorganization written with my NYU Wagner colleague Andy Sinclair will appear in the British Journal of Political Science. Here’s the abstract: Governments face different incentives when they reorganize many […]
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Who are the policy workers and what are they doing?
My first paper in a new project on democratic accountability in a world of complex governance has been accepted by Public Performance Management Review. Some of the ideas in this project were presented in my Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship Lecture at New York University Law School. A fuller exposition of these ideas will appear in a book, […]
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Media Response to Agency Termination Paper Now Available at Public Administration
A paper entitled “Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence From a Mass Administrative Reorganization in Britain” written with Andy Sinclair and Haram Lee and discussed in a previous post is now available via early view at Public Administration.
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Media and Mass Reorganization Paper Now Available at PAR
A paper entitled “Mass Administrative Reorganization, Media Attention, and the Paradox of Information” written with Andy Sinclair and discussed in a previous post is now available via early view at Public Administration Review.
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New Research – Media Response to Agency Termination: Out with a whimper?
A second paper from my part of the Economic and Social Research Council funded Shrinking the State project has now been accepted for publication. Media Attention and the Demise of Agency Independence: Evidence from a Mass Administrative Reorganization in Britain written with my NYU Wagner colleague Andy Sinclair and USC Price doctoral student Haram Lee is forthcoming in Public […]
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New Research – Media Attention and Agency Termination
I am pleased to announce that my contributions to the Shrinking the State project are making their way into publication. “Mass Administrative Reorganization, Media Attention, and the Paradox of Information” with my colleague on the project and at the Wagner School, Andy Sinclair, is now forthcoming in Public Administration Review. Here’s the abstract: How does media […]
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Public Policy Investment Book
I am pleased to announce that my new book with Peter John has been released. Public Policy Investment addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments attend to some public policies but not others? Political executives focus on a range of policy issues, such as the economy, social policy, and foreign policy, […]
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New Research – Measuring Attributes with Attitudes
I am very pleased to report that a paper entitled “Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time: A Method and Examples Using Large-Scale Federal Surveys” and written with USC Price School Ph.D students Dyana Mason, Jennifer Connolly and David Gastwirth is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Public management researchers are interested […]
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Anthony Michael Bertelli 