Anthony Michael Bertelli

Measurement

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    New Research – Measuring Attributes with Attitudes

    Tony Bertelli

    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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    Cabinet-Congress-President Ideal Point Data Available

    Tony Bertelli

    I am pleased to announce that Christian Grose and I have released a datafile including the ideology estimates for U.S. presidents, legislators and cabinet secretaries used in Anthony M. Bertelli and Christian R. Grose. 2011. “The Lengthened Shadow of Another Institution? Ideal Point Estimates for the Executive Branch and Congress.” American Journal of Political Science…

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    Measuring Latent Concepts in Public Management

    Tony Bertelli

    I just returned from the Public Management Research Conference in Syracuse — a wonderful event.  My USC PhD students Jennifer Connolly (2nd year) and Dyana Mason (1st year) presented preliminary results from an ongoing project that develops longitudinal, survey-based, agency-level measures of concepts used widely in public management research between 1998-2010.  The project’s goal is…

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    Ideology in Federal Administrative Agencies

    Tony Bertelli

    Josh Clinton, Dave Lewis, Dave Nixon, Christian Grose and I have developed measures of bureaucratic ideology in an ongoing project that was also featured on the Monkey Cage.  The measurement strategy used agency executives’ responses to questions on the Survey on the Future of Government Service that three of us (Bertelli, Lewis, and Nixon) implemented.

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    Cabinet Ideal Points

    Tony Bertelli

    Christian Grose and I recently finished an initial stage of a long project to develop comparable estimates of cabinet secretaries, the president, and members of Congress.  The paper is forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science and was recently featured by the Monkey Cage.  We are preparing to release these estimates via a webpage called Agency Data, so please check back…