Category: Political Science
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New Book Democracy Administered – Coming in July
I am delighted to announce that my new book, Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Governance, will be published in July 2021 by Cambridge University Press. How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? I argue that the traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of […]
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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 – Policy Agendas in British Politics
A new book entitled Policy Agendas in British Politics will be available from Palgrave-Macmillan this Summer. It is a product of an inspiring collaboration with Peter John (University College London), Will Jennings (University of Southampton) and Shaun Bevan (University of Mannheim). Using a unique dataset covering half a century of policymaking in Britain, this book traces […]
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Public Policy Investment
I am very pleased to announce that a paper long in progress with Peter John (University College London) has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science. An earlier version of the paper was mentioned in this post, but the forthcoming paper can be found here and an abstract as follows: We set […]
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The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance
I am delighted to announce that the book I mentioned in this post is now published and available from Cambridge University Press. Designed for students and empirical researchers, the book is meant to be a general, nontechnical introduction to core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to topics in public management and policy. I am grateful […]
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Cabinet-Congress-President Ideal Point Data Available
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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Strategic Capacity Building
I’ve been occupied over the past few weeks with finishing a textbook, The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, for Cambridge University Press. I’ve been told it will be in print next summer. The book seeks to bring core ideas from the theoretical literature of — for want of a better term — the political economy […]
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Risk and Return in British Politics
This week, my frequent collaborator Peter John will be presenting the first paper in a larger project on the prioritization of public policies by governments at the European Political Science Association meeting in Dublin. We argue that governments seek to enhance their chances of re-election by managing their risks from attending to particular policy problems. In […]
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Ideology in Federal Administrative Agencies
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
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 […]
Anthony Michael Bertelli 
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