Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Vanderbilt University

Year-end Review 2012-2013

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Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) is a non-partisan multidisciplinary research program that was established at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2009 to support system-atic theoretical and empirical research on questions central to the health and survival of democratic institutions in the United States and abroad. As we enter the 21st century, civil society is faced with a wide range of social, economic, and political changes that naturally lead to conflicts between various public and private interests. The aim of the center is to support an intellectual environment that will provide insights into how different political institutions, meaning those arenas within which these conflicts can be resolved, can effectively structure political debate, ameliorate conflicts, and influence policy outcomes.

Since its inception in the fall of 2009, the center has expanded in several directions, both in regards to its staff and programmatic focus. The center is currently run by an executive committee consisting of five co-directors: Professor Larry M. Bartels, the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Sciences; Associate Professor Joshua D. Clinton; John G. Geer, the Gertrude Conaway Vander-bilt Professor of Political Science; David E. Lewis, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science; and Associate Professor Alan E. Wiseman. All members of the executive committee make programmatic decisions jointly, with one member of the committee serving as a “lead” co-director on a rotating basis to oversee the day-to-day operations of the center and execute the decisions of the executive committee. Alan Wiseman served as the lead co-director for the 2012–2013 academic year. The center is staffed by Program Coordinator Jayne Cornwell, who handles many of the day-to-day administrative duties that come with running CSDI. Additionally, Ms. Cornwell helps plan public events, maintains the CSDI website, and serves as a liaison between CSDI and external stakeholders. The center supports four graduate student affiliates that have offices within CSDI, and also it supports and houses several post-doctoral fellows. For the 2012–2013 academic year, four post-doctoral fellows were in residence at CSDI.

The activities of CSDI are organized around four distinct research concentrations that are established and re-evaluated on a five-year cycle. For the academic years 2010–2015, the center is focusing on the following concentrations: Legislative Politics and Policymaking (LPP), Executive Politics and Regula-tory Policymaking (EPRP), Elections and Electoral Rules (EER), and Media and Democratic Systems of Governance (MDSG). To facilitate and publicize research in these different areas, CSDI supports a wide range of outreach efforts, including the hosting of weekly academic lunchtime seminars, topic-focused academic conferences, and general-interest public events and workshops. CSDI also aids in the production of working papers and policy briefs and hosts scholars-in-residence who are pursuing their own research projects while visiting.

During the course of the academic year, the center supports a wide range of activities to achieve three fundamental and interrelated goals. First, CSDI seeks to be the primary nexus for the generation of new cutting-edge research on political institutions and public policy related to those institutions at Vanderbilt University. Second, CSDI seeks to promote the research activities of its co-directors and other affiliates to academic and non-academic audiences. It is the hope of the co-directors that CSDI will be a valuable resource to scholars, journalists, and other members of the public who are inter-ested in the wide range of topics that are studied at the center. CSDI aims to be readily available to help inform the political and policy debates involving political institutions and democracy. Third, the center seeks to be a valuable resource for the teaching and training of graduate and undergradu-ate students at Vanderbilt University who have interests in political institutions. By guiding gradu-ate students in their curriculum and supervising them in their work, CSDI will ensure that the next generation of scholars is able to conduct research on political institutions at the frontier of current knowledge. Moreover, by involving undergraduates in CSDI’s activities, students are exposed to the scientific study of politics and are provided with a greater appreciation of the influence of political institutions on contemporary policy debates.

In the pages that follow, we provide further information about the organizational structure of CSDI, the activities that were conducted by CSDI during the 2012–2013 academic year, and plans about future activities that will be supported by CSDI.

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Executive CommitteeThe Executive Committee of CSDI consists of five faculty members whose primary appointments at Vanderbilt University are in the Department of Political Science and whose research interests collectively span the full array of the four research concentra-tions of CSDI. They pursue very active research agendas and collectively contribute to numerous outreach efforts as part of CSDI. The complete list of their activities for the 2012–2013 academic year can be found in Appendix A.

Larry M. Bartels (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Sciences, and joined the Vanderbilt faculty (and CSDI) in fall 2011. (He came from Princeton University, where he was the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs.) His primary research interests focus on American democracy, including public opinion, electoral politics, public policy, and rep-resentation. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and three books on these topics. His most recent book, Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (Princeton University Press, 2008) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the year’s best book on U.S. national policy. It also appeared on David Leonhardt’s “Eco-nomics Books of the Year” list in the New York Times, and was cited by (then-candidate) Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign trail. Bartels has served as vice president of the American Political Science Association (and also president of its Political Methodology section), chair of the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Studies, and he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Joshua D. Clinton (Ph.D., Stanford University) is associate professor of political science and one of the founding co-directors of CSDI and joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2009. (He came from Princeton University, where he was an associate professor of politics.) His primary research interests include the U.S. Congress, campaigns, elections, the test-ing of theories using statistical models, and the uses and abuses of statistical methods for understanding political phenomena. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on these topics in prominent political science journals and other outlets. He has held visiting fellowships at the Wallis Institute at the University of Rochester and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Since 2010, he has been a Decision Desk analyst for NBC News in New York City, where he has been involved in covering and analyz-ing congressional and presidential election returns on election night. He is currently a co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and along with John Geer, he is a co-director of the Vanderbilt Poll, which is administered through CSDI.

John G. Geer (Ph.D., Princeton University) is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science (with a secondary appointment in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development) and one of the founding co-directors of CSDI. He has been a member of the Vanderbilt faculty since 1995 when he arrived from Arizona State University where he was an associate professor of political science. His primary research interests are American politics, with a focus on elections, public opinion, and political communication. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on these topics and has published several books, including In Defense of Negativity (University of Chicago Press, 2006). He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards at Vanderbilt University and has held visiting fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Uni-versity and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He was the editor of the Journal of Politics from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the chair of the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt. Along with Josh Clinton, he is also a co-director of the Vanderbilt Poll, which is administered through CSDI.

David E. Lewis (Ph.D., Stanford University) is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science (with a secondary appointment in law) and one of the founding co-directors of CSDI. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in the fall of 2008, when he arrived from Princeton University where he was an assistant professor of politics and public affairs. His primary research interests include the presidency, executive branch politics, and public administration. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and book chapters on these topics. His most recent book, The Politics of Presidential Appoint-ments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance (Princeton University Press, 2008), received the Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Public Administration Section and the Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Presidency Research Sec-tion. He is the recipient of the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Vanderbilt University and is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration (he was elected in 2012). He is currently on the editorial board of Public Administration and served as associate chair of the Department of Political Science from 2010 to 2013.

Alan E. Wiseman (Ph.D., Stanford University) is associate professor of political science (with a secondary appointment in law) and joined the Vanderbilt faculty (and CSDI) in fall 2010. (He came from The Ohio State University where he was an associate professor of political science and the director of the public policy minor in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.) His primary research interests revolve around American political institutions and positive political economy, with a substantive focus on legisla-tive politics, regulation and bureaucratic politics, and business–government relations. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on these topics and is the author of The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure (Brookings Institution Press, 2000). He has held a visiting fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is currently on the editorial boards of American Politics Research, Journal of Theoreti-cal Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Prior to joining the academy, he served as a visiting economic scholar at the United States Federal Trade Commission, and during the 2012–2013 academic year, he served as the lead co-director of CSDI.

In addition to the five co-directors, Jayne Cornwell (B.A., Belmont University; M.A., Middle Tennessee State University) serves as the program coordinator for CSDI. She has been part of the Vanderbilt community for more than 10 years and has held previous positions as special events coordinator in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Public Affairs, and Department of Student Athletics. She is respon-sible for many of the day-to-day administrative duties that come with running the center, which include managing event logistics, maintaining the CSDI website, and serving as a liaison between CSDI and external stakeholders.

Larry M. Bartels

Joshua D. Clinton

John G. Geer

David E. Lewis

Alan E. Wiseman

Jayne Cornwell

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CSDI Graduate Affiliates and Post-Doctoral FellowsCSDI currently supports several graduate students (referred to as CSDI graduate affili-ates) and post-doctoral fellows during each academic year. The graduate affiliates range in their tenure from being in their second year in the Ph.D. program up to advanced degree candidates, and the topics of their dissertation research (and other projects) are closely related to the research foci of CSDI. CSDI graduate affiliates work closely with at least one CSDI co-director, attend CSDI-sponsored events, and are given opportunities for research promotion and support. In addition to having research interests related to the core foci of CSDI, all CSDI graduate affiliates are tied together by a common meth-odological training. More specifically, all CSDI graduate affiliates are expected to have successfully completed (or be in the process of taking) the entire empirical methods sequence offered in the Department of Political Science, the introductory formal theory course, in addition to the advanced formal theory and/or experimental methods courses offered in the Department of Political Science (or equivalent coursework). The CSDI graduate affiliates for the 2012–2013 academic year were all students in the Department of Political Science, and the complete list of their activities can be found in Appendix B.

Claire Abernathy (B.A., Furman University; M.A., The Ohio State University) is a doc-toral candidate in political science who has research interests in legislative institutions and representation. She is completing her dissertation under the direction of Co-Director Alan Wiseman and is analyzing the different ways that legislative offices in Washington, D.C., receive, process, and use constituency correspondence and how these different processing methods affect constituent–representative relationships.

Evan Haglund (B.A., University of Chicago) is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science and has research interests in executive politics, bureaucracy, and public administration.

Mark Richardson (B.S., University of Tennessee at Martin; M.P.A., Columbia University) is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science and has research interests in executive politics, bureaucracy, and regulation.

Jennifer L. Selin (B.A., Lebanon Valley College; J.D., Wake Forest University) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science and has research interests in executive politics, bureaucracy, and public administration. She is completing her disser-tation under the direction of Co-Director David Lewis, and her dissertation focuses on how differences in the internal features of administrative agencies influence the extent of political control exercised by the president and Congress.

In addition to these graduate affiliates, CSDI supports at least two post-doctoral fel-lows every academic year. Post-doctoral fellows spend a year in residence at CSDI and are selected based on a competitive application process. Post-doctoral fellowships come with no teaching obligations, but fellows are expected to remain in residence during the academic year and participate in the weekly CSDI seminar (including at least one pre-sentation of their research in the seminar). Several fellows also collaborate with the CSDI co-directors and graduate affiliates on new research projects that are related to at least one of the research foci of CSDI. During the 2012–2013 academic year, CSDI supported four post-doctoral fellows, and a list of their activities can be found in Appendix B.

Gary Hollibaugh (Ph.D., University of Rochester) has research interests in executive and legislative politics, and his dissertation focuses on how institutional rules affect executive decision making in the United States, with a substantive focus on the appointment pro-cess. Beginning in fall 2013, he will be taking a position as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia.

Saul Jackman (Ph.D., Stanford University) has research interests in executive politics, and is the coauthor (along with William G. Howell and Jon C. Rogowski) of The Wartime President (University of Chicago Press, 2013). In July 2013, he assumed the position of research fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Wash-ington, D.C.

Joshua Murray (Ph.D., Stony Brook University) is a sociologist by training and has research interests in political and economic sociology, organizational theory, histori-cal and comparative sociology, and social movements. His dissertation focuses on the interlocking networks among high-ranking executives in global corporations. Beginning in fall 2013, he will be taking a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.

Sarah Niebler (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) has research interests in political behav-ior, campaigns, elections, and public opinion. Her dissertation examines the structure and substance of presidential nominating contests, and she has published several peer-reviewed articles on these topics. Beginning in fall 2013, she will be taking a position as an assistant professor of political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.

CSDI Visiting ScholarsIn addition to supporting graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, CSDI offers the opportunity for senior scholars at other universities to visit the center for up to a full academic year. The center covers the visitors’ travel and living expenses during their time in residence and provides them with office space and computing facilities. Visitors are expected to remain in residence during the period of their visit, to participate in the CSDI weekly seminar (if their visit is occurring during the academic year), and to present their own work in the seminar (if scheduling permits). Visiting scholars are selected as the result of a competitive application process based on how well their proposed research correlates with the center’s research, and of course, the relevant space and budget con-straints during the time of the proposed visit. During the 2012–2013 academic year, CSDI hosted three visiting scholars:

Laurel Harbridge (Ph.D., Stanford University) is an assistant professor of political sci-ence at Northwestern University who studies the United States Congress, congressional elections, political parties, and public policy. She visited CSDI for approximately one month during fall 2012. During her time at CSDI she corresponded with Co-Directors Alan Wiseman and Josh Clinton, as well as several members of the Department of Politi-cal Science faculty, to obtain feedback on her book manuscript that explores the pros-pects for bipartisanship in today’s U.S. Congress.

Mark Richardson

Sarah Niebler

Claire Abernathy Gary Hollibaugh

Saul JackmanEvan Haglund

Jennifer L. Selin

Joshua Murray

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Jennifer Merolla (Ph.D., Duke University) is an associate professor of politics and policy at Claremont Graduate University who studies how the political environment shapes individual attitudes and behavior. She visited CSDI for approximately three weeks during fall 2012. During her time at CSDI she collaborated with Co-Director John Geer and Associate Professor of Political Science Brett Benson on an ongoing research project on the role of anti-Mormon bias in presidential elections; she also corresponded with fre-quent collaborator Associate Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Zechmeister about a series of ongoing projects.

Alexander Theodoridis (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is an assistant profes-sor of political science at the University of California, Merced, who studies American politics, political behavior, and electoral institutions. He visited CSDI for two months during the summer of 2012. During his time at CSDI he corresponded with all of the co-directors to obtain feedback on several ongoing research projects, and he presented his work in the Summer Behavioral Research Group Colloquium, which is directed by Professor Cindy Kam (Department of Political Science).

CSDI Faculty AffiliatesTo build bridges between CSDI and scholars across the Vanderbilt campus who share similar research interests, CSDI has cultivated relationships with a collection of faculty in departments outside of political science who are collectively known as “CSDI faculty affiliates.” There are currently 22 CSDI faculty affiliates drawn from: the Departments of Communication Studies, Economics, English, History, Mathematics, and Sociology, the Owen Graduate School of Management, Peabody College, and Vanderbilt Law School. CSDI faculty affiliates are invited to all CSDI-sponsored events and they are expected to present their research in at least one weekly seminar every five years. CSDI also makes efforts to promote the faculty affiliates’ research by way of the CSDI Working Paper Series, the CSDI Policy Brief Series, and the CSDI website. A complete list of current CSDI faculty affiliates can be found in Appendix C.

CSDI Seminar Series and ConferencesAs part of the effort to cultivate new research in CSDI’s areas of concentrations, the center hosts a lunchtime seminar nearly every Friday during the fall and spring semes-ters. The seminar speakers are drawn either from the Vanderbilt community (i.e., CSDI co-directors, graduate affiliates, postdoctoral fellows, etc.) or from external institutions. A complete list of the weekly seminars that were held this past academic year is provided in Appendix D. As is evident from the list, a wide range of topics are explored during the seminars, ranging from the scope of presidential influence during wars (i.e., William G. Howell on September 21, 2012) to the relationships between campaigning and governing in the contemporary U.S. Senate (i.e., Frances E. Lee on April 5, 2013).

In addition to hosting a weekly seminar series, CSDI also aims to sponsor at least one substantial conference each academic year that is organized around a specific topic of inquiry. In the 2012–2013 academic year, CSDI co-hosted two such conferences.

First, on October 5–6, 2012, CSDI co-sponsored a workshop on Larry Bartels’s Unequal Democracy, which brought more than 10 scholars from various institutions to Vanderbilt to analyze and discuss each chapter of Unequal Democracy and also to highlight points that might be worthy of further exploration in a new edition of the book. The work-shop was open to Department of Political Science faculty and graduate students; several political science faculty members participated in sessions. In addition, the Department of Political Science took advantage of Princeton University Press’s political science editor Chuck Myers being on campus for the book conference to host a seminar on the fun-

damentals of book publishing, which was open to all political science students, CSDI-affiliated students, and post-doctoral fellows. The complete program and list of attendees can be found in Appendix E.

The second substantial academic conference took place on March 1–2, 2013, and was titled “Political Representation—50 Years after Miller and Stokes.” The conference was co-sponsored with Vanderbilt Law School and brought together more than 60 invited attendees from 27 universities to explore the legacy of the seminal political science article “Constituency Influence in Congress,” which was co-authored by Warren Miller and Donald Stokes and published in the American Political Science Review in 1963. In addi-tion to presenting and discussing original scholarly papers that related to questions of political representation, the conference provided an opportunity for Bingham G. Powell, the Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester and the 2012–2013 president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), to give his annual presidential address. (The address was meant to be delivered at the 2012 Annual APSA meeting, but was unfortunately cancelled when the annual meetings were cancelled due to severe weather in New Orleans over the Labor Day week-end.) A dinner reception after the first night of the conference was held at the Chancel-lor’s residence, and a copy of the program and list of attendees can be found in Appendix F.

Other Public EventsAs part of the effort to promote research on political institutions and make it accessible to a broad audience, CSDI supports and participates in several public events that are geared towards student and/or more general-interest audiences (rather than what is typically encountered at an academic conference). Given that 2012 was an election year, the topics that are studied by CSDI-affiliated scholars were of particular interest to several audiences.

In fall 2012, CSDI co-sponsored (along with the First Amendment Center and the Vanderbilt Speakers Committee) the 2012 Election Series, which was held at the First Amendment Center and brought three prominent figures in journalism and electoral campaigns to discuss the contemporary political environment with John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, in sessions that were moderated by Co-Director John Geer. The first event in the series brought Amy Walter, the political director of ABC-News.com to campus, while the second event brought Republican campaign strategist Fred Davis. The third event brought former Newsweek editor and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer John Meacham, who discussed his perspectives on the presidential admin-

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istration of Thomas Jefferson and its relevance to contemporary electoral politics. A dinner reception was held at the residence of the dean of The Ingram Commons (Associate Professor of History Frank Wcislo) following the Meacham event, where a group of first-year undergraduates had the opportunity to interact with Meacham and a collection of faculty, including several of the CSDI co-directors.

In October 2012, CSDI co-sponsored a “Federal Forum” panel discussion with Vanderbilt’s Office of Federal Relations, which focused on the impending election and the likely political outcomes under a lame-duck congress. Co-Directors Larry Bartels, Josh Clinton, and John Geer represented CSDI in the discussion. That same evening, Co-Directors Larry Bartels and Josh Clinton, along with Professor Marc Hetherington (Department of Political Science), participated in a student-led question-and-answer session on the forthcoming election in a Vandy Votes event at The Commons Center, which was co-sponsored by CSDI, Hank Ingram Hall, and the dean of The Ingram Commons.

Also in October 2012, CSDI co-sponsored (along with the Owen Graduate School of Management) the screening of two political campaign–oriented films in the VU International Lens film series. The Candidate (1972) was introduced by CSDI Affiliate Bruce Barry (Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management at the Owen School); and following the screening of the film, a post-film discussion took place between Professor Barry, Co-Director John Geer, and members of the audience. The second film, Primary Colors (1998), was also introduced by Professor Barry, with Professor Barry and Co-Director Alan Wiseman facilitating a post-film discussion with audience members.

In January 2013, Co-Director David Lewis served as a speaker in the Vanderbilt Uni-versity Lunch and Learn lecture series, which is organized by the Vanderbilt Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations. Addressing a packed audi-ence at the Nashville Public Library downtown, Professor Lewis discussed contempo-rary presidential politics, with a specific focus on what issues President Obama might be expected to engage during his second term.

In early March 2013, CSDI hosted an afternoon meet-and-greet session between Vanderbilt undergraduates, faculty, and former U.S. Senator and U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland George Mitchell. Senator Mitchell, who was on campus to par-ticipate in the Vanderbilt IMPACT Symposium, spoke with students and faculty in an informal format about his perspectives on contemporary political issues and debates.

In March and April 2013, Co-Directors Josh Clinton, John Geer, David Lewis, and Alan Wiseman, and CSDI Affiliate Jason Grissom (assistant professor of public policy and education at Peabody) participated in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute lecture series to present a total of six lectures that collectively spoke to “Governing in an Era of Polarization in Washington and Beyond.” The topics of the individual talks ranged from the effectiveness of female lawmakers to methods for increasing account-ability in Tennessee schools.

The Vanderbilt PollOne of the most notable ways that CSDI has helped to inform the debate over contempo-rary political issues is through its support of the Vanderbilt Poll. In January 2011, CSDI launched the Vanderbilt Poll, which surveys individuals 18 and older who are residents of the state of Tennessee. The goal was—and is—to provide a non-partisan and scientifi-cally based reading of public opinion within the state. The Vanderbilt Poll is bi-annual with surveys conducted prior to the start of the state legislative session and at its conclu-sion. There are occasional surveys around important elections (such as the February 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Poll), but the focus is to accurately measure what Ten-nesseans think about important state and national issues and then make that information available to citizens, policy-makers, and scholars.

CSDI Co-Directors Joshua Clinton and John Geer have served as co-directors of the Vanderbilt Poll since its inception. To ensure that the VU Poll identifies the most impor-tant issues facing the state and asks questions that avoid ideological bias, Clinton and Geer have appointed a bi-partisan board of advisers to provide guidance on the poll; and the board evaluates the poll prior to its going in the field.

CSDI conducted the fifth and sixth Vanderbilt Polls during the 2012–2013 academic year (in December 2012 and May 2013, respectively). The results of both polls were initially presented at news conferences at Vanderbilt, which were managed by VU News and Communications; the results were then posted online at the CSDI website. In addition to presenting their findings to the Tennessee Press Association in December 2012 and the Associated Press in 2013, Clinton and Geer have also provided a report of the poll results to Governor Bill Haslam’s office following each poll and met with members of his staff. Clinton and Geer have also met with U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander and his chief of staff, as well as U.S. Senator Bob Corker’s chief of staff to discuss the poll results.

The first event in the 2012 Election Series brought Amy Walter, the political director of ABCNews.com to campus, while the second event brought Republican campaign strategist Fred Davis. The third event brought former Newsweek editor and Pultizer Prize-winning biographer John Meacham.

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Promotion of Research and OutreachIn addition to the various seminars, conferences, and public events that were sponsored and/or co-sponsored by CSDI in the past academic year, the center also took steps to promote the research of its co-directors and its affiliates.

For academically oriented audiences, CSDI has continued to promote new and cutting-edge research through its working paper series. All CSDI-affiliated scholars are encour-aged to submit drafts of manuscripts that they are ready to put into the public domain for consideration for inclusion in the working paper series, and if accepted, the working papers are posted to the CSDI website. During the 2012–2013 academic year, 15 new working papers were added to the working paper series and they draw on topics that covered each of the research concentrations that are promoted by CSDI. A complete list of the new working papers can be found in Appendix G.

In an effort to make the research of CSDI-affiliated scholars more readily accessible to external audiences (particularly those research activities that have clear policy-relevant implications), CSDI began a new enterprise during the 2012–2013 academic year: the creation of a policy brief series. All CSDI affiliates who have completed a recent policy-relevant study (be it published or in working paper format) are encouraged to submit the study for consideration as the foundation for a CSDI policy brief. A team of CSDI graduate affiliates reads the studies and writes 1,000-to-1,500-word summaries that identify the main findings and policy implications of the scholarship. The gradu-ate affiliates are supervised by Co-Director Alan Wiseman, who edits the briefs and has worked with Vanderbilt University Creative Services to format these policy briefs into an attractive, deliverable presentation that is posted on the CSDI website. The policy briefs are forwarded to Vanderbilt University News and Communications, where they might provide the foundation for more extensive stories (and are subsequently circulated to media outlets). The briefs are also circulated to representatives from Vanderbilt’s Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations, as well as Vanderbilt’s Office of Federal Relations, where they are often incorporated into the VU Brief Newsletter that is circulated around Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

The first policy brief was released in January 2013, and seven were released by the close of the 2012–2013 academic year. A complete list of the policy briefs can be found in Appendix H, and they focus on topics ranging from presidential staffing of the executive branch, to the effects of third-party litigation funding in tort litigation. One policy brief in particular, (2013-02: “The Legislative Productivity of Congressional Women”) based on a study that was co-authored by Co-Director Alan Wiseman, received notable media attention, including being the focus of a front-page story in the New York Times in March 2013. In addition to the research activities of CSDI affiliates that have been promoted through the working paper and policy brief series, there are several notable research endeavors that have been undertaken during the past academic year and deserve further mention here.

In July 2012, CSDI, under the direction of Co-Director John Geer, partnered with You-Gov, a prominent survey research firm, to launch the Vanderbilt University/YouGov Ad Rating Project in an effort to ascertain voters’ reactions to various campaign advertise-ments in the midst of the presidential campaign season. In the months leading up to the presidential election, YouGov exposed a representative sample of 600 Americans (with an over-sample of 200 pure independents) to campaign advertisements and asked them a series of questions, including how the ads made them feel, how believable the ads were, and the like. The polls were usually conducted within 36 hours of the debut of an ad

and results were posted online at the Vanderbilt/YouGov Ad Rating Project website (my.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltyougovadratingproject). In addition to creating a unique data source for future scholarship on the role and impact of campaign advertisements in electoral politics, the results provided journalists, pundits, and interested citizens with some of the first real-time public opinion analysis of actual voters of campaign commercials in real time.

Another notable project that was undertaken during this past academic year was the creation of the Sourcebook of United States State Executive Agencies, which Co-Director David Lewis had been requested to write by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). Throughout the summer of 2012, Professor Lewis oversaw a team of graduate student research assistants who helped to identify 55 different statutory charac-teristics of bureaucratic organization and how they related to 10 agencies in the Execu-tive Office of the President, 15 executive departments, and 81 independent agencies. The final report, which was coauthored by Professor Lewis and CSDI Graduate Affiliate Jennifer Selin, was released in December 2012, and was delivered by Lewis and Selin to a plenary session of ACUS. In addition to the report, an electronic database was released with information on all federal agencies and their characteristics on the CSDI website for public access (vanderbilt.edu/csdi/sourcebook.php).

A third notable development followed up on an earlier CSDI-sponsored event. In July 2013, a special issue of the Journal of Theoretical Politics (JTP) was published, contain-ing a collection of revised papers that had been presented at the 2011 CSDI-cosponsored conference on “Government Expertise: Information and Political Institutions.” The motivation for the 2011 conference was to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of “Collective Decision-Making and Standing Committees: An Informational Rationale for Restrictive Amendment Procedures” by Tom Gilligan and Keith Krehbiel in the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization and to discuss how the field had evolved in its treatment and understanding of the role of information in political institutions. The conference brought together a collection of more than 60 scholars from the United States and Europe from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, economics, law, and business. Several of the scholars who presented original research at this conference revised their manuscripts for inclusion in the special issue of JTP, which was guest-edited by CSDI Co-Director Alan Wiseman, who provided an introductory essay for the issue.

Finally, it is worth noting the extensive amount of media coverage that the CSDI co-directors and affiliates drew during this past academic year. Despite being on research leave, Larry Bartels gave frequent interviews to national and international news outlets, and he was a frequent contributor to “The Monkey Cage” (themonkeycage.org) political science blog. In addition to numerous local television broadcasts and stories composed by VU News and Communications, CSDI co-directors and their research were featured in 13 multimedia spots, 24 op-eds and/or blog postings, and 24 print and/or Internet-based news stories in national and international media outlets.

Results from the Vanderbilt/ YouGov Ad Rating Project provided journalists, pundits, and interested citizens with some of the first real-time public opinion analysis of actual voters of campaign commercials in real time.

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Future Directions for CSDIThe 2013–2014 academic year will be a very busy time for CSDI, with several visitors spending time in residence at the center and numerous events currently being planned.

On the research side, the co-directors are involved in several projects that will be moving towards publication. Larry Bartels is studying the politics of austerity in the wake of the Great Recession in the U.S. and elsewhere. His essay on “The Political Effects of the Great Recession” will appear later this year in a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Also, a volume he edited with Nancy Bermeo of Oxford University entitled Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession is scheduled for publication in December by Oxford University Press.

Joshua Clinton is currently working on two projects related to the CSDI research aims. First, with collaborator John Lapinski (associate professor of political science at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania), he is looking at polarization in the U.S. House and Senate since Reconstruction to explore the extent to which political polarization exists across different policy issue areas and the implications that such variation has, if any, on congressional lawmaking and position taking. The goal is to better understand the nature and extent of political polarization among elites and to use historical patterns to draw inferences about the likely consequences of current-day politics. Second, with CSDI Graduate Affiliate Mark Richardson, Clinton is exploring lawmaking efforts related to the creation and extension of charter schools by state governments since 1994. Drawing on this analysis, Clinton and Richardson are examining which features best explain the existence and magnitude of change in state laws governing charter schools and the extent to which such changes are related to the preferences of critical political actors and the institutional arrangements of the various state governments.

John Geer is working on a series of papers on campaigns and advertising. One paper grapples with how best to define the term negativity, using an array of new data generated by the Vanderbilt/YouGov Ad Rating Project. Another paper looks at how citizens choose ads. The prevailing industry model for campaign advertisements considers a scenario where viewers do not have any choice—instead, consultants do the choosing (deciding, in particular, where to air the ads). With the growth of Internet advertising, however, the public now plays an active and understudied role in the process, as well. Geer is also working on a series of papers that explore the scope of bias that Mormons face in elections, using the recent nomination of Mitt Romney as the basis for that study. Geer has also begun a new project, in collaboration with Joshua Clinton, about the power of micro-targeting, which will be developed in future years.

David Lewis is working on two substantial projects that focus on agency performance in public bureaucracies. The first project, which is a collaborative effort with Charles Cameron (professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University) and John de Figueiredo (the Edward and Ellen Marie Schwarzman Professor of Law and professor of strategy and economics at Duke University), examines government agencies’ ability to recruit high-quality individual talent, to develop their employees’ expertise within those agencies, and to retain the best and brightest in government service. The second project is a collaborative effort with several CSDI graduate affiliates that seeks to identify measures of government performance that are comparable across different agencies and contexts in order to determine factors that can lead to high-performing public organizations.

Alan Wiseman is completing a book manuscript, co-authored with Craig Volden (pro-fessor of public policy and politics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia), on legislative effectiveness in the United States Con-gress. As part of the project, they have coded every bill that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives between the 93rd and 110th Congress (1973–2008) to develop “legislative effectiveness scores” for every member of the U.S. House of Representatives

during this time period. These scores are analyzed to identify why some representatives are more effective lawmakers than others and to explore what this variation implies for the creation of public policy in the United States. They are in the process of updating their data to the most recent 113th Congress, and upon publication of the book, all data will be posted on the CSDI website so that it is easily accessible to scholars and other interested members of the public.

In August 2013, CSDI will welcome two new post-doctoral fellows who will be spending the 2013–2014 academic year in residence at CSDI. Kathleen Doherty (Ph.D., University of Virginia) has research interests in executive and bureaucratic politics, with a substan-tive focus on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy. She will be using her time at CSDI to work on several research projects that aim to understand how bureaucratic agencies generate expertise given limited resources and the constraints of the civil service system, focusing, in particular, on the role of advisory committees in lawmaking pro-cesses in the United States. Steven Rogers (Ph.D., Princeton University) has research interests in American politics and electoral politics. He will be using his time at CSDI to work on several projects that explore the nature of accountability in state legislative elec-tions in the United States.

In addition to these post-doctoral fellows, CSDI will be hosting several visiting scholars for portions of the academic year:

Barbara Geddes, professor of political science at UCLA, will be spending the entire year in residence as a visiting professor. Professor Geddes is a leading scholar on democrati-zation, authoritarian transitions, and political development, with a substantive focus on Latin American politics. She is the author of Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America (University of California Press, 1994) and Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2003), in addition to numerous articles in prominent political science journals.

John Zaller, professor of political science at UCLA, will also be spending the entire year in residence as a visiting professor. Professor Zaller is among the foremost experts on the role of public opinion in American politics, and he is the author of several books, includ-ing the path-breaking The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Cambridge University Press, 1992), as well as numerous articles in prominent political science journals.

Keith Krehbiel, the Edward B. Rust Professor of Political Science at the Stanford Univer-sity Graduate School of Business, will return to CSDI again (having visited twice before) to be in residence at CSDI for six weeks beginning in late-September 2013. Professor Krehbiel studies American political institutions with a particular focus on legislative politics, and he is the author of two award-winning books: Information and Legislative Organization (University of Michigan Press, 1991) and Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking (University of Chicago Press, 1998). In addition, he is the author of a wide array of peer-reviewed articles.

Jonathan Woon, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, is scheduled to spend the month of February 2014 in residence at CSDI. Professor Woon studies how strategic incentives that arise from political power and asymmetric information influence representation and policy outcomes through the use of laboratory experiments and the analysis of observational data. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on these topics in prominent political science outlets.

In addition to these new visitors to CSDI, the center will continue to hold its weekly lunchtime seminar series, and CSDI affiliated scholars will continue to present their scholarship in various public forums. The Vanderbilt Poll will continue to be held (at least) twice a year, and plans are currently being developed for several substantial aca-demically oriented conferences and more general-interest events for the public.

A group of Washington, D.C.-based political journal-ists will also be participating in the discussion, which will engage the ways that political scientists can help to inform those who cover politics in the media.

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During the fall semester, two events are being developed, which are co-sponsored by the First Amendment Center. The first event would bring Associate Professor of Political Science John Sides (of The George Washington University) and Associate Professor of Political Science Lynn Vavreck (of UCLA) to Vanderbilt to discuss their recent book on the 2012 presidential campaign, titled The Gamble. A group of Washington, D.C.-based political journalists will also be participating in the discussion, which will engage the ways that political scientists can help to inform those who cover politics in the media. The second event will aim to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and will bring Lincoln biographer David Von Drehle, author of Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year (2012), and other Lincoln scholars to campus to discuss Lincoln’s place in the contemporary American polity.

In December 2013, CSDI will co-sponsor a one-day workshop with Vanderbilt Law School on the topic of private governance. The goal of the workshop (organized by Co-Director Alan Wiseman and Professor Michael Vandenbergh of Vanderbilt Law School) will bring together a small group of scholars from economics, political science, and law and business schools who study the ways in which private interests can create rules of order that are substantively identical to public laws and regulations. Among the topics for exploration will be the efficacy of self-regulatory programs in different industries, the usefulness of third-party seal programs in contemporary markets, and the comple-mentarities between public law and private rules and standards. The discussions at this workshop will hopefully pave the way for a more substantial conference on these topics that will be jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University at a future date.

During the spring semester (2014), Larry Bartels will be organizing an accountability and democracy workshop to explore a book manuscript that he is co-authoring with Christopher Achen, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. Similar in format to the Unequal Democracy conference that was held this past academic year, this workshop will bring a collection of scholars to campus that are prominent contributors to accountability literature to discuss the manuscript and offer suggestions to the authors for their consideration before the manuscript is submitted for publication.

As we look forward to the coming academic year, CSDI is excited to expand the scope of its activities to become an increasingly active presence both inside and outside the Vanderbilt community, and to provide informed, rigorous, and relevant insights on con-temporary political and policy debates.

[APPENDIX A]

Professional Activities of CSDI Co-Directors 2012–2013

PUBLICATIONS

Bartels, Larry M., “Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Reces-sion.” (ed. with Nancy Bermeo.) New York: Oxford University Press. (accepted in 2013.)

Bartels, Larry M., “Mass Politics in Tough Times.” (with Nancy Bermeo.) In Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels, eds., Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession.” New York: Oxford University Press. (accepted in 2013.)

Bartels, Larry M., “Ideology and Retrospection in Electoral Responses to the Great Recession.” In Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels, eds., Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession. New York: Oxford Univer-sity Press. (accepted in 2013.)

Bartels, Larry M., “Political Effects of the Great Recession.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. (accepted in 2013.)

Bartels, Larry M., “A Generational Model of Politi-cal Learning.” (with Simon Jackman.) Electoral Studies. (accepted in 2013.)

Bartels, Larry M., “Democracy and the Policy Pref-erences of Wealthy Americans.” (with Benjamin I. Page and Jason Seawright.) March, 2013. Perspec-tives on Politics 11 (1): 51–73.

Bartels, Larry M., “The 1% Aren’t Like the Rest of Us.” (with Benjamin I. Page.) March 22, 2013. The Los Angeles Times.

Bartels, Larry M., “The Political Education of John Zaller.” 2012. Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 24 (4): 463–488.

Bartels, Larry M., “A New Deal Fantasy Meets Old Political Realities.” 2012. In Theda Skocpol, Obama and America’s Political Future. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 91–110.

Bartels, Larry M., “The Muddled Majority.” July/August 2012. Boston Review.

Clinton, Joshua D., “Representation.” (with Larry M. Bartels and John G. Geer.) 2013. In Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Richard M. Valelly (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development.

Clinton, Joshua D., “Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight.” (with David E. Lewis and Jennifer L. Selin.) American Journal of Political Science. (accepted in 2013. [Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 05-2012]

Clinton, Joshua D., “Robo-Polls: Taking Cues from Traditional Sources?” (with Steve Rogers.) 2013. PS: Political Science & Politics. 46(2): 333–337.

Clinton, Joshua D., “Where Measures Meet His-tory: Party Polarization During the New Deal And

Fair Deal.” (with Ira Katznelson, and John S. Lap-inski.). In Alan Gerber and Eric Schickler (eds.), Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Representation in America. (accepted in 2013.)

Clinton, Joshua D., “Using Roll Call Estimates to Test Models of Politics.” 2012. Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 15: 79–99.

Geer, John G., “The News Media and the Rise of Negativity in Presidential Campaigns.” 2012. PS: Political Science. 45: 422–427.

Geer, John G., “Negativity, Information, and Candidate Position-Taking.” (with Lynn Vavreck.) Political Communication. (accepted in 2013.)

Geer, John G., Wendy J. Schiller, Jeffery A. Segal, and Dana K. Glencross. 2013. Gateways to Democ-racy: An Introduction to American Government, The Essentials, second edition. Stamford (CT): Cengage.

Lewis, David E., “Policy Influence, Agency-Specific Expertise, and Exit in the Federal Service.” (with Anthony M. Bertelli.) 2013. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 23(2): 223–245. [Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 02-2013]

Lewis, David E., “Politics Can Limit Policy Opportunism in Fiscal Institutions: Evidence from Official General Fund Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” (with George A. Krause and James Douglas.) 2013. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 32(2): 271–95. [Formerly, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Working Paper # 03-2009]

Lewis, David E., “The Invisible Presidential Appointments: An Examination of Appointments to the Department of Labor, 2001–2011.” (with Richard W. Waterman.) 2013. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 43 (1): 35–57.

Lewis, David E., “Presidential Politicization of the Executive Branch in the United States.” 2012. in Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich, eds. Executive Politics in Times of Crisis. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [Formerly, CSDI Working Paper # 02-09]

Lewis, David E., “Policy Durability and Agency Design.” 2012. in Jeffery A. Jenkins and Eric Patashnik, eds., Living Legislation: Political Development and Contemporary American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Formerly, CSDI Working Paper # 04-09]

Lewis, David E., Sourcebook of United States Execu-tive Agencies. (with Jennifer L. Selin). 2012. Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Lewis, David E., “Strong Executive Branch Leader-ship Crucial for Policy Implementation.” (with James P. Pfiffner, Dwight Ink, and Anne Joseph O’Connell.) 2012. The Public Manager. 41 (4): 37–40.

Lewis, David E., “Reducing the Number of Political Appointees.” Memos to National Leaders Project, 2012. National Academy of Public Administration. [http://www.memostoleaders.org/reducing-num-ber-political-appointees].

Wiseman, Alan E., “Information and Political Insti-tutions.” 2013. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 25 (3): 301–308.

Wiseman, Alan E., “Price Effects and the Com-merce Clause: The Case of State Wine Shipping Laws.” (with Jerry Ellig.) 2013. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 10 (2): 196–229.

Wiseman, Alan E., “When Are Women More Effec-tive Lawmakers than Men?” (with Craig Volden and Dana E. Wittmer.) 2013. American Journal of Political Science. 57 (2): 326–341.

Wiseman, Alan E., “Legislative Effectiveness and Representation.” (with Craig Volden.) 2012. in Dodd, Lawrence C., and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. Congress Reconsidered, 10th Ed. Washington D.C.: CQ Press.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Bartels, Larry M., Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (for “Wealthy Americans, Democracy, and the Common Good,” in collaboration with Benjamin I. Page, Fay Lomax Cook, Christopher Jencks, and Jason Seawright). 2012–13

Lewis, David E., Election to the National Academy of Public Administration. 2012

Lewis, David E., Research Scholar Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, “Effectiveness, Control, and Competence in Public Agencies.” ($36,750). 2013–14

Lewis, David E., “Collaborative Research: Effective-ness, Control, and Competence in Public Agencies,” National Science Foundation Grant (SES#1061512). $177,616 (Vanderbilt portion $69,662). 2011–12

INVITED ACADEMIC SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Bartels, Larry M., Tax Policy Colloquium, New York University Law School. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M., Jerome Weinstein Memorial Lecture, Franklin & Marshall College. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M., Department of Political Science, University of Maryland. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M., Featured Speaker at the 25th Annual Conference of the Society for the Advance-ment of Socio-Economics, Milan. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M., Dean’s Lecture, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. (2012)

Bartels, Larry M., Conference on “Effects of the Great Recession,” University of Michigan. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M., Conference on “The Political Unconscious and the 2012 Election,” University of Virginia. (2012)

Bartels, Larry M., W. Lewis and Helen R. Abbott Memorial Lecture, Colorado College. (2012)

Bartels, Larry M., Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto. (2012)

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Bartels, Larry M., Program on Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University. (2012)

Clinton, Joshua D., Yale University, Conference in Honor of David Mayhew. (2013)

Clinton, Joshua D., Princeton University, Media and Politics Conference. (2013)

Clinton, Joshua D., First Amendment Center, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. (2013)

Geer, John G., First Amendment Center, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. (2013)

Geer, John G., Princeton University. (2013)

Geer, John G., The College of William and Mary. (2012)

Lewis, David E., First Amendment Center, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. (2013)

Lewis, David E., Nashville Public Library. (2013)

Lewis, David E., Princeton University. (2013)

Lewis, David E., Stanford University Graduate School of Business. (2013)

Lewis, David E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2012)

Wiseman, Alan E., University of Warwick, Depart-ment of Economics. (2013)

Wiseman, Alan E., London School of Economics and Political Science. (2013)

Wiseman, Alan E., First Amendment Center, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. (2013)

Wiseman, Alan E., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Law School. (2012)

Wiseman, Alan E., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Political Science, Department of Political Science Alumni Conference. (2012)

ASSOCIATION PRESENTATIONS

Bartels, Larry M., Presidential Panel on “Grappling with Inequality.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. (2012)

Bartels, Larry M., Panel on “The New Science of Elections.” Annual Meeting of the National Acad-emy of Sciences. (2013) Bartels, Larry M., “The Class War Gets Personal: Inequality as a Political Issue in the 2012 Election.” Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013)

Clinton, Joshua D. “Bridges, Polarization, and Lawmaking, 1874–2010.” (with John Lapinski.) Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association. (2013)

Clinton, Joshua D. “Characterizing Chief Execu-tives: Presidential and Congressional Ideal Points,

1877–2010.” (with Molly Jackman and Saul Jack-man.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013)

Geer, John G. “Perceptions and Misperceptions of Negativity by Citizens and Experts.” (with Keena Lipstiz.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013)

Lewis, David E. “Politicization and Compliance with the Law: The Case of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.” (with Evan Haglund.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Associa-tion. (2013)

Lewis, David E. “Politics and Agency Perfor-mance: Which Agencies Effectively Implement the Freedom of Information Act.” (With Jennifer Selin and Abby Wood.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013)

Lewis, David E. “Evaluating the Obama Presi-dency.” (with George C. Edwards, Gary C. Jacob-son, and Frances E. Lee.) Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association. (2012)

Wiseman, Alan E. “Women’s Issues and Their Fates in Congress.” (with Craig Volden and Dana Wit-tmer.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013)

SERVICE ON COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS

Bartels, Larry M., Publications Planning Commit-tee, American Political Science Association. (2013)

Bartels, Larry M. International Advisory Board, Election Study Center, National Chengchi University, Taipei. (2013)

Clinton, Joshua D., Co-Editor, Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (2009–present)

Clinton, Joshua D., Member, Selection Committee for New Journal of Politics Editor, Southern Politi-cal Science Association. (2012–present)

Clinton, Joshua D., Chair, Best Paper Award Com-mittee, Southern Political Science Association. (2012–2013)

Geer, John G., Editorial Board: Journal of Politics (2012–present), Journal of Experimental Political Science (2012–present)

Geer, John G., Member, Advisory Board for Wesleyan Media Project (2012–present)

Lewis, David E., Member, Advisory Board for the Model Agency Initiative and Walter Gellhorn Award, Administrative Conference of the United States. (2011–present)

Lewis, David E., Contractor, Administrative Con-ference of the United States, “Federal Executive Establishment, 2012.” (2011–2012)

Lewis, David E., Review Panel, National Science Foundation. (2011–present)

Lewis, David E., Advisory Committee, “Chief executive succession and the performance of

central government agencies,” Project sponsored by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. (2011–present)

Lewis, David E., Editorial board: Public Adminis-tration. (2011–2013)

Lewis, David E., Editorial board: Palgrave Book Series “Executive Politics and Governance.” (2011–present)

Lewis, David E., Executive Committee, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vander-bilt University. (2011–2013)

Lewis, David E., Senior Advisory Review Com-mittee, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University. (2012–2013)

Lewis, David E., Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University. (2010–2013)

Lewis, David E., Faculty Recruitment Commit-tee, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University. (2012–2013)

Wiseman, Alan E. Editorial Board: Legislative Studies Quarterly (2012–present), American Politics Research (2012–present), Journal of Theoretical Politics (2011–present)

Wiseman, Alan E., Formal Theory Section Head, APSA Meetings. (2012)

Wiseman, Alan E., Member, Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching Advisory Board. (2011–present)

Wiseman, Alan E., Member, Junior Advisory Review Committee, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University. (2012–2013)

WORKING PAPERS 2012-2013

Bartels, Larry M., “Party Systems and Political Change in Europe.” For presentation at the 2013 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association.

Bartels, Larry M., “The Class War Gets Personal: Inequality as a Political Issue in the 2012 Election.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2013.

Clinton, Joshua D., and Ted Enamorado. “The National News Media’s Effect on Congress: How Fox News Affected Elites in Congress.” Under review.

Clinton, Joshua D., Molly Jackman, and Saul Jack-man. “Characterizing Chief Executives: Presiden-tial and Congressional Ideal Points, 1877–2010.” Under review.

Benson, Brett, and Joshua D. Clinton. “Measured Strength: Characterizing the Strength of Alliances in the International System, 1816–2000.” Under review.

Clinton, Joshua D., and John Lapinski. “Bridges, Polarization, and Lawmaking, 1874–2010.” Manu-script, Vanderbilt University.

Lewis, David E. “Presidents and Patronage.” (with Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr., and Gabe Horton) Manu-script, Vanderbilt University.

Lewis, David E. “Politicization and Compliance with the Law: The Case of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.” (with Evan Haglund) Manu-script, Vanderbilt University.

Lewis, David E. “Congress, Responsiveness, and Agency Performance.” (with Jennifer L. Selin and Abby K. Wood) Manuscript, Vanderbilt University.

Lewis, David E. “Slackers, Zealots, Screening and Sorting: How Politicization Drives Agency Performance by Changing Internal Labor Markets.” (with Charles Cameron and John de Figueiredo) Manuscript, Princeton University.

Lewis, David E. “Administrative Reform, Political Ideology, and Bureaucratic Effort: The Case of Performance Management in the Bush Admin-istration.” (with Stéphane Lavertu and Donald Moynihan) Manuscript, The Ohio State University.

Lewis, David E. “The Paradox of Agency Respon-siveness: A Federal FOIA Experiment.” (with Abby K. Wood) CSDI Working Paper # 6-2012, Vanderbilt University.

Wiseman, Alan E. “Women’s Issues and Their Fates in Congress.” (with Craig Volden and Dana Wittmer). CSDI Working Paper 7-2013, Vanderbilt University. Under review.

Wiseman, Alan E. “Price Effects and the Com-merce Clause: The Case of State Wine Shipping Laws.” (with Jerry Ellig). CSDI Working Paper 8-2012. (A revised version was published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies in 2013.)

OP-EDS AND BLOG POSTS

Bartels, Larry M., “Who Needs Math?” April 9, 2013. The Monkey Cage.

Bartels, Larry M., “The Economy and the Cam-paign.” January 14, 2013. The Monkey Cage.

Bartels, Larry M., “Obama Toes the Line.” January 8, 2013. The Monkey Cage.

Bartels, Larry M., “Want a Strong Economy? Vote Democrat.” November 2, 2012. Salon.

Bartels, Larry M., “Dueling Tax Truths.” October 15, 2012. Model Politics.

Bartels, Larry M., “The Fiscal Facts of Life: Do Americans Understand Where Budget Deficits Come From?” August 11, 2012. Model Politics.

Bartels, Larry M., “Meet the Undecided.” (with Lynn Vavreck.) July 30, 2012. New York Times Campaign Stops.

Geer, John G., “Democratizing the political ad watch.” (with Douglas Rivers.) August 17, 2012. Politico.

Geer, John G., “Ending Negativity about Negative Ads.” (with Fred Davis.) September 28, 2012. Politico.

[APPENDIX B]

2012–2013 Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

PUBLICATIONS

Jackman, Saul. “Inter-branch Negotiations over Policies with Multiple Outcomes.” (with William G. Howell.) American Journal of Political Science. (accepted in 2013)

Murray, Joshua. “Evidence of a Transnational Capitalist Class-For Itself: The Determinants of PAC Activity Among Foreign Firms in the Global Fortune 500, 2000–06.” Global Networks. (accepted in 2013)

Murray, Joshua. “Why They Juice: The Role of Social Forces in Performance Enhancing Drug Use by Professional Athletes.” (with Arnout van de Rijt and John Shandra.) Sociological Focus. (accepted in 2013)

Niebler, Sarah. “The Use of Party Brand Label in Congressional Election Campaigns.” (with Jacob Neiheisel.) Legislative Studies Quarterly. (accepted in 2013)

Selin, Jennifer L. “The House as a Stepping Stone to the Senate: Why Do So Few African-American House Members Run?” (With Gbemende Johnson and Bruce I. Oppenheimer.) 2012. American Jour-nal of Political Science. 56 (2): 387–399.

Selin, Jennifer L. “Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight.” (with Joshua D. Clinton and David E. Lewis.) American Journal of Political Science. (accepted in 2013)

Selin, Jennifer L. Sourcebook of United States Execu-tive Agencies. (with David E. Lewis.) 2012. Wash-ington, D.C.: Administrative Conference of the United States.

WORKING PAPERS

Hollibaugh, Gary E. “Presidents and Patronage.” (with David E. Lewis and Gabe Horton.) Manu-script, Vanderbilt University.

Jackman, Saul. “Characterizing Chief Executives: Comparing Presidential and Congressional Prefer-ences and Their Effect on Lawmaking, Agency Budgeting, and Unilateral Executive Action, 1874-2010.” (with Joshua D. Clinton and Molly C. Jackman.) Under review.

Murray, Joshua. “Moral Economy, Structural Leverage, and Organizational Efficacy: Class Formation and the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike, Detroit 1936–7.” Under review.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Haglund, Evan. Participant in Melbourne School of Graduate Research’s Graduate Certificate in Advanced Learning and Leadership (GCALL). University of Melbourne (Australia) 2012.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Murray, Joshua. Department of Sociology, Univer-sity of Louisville, 2013.

Niebler, Sarah. Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2012.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Haglund, Evan T. “Politicization and Compliance with the Law: The Case of the Federal Vacan-cies Reform Act of 1998.” (with David E. Lewis.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Hollibaugh, Gary E. “Earmarks and Representa-tion.” (with David M. Primo, Lawrence S. Rothen-berg, and Kristin K. Rulison.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Hollibaugh, Gary E. “A Sense of His Soul: Can-didate Imagery, Signaling and Voter Evaluation.” (with Jonathan D. Klingler and Adam J. Ramey.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Hollibaugh, Gary E. “Vacancies, Vetting and Votes: A Unified Dynamic Model of the Appointments Process.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Politi-cal Science Association. (2013).

Murray, Joshua “Moral Economy, Structural Lever-age, and Organizational Efficacy: Class Formation and the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike, Detroit 1936–7.” (with Michael Schwartz.) Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Association. (2013).

Niebler, Sarah “On the Limits of Persuasion: Cam-paign Ads and the Structure of Voters’ Interper-sonal Discussion Networks.” Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Niebler, Sarah “Partisan Cheerleading and Evalu-ations of the Economy: Wisconsin 2012.” Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Associa-tion. (2013).

Selin, Jennifer L. “Political Responsiveness and Agency Independence.” Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Selin, Jennifer L. “Politics and Agency Perfor-mance: Which Agencies Effectively Implement the Freedom of Information Act.” (with David E. Lewis and Abby Wood.) Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association. (2013).

Selin, Jennifer L. “The Diversity of Delegation and Consequences for Bureaucratic Responsiveness.” Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association. (2013).

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[APPENDIX C]

CSDI Faculty Affiliates

Bruce Barry — Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Profes-sor of Management, Professor of Sociology, Owen Graduate School of Management

Vanessa B. Beasley — Associate Professor, Com-munication Studies

Lisa Schultz Bressman — Associate Dean for Aca-demic Affairs, David Daniels Distinguished Chair in Law, Law School

Daniel Cornfield — Professor of Sociology, Pro-fessor of Political Science (secondary), Department of Sociology

Andrew F. Daughety — Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Economics, Professor of Law (by courtesy), Department of Economics

William Doyle — Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Department of Lead-ership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College

Paul Edelman — Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Law, Law School

Tracey E. George — Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, Law School

Gary Gerstle — James G. Stahlman Professor of American History, Professor of Political Science, Director, Vanderbilt History Seminar, Department of History

Jason Grissom — Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College

Christopher P. Loss — Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College; Affiliated Faculty, Department of History

Robert Mikos — Professor of Law, Director, Pro-gram in Law and Government, Law School

Andrea Moro — Associate Professor, Department of Economics

Dana Nelson — Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, Director, Graduate Studies, English Department

Evelyn Patterson — Assistant Professor, Depart-ment of Sociology

Jennifer F. Reinganum — E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics, Professor of Law (by courtesy), Department of Economics

Edward L. Rubin — University Professor of Law and Political Science, Law School

John Sloop — Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science, Professor, Department of Com-munication Studies

Kevin M. Stack — Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Law School

Cecelia Tichi — William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, English Department

Michael P. Vandenbergh — Professor of Law, Co-director, Energy, Environment, and Land Use Program, Director, Climate Change Research Network, Law School

John Weymark — Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of Economics

[APPENDIX D]

2012¯2013 Seminar Series

09/07/12 “Vacancies, Vetting, and Votes: A Unified Dynamic Model of the Executive Appointments Process.” Gary Hollibaugh, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI

09/14/12 “Policy and Power: How the President Pursues Short- and Long-Term Goals.” Saul Jack-man, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI

09/21/12 “The Wartime President.” William G. Howell, Professor, Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the Harris School, University of Chicago

09/28/12 “Legislative Organization and the Second Face of Power: Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures.” Molly C. Jackman, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University

10/09/12 “Aliens, Amnesty, and Anchor Babies: The Framing of Immigrants and Immigration Policy in News Media and Its Effects on Public Opinion.” Jen Merolla, Associate Professor, Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate University

10/12/12 “Dollars on the Sidewalk: Should U.S. Presidential Candidates Advertise in Uncontested States?” Sarah Niebler, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI

10/19/12 “Globalization and Corporate Political Unity.” Joshua Murray, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI

10/26/12 “Strategic Partisanship: Party Priorities, Agenda Control, and the Decline of Bipartisan Cooperation in the House.” Laurel Harbridge, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

11/02/12 “Politics and Agency Performance: Which Agencies Effectively Implement the Free-dom of Information Act?” David E. Lewis, CSDI Co-Director, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

11/16/12 “The Role of Media in the 2012 Election.” Daron Shaw, Distinguished Professor, Govern-ment, University of Texas, Austin

11/30/12 “Where Do Local Women Run? Institu-tional, political, and party determinants of women’s representation in local office in the U.S.” Melody

Crowder-Meyer, Assistant Professor, Political Sci-ence, Sewanee, The University of the South.

12/07/12 “Capitalist prigs: Corporate ideology, political influence, and social progress.” Bruce Barry, CSDI Affiliate, Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management, Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management

01/11/13 “Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy.” (with Pietro Ortoleva) Erik Snowberg, Professor, Economics and Political Sci-ence, California Institute of Technology

01/18/13 “Beyond Open Gates: Investigating Patterns of Prison Release in California.” Evelyn Patterson, CSDI Affiliate, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Vanderbilt University

02/08/13 “Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials.” Shigeo Hirano, Associate Profes-sor, Political Science, Columbia University

02/15/13 “One for You, Two for me: Support for the Public Goods Investment in Homogenous Communities.” Jessica L. Trounstine, Associate Professor, Political Science, UC-Merced

02/28/13 “Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism.” Susan C. Stokes, Chair and John S. Saden Professor, Political Science Department, Yale University

03/15/13 “You Cannot Be Serious: Do Partisans Believe What They Say?” Markus Prior, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Co-Direc-tor, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University

03/29/13 “Do Campaigns Matter? Can We Tell From Experiments?” Larry M. Bartels, CSDI Co-Director, May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science, Vanderbilt University

04/05/13 “Uncertain Majorities and Senate Politics: The Permanent Campaign on the Senate Floor.” Frances E. Lee, Professor, American Politics, Department of Government Politics, University of Maryland

04/19/13 “Partisan Cheerleading and Evaluations of the Economy: Wisconsin 2012.” Sarah Niebler, Post-Doctoral Fellow, CSDI

04/26/13 “Designing Judicial Institutions: Special Federal Courts and the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.” Tracey E. George, CSDI Affiliate, Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University

05/07/13 “Estimating Neighborhood Effects on Turnout for Geocoded Voter Registration Records.” Kosuke Imai, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University

[APPENDIX E]

Unequal Democracy

Unequal Democracy Revision Workshop and Participants

Lead Facilitator and Author, Larry M. BartelsFriday, 5 October and Saturday, 6 October 2012349 The Commons Center

Thursday, 4 October

6:30 p.m. Open House dinner at residence of Larry and Denise Bartels

Friday, 5 October

Noon Lunch

1:30 p.m. SESSION 1 — Marc Hetherington Class Politics and Partisan Change — Kathy Walsh Do Americans Care About Inequality? — Don Kinder

3:00 p.m. 15-minute break

3:15 p.m. SESSION 2 — Cindy Kam Homer Gets a Tax Cut — John Zaller The Strange Appeal of Estate Tax Repeal — Jennifer Hochschild

4:45 p.m. End of Sessions — guests return to hotel

7:45 p.m. Dinner — Urban Grub Fish Pit & Southern Cantina

Saturday, 6 October

9:00 a.m. SESSION 3 — Josh Clinton The Partisan Political Economy — Lane Kenworthy The Eroding Minimum Wage — Hank Farber

10:30 a.m. 15-minute break 

10:45 a.m. SESSION 4 — Bruce Oppenheimer Economic Inequality and Political Representation — Ben Page Unequal Democracy — Bob Putnam

12:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 p.m. SESSION 5 — Mitch Seligson The Great Recession — Tim Smeeding The Obama Administration, Economic Policy, and Inequality — Jared Bernstein

2:45 p.m. 15-minute break

3:00 p.m. SESSION 6 — John Geer Partisan Biases in Economic Accountability —Alan Gerber Electoral Politics in 2008, 2010, and 2012 — Gary Jacobson

4:30 p.m. Workshop end7:30 p.m. Dinner at F. Scott’s

Unequal DemocracyWorkshop Participants

Larry Bartels — May Werthan Shayne Professor of Public Policy and Social Science and Co-director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University.

Jared Bernstein — Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph Biden.

Joshua Clinton — Professor of Political Science and Co-director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University.

Henry Farber — Hughes-Rogers Professor of Eco-nomics, Princeton University.

John Geer — Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Profes-sor of Political Science and Co-director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University.

Alan Gerber — Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics, Yale University.

Marc Hetherington — Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University.

Jennifer Hochschild — Henry LaBarre Jayne Pro-fessor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Gary Jacobson — Distinguished Professor of Politi-cal Science, University of California, San Diego.

Cindy Kam — Associate Professor of Political Sci-ence and Director of the Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society Lab, Vanderbilt University.

Lane Kenworthy — Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of Arizona.

Donald Kinder —James Orin Murfin and Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political Sci-ence and Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan.

Chuck Myers — Group Publisher, Social Sciences, and Senior Editor for Political Science and Law, PrincetonUniversity Press.

Bruce Oppenheimer — Professor of Political Sci-ence, Vanderbilt University.

Benjamin Page — Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making, Department of Political Science and Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.

Efrén Pérez—Assistant Professor of Political Sci-ence, Vanderbilt University.

Robert Putnam — Peter and Isabel Malkin Profes-sor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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Mitchell Seligson — Centennial Professor of Politi-cal Science and Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University.

Timothy Smeeding — Arts and Sciences Distin-guished Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs, and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin.

Katherine Cramer Walsh — Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin.

Alan E. Wiseman - Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-director, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University.

John Zaller — Professor of Political Science, UCLA.

[APPENDIX F]

Political Representation: Fifty Years After Miller & Stokes

Political Representation: Fifty Years After Miller & StokesProgram Schedule & AttendeesFriday, 1 March and Saturday, 2 March 2013

Thursday, 28 February Dinner at the home of John Geer for those arriving early

Friday, 1 March

9:00–9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

9:15–10:30 a.m. “The Beginnings of Representation in America: The Relationship between Representatives and Constituents in the Colonial Era” Peverill Squire (Missouri) Discussant: Wendy Schiller (Brown)

10:45 a.m.–Noon “Women Don’t Run? Gender Differences in Candidate Entry” Jonathan Woon (Pittsburgh) & Kris Kanthak (Pittsburgh) Discussant: Yanna Krupnikov (Northwestern)

Lunch “Miller & Stokes and the Study of Political Representation” Christopher Achen (Princeton)

2:00–3:15 p.m. “Policy Responsiveness in Multiparty Governments” Lanny Martin (Rice) & Georg Vanberg (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Discussant: Karen Jusko (Stanford)

3:30–5:00 p.m. “Representation in Context: Election Laws and Ideological Congruence between Citizens and Governments” (APSA Presidential Address) G. Bingham Powell (Rochester)

Dinner at the Chancellor’s Residence

Saturday, 2 March 9:00–10:15 a.m. “Has Joint Scaling Solved the Achen Objection to Miller and Stokes?” Jeffrey Lewis & Chris Tausanovitch (UCLA) Discussant: Joshua Clinton (Vanderbilt)

10:15–11:30 a.m. “Rewarding Effort, Not Results: How Parties Own Issues Because of Their Priorities, Not Their Performance” Patrick Egan (New York University) Discussant: Gregory Koger (Miami)

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. “On the Representativeness of Primary Voters” John Sides (George Washington University) & Lynn Vavreck (UCLA) Discussant: Shigeo Hirano (Columbia)

Lunch

2:00–3:15 p.m. “Candidates’ Perception of Constituent Opinion: Evidence From the National Candidate Study” David Broockman (California, Berkeley) & Christopher Skovron (Michigan) Discussant: Nicholas Carnes (Duke)

3:30–5:00 p.m. Roundtable on Studying Representation Robert Erikson (Columbia) Jane Mansbridge (Harvard) Bruce Oppenheimer (Vanderbilt) Susan Stokes (Yale) John Zaller (UCLA)

Dinner

Political Representation: Fifty Years After Miller & Stokes Attendees

Claire Abernathy, Vanderbilt University Christopher Achen, Princeton University Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University Doug Ahler, University of California, Berkeley Allison Archer, Vanderbilt University Nicole Asmussen, Oakland UniversityLarry Bartels, Vanderbilt University David Broockman, University of California, Berkeley Nicholas Carnes, Duke University Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua Clinton, Vanderbilt University Patrick Egan, New York University Peter Enns, Cornell University Ryan Enos, Harvard University Robert Erikson, Columbia University Brian Faughnan, Vanderbilt University Jeff Fine, Clemson University Anthony Fowler, Harvard University Kim Fridkin, Arizona State University John Geer, Vanderbilt University Martin Gilens, Princeton University Evan Haglund, Vanderbilt UniversityLaurel Harbridge, Northwestern University Shigeo Hirano, Columbia University Gary Hollibaugh, Vanderbilt University Molly Jackman, Vanderbilt University Saul Jackman, Vanderbilt University Jeffrey Jenkins, University of Virginia Ruth Jones, Arizona State University Karen Jusko, Stanford University Cindy Kam, Vanderbilt University Kris Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh Gregory Koger, University of Miami Yanna Krupnikov, Northwestern University Jeffrey Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles Scott Limbocker, Vanderbilt University Meri Long, Vanderbilt University Jane Mansbridge, Harvard UniversityLanny Martin, Rice University Ana Maria Montoya, Vanderbilt University Joshua Murray, Vanderbilt University Sarah Niebler, Vanderbilt University Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University Diana Orcés, Vanderbilt University Bingham Powell, University of Rochester Lynda Powell, University of Rochester Molly Reynolds, University of Michigan Mark Richardson, Vanderbilt University Elizabeth Rigby, George Washington University Steve Rogers, Princeton University Carrie Roush, Vanderbilt University Wendy Schiller, Brown University Mitchell Seligson, Vanderbilt University Jennifer Selin, Vanderbilt University Kenneth Shotts, Stanford University John Sides, George Washington University Christopher Skovron, University of Michigan Erik Snowberg, California Institute of TechnologyPeverill Squire, University of Missouri Susan Stokes, Yale University Chris Tausanovitch, University of California, Los Angeles Steve Utych, Vanderbilt University Georg Vanberg, University of North Carolina Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los AngelesChris Warshaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark West, University of California, Los Angeles Jonathan Woon, University of PittsburghJohn Zaller, University of California, Los Angeles Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt UniversityDaniel Zizumbo-Colunga, Vanderbilt University

[APPENDIX G]

Working Papers

3-2012 Clinton, Joshua D., and Ted Enamorado, “The Fox News Factor: How the Spread of Fox News Affects Position Taking in Congress.”

4-2012 Clinton, Joshua D., and Steven L. Rogers, “Robo Polls: Taking Cues From Traditional Sources?”

5-2012 Clinton, Joshua D., David E. Lewis, and Jennifer L. Selin, “Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight.”

6-2012 Lewis, David E., and Abby K. Wood, “The Paradox of Agency Responsiveness: A Federal FOIA Experiment.”

7-2012 Clinton, Joshua D., and Jason A. Grissom, “Public Information, Public Learning, and Public Opinion: Democratic Accountability in Education Policy.”

8-2012 Ellig, Jerry, and Alan E. Wiseman, “Price Effects and the Commerce Clause: The Case of State Wine Shipping Laws.”

1-2013 Daughety, Andrew F., and Jennifer R. Reinganum, “The Effect of Third-Party Funding of Plaintiffs on Settlement.”

2-2013 Bertelli, Anthony M., and David E. Lewis, “Policy Influence, Agency- Specific Expertise, and Exit in the Federal Service.”

3-2013 Bartels, Larry M., Joshua D. Clinton, and John G. Geer, “Representation.” For Oxford Handbook of American Political Development.

4-2013 Bartels, Larry M., “Ideology and Retrospection in Electoral Responses to the Great Recession.”

5-2013 Achen, Christopher H., and Larry M. Bartels, “Blind Retrospection: Why Shark Attacks Are Bad For Democracy.”

6-2013 Bartels, Larry M., “Political Effects of the Great Recession.”

7-2013 Volden, Craig, Alan E. Wiseman, and Dana E. Wittmer, “Women’s Issues and Their Fates in Congress.”

8-2013 Selin, Jennifer L., “Political Responsiveness and Agency Independence.”

9-2013 Selin, Jennifer L., “The Diversity of Delegation and Consequences for Bureaucratic Responsiveness.”

[APPENDIX H]

Policy Briefs

2013-01 “Does the Public Use Information to Hold Elected Officials Accountable for Educational Performance?” (by Evan Haglund.)

2013-02 “The Legislative Productivity of Congressional Women: Understanding When Women Are Effective Lawmakers.” (by Claire Abernathy.)

2013-03 “Can the Media Influence the Voting Behavior of Legislators?” (by Allison Archer.)

2013-04 “If the Victors Get the Spoils, What Do Citizens Get?” (by Mark Richardson.)

2013-05 “What Explains Executive Turnover in the Federal Service.” (by Jennifer L. Selin.)

2013-06 “The Effects of Third-Party Litigation Funding.” (by Mark Richardson.)

2013-07 “Adjudicating the Commerce Clause: How Price Effects Can Help to Evaluate State ‘Wine Wars’.” (by Allison Archer.)

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