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Date: 2/15/2007
EXPERIENCE
1997-present Professor of Political Science, Texas
A&M University
1992-1997 Associate Professor of
Political Science, Texas A&M University.
1988-1992 Assistant Professor of
Political Science, Texas A&M University
1987-1988 Visiting Assistant
Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Houston, Political Science,
1987
Dissertation: Principals, Agents, and Federalism: The Case of Clean Air
Enforcements
Advisor: James A. Stimson
M.A. University of Houston, Political
Science, 1985
B.A. University of Houston, Political
Science, 1976
AWARDS, HONORS, and GRANTS
Listed among the Political
Science 400 - most cited scholars since 1940 (See PS: Political Science & Politics, January 2007, pp. 135-38)
Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow, 2002-2006
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant, Co-Pi, 2003-2004,
$940,000.00
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant, Co-Pi, 2004-2005,
$940,000.00
Environmental Protection Agency grant, Co-PI, 2002-2005, $1,500,000.00
Program in the President and the Bureaucracy, 2001
Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities, 2000
American Politics Program, 1997
George Bush School of Government and Public Service, 1996
Center for Public Leadership Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1995
Jordan Faculty Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1994, 95
Stephen J. Wayne Award for best paper at the 2001 American Political Science
Association convention
Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the 1990 Midwest Political Science
Association convention
Texas A&M University Center for Presidential Studies: "Presidential
Power and Policy Systems"
National Science Foundation Grant #SES-8700615
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2007. The Politics of Economic
Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric on the Economy. forthcoming at Princeton University Press.
1994. Bureaucratic Dynamics:
The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy. Boulder, Co.: Westview
Press. with Richard W. Waterman.
Articles
2007
Forthcoming. Problem Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of
Global Warming. American
Journal of Political Science. With
2006. Fiscal Federalism and
Budgetary Tradeoffs in the American States. Political Research Quarterly.
59(June): 313-21. with Sean Crotty and Nick Theobald.
2005. Presidential Rhetoric and
the Economy. Journal of
Politics. 67(August): 627-45.
with Brandy M. Durham and Chris T. Owens
2004. Presidential Rhetoric and
Economic Leadership. Presidential
Studies Quarterly. 34(Sept): 573-606.
2004. Political Transaction Costs and the Politics
of Administrative Design. Journal of Politics.
66(Feb.): 176-202. with John Bohte. Reprinted
in 2007. Economics
of Administrative Law. Susan Rose-Ackerman, editor.
2003. The Politics of Problem
Definition: A Theory and Application to Sexual Harassment. American
Journal of Political Science.
47: 640-653. with Alesha
Doan.
2003. Political
Responsiveness and Equity in Public Education Finance. Journal of Politics. 65: 718-38. with
Nick Theobald.
2003. The Time Varying Effect of Public
Approval on Presidential Success in Congress, Journal of Politics.
65: 92-110. with
2000. Weak Theories and Parameter Instability:
Using Flexible Least Squares to Take Time-Varying Relationships Seriously. American Journal of Political Science. 44: 603-618.
2000. The Federal Balanced Budget
Force: Modeling Variations from 1904-1996. Journal of
Politics. 62:817-845.
1999. Democratic Controls Over
Bureaucratic Discretion: Are IRS Audits Equitable? American
Journal of Political Science. 43: 1166-1188. with
John T. Scholz.
1999. Who Influences Whom? The President and the Public Agenda. American
Political Science Review. 93: 327-344. with
George C. Edwards, III. (This article was listed as
nineteenth among the top 25 articles downloaded from JSTOR for 1906-2003).
1999. Policy Attention in a System of Separated Powers: The Dynamics of
American Agenda Setting. Journal of Politics.
61: 76-108. with
1998. The Dynamics of
Individual-Level Representation. Journal of Politics.
60: 705-736. with Angela Hinton Andersson.
1998. The Dynamics of Foreign
Policy Agenda Setting. American Political Science Review.
92: 173-184. with Jeffrey S. Peake.
1998. Principals, Principles, and
Public Administration: Controlling the IRS. American
Journal of Political Science. 42: 141-162. with
John T. Scholz.
1997. One Voice Among Many: The Supreme Court's Influence on Attentiveness
to Issues in the United States, 1947-1990. American
Journal of Political Science. 41: 1224-50. with
1997. The Public and the Supreme
Court: A Pooled Time Series Analysis of Individual Justice Responsiveness to
American Policy Moods. American Journal of Political
Science. 41:468-98. with Roy B. Flemming
1995. Disentangling Patterns of
State Debt Financing. American Political Science Review.
89:108-120. with James C. Clingermayer.
1993. The Dynamics of Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation. American
Journal of Political Science. 37: 497-528. with
Richard W. Waterman.
1993. Policy Monitoring and
Policy Analysis. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
12: 685-699. with Richard W. Waterman
1993. The Politics of
1992. What Do We Do With Applied
Research?. PS: Political Science and Politics. September. with Richard W.
Waterman.
1992. Modeling Federal
Implementation as a System. American Journal of Political
Science. 36: 40-67.
1991. The Dynamics of Political
Control of the Bureaucracy. American Political Science
Review. 85: 801-28. with Richard W.
Waterman.
1991. Federalism and Policy
Responsiveness: The Clean Air Case. Journal of Politics.
53: 851-59.
1990. Does Politics Make a
Difference at the EEOC?. American
Journal of Political Science. 34: 503-30.
1989. Principal-Agent Models of
Political Control of Bureaucracy. American Political
Science Review. 83: 965-78. with Brian
Cook.
1988. Bureaucrats, Principals,
and Responsiveness in Clean Air Enforcements. American
Political Science Review. 82: 215-234.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming. Which Presidents are
Uncommonly Successful in Congress? with
Forthcoming. The IRS and Credible Commitments to
Taxpayer Rights: the Tradeoffs of Efficiency, Equity, and Political
Responsiveness. Book chapter in The
American Taxpayer and the IRS: Duty, Rights, and Contractual Compliance,
edited by John Scholz
2003. Entries for Linear
Regression, OLS, Statistical Inference, Prediction Equation, Parameter,
Parameter Estimation, Instrumental Variable, Polynomial Equation, and
Interpolation. The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Research
Methods. eds.
Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Alan E. Bryman, and Tim Futing Lao. Sage Publications.
1998. The Supreme Court, the
Media, and Legal Change: A Reassessment of
1993 . Federalism and
Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy. in The
Presidency Reconsidered. Richard A. Waterman, ed.
Works Under Review or in
Progress
Political
Appointee Tenure: Economics, Politics, and the Presidency. Under
review.
Explaining
Presidential Liberalism: Pandering, Partisanship, or Pragmatism. Under review.
Presidential Liberalism and Public Approval. Undergoing revisions for submission.
Book Reviews
The Budget-Maximizing Bureaucrat:
Appraisals and Evidence. Andre Blais and Stephane
Dion, Editors. American
Political Science Review. December 1993.
Reinventing
Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy. by Thomas O. McGarity.
Journal of Politics. February 1993.
Shale Barrel Politics by Eric Uslaner
and The Energy Crisis and the American
Political Economy by Franklin Tugwell. American Political Science Review. June 1990.
Convention Papers
Presidential
Saber Rattling and the Economy. Paper to be delivered at the 2007 meeting of
the American Political Science Association.
Multiple
Principals and Political Control of the Bureaucracy. Paper delivered at the 2007 meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association.
The Politics of Presidential
Rhetoric: Public Salience and Public Opinion. Paper delivered at the 2006
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Crisis in
the Presidency: Economic and Political Implications. Paper delivered at the
2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
The
Politics of Problem Definition. Paper delivered at the 2005 meeting of the American Political
Science Association.
How Does Presidential Rhetoric on the Economy Affect Presidential Approval?
Paper delivered at the 2005 meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association.
What Determines the Intensity and Tone of Presidential Rhetoric on the Economy?
Paper delivered at the 2005 meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association.
What Determines
How Long Political Appointees Serve? Paper delivered at the 2004 annual meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association
Institutional
Crisis and the Economy.
Paper delivered at the 2004 annual meeting of the Western Political Science
Association.
Political Appointments:
Predicting Duration and Termination. Paper delivered at the 2004 annual meeting
of the Southern Political Science Association
European Integration: The Balanced Budget Force and
Fiscal Convergence. Paper delivered at
the 2003 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Presidential War Talk and Macroeconomic
Performance. Paper
delivered at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association.
Presidential
Success in Congress: Which Presidents Do
Better or Worse Than Expected? Paper
delivered at the 2002 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association.
Presidential Nomination Success and the Electoral Connection, 1885-1996. Paper delivered at the 2002 annual meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association.
Do Federal Grants Produce Expenditure Tradeoffs. Paper delivered at the 2002 annual meeting of
the Midwest Political Science Association.
Whatever Happened to Stationarity Assumption
Three? Paper delivered at the 2002
annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association.
Presidential Rhetoric and Macroeconomic Performance. Paper delivered at the 2002 annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association.
The Politics of Administrative Design. Paper delivered at the 2001 annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association.
Tradeoffs in State Expenditures: A Theory and Empirical Analysis Across States and Time. Paper delivered at the 2001 annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association.
Time Series Analysis and Time Varying Parameters. Paper delivered at the 2000 annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association.
Efficiency,
Equity, and Politics in State Education Finance.
Paper delivered at the 2000 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, with Nick Theobald.
Driven to
Distraction: Do Presidents Divert Attention from Domestic Policy Issues using
Foreign Policy Matters.
Paper delivered at the 1999 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association.
Agenda Setting for the Bureaucracy: The Politics of Drug Approvals. Paper
delivered at the 1999 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, with Scott Robinson.
Re-Examining
the Effects of Presidential Approval on the Success of the President in the Legislative
Arena. Paper delivered
at the 1999 meeting of the Western Political Science Association, with
Agenda Setting, Focusing Events,
and the Media: The Clarence Thomas Hearings and the Politics of Sexual
Harassment. Paper delivered at the 1998 annual meeting of the Southern
Political Science Association, with Alesha Doan.
Estimating Time
Varying Parameters with Flexible Least Squares. Paper delivered at the 1998 meeting of
the Society for Political Methodology.
The Balanced Budget Norm:
Modeling Variations from 1904-1996. Paper delivered at the 1998 meeting of the
Southwest Political Science Association.
Efficiency, Equity, and Politics:
Democratic Controls over the Tax Collector. Paper delivered at the 1997 annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Who Influences Whom? The President and the Public Agenda. Paper delivered at the
1997 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. (with George C. Edwards, III).
Democratic Controls Over Bureaucratic
Discretion: Are IRS Audits Equitable? Paper delivered at the 1996 annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association (With John Scholz).
The Dynamics of
Foreign Policy Agenda Setting. Paper delivered at the 1996 annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association.
Critical
Institutional Events and Agenda Setting. Paper delivered at the 1996 annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association.
Democratic Controls Over Tax Enforcement. Paper delivered at the annual meeting
of the American Political Science Association (With John Scholz).
The Supreme Court, the Media, and
Legal Change: A Reassessment of
Attention, Agendas, and
Public Mood and the Policy
Decisions of
The Politics of Administrative
Design: Legislative Coalitions and the Bureaucracy. Paper delivered at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. (With William West).
Disentangling
Patterns of State Debt Financing. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association. (With James C. Clingermayer).
Electoral
Competition, Time Horizons, and State Government Financing. Paper delivered at the annyal meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association. (With James C. Clingermayer).
The Politics of
Governmental Efficiency.
Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Politicsl
Science Association,
Maintaining Competition and
Protecting Consumers: Politics and Economic Policymaking at the Federal Trade
Commission. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association.
The Dynamics of
Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association. (With Richard W. Waterman).
The Politics
(or Nonpolitics) of
Bureaucratic Adaptation and the Hysteresis Effect: The Case of EPA Enforcements. Paper
delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. (With Richard W. Waterman).
The Dynamics of Non-Recursive
Bureaucratic Adaptation: The Case of NRC Enforcement Policy. Paper delivered at
the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. (With Richard W. Waterman).
Resolving
Problems of Contemporaneous and Spatial Aggregation with Pooled Granger
Methods. Paper presented
at the annual meetings of the Political Methodology Society. July, 1990.
Centralized Federalism and Clean
Air Implementation. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association.
When Theory Meets Practice:
Policy Monitoring and the Federal Bureaucracy. Paper delivered at the annual
meeting of the Western Political Science Association. (With
Richard W. Waterman). March, 1990.
Controlling
Bureaucracy through Policy Monitoring. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association. (With Richard W. Waterman).
Politics,
Bureaucracy, and Hazardous Waste Regulation. Paper delivered at the meeting of the
Southwestern Social Science Association. (With Kelly Tzoumis).
Centralized
Federalism and the Politics of Clean Air. Paper delivered at the meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association,
Equal Employment
Reagan's Clean
Air Policy and the Zealots at EPA. Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association
Annual Meeting in
Principals,
Bureaucrats, and Responsiveness at EPA." Paper presented at the Midwest Political
Science Annual Meeting in
Reagan's
Environmental Policy and Federal Clean Air Act Enforcement Activity. Paper presented at the Southwestern
Political Science Annual Meeting in
COURSES TAUGHT
American National Government
Honors
Seminar in Policy and Administration
The American President
Policy, Politics, and Administration
Dynamic Political Analysis
Maximum Likelihood Procedures
Mathematical Modeling for Political Scientists
Quantitative Political Analysis II
Quantitative Political Analysis I
Government and the Economy
Public Policy and Policymaking
Introduction to Public Administration
Introduction to Political Analysis
Quantitative Methods for Public Management
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
General
Chair of the Society for
Political Methodology committee for selecting graduate student attendees to the
summer methods conference, 2006-2007.
Current member of the editorial board of Presidential
Studies Quarterly. Former member of the editorial
boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research
Quarterly, Political Analysis, and American Politics Research.
President,
Founding member of the Midwest Public Administration Caucus,
1997.
Sponsor and organizer for the 2002 conference on Controlling
the Bureaucracy at
Sponsor and organizer for the 1999 summer meeting of the
Political Methodology Society at
Coauthor of "Statement on Statistical Reporting, Archiving, and
Replication: Norms for Publication." With James Stimson,
Charles Franklin, Walter Mebane, and Philip Schrodt.
Fall 1994. The Political
Methodologist. Volume 6, no. 1.
2000 Selection Committee for The Herbert Simon Award
of the
1999 APSA committee for awarding the Leonard White Award for
the best doctoral dissertation in public administration.
1999 Paul A. Volcker Endowment Grant Awards
Committee, Section for Public Administration, American Political Science
Association.
Chair of the 1996 APSA
Political Methodology Committee for the Gosnell prize
for best methods related paper.
Member of the Brooks/Cole Committee for best graduate student
paper for 93-94 at the Southern Convention.
Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, American Political
Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of
Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Analysis, Social
Science Quarterly, American Political Quarterly, Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Review, Policy
Studies Journal,
Member Political Methodology Society, Policy Studies Section
of APSA, American,
Instructor at the
Panel and Section Chairs
Chair for the panel on
Bureaucratic Turnover, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2006.
Chair for the panel on Advances in Cross-Section and Time Series Analysis,
Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003.
Section organizer for public policy for the 1998 Midwest
Political Science Association meetings.
Section organizer for public policy for the 1995 Southern
Political Science Association meetings.
Chair for the panel on Political Control of Bureaucracy, American Political
Science Association, September 1995.
Section organizer for public policy and public administration
for the 1994 Southwest Social Science Association.
Chair for the panel on Dynamic Time Series Analysis, American Political Science
Association, September 1993.
Chair for the panel on Presidential Politics, Southwest Social Science
Association, March 1992.
Chair for the panel on Bureaucracy and Policy Implementation, Midwest Political
Science Association, April 1991.
Chair for the panel on Policy Implementation American Political Science
Association, Sept. 1991.
Chair for the panel on Dynamic Time Series Analysis, Midwest Political Science
Association, April 1990.
SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT
2006-07- Dean’s Advisory
Committee, served on five dissertation committees, chaired two tenure and
review teaching committees, undergraduate committee, coordinator for the APSA
Minority Fellows Program, chair methods field examination committee.
2005-06- Dean’s Advisory Committee, served on six dissertation committees,
chaired one tenure and review committee, American institutions search
committee.
2004-05- Dean’s Advisory Committee, served on five dissertation committees.
2003-04- Graduate Committee member, served on five
dissertation committees, Chair PA/Policy search committee.
2002/03- Graduate Committee member, served on five dissertation committees,
Chair PA/Policy search committee.
2001/02- University level ad hoc committee to establish a Center for Social
Science Statistics, tenure and promotion committee, served on five dissertation
committees.
2000/01- Department Computer Resources Committee, College of Liberal Arts
Industrial Organization Program Committee, tenure and promotion committee,
served on five dissertation committees.
1999/00-
1998/99- Graduate Committee member, College of Liberal Arts Planning and
Resources Committee, chair of the public administration/public policy prelim
revision and reading list committee, chaired one tenure and review committee,
served on six dissertation committees.
1997/98-Graduate Committee member,
1996/97-Graduate Committee member, Chair of the
1995/96-College of Liberal Arts Planning and Resources Committee,Head’s
Advisory Committee, Committee for Revising the Methods Sequence, Tenure and
Review Teaching Committee, chaired one dissertation committee and served on six
others, Graduate Council Representative.
1994/95-Recruitment committee chair for methods and
affirmative action searches. Chaired one dissertation committee and
served on eight others, Graduate Council Representative.
1993/94-MPA advisory committee, Head's Advisory Committee, Committee for
Revising the Methods Sequence, Tenure and Review Committee, mid-tenure review
committees, advisory committees for four PhD. students and one MPA student,
supervised two graduate independent study courses, Graduate Council
Representative.
1992/93-MPA advisory committee, mid-tenure review committee,
recruitment committee for methods/foreign policy, advisory committees for four
PhD. students and one MPA student, supervised one graduate and two
undergraduate independent study courses, Graduate Council Representative.
1991/92-MPA advisory committee, advisory committees for four PhD. students and
one MPA student, supervised one graduate and two undergraduate independent
study courses, Graduate Council Representative.
1990/91-Committee for Hiring a New Lab Director, Committee for Revising
Undergraduate Methods Curriculum, Committee for Computing Resources, Committee
for MPA NASPAA Accreditation, Advisory Committees for PhD. Candidates in
Political Science, Economics, and Education, supervised one undergraduate
independent study course, Head's Advisory Committee, Graduate Council
Representative.
1989/90-Committee for Hiring a New Lab Director, Committee for Establishing a
Graduate Methods Minor, Committee for Computer Lab Acquisitions, Curriculum
Committee for NASPA Accredition, Advisory Committees
for MPA Candidates and PhD. Candidates in Political Science and Economics, supervised
one undergraduate independent study course, Graduate Council Representative.
1988/89-Search Committee for Public Policy, Curriculum
Revision Committee (PA/Policy), Committee for Computer Lab Acquisitions,
Advisory Committees for PhD. Candidates in PA/Policy.
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