Articles

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Strategic Appointments (with Anthony Bertelli), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2007)
This article develops an institutional spatial theory of presidential appointments to administrative agencies that falls...
 

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Lobbying Bureaucrats (with Morten Bennedsen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2006)
We study how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it...
 

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Informational Lobbying and Political Contributions (with Morten Bennedsen), Journal of Public Economics (2006)
Interest groups can potentially influence political decision-makers by offering contributions and by providing relevant information...
 

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Structural Reform Litigation: Remedial Bargaining And Bureaucratic Drift (with Anthony M. Bertelli), Journal of Theoretical Politics (2006)
Initiated by interest groups representing the interest of a class of agency clients, structural reform...
 

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Lobbying Legislatures (with Morten Bennedsen), Journal of Political Economy (2002)
We analyze informational lobbying in the context of a multimember legislature that decides on the...
 

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Lobbying and Legislative Organization: The Effect of the Vote of Confidence Procedure (with Morten Bennedsen), Business and Politics (2001)
This paper analyzes how the structure of the legislature affects interest groups' incentives to lobby....
 

Unpublished Papers

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Strong Firms Lobby, Weak Firms Bribe: A Survey-Based Analysis of the Demand for Influence and Corruption, SSRN (2009)
We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political...