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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Interest groups can potentially influence political decision-makers by offering contributions and by providing relevant information...
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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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This paper analyzes how the structure of the legislature affects interest groups' incentives to lobby....
Unpublished Papers
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We use survey responses by firms to examine the firm-level determinants and effects of political...