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Kathleen Bawn is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. She is interested in theoretical problems involving coalition formation. Her research uses game theory and statistical analysis to understand how rules and institutions affect coalitions, and how the nature of coalitions affects political choices.
Kathleen Bawn is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA. She is interested in theoretical problems involving coalition formation. Her research uses game theory and statistical analysis to understand how rules and institutions affect coalitions, and how the nature of coalitions affects political choices.
| Current Institution | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Department | Political Science |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 4240 Bunche Hall, Box 951472 Los Angeles California 90095-1472 United States Phone: (310) 794-5048 |
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Education
Stanford University
Ph.D.,
Economics
(Mar 1992)
University of Chicago
B.A.,
Economics
(1982)
Work Experience
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
(Jul 1999 - Present)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
(Jul 1991 - Jun 1999)
Achievements
- UCLA Academic Senate Grants (1992 - 2001)
General
Foreign Language:- German
Publication Summary
Papers in Refereed Journals
- “Effort and Intensity in Legislative Politics: Reconsidering Obstruction in the Pre-Cloture Senate.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 20(1). January 2008. With Gregory Koger.
- “Short versus Long Coalitions: Electoral Accountability and the Size of the Public Sector.” American Journal of Political Science 50(2). April 2006. With Frances M. Rosenbluth.
- “A Comparative Theory of Electoral Incentives : Representing the Unorganized Under PR, Plurality, and Mixed-Member Electoral Systems.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 15(1). January 2003. With Michael F. Thies.
- “Money and Majorities in the Federal Republic of Germany: Evidence for a Veto Players Model of Government Spending.” American Journal of Political Science 43(3). August 1999.
- “Constructing Us: Ideology, Coalition Politics and False Consciousness.” American Journal of Political Science 43(2): 303-334. April 1999.
- “Voter Responses to Electoral Complexity: Ticket Splitting, Rational Voters and Representation in the Federal Republic of Germany.” British Journal of Political Science 29(3): 583-601. July 1999.
- “Congressional Party Leadership: Utilitarian versus Majoritarian Incentives.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 23(2): 221-245. May 1998.
- “Choosing Strategies to Control the Bureaucracy: Statutory Constraints, Oversight and the Committee System.” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 13: 101-126. 1997.
- “Strategic Responses to Institutional Change: Parties, Committees and Multiple Referral.” Public Choice 88(3-4): 239-258. September 1996.
- “Political Control versus Expertise: Congressional Choices about Administrative Procedures.” American Political Science Review 89(1): 62-73. March 1995. (Reprinted in Susan Rose-Ackerman (ed.) Economics of Administrative Law, Edward Elgar Publishing. 2007.
- “The Logic of Institutional Preferences: German Electoral Law as a Social Choice Outcome.” American Journal of Political Science 37: 965-989. November 1993.
Work in Progress
- “Long Coalitions under Electoral Uncertainty: Zero Sum Conflict and the Electoral Origins of Political Parties.” With Hans Noel. Presented at 2007 MWPSA Meeting.
- “A Theory of Political Parties” With Marty Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. Presented at 2006 APSA meeting.
- “Slowing at Sunset: Administrative Procedures and the Pace of Reform in Korea” With Jeeyang Rhee Baum. Presented at 2005 APSA meeting.
- “Coalition Parties versus Coalitions of Parties: How Electoral Agency Shapes the Political Logic of Costs and Benefits.” With Frances Rosenbluth. Presented at 2002 APSA meeting.
- “Self-Interest, Moral Principle, and Social Context: A Rational Choice Analysis of the Abolitionist Movement.” Presented at the 2000 MWPSA meeting.
- “Rational Voting in an Old and a New Democracy: An Analysis of Elections in Unified Germany.” Presented at 1999 MWPSA meeting.
Papers in Edited Volumes
- “Reforming Representation in California: Checks and Balances without Gridlock” in Bruce Cain and Roger Noll, editors, Constitutional Reform in California Berkeley, CA: IGS Press, 1995.
- “Political Decisions about Bureaucratic Accountability: Interests, Institutions and Prospects for Reform” in Gary Libecap, editor, Reinventing Government and the Problem of Bureaucracy, JAI Press 1996.
- “Measuring the Ties that Bind: Electoral Cohesiveness in Four Countries,” with Gary Cox and Frances Rosenbluth. In Bernard Grofman, editor, Electoral Politics in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
- “Hybrid Systems.” In the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, Paul Clarke and Joe Foweraker, editors. Routledge Press, 2001.
Comments, Book Reviews and Other Publications:
- “Bureaucratic Accountability for Regulatory Decisions: Comment on Lupia and McCubbins” Law and Contemporary Problems 1994.
- “Review of Interests and Institutions: Substance and Structure in American Politics by Robert Salisbury in Annals of the Academy of Social Science 1995.
- “Economic Imperialists Go Native: Life in a Political Science Department”, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter Winter 1995.
- “Review of Learning Democracy by Robert Rohrschneider, in American Political Science Review, September 2000.
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