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1 Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr. Department Address: Haas School of Business 1900 Student Services Building S545 University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA Ph: (510) Fax: (510) website: Updated: July 2002 Personal Information: Born June 13, 1967, in Houston, Texas. Professional 1997-Present UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, and Political Science, Department of Political Science. Research Fellow, Institute for Governmental Studies. Education STANFORD UNIVERSITY Ph.D. in Political Science, September Fields: American politics, political organizations, formal theory and quantitative methods. Dissertation committee: Barry R. Weingast (chair), John A. Ferejohn, Terry M. Moe, and R. Douglas Rivers. Dissertation Title: "Structural Politics: Dynamic Political Strategies and the Durability of Public Policy" M. A. in Economics, June Courses included: microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, econometrics. M. A. in Political Science, June Fields: American politics, political organizations and quantitative methods. 1

2 Summer 1994 INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Program participant at "Summer Program in Quantitative Methods." Courses included: multivariate statistical methods, game theory, and statistical computing HARVARD UNIVERSITY A.B., summa cum laude, in History with an emphasis in American history. Advisor: Donald Fleming. Awards, Honors, Fellowships and Grants University of California: Faculty Research Grant (non-competitive) (1997, 1999). Research Assistantship in the Humanities (1997). Junior Faculty Research Grant (1998). Schwarbacher Award (1998). Earl F. Cheit Award for Ph. D. Teacher of the Year (1999). Junior Faculty Mentorship Grant (2000). Faculty Research Grant (competitive) (2000). Stanford University: Jacob Javits Fellow, Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University: Phi Beta Kappa as a junior (top twelve male students), John Harvard Scholar, William Scott Ferguson prize for top history paper, Harvard Class of 1919 Memorial Fund Scholar, Detur Prize, National Merit Scholar, Non-academic and Visiting Scholar Experience January 2000 USIA Australia Visiting Scholar. June 1998 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis, MN Visiting Scholar THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP Melbourne, Australia Qualified Case Leader. Led large teams in analyzing organizational issues for large companies and government bodies in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, United States and Europe. Areas of specialization included strategy, inventory management, public policy, privatization and organizational design. 2

3 Publications and Forthcoming Papers Bates, Robert H., Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast. The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture and Tradition. Politics and Society. 26: 4 (December 1998), pp Chang, Kelly H., Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Barry R. Weingast. Rational Choice Theories of Bureaucratic Control and Performance. In William F. Shughart II and Laura Razzolini, eds., The Elgar Companion on Public Choice, Edward Elgar Press, de Figueiredo, John M., and Rui J. P., Jr. de Figueiredo. The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation. Business and Politics (forthcoming). de Figueiredo, John M., and Rui J. P., Jr. de Figueiredo. Managerial Decision-making in Non-Market Strategy: An Experiment. Advances in Strategic Management (forthcoming). de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr. Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty, and Policy Insulation." American Political Science Review 96: 2 (2002), pp de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr. "Endogenous Budget Institutions and Political Insulation: Why States Adopt the Item Veto." Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming). de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Zachary Elkins. Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry Into the Vices of In-Group Pride. American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming). de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Pablo T. Spiller. Strategy, Structure and Regulation: Telecommunications in the New Economy. Michigan State -Detroit College Law Review 1 (2000), pp de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., Pablo T. Spiller, and Santiago Urbiztondo. An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. 15:1 (April 1999), pp de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "Russian Federalism: A Contradiction in Terms. Hoover Digest: Research and Opinion on Public Policy (Fall 2001), pp de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict." In Barbara Walter and Jack Snyder, eds., Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention, Columbia University Press, Sniderman, Paul M., Pierangelo Peri, Rui. J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza. The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. Princeton University Press,

4 Vanden Bergh, Richard G., and Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr. Political Uncertainty and Administrative Procedures. In Barry Burden, ed., Uncertainty in American Politics, Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Papers Currently Under Submission de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., Richard G. Vanden Bergh. Protecting the Weak: Why (and When) States Adopt an Administrative Procedure Act. Under submission to Journal of Law and Economics (revise and resubmit). de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition." Under submission to Comparative Politics (revise and resubmit). de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "Self-Enforcing Federalism." Under submission to Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "Vicious Cycles: Endogenous Political Extremism and Political Violence. Under submission to International Organization (revise and resubmit). Working Papers de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr. "A Theory of the Political Firm: A Multi-task Model of Bureaucratic Jurisdictions." de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., Jack Rakove, and Barry R. Weingast, "Rationality, Inaccurate Mental Models and Self-Confirming Equilibrium: A New Understanding of the American Revolution." de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and R. Douglas Rivers. "A Note on Correlations in Split-Item Tests." de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr., and Barry R. Weingast, "Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia." Conference Participation and Invited Presentations March 2002 Stanford Conference on Management, Strategy Stanford, CA and the Business Environment 4

5 November 2001 USD School of Law and UCSD Law, Economics and Politics Workshop Self-Enforcing Federalism San Diego, CA October 2001 Conference on Prejudice and Politics Trento, Italy Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In-group Pride September 2001 ISNIE Annual Meeting Protecting the Weak: Why (and When) States Adopt an Administrative Procedure Act Berkeley, CA June 2001 Harvard CBRSS Conference Cambridge, MA Participant May 2001 Civil Wars and Post-Conflict Transitions Conference Irvine, CA March 2001 Asia Beckons: Comparative Corporate Strategies in Asia Berkeley, CA March 2001 IGS Colloquium on Decentering Governance Berkeley, CA January 2001 OECD Conference on Russian Federalism Moscow, Russia Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia (with Barry Weingast) Pathologies of Federalism, Russian Style: Political Institutions and Economic Transition (with Barry Weingast) December 2000 Haas School Institutional Analysis Workshop Self-Enforcing Federalism November 2000 UCSD Western Young Scholars Seminar Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty and Policy Insulation: Theory and Evidence Berkeley, CA San Diego, CA October 2000 Nortel Networks Designing for the Human Experience Boston, MA Participant September 2000 Law and Economics Seminar Self-Enforcing Federalism: Solving the Twin Dilemmas Berkeley, CA September 2000 Wharton Conference on Management, Strategy Philadelphia, PA 5

6 and the Business Environment September 2000 American Political Science Association Annual Washington, DC Vicious Cycles: Endogenous Political Extremism and Political Violence June 2000 Berkeley-Stanford Conference on American Politics Stanford, CA April 2000 Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL Chair December 1999 Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Federalism in the EMU Los Angeles, CA November 1999 Harvard Law School Olin Conference on Law, Cambridge, MA Economics and the Courts The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Legislation, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation (with John M. de Figueiredo) September 1999 American Political Science Association Annual Atlanta, GA The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Legislation, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation (with John M. de Figueiredo) May 1999 Hoover Institution Seminar on Collective Choice Stanford, CA March 1999 Public Choice New Orleans, LA February 1999 Berkeley Department of Political Science Berkeley, CA November 1998 Princeton University Department of Political Science Princeton, NJ November 1998 Yale University Department of Political Science New Haven, CT 6

7 November 1998 Political Economy of European Integration Cambridge, MA October 1998 Positive Political Theory and Business Strategy Marshall, CA An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures" (with Pablo T. Spiller) The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Legislation, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation (with John M. de Figueiredo) September 1998 American Political Science Association Annual Boston, MA An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures" Vicious Cycles: Endogenous Political Extremism and Political Violence June 1998 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN An Informational Rationale for the Administrative Procedure Act" "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" April 1998 Law, Economics and Organization Conference Marshall, CA An Informational Rationale for the Administrative Procedure Act" (with Pablo T. Spiller) March 1998 Public Choice New Orleans, LA "The Strategic Use of Jurisdictions: Applications of Multi-task Agency Theory to the Understanding of Bureaucracy" January 1998 American Economic Association Chicago, IL "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" November 1997 The Future of Political Economy: Rational Choice And Beyond Lake Arrowhead, CA October 1997 Haas School Institutional Analysis Workshop Berkeley, CA "The Strategic Use of Jurisdictions: Applications of Multi-task Agency Theory to the Understanding of Bureaucracy" 7

8 September 1997 Wallis Institute for Political Economy Rochester, NY "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" August 1997 American Political Science Association Annual Washington, DC "The Strategic Use of Jurisdictions: Applications of Multi-task Agency Theory to the Understanding of Bureaucracy" "Apportionment as Insulation: An Analysis of Historical Election Maps" (with Brian Gaines and Wendy Tam) May 1997 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Conference on Minneapolis, MN Federalism (with Barry R. Weingast) May 1997 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Chicago, IL "The Strategic Use of Jurisdictions: Applications of Multi-task Agency Theory to the Understanding of Bureaucracy" March 1997 Public Choice San Francisco, CA "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" (with Barry R. Weingast) February 1997 Columbia Conference on Ethnic Violence New York, NY "The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" (with Barry R. Weingast) November 1996 Stanford Politics and Organizations Seminar Stanford, CA "Political Uncertainty and Policy Insulation: A Formal and Empirical Analysis of Electoral Uncertainty with Applications to State Line-Item Vetoes" October 1996 University of California at Davis Economy, Justice & Davis, CA Society Seminar "The Structure of Reciprocity: A Formal and Empirical Analysis of Electoral Uncertainty with Applications to State Line-Item Vetoes" August 1996 American Political Science Association Annual San Francisco, CA "The Structure of Reciprocity: A Formal Theory of Electoral Uncertainty" 8

9 June 1996 Western Economics Association Annual San Francisco, CA "The Structure of Reciprocity: A Formal Theory of Electoral Uncertainty" February 1996 Stanford Political Economy Study Group Stanford, CA "Critiquing Moe: A Formal Theory of Bureaucratic Structure and Performance" July 1995 Political Methodology Conference Bloomington, IN "A Note on Correlations in Split-Item Tests" Presented as a poster. June 1995 University of Trento Conference on the Trento, Italy Study of Prejudice in Italy. "The Insider and the Outsider: Prejudice in Modern Italy" (with Paul M. Sniderman, Thomas Piazza, and Pierangelo Peri) 1994, 1995 Stanford Center for Organizations Research Monterrey, CA Annual Conference Served on program and organizational committee. Chaired numerous panels. University Service. Co-organizer, Positive Political Theory and New Institutionalism Seminar ( ). Member, Computer Committee, Haas School ( ). Member, MBA Committee, Haas School ( ). Member, Methods Search Committee, Political Science Department ( ). Member, Ad Hoc Search Committee, Haas School of Business and Goldman School of Public Policy ( ). Member, IGS Advisory Board, ( ). Mentor, Haas School of Business, Business Plan Competition (2000, 2001). Mentor, Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship Program ( ) Professional Service. Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, ISNIE. Member, Sage Prize Committee, American Political Science Association (1999). Member, Best Dissertation Prize in Political Economy Committee, American Political Science Association (2000). Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science; Business and Politics; California Management Review; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of Theoretical Politics; International Review of Law and Economics, American Political Science Review, Journal of Political Economy. 9

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Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr.

Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr. Department Address: Haas School of Business S-545 Student Services Building #1900 University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1900 Ph: (510) 642-6452 Fax: (510) 643-1412 e-mail: rui@haas.berkeley.edu