Bawn CV July 2007 Kathleen Bawn Associate Professor Department of Political Science phone: 310-968-3676 UCLA fax: 310-825-0778 Los Angeles CA 90095-1472 email: kbawn@polisci.ucla.edu Research Interests: Political Parties, Coalition Theory, Legislative Politics, Formal Theory, Electoral Systems, Congress, Administrative Procedure. Academic Employment: Department of Political Science, UCLA. Associate Professor. July 1, 1999 present. Assistant Professor. July 1, 1991 June 30, 1999. Education: Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, March 1992. B.A., Economics, University of Chicago, 1982, with honors. Papers in Refereed Journals 1. Effort and Intensity in Legislative Politics: Reconsidering Obstruction in the Pre-Cloture Senate. Journal of Theoretical Politics 20(1). January 2008. With Gregory Koger. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Constructing Us: Ideology, Coalition Politics and False Consciousness. American Journal of Political Science 43(2): 303-334. April 1999. 6. 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. 7. Congressional Party Leadership: Utilitarian versus Majoritarian Incentives. Legislative Studies Quarterly 23(2): 221-245. May 1998. 8. Choosing Strategies to Control the Bureaucracy: Statutory Constraints, Oversight and the Committee System. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 13: 101-126. 1997.
Bawn CV 2 9. Strategic Responses to Institutional Change: Parties, Committees and Multiple Referral. Public Choice 88(3-4): 239-258. September 1996. 10. 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. 11. 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 1. Long Coalitions under Electoral Uncertainty: Zero Sum Conflict and the Electoral Origins of Political Parties. With Hans Noel. Presented at 2007 MWPSA Meeting. 2. A Theory of Political Parties With Marty Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. Presented at 2006 APSA meeting. 3. Slowing at Sunset: Administrative Procedures and the Pace of Reform in Korea With Jeeyang Rhee Baum. Presented at 2005 APSA meeting. 4. 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. 5. Self-Interest, Moral Principle, and Social Context: A Rational Choice Analysis of the Abolitionist Movement. Presented at the 2000 MWPSA meeting. 6. 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 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Hybrid Systems. In the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, Paul Clarke and Joe Foweraker, editors. Routledge Press, 2001. Comments, Book Reviews and Other Publications:
Bawn CV 3 1. Bureaucratic Accountability for Regulatory Decisions: Comment on Lupia and McCubbins Law and Contemporary Problems 1994. 2. Review of Interests and Institutions: Substance and Structure in American Politics by Robert Salisbury in Annals of the Academy of Social Science 1995. 3. Economic Imperialists Go Native: Life in a Political Science Department, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter Winter 1995. 4. Review of Learning Democracy by Robert Rohrschneider, in American Political Science Review, September 2000. Service to the Profession 1. EITM: Summer Institutes on the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Model. (4 week training session for advanced graduate students from man universities.) Local PI and Director, 2007 (UCLA) Guest Lecturer, 2005 (UC Berkeley) 2. American Political Science Review: Co-editor, July 2007-present (with Michael Chwe, Jeffrey Lewis, Kirstie McClure, Karen Orren, Ronald Rogowski, Arthur Stein, Daniel Treisman, John Zaller.) Editorial Board (July 2001- July 2007) 3. Other Editorial Boards: American Journal of Political Science Editorial Board (2004-2006), Journal of Theoretical Politics, Editorial Board (2001-2006), Legislative Studies Quarterly Editorial Board (1999-2001), Perspectives on Politics Associate Editor (2004-2006.) 4. National Science Foundation: Committee of Visitors, 2007 Political Science Advisory Panel, 2004-2006 EITM Advisory Panel, 2003 5. APSA Organized Sections. Section on Political Economy: Book Award Committee, 2008. Secretary-Treasurer 2002 2004, Executive Committee 1998-2001, Section Chair for Annual Program Committee 1998, Dissertation Award Committee, 1995, 1996 (chair). Section on Representation and Electoral Systems: Section Chair for Annual Program Committee, 2004 6. Other professional organizations: MWPSA Nominating Committee, 2002; WPSA Program Chair for Legislative Studies 1997. 7. Referee for: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations,
Bawn CV 4 Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, National Science Foundation, Cambridge University Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Studies in American Political Development Invited Lectures UC-Riverside 2006, UC-Irvine (2005), University of Florida (2005), UC-Davis (2004), Yale University (2006, 2003, 1999, 1996, 1994), Washington University in St. Louis (2003, 1998, 1993), Rice University (2003), University of Colorado (2003), University of Iowa (2002, 1997), Harvard University (2002, 1996), University of Michigan (2006,2002, 1997), George Washington University (1999), Rochester University (1999), University of Minnesota (1999), UC-Berkeley (1998, 1996, 1993), Stanford University (1998,1995, 1994), Caltech (1994), Cornell University (1993), University of Illinois (1993), UC-San Diego (2006, 1993), University of Southern California (1993), UC-Irvine (1991) Grants and Fellowships 1. NSF SES-0618254 EITM Summer Training Institute $285,430 (with co-pi s John Aldrich, Henry Brady and Liz Gerber.) 2. UCLA Academic Senate Grants 1992-01 3. Cattell Fellowship 1997-8 4. National Fellow, Hoover Institution 1995-6 5. Harvard RTG Fellowship in Political Economy 1995-6 (declined) 6. Center for American Politics and Public Policy Fellow 1993-94 7. UCLA Faculty Career Development Award 1993-94, 1997-98. 8. Bradley Foundation Fellowship 1990. Teaching and Mentoring 1. Ph.D. Dissertations Chaired or Co-chaired: Benjamin Bishin (UC Riverside) Jeeyang Rhee Baum (UCSD) Robert Salmond (University of Michigan, co-chaired with John Zaller) Linda Choi Hasunuma (in progress) Rayna Flye (in progress) Jessica Preece (in progress) Served on 19 additional completed dissertation committees; 7 additional in progress. 2. Undergraduate Courses: Politics and Strategy (Intro Game Theory), Congress, Collective Choice, Bureaucracy, Honors Research Design Seminar.
Bawn CV 5 3. Graduate Courses: Mathematics for Political Science, Congress, Formal Models of Legislative Politics, Modelling Workshop, Comparative Parties and Party Systems. 4. Curriculum Design: Undergraduate concentration in Methods and Models, integration of mathematical political science into undergraduate curriculum. Foreign Language German Non-academic employment Systems Analyst, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, IL, 1982-1987.