Vitae John D. Huber April 19, 2009 Department of Political Science Columbia University 713 International Affairs Building 420 W. 118 th St. New York, NY 10027 Email: jdh39@columbia.edu Phone: (212) 854-7208 Fax: (212) 222-0598 Appointments Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 2002-present Chair, 2006- Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-06 Visiting Professor, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain, Fall 2004. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 1998-2002. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, and Research Associate, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, 1992-8. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University, 1991-92. Education Ph.D. Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 1991. M.A. Political Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. 1989. B.A. Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. 1984. Awards 2003. Gregory Luebbert Prize, given by the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association for the best book in comparative politics in 2002, (for Deliberate Discretion?). 2003. William Riker Prize, given by the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association for the best book in political economy in 2002 (for Deliberate Discretion?). 2003. Richard Fenno Prize, given by Legislative Politics section of the American Political Science Association for the best book in legislative studies in 2002 (for Deliberate Discretion?). 1997. Honorable Mention, Gregory Luebbert Prize, given for the best book in comparative politics (for Rationalizing Parliament). 1994. Faculty Recognition Award. University of Michigan.
1993. Heinz Eulau Award. Awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best paper to appear in the American Political Science Review in 1992 (for Restrictive Legislative Procedures in France and the U.S. (September, 1992)). 1993. Georges Lavau Prize. Awarded by the French Politics and Society Group of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation on French politics during the past three years. 1988. Edward Peck Curtis Prize. Awarded for outstanding teaching by a graduate student, University of Rochester, 1988. Fellowships Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. Princeton University. 2002-03. Visiting Fellow, Norwegian Center for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, Norway. May-June 2002. Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research. University of Michigan School of Public Health. 1994-96. Grants National Science Foundation, 2008-10. Measuring Ethnic and Regional Group Differences ($193,500). National Science Foundation. 2003-05. Cabinet Turnover in Parliamentary Democracies. SBE-241566 (150,000 dollars). National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: The Instruments for Political Control of Bureaucracy in Parliamentary and Separation of Powers Systems. (with Charles Shipan) SBR- 9904844, (87,627 dollars, 1999-01) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Structure of Medicaid Managed Care Decision-Making in State Governments. (97,892 dollars, 1997-99). Awards from the University of Michigan for creation of the Michigan Seminar on Institutions (a speakers series on the comparative study of institutions) (with Nancy Burns) (31,000 dollars, 1997-99) National Science Foundation. Restrictive Legislative Procedures, Party Bargaining, and Political Performance in Advanced Industrial Democracies. 1994-96. (SBR-9321089, 145,721 dollars) Institute for Social Research Director s Special Program Grant. 1993. (7,115 dollars) National Science Foundation Grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research, 1989-90 (SES- 8906734). Bourse Chateaubriand. 1989-90. 2
Books Deliberate Discretion? Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy, (with Charles R. Shipan), series on Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press (2002). Rationalizing Parliament: Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France. Cambridge University Press, series on The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions (1996). Journal Articles Replacing cabinet ministers: Patterns of ministerial stability in parliamentary democracies (with Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo) American Political Science Review 102(2): 169-80. 2008 Institutional context, cognitive resources and party attachments across democracies (with George Kernell and Eduardo L. Leoni). Political Analysis 13(4):365-86. 2005 Bureaucratic Capacity, Delegation, and Political Reform, (with Nolan McCarty), American Political Science Review, 98(3): 481-94 (2004). Reprinted in Economics of Administrative Law, Susan Rose Ackerman (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2007. Cabinet Instability and the Accumulation of Experience: The French Fourth and Fifth Republics in Comparative Perspective, (with Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo), British Journal of Political Science, 34:27-48 (2004). Sleepwalking Democrats and American public support for President Bush s attack on Iraq, Constellations 10(3): 392-407 (2003) Cabinet Decision Rules and Political Uncertainty in Parliamentary Bargaining, (with Nolan McCarty), American Political Science Review 95(2),: 345-61 (2001). Legislatures and Statutory Control of Bureaucracy (with Charles Shipan and Madelaine Pfahler), American Journal of Political Science 45 (2): 330-46. (2001) Cabinet Instability and Delegation in Parliamentary Democracies (with Arthur Lupia), American Journal of Political Science 45(1): 18-33 (2001). Delegation to Civil Servants in Parliamentary Democracies. European Journal of Political Research 37:397-413 (2000). Putting Parties in their Place: Inferring Party Left-Right Ideological Positions from Manifestos Data (with Matthew Gabel), American Journal of Political Science, 44(1)94-103 (2000) The Costs of Control: Legislators, Agencies, and Transaction Costs (with Charles R. Shipan) Legislative Studies Quarterly 25 (1): 25-52 (2000) How does Cabinet Instability affect Political Performance: Credible Commitment, Information, and Health Care Cost Containment in Parliamentary Politics, The American Political Science Review 92:577-92 (1998). Sense and Sensibility: The Role of Rules (with Douglas Dion). The American Journal of Political Science 41:945-57 (July 1997). 3
L'analyse du choix rationnel en science politique (with Sylvain Brouard and Eric Kerrouche). Révue Internationale de Politique Comparée, Volume 4, no. 1, (1997). The Vote of Confidence in Parliamentary Democracies, American Political Science Review 90:269-82 (1996). Procedural Choice and the House Committee on Rules, (with Douglas Dion), The Journal of Politics 58:25-53 (1996). Expert Interpretations of Party Space and Party Locations in 42 Societies, (with Ronald Inglehart), Party Politics, Volume 1, no. 1. pages 73-111 (January 1995). Spanish Translation: La izquierda y la derecha en 42 sociedades. Este Pais, 66:2-16 (September, 1996). Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy, (with G. Bingham Powell, Jr.), World Politics 46:291-326 (1994). Reprinted in The Democracy Sourcebook, Robert A. Dahl, José Antonio Cheibub and Ian Shapiro (eds.), MIT Press, 2003. Restrictive Legislative Procedures in France and the US. The American Political Science Review 86:675-88 (1992). Reprinted in Legislatures and Legislators, Philip Norton, ed. 1998, Ashgate Publishing. Values and Partisanship in Left-right Orientations: Measuring Ideology. The European Journal of Political Research 17:599-621 (1989). Book chapters Politics Delegation and Bureaucracy (with Charles Shipan), Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2006. Bureaucratic Capacity and Legislative Output, (with Nolan McCarty) in The Macropolitics of Congress. Eds: E. Scott Adler and John Lapinski, Princeton University Press, 2006. Legislatures and Political Institutions: Beyond the Contemporary Congress (with Gerald Gamm), Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Ira Katznelson and Helen Miner, eds. 2002. Parliamentary Rules and Party Behavior During Minority Government in France. in Wolfgang Müller and Kaare Strøm, Policy, Office, or Votes? How Political Parties Make Hard Choices, Cambridge University Press (1999). Executive Decree Authority in France. In John Carey and Matthew Shugart (eds.), Executive Decree Authority: Calling Out the Tanks or Filling Out the Forms, Cambridge University Press (1998). Current working papers Redistribution and Pork in Two-Party Competition. (with Michael Ting) 4
Separation of church and state, charitable giving and government redistribution (with Piero Stanig) Why do the poor support right-wing parties: A cross-national analysis (with Piero Stanig) Religious belief, religious participation, and social policy attitudes across countries Undergraduate: Graduate: Courses taught Introduction to Comparative Politics The Government and Politics of Western Europe The Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies Democracy and Representation Rational Choice Theory Comparative Bureaucratic Processes Comparative Constitutional Engineering Comparative Democratic Processes Comparative Constitutional Engineering (Oslo Summer School) Mathematics for Political Science Theories of Political Institutions Issues in Comparative Politics (Field Survey) Comparative Bureaucratic Politics Politics of Inequality PhD student placement Dawn Brancati (Washington University, St. Louis) Ozge Kemahlioglu (Florida State) James Kim (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo (University of North Carolina) Monika Nalepa (Rice) Emilio Pineda (IMF) Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro (Brown University) Selected Professional activities Committee service 2007. Chair of committee to choose the Heinz Eulau Prizes, given for the best articles in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics. 2005. Member of committee to choose the William Riker Prize for best book in political economy. 2002-04. Member, Political Science National Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation. 5
2002. Member of committee to choose the Jewell-Loewenberg Prize for best article in Legislative Studies Quarterly. 2002-04 Member, Executive Council, Midwest Political Science Association. 2000-01. Division Chair for 2001 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Advanced Industrial Democracies. 1999. Member of committee to choose recipients of International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships from the Social Science Research Council. 1999. Member of committee to choose the Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best article in comparative politics. 1997. Member of committee to select the best dissertation in political economy. 1997-99 Member of the Executive Council of the Section on Political Economy. Editorial Boards 2005- Quarterly Journal of Political Science (Editor) 2005-06 Journal of Politics 2002-06. French Politics. 1998-2004. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 1998-2001. American Journal of Political Science Referee Service The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, The European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Organization, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Party Politics, Political Analysis State Politics and Policy Quarterly, University of Michigan Press, World Politics 6