updated January 2015 Kathleen Bawn Professor of Political Science 310-794-5048 UCLA kbawn@polisci.ucla.edu Los Angeles CA 90095-1472 Education: Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, March 1992. B.A., Economics, University of Chicago, June 1982, with honors. Academic Employment: Department of Political Science, UCLA. Professor. July 1, 2013 - present. Associate Professor. July 1, 1999 June 30, 2013. Assistant Professor. July 1, 1991 June 30, 1999. Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies. January 2001-July 2007. July 2010-July, 2012. Papers in Refereed Journals 1. A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics. Perspectives on Politics 10(3). September 2012. With Marty Cohen, David Karol, Seth Masket, Hans Noel, and John Zaller. Winner of the 2014 Jack Walker Award for outstanding contribution to research and scholarhip on political organizations and parties. Awarded by the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2013 Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in Perspectives on Politics. Awarded by the American Political Science Association. 2. Government versus Opposition at the Polls: How Governing Status Affects the Impact of Policy Positions. American Journal of Political Science 56(2). April 2012. With Zeynep Somer-Topcu. Winner of the 2013 Jack Walker Award for outstanding contribution to research and scholarhip on political organizations and parties. Awarded by the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. 3. Slowing at Sunset: Administrative Procedures and the Pace of Reform in Korea. Journal of East Asian Studies 11(2). May 2011. With Jeeyang Rhee Baum. 4. Effort and Intensity in Legislative Politics: Reconsidering Obstruction in the Pre-Cloture Senate. Journal of Theoretical Politics 20(1). January 2008. With Gregory Koger. 5. 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. 6. 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. (Reprinted in David Farrell and Matthew Shugart (eds.) Electoral Systems, Sage Publications, 2012.)
Bawn CV 2 7. 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. 8. Constructing Us: Ideology, Coalition Politics and False Consciousness. American Journal of Political Science 43(2): 303-334. April 1999. 9. 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. 10. Congressional Party Leadership: Utilitarian versus Majoritarian Incentives. Legislative Studies Quarterly 23(2): 221-245. May 1998. 11. Choosing Strategies to Control the Bureaucracy: Statutory Constraints, Oversight and the Committee System. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 13: 101-126. 1997. 12. Strategic Responses to Institutional Change: Parties, Committees and Multiple Referral. Public Choice 88(3-4): 239-258. September 1996. 13. 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.) 14. 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. Parties on the Ground: A Preliminary Report on Open Seat House Nominations in 2014. With Knox Brown, Angela Ocampo, Shawn Patterson, John Ray and John Zaller. Prepared for the 2014 APSA meeting. 2. "Maintaining a Logroll or Building a Party? The Coalition Politics of Transfer Spending in Brazil." With Felipe Nunes. Prepared for the 2012 MPSA meeting. 3. Why Big Parties? Presented at the 2008 MPSA meeting. 4. Long Coalitions under Electoral Uncertainty: Zero Sum Conflict and the Electoral Origins of Political Parties. With Hans Noel. Presented at 2007 MPSA 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,
Bawn CV 3 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: 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 in quantitative and formal methods for advanced graduate students from many universities.) Local PI and Director, 2007 (UCLA) Guest Lecturer, 2005 (UC Berkeley) and 2008 (Michigan) 2. American Political Science Review: Co-editor, July 2007-April 2009 (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, 2008-present), 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: Hallett Award Committee, 2012. Section Chair for Annual Program Committee, 2004 6. Other professional organizations: MWPSA Nominating Committee, 2002; WPSA Program Chair for Legislative Studies 1997.
Bawn CV 4 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, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, National Science Foundation, Cambridge University Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Studies in American Political Development Invited Lectures (since 2000) Rice (2014) USC (2014) Emory University (2013) Claremont Graduate University (2013) Stanford University (2010, 2011) University of Michigan (2006, 2010) Caltech (2009) UC-Riverside (2006) UC-San Diego (2006) Yale (2006) UC-Irvine (2005) University of Florida (2005) UC-Davis (2004) Washington University in St. Louis (2003) Rice University (2003) University of Colorado (2003) Yale (2003) University of Iowa (2002) Harvard University (2002) University of Michigan (2002) Grants and Fellowships 1. UC Office of the President Online Education Pilot Project development grant. 2011. 2. NSF SES-0618254 EITM Summer Training Institute $285,430 (total $1,141,720 with co-pi s John Aldrich, Henry Brady and Liz Gerber.) 2007. 3. UCLA Academic Senate Grants 1992-01 4. National Fellow, Hoover Institution 1995-6 5. Center for American Politics and Public Policy Fellow 1993-94 6. UCLA Faculty Career Development Award 1993-94, 1997-98. Teaching and Mentoring 1. Ph.D. Dissertations Chaired or Co-chaired: Benjamin Bishin (Associate Professor, UC Riverside) Jeeyang Rhee Baum (Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School) Robert Salmond (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, co-chaired with John Zaller) Linda Choi Hasunuma (Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College) Rayna Flye (Post-doc, Ohio State) Jessica Preece (Assistant Professor, BYU) Florence So (Post-doc, University of Aarhus)
Bawn CV 5 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. 3. Graduate Courses: Statistical Methods II, 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. 5. Developed online version of Poli Sci 30 (introductory game theory) first offered Spring 2012. Foreign Languages German Non-academic employment Systems Analyst, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago, IL, 1982-1987.