Appointments Zachary David Greene Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Social Sciences & Collaborative Research Center Political Economy of Reforms University of Mannheim +49 (0) 172-796-2945 +1 678-389-9529 zgreene@mail.uni-mannheim.de http://zacgreene.com/ Post-Doctoral Researcher The Political Economy of Reforms, University of Mannheim (July 2012-present). Education Ph.D., Political Science, University of Iowa, 2012 M.A., Political Science, University of Iowa, 2007 B.A., Government, History and Philosophy, cum laude, Berry College, 2006 European Consortium for Political Research, Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, European University Institute, Italy, Spetember 2009 Research Interests Party Politics, Electoral Competition, Legislative Behavior, Quantiative Methods, Political Textual Analysis. Journal Articles Competing on the Issues: How experience in government and economic conditions influence the scope of parties policy message. Party Politics (2015). doi: 10.1177/1354068814567026. The Consequences of Appearing Divided: An Analysis of Party Evaluations and Vote Choice, with Matthias Haber. Electoral Studies (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2014.11.002. Looking for the Party? The Effects of Partisan Change on Issue Attention in UK Acts of Parliament, with Shaun Bevan. European Political Science Review (2014). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175577391400040x. Leadership Competition and Disagreement at Party National Congresses, with Matthias Haber. British Journal of Political Science (2014). DOI: 10.1017/S0007123414000283. Manifestos, Salience and Junior Ministerial Appointments, with Christian Jensen. Party Politics (2014). DOI:10.1177/1354068814549336.
Zachary David Greene 2 Should We Measure Professionalism with an Index? A Note on Theory and Practice in State Legislative Professionalism Research, with Daniel Bowen. State Politics and Policy Quarterly 14: 277-296. Under Review Diverse Parties, Diverse Agendas? The Parliamentary Partys Role in Platform Formation, with Diana O Brien. How Incumbency Structures the Electoral Impact of Issue Diversity in Parties Campaign Messages. How Many Parties? A More Sensitive Approach to Measuring the Effective Number of Parties, with Shaun Bevan. Ruling Divided: Disagreement, Issue Salience and Portfolio Allocation, with Christian Jensen. Shifting Policy or a Shuffled Administration: The Effect of Partisan Transition on UK Statutory Instruments, with Shaun Bevan. Still Looking for the Party: Cross-National Partisan Effects on Agenda Stability, with Shaun Bevan. Working Through the Issues - How Issue Diversity Conditions the Impact of Ideological Disagreement on Coalition Duration. Papers in Progress Domestic Politics and Foreign Aid Volatility: the role of party preferences, with Amanda Licht. Motivating Parliamentary Procedure: An Analysis of Party Policy Change and Legislative Behavior in France, 1978-2007. Motivating Parliamentary Policy: An Analysis of Party Electoral Strategy and Policy Outcomes in France, 1978-2007. Selective Issue Emphasis and Intra-Party Division in the UK, with Matthias Haber. The Electoral Consequences of Government Accountability: Evidence from the United Kingdom, with Caterina Froio and Shaun Bevan. The Electoral Significance of Divided Behavior: Exploring the Partisan Roots of Voter Perceptions. The Nuts and Bolts of Automated Text Analysis, with Andrea Ceron, Zoltan Fazekas, and Gijs Schumacher. With Friends Like These: Party Organization and Intra-Party Watchdogs in Parliamentary Governments, with Christian Jensen.
Zachary David Greene 3 Book Manuscript in Progress Policing One s Own: How Parties Negotiate Internal Disagreement and Government Control with Christian Jensen. Invited Presentations With Friends Like These: Party Organization and Intra - Party Watchdogs in Parliamentary. Presented at the Parliamentary Scrutiny of European Politics workshop at the University of Heidelberg (July 2014). The Electoral Consequences of Issue Diversity in Parties Election Campaigns. Presented at the Political Economy Workshop at the University of Rotterdam (June 2014). Conference Presentations The Electoral Significance of Divided Behavior: Exploring the Partisan Roots of Voter Perceptions. Presented at the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference (September 12-14, 2014) Edinburgh, Scotland. The Electoral Consequences of Issue Diversity in Parties Election Campaigns. Presented at the European Political Science Association (June 2014) Edinburgh, Scotland, the American Political Science Association (August 28-31, 2014) Washington D.C., and the European Consortium for Political Research (September 3-6, 2014) Glasgow, Scotland. Selective Issue Emphasis and Intra-Party Division in the UK, with Matthias Haber. Presented at the European Political Science Association (June 2014) Edinburgh, Scotland. The Electoral Consequences of Government Accountability: Evidence from the United Kingdom, with Shaun Bevan and Caterina Froio. Presented at the European Political Science Association (June 2014) Edinburgh, Scotland, and the American Political Science Association (August 28-31, 2014) Edinburgh, Scotland. Shifting Policy or a Shuffled Administration: The Effect of Partisan Transition on UK Statutory Instruments, with Shaun Bevan. Presented at the Political Studies Association Conference (April 15, 2014) Manchester, United Kingdom. Working through the Issues How Issue Salience and Diversity Conditions the Impact of Ideological Disagreement on Coalition Duration. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 5, 2014) Chicago, IL. Diverse Parties, Diverse Agendas? How the Composition of the Parliamentary Party Affects Parties Election Manifestos, with Diana O Brien. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 3, 2014) Chicago, IL. Still Looking for the Party: Cross-National Partisan Effects on Agenda Stability, with Shaun Bevan. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 3, 2014) Chicago, IL.
Zachary David Greene 4 Greene, Zachary and Shaun Bevan. How Many Parties? A More Sensitive Approach to Measuring the Effective Number of Parties. Presented at the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Conference (September 13-15, 2013) Lancaster, United Kingdom. With Friends Like These: Party Organization and Intra-Party Watchdogs in Parliamentary Governments, with Christian Jensen. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (August 29, 2013) Chicago, IL. Friend or Foe? An Analysis of Ideological Disagreement, Leadership Selection and Competition at National Party Congresses, with Matthias Haber. Presented at the European Political Studies Association (June 20-22, 2013) Barcelona, Spain. A Dyadic Approach to Portfolio Allocation and Gamsons Law in Parliamentary Democracies, with Christian Jensen. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 13, 2013) Chicago, IL. Vote Choice, Policy Coherence and Issue Ownership, with Matthias Haber. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 13, 2013) Chicago, IL. Maintaining Attention: Partisan Effects on Attention in UK Acts of Parliament, with Shaun Bevan. Presented at the Political Studies Association Conference (March 25-27, 2013) and the Annual Meeting of the Comparative Agendas Project (June 28, 2013). Strategic Issue Balancing: An analysis of party electoral strategy and issue competition in advanced industrial democracies. Presented at the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884 Political Economy of Reforms Seminar Series, Mannheim University, Mannheim, Germany (May 29, 2012), the Political Parties Working Group, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (April 17, 2012). Manifestos, Salience and Junior Ministers, with Christian Jensen. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (August 31, 2012) New Orleans, LA and at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 13, 2012) Chicago, IL. Avoiding the Issue? An Analysis of Party Policy Strategy and Change. Presented at the Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (June 18, 2011) Dublin, Ireland and the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 2, 2011) Chicago, IL. Motivating the Governments Agenda: An Analysis of Party Policy Change and Government Policy in France, 1978-2007. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association (September 2-5. 2010) Washington, D.C. Motivating Parliamentary Procedure: An Analysis of Party Policy Change and Legislative Behavior in France, 1978-2007. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Comparative Policy Agendas Project (June 17-19, 2010) Seattle, WA and at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 25, 2010) Chicago, IL. Changing Party Policy: The Policy Consequences of Party Strategy and Change. Presented at the European Consortium for Political Research in Florence, Italy (September
Zachary David Greene 5 14-26, 2009). Selling the Party Line: An Analysis of Party Policy Shifts and Coalitions in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Presented at the 5th European Consortium of Political Research General Conference (September 10-12, 2009) Potsdam, Germany. Bowen, Daniel and Zachary Greene. Legislating Professionalism: The Conditional Effect of Partisanship and Workload, with Daniel Bowen. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (April 2-6, 2009) Chicago, IL. Changing Party Policy: A Quantitative Analysis of Mainstream Party Reactions to Niche Party Issues in Europe. Presented at the Graduate Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (August 27, 2008) Barcelona, Spain and at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 4, 2008) Chicago, IL. Competitive Grants and Awards MZES Project Looking Inside the Black Box, University of Mannheim. Graduate College Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2011 European Consortium for Political Research Mobility Fund, Summer 2009 T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2009-2010 Stanley International Research Grant, 2009-2010 University of Iowa Graduate Student Senate Travel Grant, Fall 2008 Stanley International Travel Grant, Fall 2008 Research Scholar, University of Iowa, Fall 2006-Spring 2012 Teaching Graduate: Comparative Government (Fall 2013). Undergraduate: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Spring 2011 and Summer 2011), Problems in Comparative Politics: Discipline, Strategy and Power Legislative Politics in Global Comparison (Spring 2010). Teaching Assistant Experience: Urban and Local Politics (Fall 2011 and Spring 2012), European Union Politics (for Christian Jensen, Spring 2011), Introduction to Comparative Politics (for Dr. Jae-Jae Spoon, Fall 2008 and Dr. Erica Townsend-Bell, Spring 2009), European Government and Politics (for Dr. Jae-Jae Spoon, Spring 2008), Introduction to American Politics (for Dr. Cary Covington, Fall 2007). Research Experience Post-Doctoral Researcher for Project C2 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884 Political Economy of Reforms at the University of Mannheim, July 2012 present. Responsibilities included successfully applying for funding from the German National Science
Zachary David Greene 6 Foundation (DFG) in collaboration with the Principal Investigators (37, oversee PhD students funded by the project, develop and submit questions for the German Internet Panel, and contribute research related to intra-party politics and government reform processes. Coder for the French Policy Agendas Project, Science-Po Paris Fall 2009-Winter 2010. Work included coding French political party manifestos for the Policy Agendas Project and assisting graduate students with their statistical analyses. Research Assistant for Dr. Christian Jensen, University of Iowa, Fall 2006-Spring 2007. Work included coding legal documents on EU infringement cases for quantitative analysis. Research Assistant for Dr. Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Iowa, Spring 2008. Work included text analysis of newspapers for media perceptions of the Green Party in the UK. Professional Service Referee for: American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly. Chapel Hill Expert Survey Team, 2014. Discussant for Positional Competition Between Political Parties at the European Consortium for Political Research (September 3-6, 2014) Glasgow, United Kingdom. Discussant for Political Representation and Electoral Accountability at the American Political Science Association (August 28-31, 2014) Washington D.C. Workshop Chair for Talking to the Party: A Cross-Country Collection of Intra-Party Debates at the European Consortium for Political Research, Research Sessions (July 8-11, 2014) Essex, United Kingdom. Discussant for The Causes and Consequences of Governing Coalitions and Cabinets, Governments and Policy-making in Parliamentary Democracy at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 3-6, 2014) Chicago, IL. Discussant for Patrimony and Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective. at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 12, 2013) Chicago, IL. Discussant for Parties: Clients, Factions, and Dynamics at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 14, 2012) Chicago, IL. Discussant for Explaining Vote Share in Europe at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 2, 2011) Chicago, IL. Conference Assistant, 27th Annual Society for Political Methodology Summer Conference (July 22-24, 2010) Iowa City, IA. Discussant for the European Politics poster session at the Annual Conference of the Midwestern Political Science Association (April 25, 2010) Chicago, IL. Travel and Research grant reviewer for the Executive Committee of Graduate and Pro-
Zachary David Greene 7 fessional Students at the University of Iowa, August 2008- May 2010. Conference Assistant, University of Iowa Shambaugh Conference, July 2007 Association Memberships American Political Science Association European Consortium for Political Research European Political Science Association Midwest Political Science Association Political Studies Association Additional Methods Training GIS workshop at the University of Iowa, April 24 2011, Department of Geography University of Iowa. Introduction to Tools for Text Techniques and Software, June 19 2010, Annual Conference of the Comparative Agendas Project, Seattle, WA. Introduction to R & Data Manipulation in R, February 2010, Statistics Outreach Center at the University of Iowa. Taking Time Seriously, January 2007, Suzanna Linn. Statistical and Computer Skills R, Stata, Automated Text Analysis, Survival Analysis. Language Proficiency English (native), French (intermediate), German (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate). References Dr. Fred Boehmke, Professor Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 341 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242. (319) 335-2342 Email: frederick-boehmke@uiowa.edu Dr. Thomas Brauninger, Professor of Political Economy Department of Political Science, University of Mannheim, A5, 6 Building B, Room B303, Mannheim, Deutschland. +49 (0) 621-181-2084 Email: Thomas.Braeuninger@uni-mannheim.de
Zachary David Greene 8 Dr. Gerhard Loewenberg, Profesor Emeritus Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 341 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242. (319) 335-2345 Email: g-loewenberg@uiowa.edu Dr. Christian Jensen, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 455029, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy. Las Vegas, NV 89154-5029. (702) 895-1337 Email: Christian.jensen@unlv.edu Dr. Jae-Jae Spoon, Associate Professor Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle #305340, Denton, TX 76203-5017. (940) 565-2335 Email: spoon@unt.edu