J E S S E M. C R O S S O N, Ann Arbor Department of Political Science 5700 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1926 Washtenaw Avenue, Apt. 223, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 (717) 437-3482 jcrosson9@gmail.com EDUCATION, Ann Arbor, MI Cohort of 2013 - Ph.D. student in Political Science - Major American Politics; Minors Methodology, Political Theory - Primary Areas of Interest: Policy change, Congress, interest groups and lobbying, legislative professionalism, coalition activity. - Dissertation Project: Waiting to Win, Choosing to Lose: How the Insecurity of Partisan Control Stymies Policy Change. Committee: Charles Shipan (Chair), Richard Hall, George Tsebelis. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Class of 2013 - Major: Political Science; Minors: Philosophy, Mathematics - Graduated Summa cum laude, Honors with distinction from the Hofstra Honors College. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS o Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (2017-2018; $23,000, plus tuition and benefits) - Full tuition/stipend fellowship, pre-awarded for fourth year of graduate study at Michigan - Granted for the study of American political institutions, beginning Fall 2017. o Library Data Grant (2016; $6,000) o Rackham Summer Graduate Student Research Assistantship (2015, $9,000) - To fund field research, as part of coauthored study with Dr. Michael Heaney o Office of Research Grant (2015; $15,000) - To fund field research and grad assistants for coauthored project with Dr. Michael Heaney o National Science Foundation Travel Fellowship (2014; $1,000) - To fund attendance at the Political Networks Conference and Workshops, in Montreal. o Rackham Graduate School Conference Fellowship (2014, 2015, 2016; ~$2,500 total) - To fund travel to 2014 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting o Summer Fellowship in Policy and Political Theory ($700) - American Enterprise Institute, (Summer 2012) o Democracy Fellowship - Hofstra University Center for Civic Engagement (funded by the Kettering Foundation, Spring 2012 Spring 2013) o Presidential Fellowship - Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (Fall 2011 Spring 2012) SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS o 2016 UM Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (awarded to 20 best GSIs in at Michigan) o 2016 UM John Kingdon Award (awarded for excellence in instruction in political science) o 2014 Michigan Summer Collaboration Award (to fund coauthored research with Dr. Michael Heaney) o 2013 Undergraduate Research Award (for best paper at Hofstra University) o 2013 Outstanding Senior Scholar (for graduating from Hofstra University with 4.0 GPA) o 2011-2012 Herbert Rosenbaum Award (for best paper in political science at Hofstra University) o Barbara Paley Memorial Endowed Scholarship for Political Science (Hofstra University) o Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky Award for Excellence in Mathematics (Hofstra University) o Member, Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society (Hofstra University)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE o Publication - Crosson, Jesse M. "The Politics of Compassion: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Faith-Based Initiative." The Fellows Review (Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Presidency and Congress), nos. 2011-2012 (2012): 207-45. o Research Assistantships - Tsebelis, George. Assorted projects on constitutions/constitution length, party and electoral systems, and policy change/stasis. May 2016 present. - Hall, Richard. Lobbying on Subordinate Policies. March 2016 - present - Lupia, Arthur. Uninformed (book project now published by Oxford University Press) and DA-RT (Data Access and Research Transparency) outreach. 2014-2015. - Wilson, James Q., John DiIulio, Jr., and Meena Bose. American Government. 14th ed. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2014. Advisors: John DiIulio, Jr. and Meena Bose. - National Issues Forum Institute Deliberation Project, Center for Civic Engagement, Hofstra University (2012-2013). Advisor: Michael D Innocenzo. - Long Island News 12 Political Poll (executed at Frank Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University) (2010 2013). Advisor: Elaine Sherman. o Honors Thesis - The Art of the Possible : No Child Left Behind, the Affordable Care Act, and Bipartisanship in the 21st Century. Hofstra University Honors College, 2012-2013. - Winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Research Award for best paper at Hofstra University. Link available at: https://www.hofstra.edu/library/library_ulra.html. o Periodic Referee: Electoral Studies CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS o Paper Presentations - Extreme Districts, Moderate Winners: Same-Party Competition in California and Washington s Top-Two Primaries. 2017 MPSA Annual Meeting. - K Street on Main: How Political Institutions Cultivate a Professional Lobbying Elite. 2016 APSA Annual Meeting. with James Strickland - Constructing Interest Group Coalitions. 2016 APSA Annual Meeting. - K Street on Main: How Advocacy Cost and Competition Cultivate a Professional Lobbying Elite. 2016 SPSA and 2016 MSPA Annual Meetings. with James Strickland - Stalemate in the States: Negative Agenda Control, Veto Players, and Legislative Gridlock in the American States. 2015 MPSA Annual Meeting, 2015 NYU Hamilton Center Graduate Conference, and 2015 APSA Annual Meeting. - Producing the Agenda: Bill Sponsorship, Lobbying, and the Legislative Enterprise. 2014 APSA Annual Meeting and 2015 MPSA Annual Meeting. - In Search of the Center: Bipartisanship in the 21 st Century. (2013 Colonial Academic Alliance Research Conference). - The Art of the Possible : No Child Left Behind, the Affordable Care Act, and Bipartisanship in the 21 st Century. 2013 Hofstra University Honors College Research Conference. - The Politics of Compassion: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Faith-Based Initiative. 2011 and 2012 Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Conferences. o Discussant Service - 2015 Conference on Special Interests,, Ann Arbor - 2014 APSA Annual Meeting, Congressional Networks Poster Session - 2013 - present: Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics,
CURRENT RESEARCH AGENDA Dissertation Project o Crosson, Jesse. Waiting to Win, Choosing to Lose: How the Insecurity of Partisan Control Stymies Policy Change. - Examines the electoral dynamics of policy change and shows how close elections, particularly when combined with polarization, can slow policy change even further than what election-less models predict. - Builds upon current formal models of policy change by allowing veto players to condition their actions on beliefs about a second round of play, following a hypothetical election. Legislatures and Policy Change o Crosson, Jesse. Stalemate in the States: Negative Agenda Control, Veto Players, and Legislative Gridlock in the American States. Working paper. - Presented at 2015 APSA, 2015 MPSA, and 2015 NYU Hamilton Center Conference. - Examines the impact of negative agenda control on state legislature s levels of legislative gridlock. Theory tested on aggregate legislative productivity data, as well as data on Affordable Care Act compliance. o Crosson, Jesse. Making Proposals in Congress: Legislative Enterprises and the Costs of Bill Production. Working Paper. - Versions presented at 2014 APSA and 2015 MPSA Annual Meetings; available on SSRN. - Paper utilizes House Disbursement Records and PAC contributions information to suggest that members who employ more legislative labor (in the forms of both legislative staff and legislative aide from lobbyists) sponsor more legislation. o Crosson, Jesse. Representational Demand in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ongoing research project. - Major research/data collection effort that aims to use representatives budget allocations to different kinds of staff as a measure of representational style. - Allocations used to examine within-district representational style changes over time - 12 undergraduate research assistants presently gathering systematic data on congressional staff allocations, from 1994-2014. - Recipient: Library data grant award. Interest Group Politics o Crosson, Jesse, and Michael T. Heaney. Working Together in Washington: Assessing Collaboration within Interest Group Coalitions. Ongoing Book Project. - Funding: Department of Political Science, Organizational Studies Program, School of Literature, Science and the Arts, Office of Research - Project based primary on in-person interviews of over 220 executive directors from a nationally representative sample of interest group coalitions. Interviews designed to examine differences in coalition structure, governance, institutional targets, and tactics/strategy. o Hall, Richard L. and Jesse Crosson. Lobbyist Access and Gender in Congress. - Examines whether a gender match between a lobbyist and her targeted legislative staffer increases her chances of gaining access to that congressional office. o Strickland, James and Jesse Crosson. K Street on Main: How Political Institutions Cultivate a Professional Lobbying Elite. Working Paper. - Presented at 2016 SPSA, MPSA and APSA Annual Meetings; available on SSRN. - Develops first institutions-level theory and model of interest group hiring selection between contract and in-house lobbyists in the U.S. states.
Polarization and Electoral Systems o Extreme Districts, Moderate Winners: Same-Party Competition in California and Washington s Top-Two Primaries. Working Paper. - Provides first quantitative evidence that the top-two primary in Washington and California leads to the election of more moderate candidates. o Tsebelis, George and Jesse Crosson. Multiple Vote System: Moving Parties to the Center in Multidimensional Spaces. Working Paper. - Proposes and tests via simulation a multiple vote system that, under certain conditions, benefits centrist parties in multidimensional space. TEACHING/LABORATORY EXPERIENCE o Graduate Student Instructor: Political Science Department - Introduction to American Politics. Instructors: Arthur Lupia, Vince Hutchings. Fall 2014. - Lead GSI, Introduction to American Politics. Instructor: Rob Mickey. Fall 2015. - The Politics of Persuasion. Instructor: Arthur Lupia. Winter 2015, 2016. o American Government Short Course Instructor: Gerald Ford School of Public Policy (2015) - Designed and led course on American government for incoming MPP students - Supervisor: Alan Deardorff o Research Team Leader: UM Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) - Supervise/mentor students in research labs. - 2015-present: Congress and Its Experts. Lab includes 5 UROP and 7 independent study students - 2014-present: Working Together in Washington, with Michael Heaney. o Peer Lecturer: Hofstra University Political Science Department - Class: The American Presidency. Instructors: Meena Bose, Ed Rollins. Spring 2013. o Peer Lecturer: Hofstra University Philosophy Department - Class: Modern Political Philosophy. Instructor: Amy Baehr. Fall 2011. - Selected lecture topics: John Rawls (primarily Political Liberalism), free-market conservatism (primarily Milton Friedman), traditionalism (Edmund Burke, John Kekes). CAMPUS SERVICE o Co-Coordinator: Michigan Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (2016-17) - Coordinate weekly workshop on student research o Co-President: Graduate Association of Political Science (2015-16) - Co-leader of department s primary representative body for graduate students - Aided in improvement of graduate mentoring program, summer funding, curriculum reform, social inclusion, and other topics. o Member: 2014 Michigan Political Science Dept. Formal Theory Job Committee o Member: 2014-15 Michigan Political Science Dept. Professional Development Committee - Plan, coordinate, and publicize events for political science graduate students, to encourage professional development and competitiveness in the job market. - Also served as adviser to 2015-16 committee. o University Senator: Hofstra University Senate - Primary shared-governance body at Hofstra University. Service: Fall 2012 Spring 2013.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Dr. Charles Shipan Dr. George Tsebelis J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor Professor of Public Policy Department of Political Science cshipan@umich.edu tsebelis@umich.edu 734.615.9140 734-647-7974 Dr. Arthur Lupia Dr. Richard L. Hall Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science Professor of Public Policy lupia@umich.edu rlhall@umich.edu 734.647.7549 734.763.4390