December 2014 ERIK K. GODWIN CURRICULUM VITAE The Taubman Center of Public Policy and American Institutions Brown University 67 George Street, Box 1977, Providence, RI, 02912 Erik_Godwin@Brown.edu Cell: (401) 644-6964 EDUCATION University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ph.D., Political Science, 2008. M.A., Political Science, 2005. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Master of Public Policy, 1997. Oxford University, Oxford, England Post-baccalaureate research in Environmental Economics, 1995. Wake Forest University B.A., English Literature. Biochemistry Concentration, 1994. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University (2013 present) Director, Applied Social, Economic, and Regulatory Analysis (ASERA) Group Director of Graduate Studies Lecturer, Public Policy/Public Affairs Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University (2008 2013) Assistant Professor of Policy Department of Political Science, Duke University (2005) Instructor (Quantitative Policy Analysis) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Instructor, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (2001 present) Design and deliver seminars to local, state, federal, and foreign government officials. Topics include federal budgeting, performance measurement, budget performance integration, bureaucratic administration, regulatory design and analysis, environmental policymaking, statistical/measurement validity, and political control of information. Consultant, Policy Navigation Group (2006 2008) Provided cost-benefit analyses, statistical analyses, and regulatory expertise to federal agencies. Lobbyist, The EOP Group, Inc., Washington, D.C. (2000-2004) Engaged in executive branch lobbying for companies in the following industries: aerospace, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy (fossil and nuclear), chemical manufacturing, and education.
Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. (1998-2000) Conducted economic and statistical analyses for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Evaluated state and federal environmental, energy, education, budget, and transportation policy. Associate, Industrial Economics Inc. Cambridge, MA. (1997-1998) Conducted financial and economic analyses for the U.S. EPA and U.S. DOJ. PUBLICATIONS Godwin, Erik and Nathan Ilderton. 2014. Presidential Defense: Decisions and Strategies to Preserve the Status Quo. Political Research Quarterly; 67: 715-728. Godwin, R. Kenneth, Scott Ainsworth, and Erik Godwin. 2012. Lobbying and the Policymaking Process: What Interest Groups Want and How They Get It. CQ Press. Gray, Virginia, David Lowery, James Monogan, and Erik Godwin. 2010. Incrementing Toward Nowhere: Universal Health Care Coverage in the States. Publius; 40:82-113. Hicklin, Alisa and Erik Godwin. 2009. Agents of Change: The Role of Public Managers in Public Policy. Policy Studies Journal; 37:13-20. Godwin, Erik, R. Kenneth Godwin, and Scott Ainsworth. 2007. Is Lobbying Rational or Just a Waste of Money? in Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds., Interest Group Politics, 7 th edition, CQ Press. (invited chapter, not peer reviewed). Gray, Virginia, David Lowery, and Erik Godwin. 2007. The Political Management of Managed Care: Explaining Variation in State HMO Regulations. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.32:3. Gray, Virginia, David Lowery, and Erik Godwin. 2007. Public Preferences and Organized Interests in Health Policy: State Pharmacy Assistance Programs as Innovations. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 32(1). Lowery, David, Virginia Gray, Jennifer Wolak, Erik Godwin, and Whitt Kilburn. 2005. Reconsidering the Countermobilization Hypothesis: Health Policy Lobbying in the American States. Political Behavior. 27(2): 99-132. INVITED TALKS Air War College, Montgomery, AL (December 2014; November 2013; Nov. 2012; Nov. 2011; Nov. 2010) Lecture to senior officers from all branches of the US military, international fellows, and senior civilian personnel from across the federal agencies. The topics focus on the role of interest groups in the security policy arena and how political pressure influences federal decision making more generally. US Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund Office, Washington, DC (March 2012) Four talks for senior agency personnel on information dissemination and crafting policy through law. University of Georgia, Department of Political Science (February 2009) Policy Gridlock: Congress and the Second Face of Power in Bureaucratic Control. University of North Texas, Department of Political Science (February 2009) What Interests Want from Government: Collective and Private Rents in a Two-Stage Game. (with Ken Godwin). Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, Charlotte, NC (October 2008) Godwin 2
Moderator for Going Green: Local and State Initiatives to Protect the Environment. WORK IN PROGRESS Godwin, Erik. Has the Horse Left the Barn: Does Delegated Authority Make Agencies Unresponsive to changing Political Preferences? Godwin, Erik and Brian Shreck. Not Just About the Money: Lobbying Access and Policy Success. Godwin, Erik and Christie Maloyed. The Administrative Presidency: The Electoral Cycle of Rulemaking, 1981-2008. Ainsworth, Scott, Erik Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin, and Austin Clemens. Rulemaking and Interest Group Influence: Pluralism, Business Dominance, or Agency Autonomy. TEACHING INTERESTS Quantitative Policy Analysis (Undergraduate and Graduate) Statistics I & II (Undergraduate and Graduate) Budget Performance Integration Benefit-Cost Analysis Program Evaluation (Undergraduate and Graduate) State and Local Politics Environmental Policy Public Management Bureaucratic Administration Regulatory Policy RESEARCH INTERESTS Design and Implementation of Policy Systems Bureaucratic and Administrative Politics Lobbying and Interest Group Impacts on Policymaking Politics of Regulation Federalism Environmental Politics CONFERENCE PAPERS Godwin, Erik and Brian Shreck. Lobbying Expenditures, Policy Change, and the Conditional Nature of US Economic Aid to Foreign Nations. Paper presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Godwin, Erik and Brian Shreck. It s Not All about the Benjamins: Lobbying Networks and U.S. Foreign Aid Policy. Paper presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA. Godwin, Erik and Nathan Ilderton. The Power to Refuse: The President in Federal Lawmaking. Paper presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. Freeman, Benjamin and Erik Godwin. Lobbying Resources, Public Attention, and Policy Success. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. Ainsworth, Scott, Erik Godwin, and R. Kenneth Godwin. Measuring Interest Group Influence in Bureaucracies: Issue Niches and Levels of Aggregation. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. Godwin, Erik and Christie Maloyed. The Administrative Presidency: The Electoral Cycle of Rulemaking, 1981-2008. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Godwin 3
Ainsworth, Scott, Austin Clemens, Erik Godwin, and R. Kenneth Godwin. Rulemaking and Interest Group Influence: Pluralism, Business Dominance, or Agency Autonomy. Paper presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Erik Godwin. Congressional Control of Agency Policymaking: Chamber Conflict and Bureaucratic Stalemate. Paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Scott Ainsworth, Erik Godwin, and Ken Godwin. Intergovernmental Lobbying in U.S. Federal Agencies. Paper presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada. Meier, Kenneth, Erik Godwin, and Alisa Hicklin. Policy Theory, Policy Theory Everywhere: Ravings of a Deranged Policy Scholar, and a Response. Paper presented at the 2008 Policy Theory Workshop. Norman, Oklahoma. Erik Godwin. Divided Government and Bureaucratic Gridlock: The Case of Regulatory Policy. Paper presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Erik Godwin. Borrowed Power: How the Bureaucracy Exerts Influence Through the Imposition of Transaction Costs. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. Erik Godwin. Unlikely Bedfellows: When and How Federal Agencies Use Congressional Oversight to Constrain the President During the Regulatory Process. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Virginia Gray, David Lowery, and Erik Godwin. Incrementing Toward Nowhere: Universal Health Care Coverage in the States. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. Virginia Gray, David Lowery, and Erik Godwin. The Political Management of Managed Care: Explaining Variation in State HMO Regulations. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Virginia Gray, David Lowery, Erik Godwin, and James Monogan. Policymaking Under Conditions of High and Low Salience: The Adoption and Design of Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs. Paper presented at the 2005 annual State Politics and Policy Conference, East Lansing, Michigan. Virginia Gray, David Lowery, Jennifer Wolak, Erik Godwin, and H. Whitt Kilburn. "Reconsidering the Countermobilization Hypothesis: Health Policy Lobbying in the American States." Paper presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago. Virginia Gray, David Lowery, and Erik Godwin. Democratic and Non-Democratic Influences in Health Policy: State Pharmacy Assistance Programs as Innovations. Paper presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago. Erik Godwin. Environmental Issues at the U.S.-Mexican Border. Paper presented at the 1996 annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego. GRANTS AND AWARDS Earle Wallace Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student. 2007. Godwin 4
Earhart Foundation Fellowship. Nationally-competitive one-year fellowship with enhanced stipend and without required service. 2005. Research Fellowship, American Politics Research Group, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Summers 2004, 2006. University Merit Assistantship, Graduate School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Universitywide competitive one-year award with enhanced stipend and tuition waver. 2003. Graduate Student Scholarship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1996. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Occasional Reviewer for: American Journal of Political Science Journal of Politics Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Political Research Quarterly Publius Public Choice Regulation and Governance Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law American Politics Research State Politics and Policy Quarterly Public Administration Review Policy Studies Journal Electoral Studies Godwin 5