American Political Institutions, Legislative Politics 
Formal Theory, U. S. economic policy  

  Assistant Professor (University of California-San Diego, Ph.D. 1994).

My recent projects include:

• absenteeism in the U.S. Senate from the 1870s to the present
  (Journal of Politics 1999); with Richard Forgette.
• Senate confirmation voting on presidential nominations to independent
  agencies (forthcoming 2000 in Journal of Theoretical Politics),
  with Timothy P. Nokken.
• presidential influence on policy implementation via executive orders
  (in John M. Carey and Matthew S. Shugart, eds.,  Executive Decree Authority,
  1998. New York: Cambridge University Press);
• a spatial model of the U.S. House ballot for president in 1824
  (JQ Adams vs Andrew Jackson) (American Journal of Political Science 1998).
  With Jeffery A. Jenkins.

• "Party Loyalty and Committee Leadership in the House, 1921-40."
  To appear in David W. Brady and Mathew D McCubbins, eds.
  New Directions in Studying the History of the U.S. Congress.
  Stanford: Stanford University Press
• "Committee Power, Division of the Question Rules, and Open-Rule Agendas,"
  with Jeffery A. Jenkins.
• "Incentives for Partisanship in a Model of Legislating Under the Open Rule,"
  with Jeffery A. Jenkins.
• "A Further Look at Universalism and Partisanship in Congressional
  Roll-Call Voting." Under review. With Brian J. Gaines.
• "Participation On Roll-Call Votes In Congress, 1873-1993."
  With Richard Forgette and Brian J. Gaines.

• Jeffery A. Jenkins. Ph.D. 1999. Assistant Professor at MSU beginning Fall 1999.
  Jeff's dissertation uses recorded vote data from the Confederate Congress and
  Civil War-era U.S. Congresses to test implications of modern theories of
  ideological voting. Jeff has published or forthcoming work in such journals as
  American Journal of Political Science,  Legislative Studies Quarterly,
  Public Choice, Studies in American Political Development
  and Social Science Quarterly.  See his homepage  at MSU.

  Timothy P. Nokken, Ph.D. 1999. Assistant Professor at University of Houston
  beginning Fall 1999. Tim's dissertation addresses some key questions in the study
  of congressional roll-call voting. In one chapter, he reexamines the voting behavior
  of members who switch parties in mid-career in Congress to argue that revealed
  preferences are conditional on party membership, rather than merely straightforward
  expressions of members' ideology. Other chapters take equally novel cuts at the
  relationship between member ideology, incentive structures and revealed
  preferences, reexamine members' party loyalty prior to voluntary exit; and the
  electoral consequences of presidential support. Tim currently has papers forthcoming
  at Journal of Theoretical Politics, and LSQ, and another forthcoming (with
  Jeffery A. Jenkins) at LSQ. See his homepage  at Houston.

   

Email: brsala@ucdavis.edu

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