James M. Snyder, Jr.

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Professor of Economics. Professor Snyder's primary research and teaching interests are in formal theory and methodology, with special emphasis on applications in American politics. He has written on elections and campaign finance, legislative behavior and institutions, and more recently, direct democracy.

His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Law and Economics, Legislative Studies Quarterly and other journals and edited volumes. Professor Snyder taught for six years in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, and has been the Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University.

Subjects

17.254
American Political Economy
17.200
Graduate Seminar in American Politics
17.273
American Political Analysis I
17.884J | website
Theory of Collective Choice: Institutions and Positive Political Theory
17.881/17.882 | website
Game Theory and Political Theory
17.872
Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy

Articles

"Interest Groups and the Electoral Control of Politicians'' (with Michael Ting), Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming 2008.
"Public Goods and the Law of 1/n'' (with David Primo), Journal of Politics, April 2008, vol. 70, no. 2.
"Do Multi-Member Districts Lead to Free-Riding?'' (with Michiko Ueda), Legislative Studies Quarterly, November 2007, vol. 32, no. 4, pages 649-679.
"The Incumbency Advantages in U.S. Primary Elections'' (with Stephen Ansolabehere, John Mark Hansen, and Shigeo Hirano), Electoral Studies, September 2007, vol. 26, no. 3, pages 660-668
"Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position-Taking in Legislative Voting and Elections"
James M. Snyder, Jr with Michael M. Ting
"Why is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?"
James M. Snyder, Jr with Stephen Ansolabehere and John de Figueiredo
"Bargaining in Bicameral Legislatures: When and Why Does Malapportionment Matter?"
James M. Snyder, Jr with Stephen Ansolabehere and Michael M. Ting (pdf, 203kb, 29 pp.)
"Using Term Limits to Estimate Incumbent Advantages When Officeholders Retire Strategically"
James M. Snyder, Jr with Stephen Ansolabehere
(pdf, 296kb, 31 pp.)
"Does TV Advertising Explain the Rise of Campaign Spending?" James M. Snyder, Jr. with Stephen Ansolabehere, Alan Gerber
(pdf, 113kb, 36 pp.)
"Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting" James M. Snyder, Jr. with Michael Ting, Stephen Ansolabehere
(pdf, 284kb, 28 pp.)
More articles are available here.