🚨 I’m officially on the job market this year! 🚨.My JMP speaks to a key question in political science: once elected, do racial minorities govern differently from their white counterparts? I study this subject in the context of local land-use policy in American cities.

RT @CUP_PoliSci: #OpenAccess from @PoPpublicsphere -. Collective Representation in Congress - - Stephen Ansolabehe….

I'm rehosting this paper on SocArxiv. Link here: As always, comments and feedback appreciated!.

This project originated from a common interest that @joncrogowski and I had in committees as a legislative institution. We hope that it will inspire others to work in the same space and continue to study the organization of Congress in the modern age.

We also test additional hypotheses commonly found in the literature, ranging from temporal effects, the 1994 Republican Revolution, and comparisons with other legislative actors, amongst a bevy of other robustness checks.

Additionally, we find little evidence of strategic proposal-making by the president. This accords with seminal formal models of presidential behavior (e.g. Kiewiet and McCubbins 1985).

Using our novel dataset of regular appropriations, we find that the ideological distance between the President and subcommittee median member is associated with a 44.9% increase in the discrepancy between presidential proposals and Congressional enactments.

Conventional accounts argue that committees are "guardians" of the budget and that outcomes reflect their mission of fiscal responsibility. Yet, how has the age of legislative polarization affected their ability to serve in this role?.

It's finally out! With @joncrogowski, we introduce a new dataset of presidential budget requests and Congressional appropriations to answer this question.

RT @LSQjournal: 🔍 A spotlight from earlier this month in LSQ:. "Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees….

RT @_JustinGest: Do foreign-born legislators better represent immigrants' interests?. In @JournalREP, based on roll call data + interviews….

RT @zacharylhertz: Usual caveats abound with the Asian American sample (see this great @DeshpandePia and @jeremiahbcha write up linked belo….

As global migration trends continue to intensify, how these legislators navigate political institutions has significant implications for representation, policy and assimilation. This research also emphasizes that parties wield both carrot and stick powers in legislatures.

💡New Pub Alert💡.How does pressures from political parties affect the expression of sincere immigrant preferences by migrant legislators? We interview 25 legislators from the US, UK and Canada and find strategic preemption of party discipline.

RT @CUP_PoliSci: #FirstView from @JournalREP -. Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - .

Overall, this paper provides a nuanced view of racial representation in the US. Although addressing historical electoral inequalities results in change, these gains can result in policy that maintains, and at worst reifies, existing inequalities in homeownership and segregation.

Institutionally, these preferences are implementable due to a broad culture of district-based deference. Councilpersons hold significant control over the direction of development in their districts, meaning they can streamline and veto individual projects.

Why is this the case? I conducted 60 interviews with current local officials and found that racial minorities are wary of gentrification in their areas. Many also believe that single-family homeownership is the solution to racial housing inequities.

I find that the election of racial minorities leads to more single-family housing, at the expense of multi-family development. Broadly, this bucks conventional wisdom that racial minorities have more progressive policy preferences than their white counterparts.

RT @JohnHolbein1: This new preprint argues that racial minority city councilors in the U.S. have played a role in driving the current housi….