Jowei Chen
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan
Curriculum Vitae
Email:
jowei@umich.edu
Op-Eds:
Washington Post:
"The next front in the gerrymandering wars: Which people get counted?" (February 24, 2021)
Time Magazine:
"Wisconsin Is Misusing My Research to Defend Gerrymandering." (October 2, 2017)
New York Times:
"Don't Blame the Maps" (January 24, 2014)
Research:
Voter Partisanship and the Effect of Distributive Spending on Political Participation
American Journal of Political Science,
Vol. 57, No. 1: 200-217.
Replication Data and Code
The Effect of Electoral Geography on Pork Barreling in Bicameral Legislatures.
American Journal of Political Science.
Vol. 54, No. 2: 301-322.
Replication Data and Code
The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures.
(with Neil Malhotra)
American Political Science Review.
Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676.
Replication Data and Code
Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures
(with Jonathan Rodden)
Quarterly Journal of Political Science,
Vol. 8, No. 3: 239-269.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps
Reactions:
The Wall Street Journal
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The New York Times
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The Washington Post
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The Orlando Sentinel
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The Washington Monthly
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Bloomberg News
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The Washington Times
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Federal Employee Unionization and Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy: Estimating and Explaining Ideological Change in Executive Agencies.
(with Tim Johnson)
Journal of Theoretical Politics,
Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676.
US Federal Bureaucratic Agency-Level Comomon Space Ideology Data
Individual-Level Bureaucratic Common Space Ideology Data
Senate Gate-Keeping, Presidential Staffing of "Inferior Offices" and the Ideological Composition of Appointments to the Public Bureaucracy.
(with Adam Bonica and Tim Johnson)
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
, Vol. 10, No. 1: 5-40.
Participation Without Representation?
Senior Opinion, Legislative Behavior, and Federal Health Reform. (With Katharine Bradley)
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Vol. 39, No. 2: 263-293.
Cutting through the Thicket:
Redistricting Simulations and the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders. (With Jonathan Rodden)
Election Law Journal.
Vol. 14, No. 4: 331-345.
The Geographic Targeting of Pork Barrel Earmarks in Bicameral Legislatures.
Revise and Resubmit,
State Politics and Policy Quarterly.
Evaluating Partisan Gains from Congressional Gerrymandering:
Using Computer Simulations to Estimate the Effect of Gerrymandering in the U.S. House. (With David Cottrell)
Electoral Studies,
Vol. 44, No. 4: 329-340.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps
The Impact of Political Geography on Wisconsin Redistricting:
An Analysis of Wisconsin's Act 43 Assembly Districting Plan.
Election Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4: 417-442.
The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights
(with Nicholas Stephanopoulos)
Yale Law Journal,
Forthcoming.
Data Files, Replication Code, and Simulated Districting Plans
Online Appendix (PDF, 50 pages)
Gerrymandered by Definition: The Distortion of 'Traditional' Districting Principles and a Proposal for an Empirical Redefinition.
(Yunsieg Kim and Jowei Chen)
Wisconsin Law Review,
Forthcoming.
Democracy's Denominator.
(with Nicholas Stephanopoulos)
California Law Review,
Forthcoming.
