BRANDICE CANES-WRONE

Professor of Politics and Public Affairs Phone: (609) 258-9047

Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics Fax: (609) 258-5533

214 Robertson Hall bcwrone@princeton.edu

Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~bcwrone/

Princeton, NJ 08544

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2008- Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

2004-2008 Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

2002-2004 Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

1998-2002 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2001-2002 Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology

EDUCATION

Stanford University

Ph.D., September 1998

Political Economics, Graduate School of Business

Dissertation: “Essays in Executive Branch Policy Influence”

Princeton University

Bachelor of Arts, June 1993

Magna cum Laude in Economics

Certificates in Political Economy, Music Performance

RESEARCH GRANTS AND HONORS

° Hoover Visiting Fellow, March 2007

° Winner of the 2007 Richard E. Neustadt Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book published on the U.S. presidency in 2006

° Invited to be a Scheduled Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

° Editorial Board Member, Journal of Politics, 2007-

° Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Political Science, 2006-

° Board Member, National Election Studies, 2005-7

° Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, 2003-2004

° Editorial Board Member, Public Choice, 2004-

° Editorial Board Member, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2003-

° Ginsburg Research Grant for Collaborative Work with Undergraduates, Northwestern University, Summer 2003

° Dean’s Faculty Development Award, M.I.T. School of Humanities and Social Science, 1999

° Science to Achieve Results Graduate Fellowship, Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-98

° Winner of the Midwest Political Science Association Conference Patrick Fett Award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency, 1997

° Olin Foundation Fellowship in Law and Economics, Stanford University Law School, 1996

° Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy Research Fellowship, 1992-93

BOOKS

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2006. Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. University of Chicago Press.

· Winner of the 2007 American Political Science Association Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Book Published on the U.S. Presidency in 2006

· Subject of an Author meets Critics Panel at the 2006 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Richard Caldarone, Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Tom S. Clark. Forthcoming (January 2009). “Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” Journal of Politics.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. Forthcoming. “Game Theory and the Study of the American Presidency.” In Oxford Handbook on the American Presidency, edited by George C. Edwards, III and William Howell.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. “Administrative Politics and the Public Presidency.” Forthcoming (prepared upon invitation for a special collection of essays). Presidential Studies Quarterly.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, William Howell and David E. Lewis. 2008. “Toward a Broader Understanding of Presidential Power: A Reevaluation of the Two Presidencies Thesis.” Journal of Politics 70(1): 1-16.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, and Kenneth W. Shotts. 2007. “When Do Elections Induce Ideological Rigidity?” American Political Science Review 101(2): 273-288.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Julia Rabinovich, and Craig Volden. 2007. “Who Parties? Floor Voting, District Ideology, and Electoral Margins.” In Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, edited by David W. Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins. Stanford University Press.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2006. “The Influence of Congress and the Courts over the Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Wetlands Policy.” In The Macropolitics of Congress, edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinksi. Princeton University Press.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice and Kenneth W. Shotts. 2004. “The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion.” American Journal of Political Science 48(4): 690-706.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2004. “The Public Presidency, Personal Approval Ratings, and Policy Making.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34(3): 477-492.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2003. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Composition of the Lower Courts.” American Journal of Political Science 47(2): 205-214.

· Reprinted in Economics of Administrative Law, edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman. 2007 (forthcoming). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice and Scott DeMarchi. 2002. “Presidential Approval and Legislative Success.” Journal of Politics 64(2): 491-509.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, David W. Brady and John F. Cogan. 2002. “Out of Step, Out of Office: Electoral Accountability and House Members’ Voting.” American Political Science Review 96(1): 127-140.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Michael C. Herron and Kenneth W. Shotts. 2001. “Leadership and Pandering: A Theory of Executive Policymaking” American Journal of Political Science

45(3): 532-550.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2001. “The President’s Legislative Influence from Public Appeals.” American Journal of Political Science 45(2): 313-329.

· Winner of the 1997 Midwest Political Science Association Conference Patrick Fett Award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2001. “A Theory of Presidents’ Public Agenda Setting.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 13(2): 183-208.

Brady, David W., Brandice Canes-Wrone and John F. Cogan. 2000. “Differences in Legislative Voting Behavior between Winning and Losing House Incumbents.” In Continuity and Change in House Elections, edited by David W. Brady, John F. Cogan, and Morris P. Fiorina. Stanford University Press.

Canes, Brandice J. and Harvey S. Rosen. 1995. “Following in Her Footsteps? Women’s Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48(3): 486-504.

BOOK REVIEWS

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2004. Review of On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit by George C. Edwards, III (Yale University Press, 2003). Congress and the Presidency: A Journal of Capital Studies.

Canes-Wrone, Brandice. 2001. “Review of Veto Bargaining: Presidents and the Politics of Negative Power by Chuck M. Cameron (Cambridge University Press, 2000).” Journal of Politics 63: 1317-1318.

SELECT UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Research on judicial selection procedures and decision making

“Judicial Independence and Nonpartisan Elections.” With Tom S. Clark. Prepared for submission to a law journal. Manuscript available for circulation.

“Judicial Selection, Case Facts, and Case Outcomes: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Death Penalty Decisions.” With Tom S. Clark. Research in progress.

“Retention Elections and Judicial Decisions.” With Tom S. Clark. Research in progress.

Research on elections

“Issue Accountability and the Mass Public: The Electoral Consequences of Legislative Voting on Crime Policy.” With Jessica Bonney and William Minozzi. Under review.

“Party Support and Electoral Conditions.” With William Minozzi, Julia Rabinovich, and Craig Volden. Research in Progress.

“The Impact of Presidential Campaigning on Midterm Elections.” With Jean-Francois Godbout. Research in progress.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

May 2008 “Nonpartisan and Retention Elections for Judges.” MIT

October 2007 “Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” University of Minnesota.

April 2007 “Administrative Politics and the Public Presidency.” Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

April 2007 “Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” Notre Dame University.

January 2007 “Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” Yale University.

November 2006 “When do Elections Encourage Ideological Rigidity?” NYU Political Economy Seminar Series

October 2006 “Nonpartisan Elections and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” Stony Brook Political Science Department

September 2006 “Nonpartisan Elections and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions.” American Political Science Association Meetings

April 2006 Author Meets Critics Roundtable on Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago.

April 2006 “Issue Salience and Electoral Accountability.” Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago.

November 2005 “Public Information, Ideological Extremism, and Elections.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

October 2005 “What are a Privately-Informed Official’s Incentives for Policy Moderation?” Wallis Conference, University of Rochester

September 2005 Roundtable on George Edwards’s On Deaf Ears, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC

April 2005 “Control of Elected Prosecutors.” Harvard University

June 2004 "Party Strength and Electoral Conditions." Yale University.

April 2004 “Who Parties? Floor Voting, District Ideology, and Electoral Margins.” Stanford University History of Congress Conference.

April 2004 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. “Who Parties? Floor Voting, District Ideology, and Electoral Margins.”

February 2004 Conference on the Public Presidency, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. “The Public Presidency and Personal Popularity.”

November 2003 Texas A & M University, American Politics Brown Bag Lunch Series. “The Conditional Nature of Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion”

August 2003 American Political Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “The Influence of Congress and the Courts over the Bureaucracy.”

May 2003 University of Chicago, Political Economics Workshop. “The Two Presidencies in the Executive and Legislative Arenas.”

April 2003 Yale University, Department of Political Science. “Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy Making and the Mass Public.”

April 2003 Midwest Political Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. “Presidents’ Foreign Policy Appeals.”

April 2002 Stanford University, Politics Economics Group at the Graduate School of Business. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Composition of the Lower Courts: An Analysis of Wetlands Policy.”

June 2001 Macro-Politics of Congress Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder. “Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy and the Composition of the Lower Courts.”

June 2001 Encounters with Authors, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

May 2001 Political Institutions and Economic Policy Meeting, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

April 2001 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. “Leadership and Pandering: A Theory of Executive Policymaking.”

February 2001 Columbia University, Department of Political Science. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Threat of Litigation: An Analysis of Wetlands Permitting.”

February 2001 New York University, Department of Political Science. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Threat of Litigation: An Analysis of Wetlands Permitting.”

February 2001 Scientific Study of Bureaucracy Conference, College Station, Texas. “Bureaucratic Decisions and the Threat of Litigation: An Analysis of Wetlands Permitting.”

December 2000 Duke University, Department of Political Science. “Presidents, Plebiscitary Politics, and Legislative Outcomes.”

November 2000 Political Institutions and Economic Policy Meeting, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

September 2000 University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science. “Leadership and Pandering: A Theory of Executive Policymaking.”

June 2000 Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana. Invited Participant of “Environmentalism in Theory and Practice.”

April 2000 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. “The President’s Ability to Capitalize on Public Approval for Legislative Success.”

March 2000 M.I.T. Sloan School, Department of Marketing. “Leadership and Pandering: A Theory of Executive Policymaking.”

January 2000 American Economic Association Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts. Invited Discussant, Panel on American Political Economy.

November 1999 New York University Law School Colloquium on Rational Choice, Legal Institutions, and Political Organization. “True Leadership, Pandering, and Fake Leadership: A Theory of Executive Policymaking.”

September 1999 American Political Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia. “The President’s Ability to Capitalize on Public Approval for Legislative Success.”

April 1999 Columbia University, Department of Political Science. “The Two Presidencies in the Executive and Legislative Arenas.”

April 1999 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.

“The Two Presidencies in the Executive and Legislative Arenas.”

March 1999 Public Choice Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana. “Bureaucratic Outcomes and the Conditions for Litigation: The Case of Wetlands Policy.”

September 1998 American Political Science Association Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts. “Bureaucratic Outcomes and the Conditions for Litigation: The Case of Wetlands Policy.”

September 1997 University of Iowa, Department of Political Science. “The President’s Legislative Influence from Going Public: A Formal and Empirical Analysis.”

September 1997 American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC. “The President’s Legislative Influence from Going Public: A Formal and Empirical Analysis.”

April 1997 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois.

“The President’s Legislative Influence from Going Public: A Formal and Empirical Analysis.”

April 1994 Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. “Following in her Footsteps? Women’s Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition.”

March 1993 Princeton University, Labor Economics Group. “Following in her Footsteps? Women’s Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition.”

OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Peer Review Responsibilities

° Editorial Board

American Journal of Political Science 2006-

Journal of Politics 2007-

Presidential Studies Quarterly

Public Choice

° NSF Panel, Political Science Dissertation Awards (2006, 2007)

° Board Member, American National Election Studies (2006, 2007)

° Referee

American Economic Review; American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; American Politics Research; British Journal of Political Science; Cambridge University Press; Economics and Politics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Journal of Political Psychology; Journal of Politics; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Legislative Studies Quarterly; National Science Foundation (Political Science and Economics sections); Perspectives on Politics; Political Behavior; Political Communication; Political Research Quarterly; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Princeton University Press; Public Opinion Quarterly; Social Science Quarterly; State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Award Committees

° Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Patrick Fett Award Committee for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency at the 2005 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

° Selected for the Midwest Political Science Association Patrick Fett Award Committee for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency at the 2004 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

° Selected for the Midwest Political Science Association Patrick Fett Award Committee for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency at the 2003 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

° Selected for the Midwest Political Science Association Patrick Fett Award Committee for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency at the 2002 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

° Selected for the Presidency Research Group Award Committee for Best Graduate Student Paper on the Presidency, 2001-2002

° Selected for the American Political Science Association Mancur Olson Award for the for the Best Dissertation on Political Economy, 2001

Invited Instructor

° National Science Foundation Program on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, June 2004, Duke University

Conference Program Committee

° Presidency Section Organizer, 2005 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings

Memberships

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

TEACHING

Areas of Recent Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching

o Politics of Public Policy (MPA Core Class, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University)

o American Political Institutions (Ph.D. Seminar, Princeton University)

o Empirical Applications of Formal Theory (Ph.D. Seminar, Princeton University)

o Domestic Work-Study Program (MPA Class, Princeton University)

o Business, Government and Public Policy (Undergraduate Lecture with Class Discussion. Northwestern and MIT)

o Presidency (Ph.D. Seminar, Northwestern)

o Presidency (Undergraduate Lecture, Northwestern)

o Bureaucracy (Ph.D. Seminar, Northwestern and MIT)

o Introduction to the American Political Process (Undergraduate Lecture, MIT)

o Introduction to Game Theory (Combined Undergraduate and Graduate Class, MIT)

o Executive Branch Politics (Undergraduate Seminar, Caltech)

GRADUATE ADVISING

Dissertation Committee Member for Tom Clark, Ph.D. expected 2008, Princeton University. Currently considering job offers in political science from Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern, and Emory.

Dissertation Committee Member for Jeffrey Tessin, Ph.D. expected 2009, Princeton University.

Dissertation Committee Member for J. F. Godbout, Ph.D. expected 2007 (dissertation defense completed), Northwestern University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Simon Frasier University in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Dissertation Committee Member for Brandon Rottinghaus, Ph.D. 2005, Northwestern University. Thesis entitled “Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion: Patterns of Presidential Policy Making from Dwight Eisenhower to G.H.W. Bush.” Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Houston.

Dissertation Committee Member for Kevin Karty, Ph.D. 2001, MIT. Thesis entitled “Federal Advisory Committees and the Conflict between Information and Influence in American Democracy.”

Masters Thesis Committee Member for Jeff Vanness, M.A. 2000, MIT. Thesis entitled “Questionable Foreign Policy, Hostile Public Opinion, and the Presidents Who Make It Work.”

Masters Thesis Committee Member for Aladdine Joroff, M.A. 2000, MIT. Thesis entitled “The Economic Influence on Local Environmental Policy.”

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

° University Priorities Committee, 2007-8

° Director of the Endeavor Fund, Woodrow Wilson School, 2007-8

° Graduate Program Committee and Graduate Admissions Officer, Department of Politics, 2007-8

° Reappointment Committee Member for Jessica Trounstine, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, 2007-8

° Search Committee Chair, American Politics, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, 2007-8

° Search Committee Member, Formal and Quantitative Methods, Department of Politics, 2007-8

° Executive Committee of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (2005, 2006, 2007)

° Alumni Talks 2006-7: Football Lecture, Reunions Panel Moderator

° Leader of Graduate Research Seminar for American Politics, Politics Department, Princeton University 2005-6

° Search Committee, American Politics, Woodrow Wilson School and Politics Department, Princeton University 2005-6

° Alumni Talk to Princeton Club of Southern NY and Northern PA, Spring 2006

° Senior Thesis Advising, Princeton University 2004-6

° Reappointment Committee for Alexander Todorov, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University 2004-5

° Reappointment Committee for David Lewis, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, Princeton University 2004-5

° Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Northwestern University Department of Political Science. 2003-4

° Member of Formal Theory Search Committee, Northwestern University Department of Political Science. 2003-4

° Co-organizer (with Jeffrey Jenkins) of American Politics Seminar Series, Northwestern University Department of Political Science. 2002-3, 2003-4

° Member of Graduate Curriculum Committee, MIT Department of Political Science. 1998-2001

° Member of Steering Committee for the Congressional Staff Seminar, MIT. 2000-2001

° Organizer, American Politics Brown Bag Seminar, MIT Department of Political Science. 1998-1999