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Rui De Figueiredo

Associate Professor of Business and
Political Science of Political Science

Professor de Figueiredo received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1997. His research interests are American bureaucratic structure and performance: administrative procedures, policy durability, and agency jurisdictions, comparative institutional analysis, formal theory, ethnic conflict, political behavior, and interest group competition and strategies. He teaches courses on business and public policy, institutions, and formal theory of political institutions. His recent articles include, "Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty and Policy Insulation," (submitted to American Political Science Review), and "The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture and Tradition," (co-authored in Politics and Society, June 1998).

Selected Papers and Publications

• "The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation," (with John M. de Figueiredo), Business and Politics (forthcoming).
• "Managerial Decision-making in Non-Market Strategy: An Experiment," (with John M. de Figueiredo), Advances in Strategic Management, (forthcoming).
• "Endogenous Budget Institutions and Political Insulation: Why States Adopt the Item Veto," Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming).
• "Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In-Group Pride," American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).
• "Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty, and Policy Insulation," American Political Science Review 96:2 (2002), pp. 321-333.
• "Strategy, Structure and Regulation: Telecommunications in the New Economy," Michigan State Law Review, 2000, pp. 253-285.
• "An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures," (with Pablo T. Spiller and Santiago Urbiztondo), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, April 1999, pp. 283-205.