Political Science: Graduate Placement Services
Placement Candidates 2006-2007
This page provides information about our advanced doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s currently on the academic market. The candidates are listed by their fields of research/teaching. For each candidate, you will find a descriptive paragraph and the candidate’s Email address.
For more information please contact the candidates or their faculty advisors . A candidate’s confidential placement file consisting of vitae, letters of recommendation, unofficial transcript and summary of student evaluations may be requested by a prospective employer and/or search committee members at an academic institution by contacting our Graduate Placement Services Advisor.
Fields of Research/Teaching
- American Politics
- Comparative Politics
- International Relations
- Methodology
- Political Theory and Philosophy
- Public Administration and Public Policy
- Public Law
American Politics
Matt Grossmann is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests lie in American political institutions, political behavior, and methodology. His primary research subfields are political organizations, policymaking, and electoral campaigns. He has completed a draft of his dissertation, published several journal articles, and served as a primary course instructor. He will file and complete his doctorate in April 2007.
His dissertation, "The Not-So-Special Interests: The Organized Representation of American Public Constituencies," investigates why some advocacy organizations are more involved in national policymaking than others and describes which kinds of public groups are best represented by organized advocates. Grossmann argues that advocacy organizations succeed by becoming taken-for-granted participants in policy debates as the representatives of public constituencies. He uses new data on 1,700 interest organizations in Washington, their prominence in the media, and their involvement in Congress, the administration, and the courts. His findings demonstrate that an organization's size, longevity, agenda, and public membership determine their level of involvement in national policymaking, rather than their PAC contributions or their lobbying force. He also connects the information that he collected with public opinion survey data on the demographics, political views, and civic engagement of the 140 public constituencies that Washington advocacy organizations represent. The results indicate that a constituency's level of civic engagement, rather than its size or political views, is correlated with its level of organized representation. His dissertation committee consists of Nelson W. Polsby (chair), Laura Stoker, Todd LaPorte, Chris Ansell, and Neil Fligstein (sociology).
Grossmann has published six peer-reviewed journal articles, including two that incorporate some of his dissertation research. His published articles examine ethnic representation, environmental politics, technology policy, interest group theory, public opinion about campaigns, and the role of consultants in campaign strategy. These articles rely on original public opinion surveys, personal interviews, questionnaires, content analyses, data compilation, case studies, focus groups, and survey experiments. His work incorporates the broad methodological training that he obtained at Berkeley, at the ICPSR summer program in quantitative methods, at the summer institute on the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, and at two summer workshops on theoretical and computational modeling at the Santa Fe Institute.
He also has a strong teaching record. He has served as the primary instructor for an introductory course on American politics and as a graduate student instructor for nine sections of courses on political parties, media and politics, and political research methods. He has also designed several in-class simulations and assisted many students with original research. He is prepared to teach in many areas of American political institutions, mass behavior, organization and administration, and methodology.
Matt Grossmann's CV, papers, and course information can be found at: http://www.matthewg.org
E-mail: matthewg@berkeley.edu
Comparative Politics
There are no candidates at this time.
International Relations
There are no candidates at this time.
Methodology
Matt Grossmann is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests lie in American political institutions, political behavior, and methodology. His primary research subfields are political organizations, policymaking, and electoral campaigns. He has completed a draft of his dissertation, published several journal articles, and served as a primary course instructor. He will file and complete his doctorate in April 2007.
His dissertation, "The Not-So-Special Interests: The Organized Representation of American Public Constituencies," investigates why some advocacy organizations are more involved in national policymaking than others and describes which kinds of public groups are best represented by organized advocates. Grossmann argues that advocacy organizations succeed by becoming taken-for-granted participants in policy debates as the representatives of public constituencies. He uses new data on 1,700 interest organizations in Washington, their prominence in the media, and their involvement in Congress, the administration, and the courts. His findings demonstrate that an organization's size, longevity, agenda, and public membership determine their level of involvement in national policymaking, rather than their PAC contributions or their lobbying force. He also connects the information that he collected with public opinion survey data on the demographics, political views, and civic engagement of the 140 public constituencies that Washington advocacy organizations represent. The results indicate that a constituency's level of civic engagement, rather than its size or political views, is correlated with its level of organized representation. His dissertation committee consists of Nelson W. Polsby (chair), Laura Stoker, Todd LaPorte, Chris Ansell, and Neil Fligstein (sociology).
Grossmann has published six peer-reviewed journal articles, including two that incorporate some of his dissertation research. His published articles examine ethnic representation, environmental politics, technology policy, interest group theory, public opinion about campaigns, and the role of consultants in campaign strategy. These articles rely on original public opinion surveys, personal interviews, questionnaires, content analyses, data compilation, case studies, focus groups, and survey experiments. His work incorporates the broad methodological training that he obtained at Berkeley, at the ICPSR summer program in quantitative methods, at the summer institute on the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, and at two summer workshops on theoretical and computational modeling at the Santa Fe Institute.
He also has a strong teaching record. He has served as the primary instructor for an introductory course on American politics and as a graduate student instructor for nine sections of courses on political parties, media and politics, and political research methods. He has also designed several in-class simulations and assisted many students with original research. He is prepared to teach in many areas of American political institutions, mass behavior, organization and administration, and methodology.
Matt Grossmann's CV, papers, and course information can be found at: http://www.matthewg.org
E-mail: matthewg@berkeley.edu
Political Theory/Philosophy
There are no candidates at this time.
Public Administration/Public Policy
Matt Grossmann is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests lie in American political institutions, political behavior, and methodology. His primary research subfields are political organizations, policymaking, and electoral campaigns. He has completed a draft of his dissertation, published several journal articles, and served as a primary course instructor. He will file and complete his doctorate in April 2007.
His dissertation, "The Not-So-Special Interests: The Organized Representation of American Public Constituencies," investigates why some advocacy organizations are more involved in national policymaking than others and describes which kinds of public groups are best represented by organized advocates. Grossmann argues that advocacy organizations succeed by becoming taken-for-granted participants in policy debates as the representatives of public constituencies. He uses new data on 1,700 interest organizations in Washington, their prominence in the media, and their involvement in Congress, the administration, and the courts. His findings demonstrate that an organization's size, longevity, agenda, and public membership determine their level of involvement in national policymaking, rather than their PAC contributions or their lobbying force. He also connects the information that he collected with public opinion survey data on the demographics, political views, and civic engagement of the 140 public constituencies that Washington advocacy organizations represent. The results indicate that a constituency's level of civic engagement, rather than its size or political views, is correlated with its level of organized representation. His dissertation committee consists of Nelson W. Polsby (chair), Laura Stoker, Todd LaPorte, Chris Ansell, and Neil Fligstein (sociology).
Grossmann has published six peer-reviewed journal articles, including two that incorporate some of his dissertation research. His published articles examine ethnic representation, environmental politics, technology policy, interest group theory, public opinion about campaigns, and the role of consultants in campaign strategy. These articles rely on original public opinion surveys, personal interviews, questionnaires, content analyses, data compilation, case studies, focus groups, and survey experiments. His work incorporates the broad methodological training that he obtained at Berkeley, at the ICPSR summer program in quantitative methods, at the summer institute on the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, and at two summer workshops on theoretical and computational modeling at the Santa Fe Institute.
He also has a strong teaching record. He has served as the primary instructor for an introductory course on American politics and as a graduate student instructor for nine sections of courses on political parties, media and politics, and political research methods. He has also designed several in-class simulations and assisted many students with original research. He is prepared to teach in many areas of American political institutions, mass behavior, organization and administration, and methodology.
Matt Grossmann's CV, papers, and course information can be found at: http://www.matthewg.org
E-mail: matthewg@berkeley.edu
Public Law
There are no candidates at this time.