Timothy J. Groseclose
Curriculum Vita
Department of Political Science
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 794-4204
email: timothyg@ucla.edu
Personal
Born September 22, 1964. Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Married to Victoria DeGuzman Groseclose.
Two children, born in 2001 and 2007.
Education
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Ph.D. in Political Economics (1992)
Stanford University, B.S. with Distinction in Mathematical and Computational Sciences (1987)
Lakeside High School, Hot Springs, Arkansas (1983)
Faculty Positions
Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics, UCLA, 2008-present
Professor of Political Science, UCLA, 2005-present (and Professor of Economics, UCLA, 2006-present)
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Caltech, Autumn 2006
Faculty member of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics, 2006-present
Associate Professor of Political Science, UCLA, 2003-2005
Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1998-2003
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University, 1996-1998
Harvard/MIT Political Economy Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1995-1996
Visiting Scholar, MIT Political Science Department, 1994-1996
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences and (by courtesy) Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 1992-1995
Honors & Fellowships
Hoover National Fellow (2000-01)
Olin Faculty Fellow (1994-5)
Lambe Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies (1990-91, 1991-92)
Dissertation Fellow, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University (Spring 1991)
Merit Fellow, Graduate School of Business (1989-90)
Classes Taught
Mass Media and Elections (undergrad);
Legislative Strategy (undergrad);
Media Bias (undergrad);
Applications and Tests of Formal Models of Politics (PhD);
Management in the Nonmarket Environment (MBA);
Theories of Democracy (undergrad);
Introduction to Models of Political Science (PhD);
Introduction to Models of Political Science (undergrad);
Policy Analysis II (undergrad);
Political Economy (PhD);
Models of Congress (PhD);
Theory of Social Choice (PhD);
Introduction to Statistics for Political Scientists (PhD);
Legislative Politics (undergrad)
Occasional Reviewer
American Economic Review
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
American Politics Quarterly
British Journal of Political Science
Cambridge University Press
Econometrica
Economic Inquiry
Economic Journal
Economics and Politics
Economics Letters
Games and Economic Behavior
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Law and Economics
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Journal of Politics
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Public Economics
Legislative Studies Quarterly
National Science Foundation
Political Analysis
Political Research Quarterly
Political Psychology
Public Choice
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
Review of Economics and Statistics
Social Choice and Welfare
UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Mathematical Models in Economics)
Editorial Boards
American Journal of Political Science, 1998-2002
Journal of Politics, 2001-2004
Political Science Network – Section 16, Political Organizations, Parties, Interest Groups,
and Networks, 2007-present
Book
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2011.
Scholarly Articles & Book Chapters
“Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting When Legislators Vote Sequentially” (with Jeff Milyo) Social Choice and Welfare. Forthcoming. 2012.
“Sincere Versus Sophisticated Voting in Congress: Theory and Evidence,” (with Jeff Milyo) Journal of Politics. 72 (January, No. 1): 1-14. 2010.
“Black’s Median Voter Theorem In ‘One And A Half’ Dimensions” Social Choice and Welfare. 28: 321-35. 2007.
“State Campaign Finance Reforms, Competitiveness and Party Advantage in Gubernatorial Elections,” (with Jeff Milyo and David Primo) in The Marketplace of Democracy. Michael McDonald and John Samples, Editors. (Brookings Institution and Cato Institute: Washington, DC). 2006.
“Gatekeeping” (with Christophe Crombez and Keith Krehbiel) Journal of Politics. 68 (May, No. 2): 322-34. 2006.
“A Social Science Perspective on Media Bias” (with Jeff Milyo) Critical Review. 17, Nos. 3-4. 2005.
“A Measure of Media Bias” (with Jeff Milyo) Quarterly Journal of Economics, November. 2005.
“Interpreting the Coefficient of Party Influence: Comment on Krehbiel” (with James Snyder) Political Analysis, 11 (Winter): 104-107. 2003.
“Testing Mixed Strategy Equilibria When Players are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer” (with Piere-Andre Chiappori and Steve Levitt) American Economic Review, 92 (September) 1138-51. 2002.
“Estimating Party Influence on Roll Call Voting: Regression Coefficients vs. Classification Success” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review, 95 (September): 689-98. 2001.
“A Model of Candidate Location When One Candidate Has a Valence Advantage” American Journal of Political Science. 45 (October): 862-86. 2001.
“The Politics of Blame: Bargaining Before an Audience” (with Nolan McCarty) American Journal of Political Science. 45 (January): 100-119. 2001.
“Rethinking Justices’ and Committees’ Strategies In Segal’s Separation of Powers Game” (with Sara Schiavoni). Public Choice. 106 (January): 131-35. 2001.
“Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 94 (September): 683-4. 2000.
“Committee Theories Reconsidered” (with David King) in Congress Reconsidered, 7th Edition. Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer, editors. 2000.
“Corporate PAC Contributions In Perspective” (with Jeff Milyo and David Primo). Business and Politics. 2 (No. 1): 75-88. 2000.
“Estimating Party Influence on Congressional Roll-Call Voting” (with Jim Snyder) American Journal of Political Science. 44 (April): 187-205. 2000.
“Measuring The Ideologies of Legislators Accurately” (with Barry Burden and Gregory Caldeira). 25 (May): 237-258. Legislative Studies Quarterly. May 2000.
“The Electoral Effects of Incumbent Wealth” (with Jeff Milyo) Journal of Law and Economics.) 42 (October): 699-722. 1999.
“The Value Of Committee Seats In The United States Senate, 1947-91″ (with Charles Stewart) American Journal Of Political Science. 43 (July): 963-73. 1999.
“Comparing Interest Group Scores Across Time And Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores For The U.S. Congress.” (with Steve Levitt and Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 93 (March): 33-50. 1999.
“The Value of Committee Seats in the House, 1947-91.” (with Charles Stewart.) American Journal of Political Science 42 (April): 453-74. 1998.
“Little Theater: Committee of Congress” (with David King) chapter for Great Theater: The American Congress in Action, Herbert F. Weisberg and Samuel C. Patterson, editors. Pp. 135-51. 1998.
“Buying Supermajorities” (with Jim Snyder) American Political Science Review. 90 (June): 303-15. 1996.
“An Examination of the Market Favors and Votes in Congress” Economic Inquiry 34 (April): 320-40. 1996.
“The Committee Outlier Debate: A Review and Reexamination of Some of the Evidence.” Public Choice. 80(September): 265-73. 1994.
“Testing Hypothesis of Committee Composition.” Journal of Politics. 56 (May): 440-58. 1994.
“Golden Parachutes, Rubber Checks, and Strategic Retirements from the 102nd House” (with Keith Krehbiel) American Journal of Political Science. 38 (Febraury): 75-99. 1994.
“On the Pervasiveness of Sophisticated Sincerity” (with Keith Krehbiel) Political Economy: Institutions, Information, Competition, and Representation. William Barnett, Melvin Hinich, Howard Rosenthal, and Norm Schofield, editors. Cambridge University Press. 1993.
Popular Articles
“The Pernicious Effects of Media Bias.” Washington Times. July 26, 2011.
“Why Chris Wallace was Right and Jon Stewart was wrong.” The Hill (Congress Blog), June 28, 2011.
“Who’s Afraid of Political Speech?” (with Jeff Milyo) St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
September 29, 2009
“Biases Revealed in News Media.” UCLA Today, November 8, 2005, p. 7.
“Lost Shepherd,” (with Jeff Milyo) The American Spectator, April, 1996.
Papers in Circulation
“Bias in a Laboratory Simulation of a Signaling Game with Implications for the Effects of the News Media.”
“A Simple Solution for a Group Choosing a Restaurant” (with Jeff Milyo)
“Buying The Bums Out: What’s The Dollar Value Of A Seat In Congress?” (with Jeff Milyo)
Invited Presentations (since 1/2003)
Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy Program, Duke University, March 2011
Politics Department, Princeton University, March 2011
Political Science Department, Columbia University, March 2011
Business School, Univ. of Texas, December 2010
Political Science Dept., UCLA, December 2010
Harris Public Policy School, U. of Chicago, October 2006
Harris Public Policy School, U. of Chicago, May 2006
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, May 2006
Political Science Department, UCSD, May 2006
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, April 2006
Political Science Department, Univ. of S. California, April 2006
Political Science Department, Emory University, March 2006
Political Science Department, Yale University, December 2005
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UC Irvine, December 2005
Political Science Department, U. of Missouri, September 2005
UCLA Business, Politics, and Dining Society, August 2005
Political Science Department, UCLA, March 2005
Workshop on the Media and Economic Performance, Stanford Institute for International
Studies, Center on Development, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, March 2004
Political Science Department, MIT, September 2003
Political Science Department, Yale University, September 2003
Politics Department, Princeton University, September 2003
Political Science Department, Duke University, September 2003
Public Choice Center, George Mason University, September 2003
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. March 2003
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