Research

Below are my dissertation, working papers, publications, projects in progress, presentations, and theses.

Abstracts for non-published work may be accessed by clicking on titles. Published work titles link to the version of record.

Title: “More than Mere Dead-Weight: The Variety of Regulatory Imaginaries that Shape How Regulators, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs Coproduce Disruptive Technological Innovation” (click title for Open Access link to full dissertation)

Filed: May 12, 2023

Chair: Christopher K. Ansell

Committee: Steven K. Vogel, Ann C. Keller, J. Nicholas Ziegler,

Method: Bayesian Type Validation (BayesTV) & Elite Interviews

Primary Cases:

• Beneficial Constraints where tech innovation happens within a well established market: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)
  • United States (Perpetual Guidance, 2016-2021)
  • European Union (Regulation (EU) 2022/1426)
• Beneficial Constraints where tech innovation precedes market development: Recombinant DNA and CRISPR/Cas-9 Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)
  • United States (Asilomar Conference 1975 and Current Debates)
  • European Union (Precautionary Principle and Current Debates)
• Adoption Catalyst both market & innovation are nascent: Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  • United States (HITECH Act of 2009)
  • European Union (Directive 2011/24/EU)

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ARTICLES

“The Limits of Interest: Moral Economy and Public Engagement in the Regulation of Derivatives in the United States” with J. Nicholas Ziegler and Thomas Nath, (2024), Regulation & Governance, DOI:10.1111/rego.12579 (published online February 13, 2024)

“Comparing Regulatory Processes in Genome Editing and Autonomous Vehicles: How Institutional Environments Shape Sociotechnical Imaginaries.” with Meghna Mukherjee, Santiago Molina, Ken Taymor, and Ann Keller. (2023) Review of Policy Research, 40:3, 433-457, DOI:10.1111/ropr.12532. [Free Article Share Link] (published online January 16, 2023)

“Play Your Role: A Policymaker Simulation to Ground East Asian International Relations” with Matthew Stenberg (2021), The Journal of Political Science Education (JPSE), 17:3, 437-447, DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2019.1635024 [Accepted Draft][Online Appendices] (published online July 13, 2019)

PUBLISHED DATASETS

“The Capacity Challenge: Governing in an Era of Rapid Scientific, Technological, and Economic Change” with Ann Keller, Brian Scholl, Margaret Taylor, Kenneth Taymor, Santiago Molina, Meghna Mukherjee, Alexa Tisopulos, Ryan Whitacre, and Hilary Yu as part of NSF #1735661 (PI: Ann Keller), Dryad, Dataset, DOI: 10.6078/D1NM58

“Dodd Frank Financial Reform at the CFTC – Public Comments, January 14th, 2010 to July 16th, 2014” (2019) with Thomas Nath and J. Nicholas Ziegler, Dryad, Dataset, DOI:10.6078/D1610G

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

“Public Sector Technical Capacity: Keeping Pace with Genome Altering Technology at the FDA” with Ann Keller and Ken Taymor as part of NSF #1735661 (PI: Ann Keller), under review at the American Review of Public Administration (ARPA)

“Moral Contestation and the Regulatory Politics of Rule-Making for Derivatives” (December 6, 2019) with J. Nicholas Ziegler and Thomas Nath (available as the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2019-41 at SSRN) 

“More than Mere Deadweight: A Deductive Typology of the Variety of Ways that Regulators Respond to Disruptive Technological Innovation”

 “Bayesian Type Verification: Verifying Deductive Typologies with Logical Bayesianism”

“A folk theory of economic regulation: Triangulating on How “Normal” People Think About Regulation”

“Reconsidering the Public Interest Reconsidered: Regulating Rapidly Emerging Technologies” with Ann Keller

“More than Mere Deadweight: A Deductive Typology of Regulatory Imaginaries that Shape how Regulators, Innovators, and Entrepreneurs Coproduce Disruptive Technological Innovation” (paper to be presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) Annual Meeting, July 20-22, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.)

Discussant for Panel “Building, Breaking, and Rebuilding Political Power Bases (N2PE Sponsored Panel)” to be held at the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics (SASE) Annual Meeting, July 20-22, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“Someday We’ll Be Safer: Beneficially Constraining Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Regulation in the US & EU” (paper to be presented at the  119th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 31–September 3, 2023)

“Someday We’ll Be Safer: Beneficially Constraining Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Regulation in the US & EU” (paper presented at the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6-8, 2023

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: Beneficially Constraining Gene Editing Regulation in the United States & Europe, 1975 to Present” (paper presented at the Bayesian Reasoning Workshop organized by Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics, held virtually, July 29, 2022)

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: Beneficially Constraining Gene Editing Regulation in the United States & Europe, 1975 to Present” (invited presentation at the Governing Crisis in the European Union (GovernCrisis) Workshop sponsored by the Peder Sather Centre for Advanced Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, May 26-27, 2022)

“Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Capacity: Observing and Explaining Regulatory Processes in Progress in Rapidly Changing Fields” with Meghna Mukherjee as part of NSF #1735661 (PI: Ann Keller) (paper to be presented at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada and Virtual, October 6-9, 2021)

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: Beneficially Constraining Gene Editing Regulation in the United States & Europe, 1975 to Present” (paper to be presented at the  117th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, September 30–October 3, 2021)

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: Beneficially Constraining Gene Editing Regulation in the United States & Europe, 1975 to Present” (paper presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Conference, Virtual, 12-1:30pm US Eastern Time, July 3rd, 2021)

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: Beneficially Constraining Gene Editing Regulation in the United States & Europe, 1975 to Present” (paper presented at the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Virtual, Hosted by University of Exeter, UK, June 23-25, 2021) [slides]

Discussant for “Economic Development: Microfoundations” (Panel held at 78th Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference), Virtual, April 14-18, 2021.

“Tech Governance: Negotiating Innovation Between the Firm and the State”(organizer & chair for panel at the American Political Science Association (APSA) 116^th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-13, 2020) [program link][panel video]

“Innovation Beyond the Imagination of the Market: How the State Drove an Economically Beneficial and Socially Responsible Innovation; The Adoption of Electronic Health Records in the US and EU” (paper presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) 116^th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-13, 2020)

Co-Organizer & Panel Moderator, “Pre-Conference on The Politics of Entrepreneurship, Education, Innovation, and Inclusion” sponsored by the APSA Class & Inequality Section and the Kauffman Foundation, American Political Science Association (APSA) 116th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 8, 2020

“The Limits of Interest: Capture, Financialization, or Contestation in the Politics of Rule-Making on Derivatives” with J. Nicholas Ziegler and Thomas Nath (poster presented at TextXD 2019, Berkeley, CA, December 3-6, 2019)[Poster]

“Running to Stand Still: Rapidly Emerging Technologies and the Challenge of Requisite Knowledge in Public Agencies” panel organized as part of NSF #1735661 (PI: Ann Keller) (Attending non-presenting collaborator at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) 41st Annual Fall Research Conference, Denver, CO, November 7-9, 2019)

“Innovation Beyond the Imagination of the Market: How the State Drove an Economically Beneficial and Socially Responsible Innovation; The Adoption of Electronic Health Records in the US and EU” (paper presented at the Sixth Annual Graduate Conference in Public Law organized by the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 25-26, 2019)

“Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Capacity: Observing and Explaining Regulatory Processes in Progress in Rapidly Changing Fields” with Meghna Mukherjee as part of NSF #1735661 (PI: Ann Keller) (paper presented at the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Grantee Conference following the Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy ​at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, October 16, 2019)

“Innovation Beyond the Imagination of the Market: How the State Drove an Economically Beneficial and Socially Responsible Innovation; The Adoption of Electronic Health Records in the US and EU” (paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 18-20, 2019 and at the Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 30 – June 2, 2019)

“More than Mere Deadweight: A Deductive Typology of the Variety of Ways that Regulators Respond to Disruptive Technological Innovation” (paper presented at the workshop for a special issue of Regulation & Governance on “The Governance of Emerging Disruptive Technologies” convened by Araz Taeihagh, Michael Howlett, and M Ramesh at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 25-26, 2019)

“Knowledge, Politics, and Policy Innovation” (Panel Chair, WPSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 18-20, 2019)

“Recombinant Pasts and CRISPR Futures: The Processes and Outcomes of Beneficially Constraining GMO Regulation in the US and Europe, 1975 to Present” (research presented at the 7th Annual NNCI Winter School on Responsible Innovation and Social Studies of Emerging Technologies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, January 3-10, 2019)

 “Bayesian Type Verification: Verifying Deductive Typologies with Logical Bayesianism” (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 30, 2018)

“The Limits of Interest: Capture, Contestation, & Financialization in the Politics of Rule-Making for Derivatives in the United States” with J. Nicholas Ziegler (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 30, 2018)

“More than Mere Dead-Weight: A Deductive Typology of the Range of Ways that Regulators Respond to Disruptive Technological Innovation” (paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 6, 2018)

“Play Your Role: A Policymaker Simulation to Ground East Asian International Relations” (paper presented at the Annual Teaching and Learning Conference of the American Political Science Association, Baltimore, MD, February 3, 2018)

“More than Mere Dead-Weight: How Regulators Initially Respond to Disruptive Technological Innovation in Advanced Industrial Democracies” (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7, 2017)

“The Changing Landscape of Regulatory Reform: Public Comments and the Construction of a New Regulatory Regime at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission” with J. Nicholas Ziegler (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2016)

“The Legislative Mandate as Rubber-Stamp: CAFE Standards as Evidence of the Thin Significance of a Legislative Mandate as the ‘Origin’ of Regulatory Rule Making” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Supervisor: Christopher Ansell, May 16, 2014)

“The Influence of Political Ideology in the Congressional Committee Hearings Held Over the Creation of the National Science Foundation: Using Ideological Influences in Committee Hearing Witnesses Rosters to Classify Policy Issues in Scientific and Technical Congressional Debates” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Supervisor: John F. Padgett, August 4, 2011)

“The Politics of Human Spaceflight: A Comparison of Success and Failure in China and the United States” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for Special Departmental Honors in Government, The University of Texas at Austin, Supervisor: Itty Abraham, May 2010)

Graduate Coordinator & Site Manager for the Network for a New Political Economy, Steven K. Vogel and Neil Fligstein, Co-Chairs, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2021 to Present

Graduate Student Researcher on “The Capacity Challenge: Governing in an Era of Rapid Science, Technological, and Economic Change” for Ann Keller, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2019 – Summer 2020 (NSF #1735661)

Research Consultant for J. Nicholas Ziegler, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University,  Summer-Fall 2016

Graduate Student Researcher on “After Dodd-Frank: The Post-Enactment Politics of Financial Reform in the United States” for J. Nicholas Ziegler, Political Science Department, University of California, Berkeley, Summer-Fall 2014

Research Assistant on “The Scenes Project” for Terry Nichols Clark, Urban Innovation Analysis, The University of Chicago, Autumn 2010 – Autumn 2011

Below, please find online appendices for my publications.  Please feel free to contact me (for editable versions, advice, moral support) if you are interested in applying the materials or code to your own work. (more…)