Working Papers:
"The Political Economy of Congressional Patent Policymaking in the Late 20th Century" Review of Law and Economics Revise and Resubmit.
“Are High Demanders Disproportionately Represented on House Committees?” (With James Battista)
“Sources of Constraint in Legislative Voting: Preferences, Parties, Institutions and Information” (With James Battista)
“The Policy Legacy of the 111th Congress”
“Paradoxes of the Roll Rate: When Party Power Isn’t”
“Spatial Voting in State Legislative Elections” (With James Battista)
“Why Party Cartels Go Bankrupt”
“Comparing Multiple Measures of Committee Distinctiveness or
Representativeness in State Legislatures” (With James Battista)
“The Impact of Capital Gains Tax Treatments upon the Consumption of Capital” (With Howard Richman and Raymond Richman)
“Explaining State Policy Status Quos” (With James Battista and Michael Peress)
Jamison, Beth, and Jesse Richman. "Recoding and Reassessing the Ethnicity of Elites –A Reply to Harff"
Harff (2003) analyzes the relationship between several risk factors and the incidence of genocide/political mass murder. One of the factors examined by Harff is a measure which assesses whether elites are ethnically polarized and (if so) whether the ruling elite is a minority or majority group. This note focuses on a narrow aspect of Harff’s analysis – the coding choices made in constructing this elite ethnicity variable, and the conclusions that follow from those choices.
