Research by Jeffery Jenkins (Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789-2002, and The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives: Reflections on Nelson Polsby’s “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives” at Fifty) cited in article published in Press-Citizen. Read the full article
The Washington Post featured an analysis cowritten by Jeffery Jenkins of the USC Price School on why the Republican Party is primarily white and Southern. “Historians and political scientists traditionally emphasize how the national Democratic Party began supporting civil rights, which alienated white Southern voters. But our research shows that Read more…
The Washington Post featured an article cowritten by Jeffrey Jenkins of the USC Price School on the political issues behind daylight saving time.
Pacific Standard quoted Jeffrey Jenkins of the USC Price School about the ideological spectrum of the Democratic Party in the U.S. House of Representatives. “The Democratic Party is a reasonably wide ‘ideological tent’ in the House these days,” Jeffery A. Jenkins, a University of Southern California public policy professor whose work focuses on Read more…
by Nathan K. Micatka and Nicholas Napolio On December 4, 2018, a group of scholars gathered at the University of Southern California to present research and perspectives on foreign policy in the age of Trump. Some important questions addressed in the symposium were: whether and to what extent Trump is similar or different Read more…
Fivethirtyeight.comfeatured research by Jeffery Jenkinsof the USC Price School and a colleague on contested results in 594 House seats from 1789 to 2012. The researchers wanted to examine the role contested elections played as the House matured. Jenkins told FiveThirtyEight that he’s curious to see if contested elections become a Read more…
PS You’re Busted: How bridging silos in research & practice can impact human trafficking irl In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks about human trafficking with Greg DeAngelo, Associate Professor of Economic Studies at Claremont Graduate University. How does an economist get data on human trafficking and Read more…
The Washington Post quoted Jeffery Jenkins of the USC Price School on the congressional lame duck session. “This year is special,” Jenkins said. “The GOP will lose the House come January, so they only have a few months of unified government left” to consider polarizing issues. Full article here
“The study of state and local politics has taken off over the last decade. Data, methods, and research interests have evolved. There are a variety of important questions that can’t be examined well at the Federal level, because of severe case limitations. But scholars can get leverage on these questions Read more…
by Anthony Orlando Power is up for grabs in Washington. A controversial President, an unpopular Congress, and a midterm election all make 2018 a battleground for political control. Who will win? How will they do it? And what role do you play? This is story of the most consequential game ever Read more…
Jeffery Jenkins, Bedrosian Center Director, and co-author Thomas Gray will be presenting a paper at the 2018 Congress & History Conference at Prinecton University on June 7-8, 2018. The paper is titled “A Bridge Too Far?: Examining Bridging Assumptions in Common-Space Estimations.” It will be presented as part of a Read more…
In Radical Markets, Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl envision new rules for markets in order to limit the tyranny of monopolies and majority rule. Their aim, with 5 revolutionary ideas to cure what they see as the most important issue of our time: inequality. What are some of Read more…
Nearly 20 years ago, Stanford Professor Keith Krehbiel wrote a book showing that political parties are less important in legislative-executive politics than previously thought — challenging previous assumptions of American politics and influencing the work of many up-and-coming scholars. USC Price School of Public Policy Provost Professor Jeffery Jenkins was completing graduate school when Krehbiel released Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking in 1998.