Alan Wiseman
Office: 2186A Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) 292-8196
email: wiseman.69@osu.edu
Alan Wiseman
Assistant Professor of Political ScienceDirector, SBS Undergraduate Public Policy Minor
Professor Wiseman has research and teaching interests in American
political institutions and positive political economy, focusing on
legislative and electoral politics, regulation, bureaucratic politics,
and Internet economics and public policy. He is the author of The
Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure (Brookings
Institution Press, 2001), and has published research in journals
including the American Political Science Review, the Journal
of Politics,
Legislative Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Theoretical
Politics.
Current projects include examining the impact of executive oversight of
bureaucratic rulemaking on lawmaking in the United States and other
developed democracies, a study of the causes and consequences of
legislative effectiveness in the United States congress, and developing
theoretical models on the politics of investigations and the causes and
consequences of industry self-regulation. He
also helps direct the Colloquium
on Positive Political Economy, and is the director of the new
undergraduate public
policy minor in the College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences.
Selected
Recent Publications:
2008. "Gerrymanders and Theories of Law Making: A Study of
legislative Redistricting in Illinois" Journal
of Politics.
(with Michael C. Herron). 70 (1): 151-167 (pdf)
2008. "The Legislative Median and Partisan Policy." Journal
of Theoretical Politics.
(with John R. Wright). 20 (1): 5-29 (pdf)
2007. "The Politics of Wine: Trade Barriers, Interest Groups,
and the Commerce Clause." Journal of Politics. (with
Jerry Ellig). 69 (3): 859-875 (pdf)
2007. "Bargaining in Legislatures over Particularistic and
Collective Goods." American Political Science Review.
(with Craig Volden). 101(1):79-92 (pdf)
2006. "A Theory of Partisan Support and Entry Deterrence in
Electoral Competition." Journal
of Theoretical Politics. 18(2):123-158 (pdf)
2005. “Joe Cannon and the Minority Party: Tyranny or
Bipartisanship?” Legislative Studies Quarterly. (with Keith
Krehbiel). 30(4): 479-505. (pdf)
2005. “Investigating the Dynamics of Political Compromise.” Journal
of Theoretical Politics. 17 (4): 597-514. (pdf)
