Jowei Chen
Jowei Chen
Associate Professor,
Department of Political Science,
University of Michigan
Curriculum Vitae

Contact:
Jowei Chen
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
5700 Haven Hall
505 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045

Email: jowei@umich.edu


Jowei Chen

Publications:
Voter Partisanship and the Effect of Distributive Spending on Political Participation
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 57, No. 1: 200-217. Replication Data and Code

The Effect of Electoral Geography on Pork Barreling in Bicameral Legislatures.
American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 54, No. 2: 301-322. Replication Data and Code

The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures. (with Neil Malhotra)

American Political Science Review. Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676. Replication Data and Code

Unintentional Gerrymandering: Political Geography and Electoral Bias in Legislatures (with Jonathan Rodden)

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 3: 239-269.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps
New York Times Op-Ed: Op-Ed: "Don't Blame the Maps" (January 24, 2014)
Reactions: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times. The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel, The Washington Monthly, Bloomberg News, The Washington Times.

Federal Employee Unionization and Presidential Control of the Bureaucracy: Estimating and Explaining Ideological Change in Executive Agencies. (with Tim Johnson)

Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 101, No. 4: 657-676.

US Federal Bureaucratic Agency-Level Comomon Space Ideology Data
Individual-Level Bureaucratic Common Space Ideology Data

Senate Gate-Keeping, Presidential Staffing of "Inferior Offices" and the Ideological Composition of Appointments to the Public Bureaucracy. (with Adam Bonica and Tim Johnson)

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 10, No. 1: 5-40.

Participation Without Representation?
Senior Opinion, Legislative Behavior, and Federal Health Reform. (With Katharine Bradley)
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Vol. 39, No. 2: 263-293.

Cutting through the Thicket:
Redistricting Simulations and the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders. (With Jonathan Rodden)
Election Law Journal. Vol. 14, No. 4: 331-345.

The Geographic Targeting of Pork Barrel Earmarks in Bicameral Legislatures.

Revise and Resubmit, State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

Evaluating Partisan Gains from Congressional Gerrymandering:
Using Computer Simulations to Estimate the Effect of Gerrymandering in the U.S. House. (With David Cottrell)
Electoral Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4: 329-340.
Replication Data, Code, and Simulated Districting Maps

The Impact of Political Geography on Wisconsin Redistricting:
An Analysis of Wisconsin's Act 43 Assembly Districting Plan.
Election Law Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4: 417-442.
Time Magazine Op-Ed: "Wisconsin Is Misusing My Research to Defend Gerrymandering." (October 2, 2017)

The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights (with Nicholas Stephanopoulos)

Yale Law Journal, Forthcoming.
Data Files, Replication Code, and Simulated Districting Plans
Online Appendix (PDF, 50 pages)

Gerrymandered by Definition: The Distortion of 'Traditional' Districting Principles and a Proposal for an Empirical Redefinition. (Yunsieg Kim and Jowei Chen)

Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming.

Democracy's Denominator. (with Nicholas Stephanopoulos)

California Law Review, Forthcoming.
Washington Post Op-Ed: "The next front in the gerrymandering wars: Which people get counted?" (February 24, 2021)