Jonathan A. Rodden

Comparative Politics
Political Economy
Institutions
Voting Behavior
Political and Economic Geography

• Gregory Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Politics, 2007
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2006-2007.
• National Science Foundation, grant for assembly of cross-national provincial-level dataset on elections, public finance, and government composition, 2003-2004.
• MIT Dean’s Fund and School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Funds. 
• Grant from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Harvard EU Center to organize the conference, “European Fiscal Federalism in Comparative Perspective,” held at Harvard University, November 4, 2000.
• Canadian Studies Fellowship (Canadian Federal Government), 1996-1997.
• Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1998-1999.
• John F. Enders Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 1998.
• John F. Enders Collaborative Research Grant, Summer 1996.
• Henry Hart Rice Research Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies 1997-98.
• Fulbright Grant, University of Leipzig, Germany, 1993-1994.
• Michigan Association of Governing Boards Award, one of two top graduating students at the University of Michigan, 1993.
• W. J. Bryan Prize, top graduating senior in political science department at the University of Michigan, 1993

Books

2006                Hamilton’s Paradox: The Promise and Peril of Fiscal Federalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University                          Press).  [Winner, Gregory Luebbert Award for Best Book in Comparative Politics, 2007]
2003                Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press).                          [Lead Editor with Gunnar Eskeland and Jennie Litvack]

Articles

2008                “The Strength of Issues:  Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological                          Constraint, and Issue Voting” (with Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder), American Political                          Science Review, forthcoming. 

2008                “Does Religion Distract the Poor?  Income and Issue Voting Around the World” (with Ana Lorena                             De La O), Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming.

2006                “Purple America” (with Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder), Journal of Economic                          Perspectives 20, 2 (Spring): 97-118.

2006                “Economic Geography and Economic Voting: Evidence from the U.S. States” (with Michael Ebeid),                          British Journal of Political Science 36, 3: 527-47. 

2004                “Política Distributiva na Federação: Estratégias Eleitorais, Barganhas Legislativas e Coalizões de                          Governo,” Dados 47, 3 (with Marta Arretche).

2004                “Comparative Federalism and Decentralization: On Meaning and Measurement,” Comparative                          Politics 36, 4: 481-500.
 
                        Portuguese version: “Federalismo e descentralização em perspectiva comparada: sobre                          significados e medidas,” Revista de Sociologia e Politica 25 (2005).          

2003                “Reviving Leviathan: Fiscal Federalism and the Growth of Government,” International Organization                          57 (Fall), 695-729.

2002                “Beyond the Fiction of Federalism: Macroeconomic Management in Multi-tiered Systems,” World                          Politics 54, 4 (July): 494-531 (with Erik Wibbels).

2002                “The Dilemma of Fiscal Federalism: Grants and Fiscal Performance around the World,” American                          Journal of Political Science 46(3): 670-687.
2002                “Strength in Numbers: Representation and Redistribution in the European Union,” European Union                          Politics 3, 2: 151-17

1997                "Does Federalism Preserve Markets?  Virginia Law Review 83, 7 (with Susan Rose-Ackerman). 

Spanish version: “Federalismo y mercado,” Quorum 68 (1999).

Chapters in books

2008                “Back to the Future: Endogenous Institutions and Comparative Politics,” in Mark Lichbach and Alan                          Zuckerman, eds., Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Second Edition).                          Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  Forthcoming. 
2006                “The Political Economy of Federalism,” in Barry Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., Oxford                          Handbook of Political Economy.  Oxford University Press. 
2006                “Fiscal Discipline in Federations: Germany and the EMU,” in Peter Wierts, Servaas Deroose, Elena                          Flores and Alessandro Turrini, eds., Fiscal Policy Surveillance in Europe.  Palgrave MacMillan. 
2006                “The Political Economy of Pro-cyclical Decentralised Finance” (with Erik Wibbels), in Peter Wierts,                          Servaas Deroose, Elena Flores and Alessandro Turrini, eds., Fiscal Policy Surveillance in Europe.                           Palgrave MacMillan. 
2003                “Globalization and Fiscal Decentralization,” (with Geoffrey Garrett) in Miles Kahler and David Lake,                          eds., Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition. Princeton University Press:                          87-109. 
                         Updated version printed in David Cameron, Gustav Ranis, and Annalisa Zinn, eds., Globalization                          and Self-Determination: Is the Nation-State under Siege? Routledge, 2007.   
2003                “Introduction and Overview,” (Chapter 1) in Rodden et al., Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge                          of Hard Budget Constraints (see above).

2003                “Soft Budget Constraints and German Federalism” (Chapter 5) in Rodden, et al, Fiscal                                                   Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (see above).

2003                “Federalism and Bailouts in Brazil” (Chapter 7) in Rodden, et al., Fiscal Decentralization and the                          Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (see above).

2003                “Lessons and Conclusions” (Chapter 13) in Rodden, et al., Fiscal Decentralization and the                          Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints (see above).

Other Publications

2004                “On the Migration of Fiscal Sovereignty,” PS: Political Science and Politics. July: 427-431.
2002                “State of the Union: A Taxing Fight over Regionalism,” Wall Street Journal Europe, December 5, 2002                “Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints,” PREM Note 41, Poverty Reduction                          and Economic Management Unit, World Bank, Washington, D.C. (July)

2000                “Decentralization and Hard Budget Constraints,” APSA-CP (Newsletter of the Organized Section in                          Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association) 11:1 (Winter) with Jennie Litvack.

Review Essays

1999                The Government of Money, by Peter Johnson, Comparative Political Studies 32: 7, p. 897-900.

Unpublished Manuscripts

• “And the Last Shall Be First: Federalism and Soft Budget Constraints in Germany.”  Revise and resubmit, European Economic Review.

• “Fiscal Decentralization and the Business Cycle: An Empirical Study of Eight Federations” (with Erik Wibbels).  Revise and resubmit, Economics and Politics.

• “Getting into the Game:  Legislative Bargaining, Distributive Politics, and EU Enlargement,” (with Deniz Aksoy).  Under review, Public Finance and Management.

• “Legislative Bargaining and Distributive Politics in Brazil: An Empirical Approach” (with Marta Arretche).

• “The Shifting Political Economy of Distribution in the Indian Federation (with Steven Wilkinson). 

• “Not in Kansas: Economic Structure and Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections” (with Michael Ebeid). 

• “Retrospective Voting, Coattails, and Accountability in Regional Elections” (with Erik Wibbels).
   

Manuscript in Progress

• Book Project: “Political Geography and Electoral Rules: Why Single-Member Districts are bad for the Left.”

 

Courses

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PS 247R          Politics and Economics in Democracies
PS 344             Politics and Geography
PS440D           Workshop in Comparative Politics
PS 444             Comparative Political Economy in Democracies