Andrew Reeves

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232 Bay State Rd
Department of Political Science
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
areeves AT bu DOT edu
617/353-5284 (voice)
617/353-5508 (fax)
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I am an assistant professor of political science at Boston University. I earned my Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of Government at Harvard.

During the 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 academic years, I am on-leave from Boston University. I am currently a visiting assistant professor with the Department of Political Science and an associate research scientist at the Center for the Study of American Politics within the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. During the 2012/2012 academic year, I will be a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

I study how politicians, voters, and the rules of elections interact and influence policy and electoral outcomes. My primary research agenda examines the particularistic nature of the U.S. president in his dealings with an electorate that increasingly holds him accountable for local phenomenon. I've examined how presidents are held accountable for local outcomes like natural disasters and federal spending. Indeed, even perceptions of the national economy are strongly influenced by local experiences.

I argue that presidents respond to these incentives as well as those created by the electoral college by targeting resources. These resources include campaign resources and also federal dollars. This research suggests that presidents are hardly a universalistic counterbalance to the particularistic desires of the U.S. Congress.

On this page, you will find my published and forthcoming articles, working papers, software, and course syllabi. You can also find my CV as well as my dataverse, with links to data and replication materials for my published works.

Published & Forthcoming Articles

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Working Papers & Unpublished Manuscripts

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Software

Ryan T. Moore and Andrew Reeves. 2010. muRL: Mailmerge using R, LaTeX, and the Web. R package version 0.1-6. http://rtm.wustl.edu/software.muRL.htm.

Other Publications

  • Stephen D. Ansolabehere and Andrew Reeves. 2012. "Using Recounts to Measure the Accuracy of Vote Tabulations: Evidence from New Hampshire Elections 1946-2002" in Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity through Election Auditing, eds. Thad E. Hall, Lonna Atkeson, and R. Michael Alvarez. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
  • Andrew Reeves. 2009. Book Review of State of Disunion by Nicole Mellow. Political Science Quarterly, 124(4):743-744.
  • Andrew Reeves. 2005 "Colegrove vs. Green." in David Schultz, ed., Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, New York: Facts on File Publications.
  • Andrew Reeves. 2004. "Florida Disaster Aid Can Help Bush." Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, October 3: M-5.
  • Andrew Reeves. 2004. "Plucking Votes from Disasters." Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, May 12: B-13.

Syllabi

I am not teaching during the 2012/2013 academic year; however I am teaching PO211 and PO526 during summer term 1.

Coauthors

Stephen Ansolabehere | Lanhee Chen | John Gasper | Jim Gimpel | Doug Kriner | Ryan T. Moore | Scott Moser | Eleanor Neff Powell