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Ohio State University logoDepartment of Political Science

Alan Wiseman
Office: 2186A Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) 292-8196
email: wiseman.69@osu.edu

Alan Wiseman

Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, SBS Undergraduate Public Policy Minor
  • American Political Institutions
  • Positive Political Economy

  • 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)

    Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

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