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Andreas Broscheid

Associate Professor of Political Science
James Madison University
Office: Miller 2143
Office Hours: Tu 10-11, 1-2;
    We 9:30-11:30 & Th 10-11
Address:
    Department of Political Science, JMU
    97 E Grace Street, MSC 7705
    Harrisonburg, VA, 22807
Office phone: (540) 568 7332
broschax@jmu.edu

Curriculum Vita

Education

Ph.D. Political Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 2000
M.A. Political Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 1994
Intermediate Examination Political Science, English Linguistics, English Literature,
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1992

Professional Experience

Fall 2010Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison University
Fall 2006Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, James Madison University
Fall 2003-Spring 2006 Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Fall 2000-
Spring 2003
Researcher,
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

Areas of Research Interest

American Politics: Law and politics: US Courts of Appeals and their reactions to Supreme Court policy and precedent; choice between different modes of decision making (legal factors, attitudes, strategy, etc.); legal frames and public opinion on the courts.
Methods: Quantitative methods, particularly Bayesian inference, multilevel models.
Game theory: separation-of-powers models; spatial bargaining models; models of collective action.

Dissertation

Title: "A Separation-of-Powers Model of Appeals Court Behavior"
Committee: Jeffrey Segal, Clifford Carrubba, Stanley Feldman, Charles Cameron

Publications

"Comparing Circuits: Are Some U.S. Courts of Appeals More Liberal or Conservative Than Others?" Law & Society Review, 45(1), 171-194. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00431.x, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2011.00431.x/abstract, (2011).

"Bayesianische Ansätze zur Analyse kleiner Fallzahlen. [Bayesian approaches to the analysis of small case numbers]" In: P. Kriwy and C. Gross (eds.), Klein aber fein! Quantitative empirische Sozialforschung mit kleinen Fallzahlen, Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2009.

"Der Bayesianische Analyse-Ansatz [The Bayesian approach to data analysis]." In: J. Behnke et al. (eds.), Methoden der Politikwissenschaft, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2006.

"Distributional and informational models of business-government interaction." In: David Coen and Wyn Grant (eds.), Business and Government: Methods and Practice, Berlin: Leske & Budrich, 2006.

"Ending cooperation: A formal model of organizational change in German pharmaceutical interest representation." MPIfG Discussion Paper 05/9, 2005.

Zur statistischen Analyse von Vollerhebungen [On the statistical analysis of apparent populations]" (with Thomas Gschwend). Politische Vierteljahresschrift 46: 16-26, 2005.

"Medical Doctors" (with Paul Teske). In: Paul Teske (ed.), Regulation in the States, Washington, DC: Brookings: 151-164, 2004.

"Public members on medical licensing boards and the choice of entry barriers" (with Paul Teske). Public Choice 114: 445-459, 2003.

"Insider and outsider lobbying of the European Commission: An informational model of forum politics" (with David Coen). European Union Politics 4 (2): 165-189, 2003.

"Augäpfel, Murmeltiere und Bayes: Zur Auswertung stochastischer Daten aus Vollerhebungen [Eyeballing, groundhogs, and Bayes: On the statistical analysis of apparent populations]" (with Thomas Gschwend). MPIfG Working Paper 03/7, 2003.

"Business Interest Representation and European Commission Fora: A Game Theoretic Investigation" (with David Coen). MPIfG Working Paper 02/7, 2002.