jeremiah cha

Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict We study how committees influence policy outcomes in the context of appropriations. Since the birth of modern political science, the power of the purse has been recognized as a primary institutional ...

🔍 A spotlight from earlier this month in LSQ:

"Mechanisms of Checks and Balances: Appropriations, Congressional Committees, and Interbranch Conflict"
by Jeremiah Cha (@harvard.edu) & Jon Rogowski (UChicago). Access it at the link below.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Link here: osf.io/preprints/so.... As always, comments and feedback appreciated!

Overall, this paper provides a nuanced view of racial representation in the US. Although addressing historical electoral inequalities results in change, these gains can result in policy that maintains, and at worst reifies, existing inequalities in homeownership and segregation.

Institutionally, these preferences are implementable due to a broad culture of district-based deference. Councilpersons hold significant control over the direction of development in their districts, meaning they can streamline and veto individual projects.

Why is this the case? I conducted 60 interviews with current local officials and found that racial minorities are wary of gentrification in their areas. Many also believe that single-family homeownership is the solution to racial housing inequities.

I find that the election of racial minorities leads to more single-family housing, at the expense of multi-family development. Broadly, this bucks conventional wisdom that racial minorities have more progressive policy preferences than their white counterparts.

🚨 I’m officially on the job market this year! 🚨
My JMP speaks to a key question in political science: once elected, do racial minorities govern differently from their white counterparts? I study this subject in the context of local land-use policy in American cities.

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#FirstView from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Dilemmas in Representation: Immigration, Identity, and Political Parties - cup.org/3V9HQxH

- @jcha.bsky.social, Justin Gest & Tom K. Wong

#JREP10

I'll be presenting at MPSA April 5 at 8:00 AM at the Palmer House Hilton, 3rd Floor in Marshfield
💡I find that the election of minorities to city councils results in less dense housing development. Using interviews, I develop a framework to understand diversity in local politics

Next steps include not only adding candidates for the 2024 general election but also expanding this data back to the 1990's and beyond. If there are additional things you would like to see, please let us know!

Issues · kuriwaki/cces_candidates Code and documentation for a standardized dataset of candidates - Issues · kuriwaki/cces_candidates

If you are using this dataset in your research or your courses, please let us know! In addition, issues can be submitted here on the github repo:

github.com/kuriwaki/cce...

The dataset represents a comprehensive collection of candidates in Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial contests from 2006-2022. It also includes some corrections - h/t to @LucaBellodi and Bill Wilkerson.

🚨 DATA UPDATE 🚨
@shirokuriwaki, Jim Snyder, and I have updated the Candidates in American General Elections (CAGE) dataset, extending the universe of candidates in Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections to 2022.

Link: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Can't get enough Congress in your life? Have no fear!

Just released an update to our working paper on Congressional Committees and Presidential Influence. 🏛️🤝

Download the updated paper here: osf.io/4evrs

I think it’s mainly graduate students and faculty here, but a reminder that Harvard Government PS Prep is accepting applications still.

Please make sure your students particularly from underrepresented backgrounds apply!

Had the opportunity to read through David Mayhew’s dissertation. Never knew his committee consisted of H. Douglas Price and Joseph Cooper!

Got a new working paper w/ @robmickey.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

tl;dr influxes of Black people during the Great Migration led Northern towns & cities to remove directly elected mayors & replace them w/ appointed city managers

design: shift-share IV

paper: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r54lw...

You can find our working paper here: www.jeremiahcha.com/wp/bargainin...

Another government shutdown, another reminder that ideology profoundly affects the appropriations process.