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Assistant Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Political Economy
  • Formal Modeling
  • American Political Institutions

• About

  Jowei Chen's research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies and legislatures.  He has studied how legislators' pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts, and he has examined how government spending influences voters.  He is also interested in the political control of executive agencies.  

  Jowei moved to Michigan in 2009 after finishing graduate school at Stanford. He is a native of southeastern Tennessee.

  For more information, please see Jowei's CV.

• Education

  • Stanford University, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Stanford University, M.S. (Statistics)
  • Yale University, B.A. (Ethics, Politics and Economics)

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • Voter Partisanship and the Effect of Distributive Spending on Political Participation, American Journal of Political Science
  • The Effect of Electoral Geography on Pork Barreling in Bicameral Legislatures, American Journal of Political Science
  • The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures, American Political Science Review