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  • 4/28/14 http://wapo.st/1iH5dZW  Working for a federal agency may have perks, but knowing exactly who your boss is, may not be one of them, says Wesley Lowrey of the Washington Post.. In the political blog post, Lowery, a Capitol Hill reporter, cites a singular study recently published in the American Journal of Political Science, "Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight," co-written by CSDI Co-Directors Joshua C. Clinton, and David E. Lewis, and CSDI Graduate Fellow Jennifer L. Selin. "Essentially, the more congressional oversight committees are involved with policing a given agency, the less that agency perceives any of those committees as influential over how it should behave," Lowery writes."Even Congress itself has a hard time telling which committees have jurisdiction over different issues," Lowery quotes Lewis as saying. "The people who are running programs and agencies turn to the White House for policy guidance, not to Congress."
  • 4/24/14  http://wapo.st/1va7JZ5 "No, Southern Whites are not the new blacks" Larry Bartels, Washington Post Monkey Cage
  • 4/16/14 http://wapo.st/1nEOPa2 Can the Republican Party thrive on white identity? is CSDI Co-Director Larry Bartels latest post on the Washington Post Monkey Cage. A working paper co-authored by Vanderbilt political science Assistant Professor Cecilia Mo is referenced in the piece which examines identity politics in a more diverse future America.
  • 4/8/14 http://wapo.st/1pPefVs How money effects U.S. politics and policy are explored in CSDI Co-Director Larry Bartel's post Rich People Rule! in the Washington Post Monkey Cage.
  • 2/26/14 http://wapo.st/1cdbfP9 In America's War on Poverty, the free market is AWOL, CSDI Co-Director Larry Bartels writes that while the gross domestic product has increased 75 percent since 1967, more than 40 percent of American's household incomes are no higher than they were forty years ago. The notion that free enterprise would raise all the (proverbial) boats in the harbor, or distribute wealth to the Americans has just not come to pass, he concludes. Read more of this post in the Washington Post Monkey Cage.