Curriculum Vitae

René Lindstädt

 

Office

 

Department of Political Science

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Ward Melville Social and Behavioral Sciences Building, 7th Floor

Room N-721

Stony Brook, NY 11794-4392

631.632.6488 (Office)

631.632.4116 (Fax)

Email: rene.lindstaedt@stonybrook.edu

Internet: http://www.ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~rlindstaedt

 

Home

 

16 Evergreen Ave., 1st Floor

Huntington Station, NY

631.470.1598 (Home)

631.559.3632 (Cell)

 

Academic Appointments

 

Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook (since 2006)

 

Education

 

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, Political Science (May 2006)

Committee: Gary J. Miller (Chair), Randall Calvert, Andrew D. Martin, Douglass C. North.

Outside Readers: Lee Epstein (Political Science), Mark R. Rank (Social Work).

Dissertation: "Three Essays on the Political Economy of Separation-of-Powers Institutions."

Fields: American Politics, Political Methodology.

Research Interests: Political Institutions, Bureaucratic and Legislative Politics, American Political Development, Formal Theory, and Political Methodology.

Graduate Certificate, Washington University in St. Louis, New Institutional Social Sciences (May 2006)

 

ABD Status, Washington University in St. Louis, Political Science (January 2005)

 

Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, Department of Political Science (Summer 2003)

 

M.A., Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis (2002)

 

M.A., European Studies, Washington University in St. Louis (2000)

 

B.A. (equivalent), Political Science and Modern History, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany (1999)

 

Dissertation

 

Essay 1: "Core Supporters or Swing Voters? The Geo-Politics of New Deal Spending."

 

Essay 2: "Roosevelt's Congressional Strategy: Distributive Politics and New Deal Coalition Building."

 

Essay 3: "The Institutional Foundations of Delegation: Legislative Monitoring Regimes in Weak and Strong Party Systems."

 

Publications

 

2006. "The Changing Dynamics of Senate Voting on Supreme Court Nominees." Journal of Politics 68:2, 296-307. (With Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Chad Westerland)

 

2006. "Judging Statutes: Interpretive Regimes." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 38:5, 1909-70 (Symposium). (With Nancy Staudt, Lee Epstein, Peter J. Wiedenbeck, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen)

 

2005. "The Role of Qualifications in the Confirmation of Nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court." Florida State University Law Review 32:4, 1145-73 (Symposium). (With Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, and Nancy Staudt)

 

1999. Annäherung an die EU. Studienbrief 2-010-010. Fachhochschul-Fernstudienverband der Länder Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen, 1. Auflage. (With Daniela Schwarzer)

 

Works in Progress

"Roosevelt's Congressional Strategy: Distributive Politics and New Deal Coalition Building." (Dissertation Essay)

 

"Core Supporters or Swing Voters? The Geo-Politics of New Deal Spending." Previous version presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (Dissertation Essay)

 

"Chasing the Firm or Rewarding the Partisans? Domestic Responses to International Tax Competition in the OECD, 1982-1998." Multinational Enterprises Working Paper 6-2005. Previous version presented at the 2005 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (With Nathan M. Jensen)

 

"The Institutional Foundations of Delegation: Legislative Monitoring Regimes in Weak and Strong Party Systems." Previous version presented at the 2005 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. (Dissertation Essay)

"Analyzing the Effects of Elections on Strategic Position Taking in the U.S. Senate." Previous version presented at the 2004 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. (With Ryan J. Vander Wielen)

 

"Auditing the Court: Congressional Oversight of Supreme Court Tax Opinions." (With Nancy Staudt)

 

"Discharge Petition Bargaining in the House, 1913-2001." Previous version presented at the 2003 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. (With Andrew D. Martin)

 

"It's All About the Euros: A Principal-Agent Model of the EU Appropriations Process." Previous version presented at the 2001 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

"When Parties, When Caucuses?"

 

"Who Goes Negative? Negative Campaigning in U.S. Presidential Debates, 1976-1996." (With Martin F. Battle)

 

Grants and Fellowships

 

Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. 2005-2006. Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Political Methodology Lab Fellow. 2003-2004. Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (CNISS) Fellow. 2001-2004. Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Graduate Student Fellowship. 2000-2005. Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Honors and Awards

 

Highest Honors. 2002. American Politics Comprehensive Examination. Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science.

 

Otto E. Ganzow Memorial Scholarship. 2000-2002. Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Conference Presentations

 

2005. "Core Supporters or Swing Voters? The Geo-Politics of New Deal Spending." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

 

2005. "Chasing the Firm or Rewarding the Partisans? Domestic Responses to International Tax Competition in the OECD, 1982-1998." Multinational Enterprises Working Paper 6-2005. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (With Nathan M. Jensen)

 

2005. "The Institutional Foundations of Delegation: Legislative Monitoring Regimes in Weak and Strong Party Systems." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.

 

2004. "Analyzing the Effects of Elections on Strategic Position Taking in the Senate." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. (With Ryan J. Vander Wielen)

 

2003. "Discharge Petition Bargaining in the House, 1913-2001." Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois. (With Andrew D. Martin)

 

2001. "It's All About the Euros: A Principal-Agent Model of the EU Appropriations Process." Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

2001. "The Role and Impact of Informational Asymmetries in the EU: The Budget Game." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California.

 

Teaching Experience

 

Instructor, University College, Washington University in St. Louis.

Comparative Public Bureaucracy (Fall Semester 2003).

New Deal Politics (Summer Semester of 2003).
Introduction to American Politics (Spring Semester 2003).
The Politics of the European Union (Summer Semester 2001).

Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.

Social-Scientific Research for Lawyers, Prof. Lee Epstein, Ph.D. (Fall 2004).

Theories of Collective Choice, Prof. Randall Calvert, Ph.D. (Spring 2004).
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Prof. Sunita Parikh, Ph.D. (Fall 2003).
Introduction to American Politics, Prof. Gary J. Miller, Ph.D. (Spring 2003).
Defendant's Rights, Prof. Lee Epstein, Ph.D. (Spring 2002).
Public Opinion and American Democracy, Prof. Lester K. Spence, Ph.D. (Fall 2001).
Constitutional Politics in the United States, Prof. Randall Calvert, Ph.D. (Spring 2001).

Professional and Departmental Service

Referee. Journal of Politics; Economics and Politics; European Union Politics.

 

Research Assistant. Summer 2005. Prof. Nancy Staudt, J.D., Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law.

 

Research Assistant. Spring 2005, Fall 2002. Prof. Mikhail Fillipov, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science.

 

Research Assistant. 2003-2004. Prof. Lee Epstein, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law.

 

Vice-President. 2001-2002. Free Union of Graduate Students. Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science.

 

Organizer. 2001-2002. Political Science Graduate Student Research Seminar. Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science.

 

Research Assistant. 1997-1999. Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hrbek, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Abteilung I: Innen- und EU-Politik und Politische Theorie.

 

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

References

 

Gary J. Miller, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Political Science

Campus Box 1063

Washington University

St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

(314) 935-5874 (Office)

(314) 935-5856 (Fax)

Email: gjmiller@wustl.edu

Randall Calvert, Ph.D.
Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Department of Political Science
Campus Box 1063
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
(314) 935-5846 (Office)
(314) 935-5856 (Fax)
Email: calvert@wustl.edu

 

Lee Epstein , Ph.D.
Beatrice Kuhn Professor of Law

School of Law
Northwestern University
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611-3069
(312) 503-1838 (Office)
Email: lee-epstein@law.northwestern.edu

 

Andrew D. Martin, Ph.D.

Professor

School of Law

Campus Box 1120

Washington University

St. Louis MO 63130

(314) 935-5863 (Office)

(314) 935-5150 (Fax)

Email: admartin@wustl.edu

Douglass C. North, Ph.D.
Spencer T. Olin Professor
Department of Economics
Campus Box 1208
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
(314) 935-5670 (Office)
(314) 935-4156 (Fax)
Email: north@economics.wustl.edu