PUBLICATIONS BY DATE

Forthcoming


Hollibaugh, Gary, E., Jr., and George A. Krause. nd. “Legislative Responses to Shared Executive Authority: How the Prospects for Executive Branch Coordination Influence Congressional Budgetary Authority under Separated Powers.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. Forthcoming. [Early View Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix] [Dataverse Link]

Krause, George A., and Jason S. Byers. nd. “Proponents, Caretakers, and the Dynamics of Administrative Leadership Turnover in U.S. Executive Agencies.” Political Research Quarterly. Forthcoming. [Early View Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [Dataverse Link]

2023


Krause, George A., and Jungyeon Park. 2023. “Does Coordinated Administrative Leadership Improve U.S. Federal Agency Management of Discrimination Problems?” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 33(July): 529-545
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link][Dataverse Link]

Krause, George A, and Jungyeon Park. 2023. “How Status-Group Power Differentials Shape Age Discrimination within U.S. Federal Agencies: Evidence from EEOC Formal Complaint Filings, 2010-2019.” Public Administration Review. 83(January/February): 51-64.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [Dataverse Link]

2022


Krause, George A., and Matthew Zarit. 2022. “The Retraction of Policy Benefits Across U.S. Federal Agencies: Programmatic Cutbacks and Executive Control of U.S. Federal Grant Retrenchments.” Public Administration Review 82(July/August): 682-691.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [Dataverse Link

Krause, George A., and Jason S. Byers.  2022.  “Confirmation Dynamics: Differential Vetting in the Appointment of U.S. Federal Agency Leaders.” Journal of Politics 84(May): 1189-1201.
[Article Link
[Supplementary Appendix] [JOP Dataverse Link] [JOP Blog Post]

Krause, George A. 2022. “Solving Collective Action Problems under Separated and Shared Powers: The Benefits of Consolidating Executive Budgetary Powers, 1895-1940.” Journal of Politics 84(May): 753-766.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [JOP Dataverse Link] [JOP Blog Post]

Krause, George A., and Matthew Zarit. 2022. “Policy-Specific Expertise and the Importance of Organizational Leadership in Shared Administrative Governance: Evidence from U.S. Federal Cooperative Agreements.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 38(March): 272-306.
 [Article Link[Supplementary Appendix Link[Dataverse Link]

Krause, George A., and Matthew Zarit. 2022. “Selling Out? Contingent Politicization and Contracting Risk in U.S. Federal Procurements, 2001−2016.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2(4): 509-535.
 [Article Link] [Dataverse Link] 

2020


Krause, George A. 2020. “Why is Political Economy a Subfield in Comparative Politics and International Relations, but not in American Politics? Lessons from the Past, Prescriptions for the Future.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 1(September): 449-475.
[Article Link]

Berkowitz, Daniel M., and George A. Krause. 2020. “How Bureaucratic Leadership Shapes Policy Outcomes: Partisan Politics and Affluent Citizens Incomes in the American States.” Journal of Public Policy 40(June) 305-328.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link]  [Dataverse Link]

Krause, George A., and Roger Qiyuan Jin. 2020. “Organizational Design and its Consequences for Administrative Reform: Historical Lessons from the U.S. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.” Governance 33(April): 365-384.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link]  [Dataverse Link]

Krause, George A., and Matthew Zarit. 2020. “Understanding Political-Economic Development in the American South.” Economics & Politics 32(March) 172-195.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [Dataverse Link]

2019


Krause, George A., and Anne Joseph O’Connell. 2019 “Understanding Loyalty-Competence Tradeoffs for Appointed U.S. Federal Bureaucratic Leaders During the Modern Administrative Presidency Era.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 49(September): 527-550.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Appendix Link] [Dataverse Link]

2016


Krause, George A., and Anne Joseph O’Connell. 2016. “Experiential Learning and Presidential Management of the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy: Logic and Evidence from Agency Leadership Appointments.” American Journal of Political Science 60(October): 914-931.
[Article] [Supplementary Appendix] [Dataverse Link] [AJPS Blog Entry]

2015


Krause, George A., and Ian Palmer Cook. 2015. “Partisan Presidential Influence over U.S. Federal Budgetary Outcomes: Evidence from a Stochastic Decomposition of Executive Budget Proposals.” Political Science Research & Methods 2(May): 243 – 264.
[Article Link] [Supplementary Materials] [Dataverse Link]

Carpenter, Daniel, and George A. Krause. 2015. “Transactional Authority and Bureaucratic Politics.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25(January):  5–25.
[Article]

2014


Krause, George A., and Benjamin F. Melusky.  2014.  “Retrospective Economic Voting and the Intertemporal Dynamics of Electoral Accountability in the American States.” Journal of Politics 76(October): 1102–1115.
[Article] [Supplementary Appendix] [Dataverse Link] [LSEPS American Politics & Policy Blog]

Krause, George A., and Neal D. Woods. 2014. “Policy Delegation, Comparative Institutional Capacity, and Administrative Politics in the American States.” Pages 363-393. An original essay in the edited book volume The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government. Donald P. Haider-Markel, ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
[Essay]

2013


Krause, George A. 2013. “Representative Democracy and Policymaking in the Administrative State: Is Agency Policymaking Necessarily Better?” Journal of Public Policy 33(August): 111– 135.
[Article]

Krause, George A., David E. Lewis, and James W. Douglas. 2013. “Politics Can Limit Policy Opportunism in Fiscal Institutions: Evidence from Official General Fund Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32(Spring): 271-295.
[Article]

Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2013. “Organizational Structure and the Optimal Design of Policymaking Panels: Evidence from Consensus Group Commissions’ Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science 57(January): 135-149.
[Article] [Supplementary Appendix] [Dataverse Link] [AJPS Blog Entry]

2012


Kanthak, Kristin, and George A. Krause. 2012. The Diversity Paradox: Political Parties, Legislatures, and the Organizational Foundations of Representation in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
[Book Information]

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Krause, George A., and Benjamin F. Melusky. 2012. “Concentrated Powers: Unilateral Executive Authority and Fiscal Policymaking in the American States.” Journal of Politics 74(January): 98-112.
[Article] [Supplementary Appendix

Carpenter, Daniel P., and George A. Krause. 2012. “Reputation and Public Administration.” Public Administration Review 72(January/February): 26-32.
[Article]

2011


Kanthak, Kristin, and George A. Krause. 2011. “Coordination Dilemmas and the Valuation of Women in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Critical Mass Problem.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 23(April): 188-214.
[Article] [Supplementary Appendix]

2010


Krause, George A. 2010. “Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies.” A review essay in the edited book volume The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy. Robert F. Durant, ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
[Essay]

Kanthak, Kristin, and George A. Krause. 2010. “Valuing Diversity in Political Organizations: Gender and ‘Token’ Minorities in the U.S. House of Representatives.” American Journal of Political Science 54(October): 839-854.
[Article] [Supplementary Technical Appendix]

2009


Krause, George A., and Brent M. Dupay. 2009. “Coordinated Action and the Limits of Presidential Control Over the Bureaucracy: Lessons from the George W. Bush Presidency.” An original essay in the edited book volume President George W. Bush’s Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers. Colin Provost and Paul Teske, eds. New York: Palgrave.
[Essay]

Krause, George A. 2009. “Organizational Complexity and Coordination Dilemmas in U.S. Executive Politics.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 39(March): 74–88. (Special Issue on ‘The Administrative Presidency’).
[Article]

2007


Gomez, Brad T., Thomas G. Hansford, and George A. Krause. 2007. “The Republicans Should Pray for Rain: Weather, Turnout, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections.” Journal of Politics 69(August): 649–663.
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Article] [Supplementary Appendix]

Krause, George A., and J. Kevin Corder. 2007. “Explaining Bureaucratic Optimism: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Federal Executive Agency Macroeconomic Forecasts.” American Political Science Review 101(February): 129–142.
[Article] [Supplementary Technical Appendix]

2006


Krause, George A., David E. Lewis, and James W. Douglas. 2006. “Political Appointments, Civil Service Systems, and Bureaucratic Competence: Organizational Balancing and Executive Branch Revenue Forecasts in the American States.” American Journal of Political Science 50(July): 770–787. [Article]

Krause, George A. 2006. “Beyond the Norm: Cognitive Biases and the Behavioral Underpinnings of U.S. Federal Agency Macroeconomic Forecasts.” Rationality and Society 18(May): 157–191. [Article]

Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2006. “Does Agency Competition Improve the Quality of Policy Analysis? Evidence from OMB and CBO Current Year Fiscal Projections.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25(Winter): 53–74. [Article]

2005


Krause, George A., and Ann O’M. Bowman. 2005. “Adverse Selection, Political Parties, and Policy Delegation in the American Federal System.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 21(October): 359–387. [Article]

Krause, George A., and James W. Douglas. 2005. “Institutional Design versus Reputational Explanations of Agency Performance: Evidence from U.S. Government Macroeconomic and Fiscal Projections.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(April): 281–306. [Article]

Krause, George A. 2005. “Electoral Incentives, Political Business Cycles, and Macroeconomic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Postwar U.S. Personal Income Growth.” British Journal of Political Science 5(January): 77–101. [Article]

2004


Krause, George A. 2004. “The Secular Decline in Presidential Domestic Policy Making: An Organizational Perspective.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 34(December): 79–92. [Article]

2003


Krause, George A., and Kenneth J. Meier. Editors. 2003. Politics, Policy, and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. [Paperback Edition: August 2005]. [Book]

Politics, Policy, and Organizations Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy

Krause, George A. 2003 (2005). “Agency Risk Propensities Involving the Demand for Bureaucratic Discretion.” An original essay in the edited book volume Politics, Policy, and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Public Bureaucracy. George A. Krause and Kenneth J. Meier, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. [Essay]

Meier, Kenneth J., and George A. Krause. 2003 (2005). “Conclusion: An Agenda for the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy.” A review essay in the co–edited book volume Politics, Policy, and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Public Bureaucracy. George A. Krause and Kenneth J. Meier, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. [Essay]

Meier, Kenneth J., and George A. Krause. 2003 (2005). “The Scientific Study of Bureaucracy: An Overview.” A review essay in the co–edited book volume Politics, Policy, and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Public Bureaucracy. George A. Krause and Kenneth J. Meier, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. [Essay]

Bowman, Ann O’M., and George A. Krause. 2003. “Power Shift: Measuring Policy Centralization in U.S. Intergovernmental Relations, 1947–1998.” American Politics Research 31(May): 301–325. [Article]

Krause, George A. 2003.“Uncertainty and Legislative Capacity for Controlling the Bureaucracy.” An original essay in the edited book volume Uncertainty in American Politics. Barry C. Burden, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Essay]

Krause, George A. 2003. “Coping with Uncertainty: Analyzing Risk Propensities of SEC Budgetary Decisions, 1949–1997.” American Political Science Review 97(February): 171–188. [Article][Unpublished Companion Working Paper]

2002


Krause, George A. 2002.“Separated Powers and Institutional Growth in the Presidential and Congressional Branches: Distinguishing Between Short–Run versus Long–Run Dynamics.” Political Research Quarterly 55(March) 27–57. [Article]

2001


Whitby, Kenny J., and George A. Krause. 2001. “Race, Issue Heterogeneity, and Public Policy: The Republican Revolution of the 104th U.S. Congress and the Representation of African–American Policy Interests.” British Journal of Political Science 31(July): 555–572. [Article]

2000


Granato, Jim, and George A. Krause. 2000. “Information Diffusion within the Electorate: The Asymmetric Transmission of Political–Economic Information.” Electoral Studies 19(December): 519–537. [Article]

Cohen, David B., and George A. Krause. 2000. “Presidents, Chiefs of Staff, and White House Organizational Behavior: Survey Evidence From the Reagan and Bush Administrations.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 30(September): 421–442. [Article]

Krause, George A. 2000. “Testing for the Strong Form of Rational Expectations with Heterogeneously Informed Agents.” Political Analysis 8(Summer): 285–305. [Article]

Krause, George A. 2000. “Partisan and Ideological Sources of Fiscal Deficits in the United States.” American Journal of Political Science 44(July): 541–559. [Article]

Krause, George A., and Jeffrey E. Cohen. 2000. “Opportunity, Constraints, and the Development of the Institutional Presidency: The Case of Executive Order Issuance, 1939–1996.” Journal of Politics 62(February): 88-114. [Article]

1999


Krause, George A. 1999. A Two-Way Street: The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. [Paperback and Digital Editions: October 2010]. [Book]

A Two-Way Street The Institutional Dynamics of the Modern Administrative State

1998


Krause, George A., and Jim Granato. 1998. “Fooling Some of the Public Some of the Time? A Test for Weak Rationality with Heterogeneous Information Levels.” Public Opinion Quarterly 62(Summer): 135-151. [Article]

1997


Krause, George A. 1997. “Policy Preference Formation and Subsystem Behaviour: The Case of Commercial Bank Regulation.” British Journal of Political Science 27(October): 525–550. [Article]

Krause, George A., and David B. Cohen. 1997. “Presidential Use of Executive Orders, 1953-1994.” American Politics Quarterly 25(October): 458–481. [Article] [Erratum]

Mooney, Christopher Z., and George A. Krause. 1997. “Of Silicon and Political Science: Computationally Intensive Techniques of Statistical Estimation and Inference.” British Journal of Political Science 27(January): 83–110. [Article]

Krause, George A. 1997. “Voters, Information Heterogeneity, and the Dynamics of Aggregate Economic Expectations.” American Journal of Political Science 41(October): 1170–1200. [Article]

1996


Krause, George A. 1996. “The Institutional Dynamics of Policy Administration: Bureaucratic Influence over Securities Regulation.” American Journal of Political Science 40(November): 1083–1121. [Article]

Krause, George A. 1996. “Agent Heterogeneity and Consensual Decision Making on the Federal Open Market Committee.” Public Choice 88(July): 83–101. [Article]

1995


Dilger, Robert Jay, George A. Krause, and Randolph R. Moffett. 1995. “State Legislative Professionalism and Gubernatorial Effectiveness, 1978–91.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 20(November): 553–571. [Article]

1994


Krause, George A. 1994. “Economics, Politics, and Policy Change: Examining the Consequences of Deregulation in the Banking Industry.” American Politics Quarterly 22(April): 221–243. [Article]

Krause, George A. 1994. “Federal Reserve Policy Decision Making: Political and Bureaucratic Influences.” American Journal of Political Science 38(February): 124–144. [Article]