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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1940 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John W. Patty is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on public policy, administration research, and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence.

Their research spans several subfields including safety research, economics and econometrics, strategy and management, public administration, and cognitive neuroscience. The main topics covered by their work include public policy and administration research, ethics and social impacts of AI, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, political influence and corporate strategies, regulation and compliance studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, and innovation and knowledge management.

John W. Patty has published extensively in notable venues, including:

  • Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (4 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (4 publications)
  • Journal of Theoretical Politics (2 publications)
  • American Journal of Political Science (2 publications)
  • The Journal of Politics (1 publication)

Recent papers showcase a range of interests and methodologies, with titles such as:

  • Ex Post Review and Expert Policy Making: When Does Oversight Reduce Accountability? (2020, The Journal of Politics)
  • Algorithmic Fairness and Statistical Discrimination (2022, Philosophy Compass)
  • Identity and Information in Organizations (2020, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy)
  • Working Towards Policy: A Theory of Organizational Implementation and Management (2023, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory)
  • Ban the Box? Information, Incentives, and Statistical Discrimination (2023, Quarterly Journal of Political Science)

Collaborations have been a part of their research, with frequent co-authors including Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Ian R. Turner, Torun Dewan, Tom Clark, and Emily H. Moore.

John W. Patty was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Expertise

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Learning While Governing: Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Formal Models of Bureaucracy

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • A Theory of Voting in Large Elections

    Richard D. McKelvey;John W. Patty

  • Equilibrium Party Government

    John W. Patty

  • Business as usual: interest group access and representation across policy-making venues

    Frederick J. Boehmke;Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Whose Ear to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy-Making

    Frederick J. Boehmke;Sean Gailmard;John Wiggs Patty

  • Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility

    John W. Patty;Elizabeth Maggie Penn

  • Social Choice and Legitimacy

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  • Preventing Prevention

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  • Signaling through obstruction

    John W. Patty

  • Manipulation and Single‐Peakedness: A General Result

    Elizabeth Maggie Penn;John W. Patty;Sean Gailmard

  • Letting the good times roll: A theory of voter inference and experimental evidence

    John W. Patty;Roberto A. Weber

  • Loss aversion, presidential responsibility, and midterm congressional elections

    John Wiggs Patty

  • Generic difference of expected vote share and probability of victory maximization in simple plurality elections with probabilistic voters

    John W. Patty

  • The Politics of Biased Information

    John W. Patty

  • Local equilibrium equivalence in probabilistic voting models

    John Wiggs Patty

  • Equivalence of Objectives in Two Candidate Elections

    John W. Patty

  • Analyzing Big Data: Social Choice and Measurement

    John W. Patty;Elizabeth Maggie Penn

  • The House Discharge Procedure and Majoritarian Politics

    John W. Patty

  • THE SELECTION OF POLICIES FOR BALLOT INITIATIVES: WHAT VOTERS CAN LEARN FROM LEGISLATIVE INACTION

    Frederick J. Boehmke;John W. Patty

  • Two's Company, Three's an Equilibrium: Strategic Voting and Multicandidate Elections

    John W. Patty;James M. Snyder;Michael M. Ting

  • Participation, process and policy: the informational value of politicised judicial review

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Valence and Campaigns

    Jennifer Carter;John W. Patty

  • Ex Post Review and Expert Policy Making: When Does Oversight Reduce Accountability?

    John W. Patty;Ian R. Turner

  • Separation of Powers, Information, and Bureaucratic Structure 1

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Dilatory or anticipatory? Voting on the Journal in the House of Representatives

    John W. Patty

  • Ex Post Review and Expert Policymaking: When Does Oversight Reduce Accountability?

    John W. Patty;Ian R. Turner

  • Voter Information and Cues in Direct Legislation Settings

    Frederick J Boehmke;John W Patty

  • Giving Advice Versus Making Decisions: Transparency, Information, and Delegation

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Information & Contestation: A Formal Model of Notice and Comment á

    Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

  • Whose Ear (or Arm) to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy Making

    Frederick J. Boehmke;Sean Gailmard;John W. Patty

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto A. Weber
Roberto A. Weber University of Zurich
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Brian F. Crisp
Brian F. Crisp Washington University in St. Louis

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