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Michael Ting
International Affairs Building, Room 701
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-7945
michael.ting@sipa.columbia.edu
www.columbia.edu/~mmt2033/
mmt2033@columbia.edu
Biography:
Michael Ting is professor of political science and international and public affairs.
Professor Ting's primary research interest is in formal models of political institutions, with an emphasis on bureaucracy, elections and legislatures. Currently, he is pursuing projects on distributive politics and organizational design.
Professor Ting's recent publications include:
Forthcoming. “Elections and Reform: The Adoption of Civil Service Systems in the U.S. States.” Journal of Theoretical Politics. (with Olle Folke, Shigeo Hirano, and James Snyder)
Forthcoming. “Redistribution and Pork in Two-Party Competition.” Journal of the European Economic Association. (with John Huber)
“Legislatures, Bureaucracies and Distributive Spending.” American Political Science Review 106(2): 367-385. (2012)
“Electoral Selection with Parties and Primaries.” American Journal of Political Science 55(4): 782-796. (with James Snyder) (2011)
“Organizational Capacity.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 27(2): 245- 271. (2011)
"Distributive Politics with Primaries," with James Snyder and Shigeo Hirano in the Journal of Politics (2009)
"Whistleblowing," in the American Political Science Review (2008)
Professor Ting received his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MA from Harvard University and his PhD in political economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining the Department of Political Science and SIPA, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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