Michael Ting
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
School of International and Public Affairs - Organizer, Workshop on American Society and Politics
Research
Michael Ting is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
His primary research interest is in formal models of political institutions, with an emphasis on bureaucracy, elections, and legislatures. Currently, he is pursuing several projects on topics such as bureaucratic task assignments, the link between elections and legislative behavior (with James Snyder), election models with bounded rationality (with Jonathan Bendor and Daniel Diermeier), and approval regulation in the pharmaceutical industry (with Daniel Carpenter).
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 Political Science department and SIPA, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Selected Work
- "The Political Logic of Regulatory Error: Some Theoretical Reflections on the Vioxx Episode." 2005 (forthcoming). Nature Reviews – Drug Discovery. (with Daniel Carpenter) 2005.
- "Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting." American Economic Review 95(4): 981-1004. (with James Snyder and Stephen Ansolabehere) 2005.
- "Voting Weights and Formateur Advantages in the Formation of Coalition Governments." American Journal of Political Science 49(3): 550-563. (with Stephen Ansolabehere, James Snyder, and Aaron Strauss) 2005.
- "Why Roll Calls? A Model of Position-Taking in Legislative Voting and Elections." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 21(1): 153-178. (with James Snyder).
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Michael Ting
