Kevin Fahey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1535164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Fahey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fahey |
| SIGNATURE | FAHEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5200-4850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time well spent? A population study of corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom
We find that corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom fails to deliver financial benefits to firms. We use two measures of access for the United Kingdom’s largest 2049 firms between 2013 and 2019: (1) all meetings between corporate representatives and ministers and (2) all state non-executive directorships held by the employees of those firms. Both meetings and non-executive directors (NEDs) skew dramatically towards a group of lar…
From Consensus to Fracture
Congress has a long history of deference to the Executive with regard to foreign policy and the intelligence community. During the Cold War in particular, Congress often wished to be kept at arm’s reach from covert operations conducted by Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. Yet in the 1980s, Members of Congress began to assert themselves over the Reagan administration’s covert operation to provide aid and weapons to the contra…
Strategic Candidates and Sacrificial Lambs
Which electorates suit which women candidates for higher office? This question becomes increasingly important as greater numbers of women run for office in American elections. Consistent with previous research, we posit that women candidates will win a greater percentage of the vote share in so-called women-friendly electorates. However, we suggest that these contextual effects will vary based on the interaction between candidate partisanship and…
Unbroken, but Dangerous
The framework for political donations in the UK creates a risk of political finance inflation, distorted political competition and corruption. In this article, we study reported donations from 2001 to 2023. The value of political donations, adjusted for inflation, has gone down—not up—over the period we study. Adjusting for the popularity of the parties, donations have been received relatively equally by the two big parties. The corruption risk f…
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield
Research has demonstrated that decisions around military conflict can significantly impact governments’ political survival. One important strand of the extant literature has focused on the impact of military labor systems, with most academic studies distinguishing between two types of systems: conscription, in which citizens are compelled to serve; and market-based enlistment according to which citizens self-select into military service. In this …
Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures
Recent scholarship debates the signaling function of secrecy and covertness. At the international level, covertness is used to achieve strategic objectives without risking escalation or openly violating international law. Domestically, secrecy is understood as a method to pacify domestic constituencies. These are typically understood as obstacles to the conduct of (covert) foreign policy. Building primarily on archival material, the analysis high…
Ain’t No Fortunate Son
Do the electoral incentives of political leaders influence who is compelled to serve in the military? We argue that conscription policy is designed by political actors who care about winning elections. In wartime, politicians face the twin threats of military and electoral defeat. Therefore, they will shield swing communities, who hold considerable sway over the outcome of elections, from some costs of military service. We leverage a novel databa…
Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer
What influenced women to volunteer for service in the US military during World War II? Whereas previous literature focused on potential intrinsic and extrinsic individual-level motives, we consider the broader structural context that may have played a role in female volunteerism. We leverage original data containing information on all volunteers who served in the US Army during World War II, with detailed county-level economic, political, and dem…
Extra, Extra, (Don't) Roll-off about It! Newspaper Endorsements for Ballot Measures
Voters often have difficulty making choices on the myriad state constitutional amendments they vote on each year. Without partisan cues, they turn to other sources for these low-salience, high complexity measures. One such source is newspaper endorsements. In this article, we look at newspaper endorsements of ballot measures in Florida over 20 years both on “no” votes and roll-off. We argue that endorsements' effect on “no” votes and roll-off dif…
The Perks of Being a Lawmaker
Extant literature demonstrates that holding public office is financially lucrative. Yet little is known about which sitting legislators profit from office. Relying on original data of members of the Florida legislature, I estimate predictors of income growth among sitting legislators. I find that legislators whose vote share increases by 10 percentage points between elections report income growth of nearly $20,000. This finding is robust to estim…
Demonstrating the (in) effectiveness of electoral reforms
The State and Direction of Asian Comparative Politics
In this article we explore the state of the discipline of comparative Asian politics. In particular we analyze five aspects of research on Asia: whether the empirical scope of research is largely noncomparative; the extent to which that research is empirical rather than theory-generative; whether it pertains to public or foreign policy; if it relies on qualitative rather than quantitative methods; and the gender and geographic concentration of th…
Using Electronic Portfolios to Make Learning Public
Electronic portfolio technology can be used in different contexts to create classroom communities in which everyone, not just the teacher, cares about each student's learning. The authors describe how students in an urban middle school, undergraduate teacher preparation program, and graduate leadership program used an electronic bulletin board and portfolio process to make all of their work public. In these classrooms, student work was not simply…
Extra, Extra, (Don't) Roll-off about It! Newspaper Endorsements for Ballot Measures
Voters often have difficulty making choices on the myriad state constitutional amendments they vote on each year. Without partisan cues, they turn to other sources for these low-salience, high complexity measures. One such source is newspaper endorsements. In this article, we look at newspaper endorsements of ballot measures in Florida over 20 years both on “no” votes and roll-off. We argue that endorsements' effect on “no” votes and roll-off dif…
The Perks of Being a Lawmaker
Extant literature demonstrates that holding public office is financially lucrative. Yet little is known about which sitting legislators profit from office. Relying on original data of members of the Florida legislature, I estimate predictors of income growth among sitting legislators. I find that legislators whose vote share increases by 10 percentage points between elections report income growth of nearly $20,000. This finding is robust to estim…
Ain’t No Fortunate Son
Do the electoral incentives of political leaders influence who is compelled to serve in the military? We argue that conscription policy is designed by political actors who care about winning elections. In wartime, politicians face the twin threats of military and electoral defeat. Therefore, they will shield swing communities, who hold considerable sway over the outcome of elections, from some costs of military service. We leverage a novel databa…
Unbroken, but Dangerous
The framework for political donations in the UK creates a risk of political finance inflation, distorted political competition and corruption. In this article, we study reported donations from 2001 to 2023. The value of political donations, adjusted for inflation, has gone down—not up—over the period we study. Adjusting for the popularity of the parties, donations have been received relatively equally by the two big parties. The corruption risk f…
Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer
What influenced women to volunteer for service in the US military during World War II? Whereas previous literature focused on potential intrinsic and extrinsic individual-level motives, we consider the broader structural context that may have played a role in female volunteerism. We leverage original data containing information on all volunteers who served in the US Army during World War II, with detailed county-level economic, political, and dem…
Demonstrating the (in) effectiveness of electoral reforms
Using Electronic Portfolios to Make Learning Public
Electronic portfolio technology can be used in different contexts to create classroom communities in which everyone, not just the teacher, cares about each student's learning. The authors describe how students in an urban middle school, undergraduate teacher preparation program, and graduate leadership program used an electronic bulletin board and portfolio process to make all of their work public. In these classrooms, student work was not simply…
The State and Direction of Asian Comparative Politics
In this article we explore the state of the discipline of comparative Asian politics. In particular we analyze five aspects of research on Asia: whether the empirical scope of research is largely noncomparative; the extent to which that research is empirical rather than theory-generative; whether it pertains to public or foreign policy; if it relies on qualitative rather than quantitative methods; and the gender and geographic concentration of th…
Extra, Extra, (Don't) Roll-off about It! Newspaper Endorsements for Ballot Measures
Voters often have difficulty making choices on the myriad state constitutional amendments they vote on each year. Without partisan cues, they turn to other sources for these low-salience, high complexity measures. One such source is newspaper endorsements. In this article, we look at newspaper endorsements of ballot measures in Florida over 20 years both on “no” votes and roll-off. We argue that endorsements' effect on “no” votes and roll-off dif…
The Perks of Being a Lawmaker
Extant literature demonstrates that holding public office is financially lucrative. Yet little is known about which sitting legislators profit from office. Relying on original data of members of the Florida legislature, I estimate predictors of income growth among sitting legislators. I find that legislators whose vote share increases by 10 percentage points between elections report income growth of nearly $20,000. This finding is robust to estim…
Demonstrating the (in) effectiveness of electoral reforms
Ain’t No Fortunate Son
Do the electoral incentives of political leaders influence who is compelled to serve in the military? We argue that conscription policy is designed by political actors who care about winning elections. In wartime, politicians face the twin threats of military and electoral defeat. Therefore, they will shield swing communities, who hold considerable sway over the outcome of elections, from some costs of military service. We leverage a novel databa…
Rosie the Riveter, Vera the Volunteer
What influenced women to volunteer for service in the US military during World War II? Whereas previous literature focused on potential intrinsic and extrinsic individual-level motives, we consider the broader structural context that may have played a role in female volunteerism. We leverage original data containing information on all volunteers who served in the US Army during World War II, with detailed county-level economic, political, and dem…
Secrecy and the politics of selective disclosures
Recent scholarship debates the signaling function of secrecy and covertness. At the international level, covertness is used to achieve strategic objectives without risking escalation or openly violating international law. Domestically, secrecy is understood as a method to pacify domestic constituencies. These are typically understood as obstacles to the conduct of (covert) foreign policy. Building primarily on archival material, the analysis high…
Strategic Candidates and Sacrificial Lambs
Which electorates suit which women candidates for higher office? This question becomes increasingly important as greater numbers of women run for office in American elections. Consistent with previous research, we posit that women candidates will win a greater percentage of the vote share in so-called women-friendly electorates. However, we suggest that these contextual effects will vary based on the interaction between candidate partisanship and…
Unbroken, but Dangerous
The framework for political donations in the UK creates a risk of political finance inflation, distorted political competition and corruption. In this article, we study reported donations from 2001 to 2023. The value of political donations, adjusted for inflation, has gone down—not up—over the period we study. Adjusting for the popularity of the parties, donations have been received relatively equally by the two big parties. The corruption risk f…
Military Labor Systems, Domestic Politics, and the Battlefield
Research has demonstrated that decisions around military conflict can significantly impact governments’ political survival. One important strand of the extant literature has focused on the impact of military labor systems, with most academic studies distinguishing between two types of systems: conscription, in which citizens are compelled to serve; and market-based enlistment according to which citizens self-select into military service. In this …
Time well spent? A population study of corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom
We find that corporate access to the executive in the United Kingdom fails to deliver financial benefits to firms. We use two measures of access for the United Kingdom’s largest 2049 firms between 2013 and 2019: (1) all meetings between corporate representatives and ministers and (2) all state non-executive directorships held by the employees of those firms. Both meetings and non-executive directors (NEDs) skew dramatically towards a group of lar…
From Consensus to Fracture
Congress has a long history of deference to the Executive with regard to foreign policy and the intelligence community. During the Cold War in particular, Congress often wished to be kept at arm’s reach from covert operations conducted by Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. Yet in the 1980s, Members of Congress began to assert themselves over the Reagan administration’s covert operation to provide aid and weapons to the contra…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)