Gregory J Wawro
Biographic Data
| ID | 2564006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory J Wawro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wawro |
| SIGNATURE | WAWRO G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8137-7285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Race, gender, and party in EEOC cases, 1996–2006: Assessing the role of judge attributes in case outcomes in the US district courts
We study the relationship between trial judge attributes and monetary outcomes in cases brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We define an estimand, the average feature comparison (AFC), that addresses whether or not a case outcome would differ were it assigned to a judge of one type as opposed to another—here male versus female, White versus non‐White, or Republican versus Democratic appointee. We develop a framework for estima…
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Reynolds, Molly E. Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate
Reynolds, Molly E. Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate." Congress & the Presidency, 46(1), pp. 177–178
Reid's Rules: Filibusters, the Nuclear Option, and Path Dependence in the US Senate
The recent moves by senators to impose majority cloture for nominations provides a unique opportunity for advancing our understanding of the evolution of the Senate into a supermajoritarian institution. We integrate discussion of alternative theoretical perspectives on Senate development and path dependence to shed new light on mechanisms of stability and change, concluding that the perspective that Senate majorities have generally maintained sup…
Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the US Senate. We propose that nominations to the same level court be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with storable votes, allowing each senator to allocate freely across the list a fixed number of total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it po…
A discussion of Melissa Schwartzberg's Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule
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The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Journal Article The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate Get access The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate by Steven S. Smith. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 424 pp. $34.95. Gregory J. Wawro Gregory J. Wawro Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, …
Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry: How Parameter Heterogeneity Can Bridge the Methodological Divide between Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Seeking to advance historical studies of political institutions and behavior, we argue for an expansion of the standard methodological toolkit with a set of innovative approaches that privilege parameter heterogeneity to capture nuances missed by more commonly used approaches. We address critiques by prominent historians and historically oriented political scientists who have underscored the shortcomings of mainstream quantitative approaches for …
Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
Legislative Obstructionism
We review debates concerning the evolution and impact of parliamentary obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on path dependency versus remote majoritarian perspectives. We consider the viability of circumventing supermajority requirements for rules changes by using rulings from the chair to establish precedents. Because the viability of this approach depends, at least in part, on the anticipated reaction of the public, we conduct a preliminary…
The rationalizing public
Rationalization is the adjustment of one's beliefs about politically relevant information, the better to fit one's political behavior or one's political attitudes. This reverses the usual causal order, in which it is assumed that people start with values, add what little factual information they have, and produce policy, partisan, or ideological “attitudes” as a result. If people actually work backwards from their political behavior to their atti…
Peculiar Institutions: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Minority Obstruction in the Antebellum Senate
This article examines obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on political conflict in the antebellum period. I consider different theories that predict when obstruction should occur and conduct individual-level analysis of the use of and support for dilatory tactics. The analysis investigates how the costs of obstruction, the probability that obstruction succeeds, the policy preferences of the senator, and the salience of legislation relate to …
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre‐cloture Senate
This article employs a three‐pronged approach to test competing theories regarding the size of coalitions required for passing legislation prior to the adoption of cloture in the Senate. We compare predictions generated by a model derived from the theory of pivotal politics with those generated by the theory of universalism. To test these predictions, we first examine coalition sizes on the passage of significant legislation. Second, we analyze t…
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre-Cloture Senate
Estimating Dynamic Panel Data Models in Political Science
Panel data are a very valuable resource for finding empirical solutions to political science puzzles. Yet numerous published studies in political science that use panel data to estimate models with dynamics have failed to take into account important estimation issues, which calls into question the inferences we can make from these analyses. The failure to account explicitly for unobserved individual effects in dynamic panel data induces bias and …
A Panel Probit Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Votes
Despite numerous analyses of the relationship between campaign contributions and the roll-call voting behavior of members of Congress, we still lack definitive answers to longstanding questions about whether contributions affect votes. Part of the reason for this is that it is methodologically difficult to account for members' predispositions to vote in favor of PACs' interests. This article seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship …
Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives
When members are elected to the House of Representatives they have a certain freedom to decide how they will act as members and how they will build their reputations. Just as in the market place entrepreneurs build businesses, so in the House of Representatives members have the freedom to choose to build legislative programs that will enhance their reputations in the institution. And yet entrepreneurship is also costly to members. Gregory Wawro e…
A Panel Probit Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Votes
Despite numerous analyses of the relationship between campaign contributions and the roll-call voting behavior of members of Congress, we still lack definitive answers to longstanding questions about whether contributions affect votes. Part of the reason for this is that it is methodologically difficult to account for members' predispositions to vote in favor of PACs' interests. This article seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship …
Estimating Dynamic Panel Data Models in Political Science
Panel data are a very valuable resource for finding empirical solutions to political science puzzles. Yet numerous published studies in political science that use panel data to estimate models with dynamics have failed to take into account important estimation issues, which calls into question the inferences we can make from these analyses. The failure to account explicitly for unobserved individual effects in dynamic panel data induces bias and …
Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre‐cloture Senate
This article employs a three‐pronged approach to test competing theories regarding the size of coalitions required for passing legislation prior to the adoption of cloture in the Senate. We compare predictions generated by a model derived from the theory of pivotal politics with those generated by the theory of universalism. To test these predictions, we first examine coalition sizes on the passage of significant legislation. Second, we analyze t…
Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry: How Parameter Heterogeneity Can Bridge the Methodological Divide between Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Seeking to advance historical studies of political institutions and behavior, we argue for an expansion of the standard methodological toolkit with a set of innovative approaches that privilege parameter heterogeneity to capture nuances missed by more commonly used approaches. We address critiques by prominent historians and historically oriented political scientists who have underscored the shortcomings of mainstream quantitative approaches for …
Legislative Obstructionism
We review debates concerning the evolution and impact of parliamentary obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on path dependency versus remote majoritarian perspectives. We consider the viability of circumventing supermajority requirements for rules changes by using rulings from the chair to establish precedents. Because the viability of this approach depends, at least in part, on the anticipated reaction of the public, we conduct a preliminary…
Reid's Rules: Filibusters, the Nuclear Option, and Path Dependence in the US Senate
The recent moves by senators to impose majority cloture for nominations provides a unique opportunity for advancing our understanding of the evolution of the Senate into a supermajoritarian institution. We integrate discussion of alternative theoretical perspectives on Senate development and path dependence to shed new light on mechanisms of stability and change, concluding that the perspective that Senate majorities have generally maintained sup…
Peculiar Institutions: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Minority Obstruction in the Antebellum Senate
This article examines obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on political conflict in the antebellum period. I consider different theories that predict when obstruction should occur and conduct individual-level analysis of the use of and support for dilatory tactics. The analysis investigates how the costs of obstruction, the probability that obstruction succeeds, the policy preferences of the senator, and the salience of legislation relate to …
The rationalizing public
Rationalization is the adjustment of one's beliefs about politically relevant information, the better to fit one's political behavior or one's political attitudes. This reverses the usual causal order, in which it is assumed that people start with values, add what little factual information they have, and produce policy, partisan, or ideological “attitudes” as a result. If people actually work backwards from their political behavior to their atti…
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Journal Article The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate Get access The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate by Steven S. Smith. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 424 pp. $34.95. Gregory J. Wawro Gregory J. Wawro Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, …
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre-Cloture Senate
Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives
When members are elected to the House of Representatives they have a certain freedom to decide how they will act as members and how they will build their reputations. Just as in the market place entrepreneurs build businesses, so in the House of Representatives members have the freedom to choose to build legislative programs that will enhance their reputations in the institution. And yet entrepreneurship is also costly to members. Gregory Wawro e…
A Panel Probit Analysis of Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Votes
Despite numerous analyses of the relationship between campaign contributions and the roll-call voting behavior of members of Congress, we still lack definitive answers to longstanding questions about whether contributions affect votes. Part of the reason for this is that it is methodologically difficult to account for members' predispositions to vote in favor of PACs' interests. This article seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship …
Estimating Dynamic Panel Data Models in Political Science
Panel data are a very valuable resource for finding empirical solutions to political science puzzles. Yet numerous published studies in political science that use panel data to estimate models with dynamics have failed to take into account important estimation issues, which calls into question the inferences we can make from these analyses. The failure to account explicitly for unobserved individual effects in dynamic panel data induces bias and …
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre‐cloture Senate
This article employs a three‐pronged approach to test competing theories regarding the size of coalitions required for passing legislation prior to the adoption of cloture in the Senate. We compare predictions generated by a model derived from the theory of pivotal politics with those generated by the theory of universalism. To test these predictions, we first examine coalition sizes on the passage of significant legislation. Second, we analyze t…
Where's the Pivot? Obstruction and Lawmaking in the Pre-Cloture Senate
Peculiar Institutions: Slavery, Sectionalism, and Minority Obstruction in the Antebellum Senate
This article examines obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on political conflict in the antebellum period. I consider different theories that predict when obstruction should occur and conduct individual-level analysis of the use of and support for dilatory tactics. The analysis investigates how the costs of obstruction, the probability that obstruction succeeds, the policy preferences of the senator, and the salience of legislation relate to …
The rationalizing public
Rationalization is the adjustment of one's beliefs about politically relevant information, the better to fit one's political behavior or one's political attitudes. This reverses the usual causal order, in which it is assumed that people start with values, add what little factual information they have, and produce policy, partisan, or ideological “attitudes” as a result. If people actually work backwards from their political behavior to their atti…
Legislative Obstructionism
We review debates concerning the evolution and impact of parliamentary obstruction in the U.S. Senate, focusing on path dependency versus remote majoritarian perspectives. We consider the viability of circumventing supermajority requirements for rules changes by using rulings from the chair to establish precedents. Because the viability of this approach depends, at least in part, on the anticipated reaction of the public, we conduct a preliminary…
Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate
Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry: How Parameter Heterogeneity Can Bridge the Methodological Divide between Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Seeking to advance historical studies of political institutions and behavior, we argue for an expansion of the standard methodological toolkit with a set of innovative approaches that privilege parameter heterogeneity to capture nuances missed by more commonly used approaches. We address critiques by prominent historians and historically oriented political scientists who have underscored the shortcomings of mainstream quantitative approaches for …
A discussion of Melissa Schwartzberg's Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate
Journal Article The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate Get access The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate by Steven S. Smith. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 424 pp. $34.95. Gregory J. Wawro Gregory J. Wawro Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, …
Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the US Senate. We propose that nominations to the same level court be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with storable votes, allowing each senator to allocate freely across the list a fixed number of total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it po…
Reid's Rules: Filibusters, the Nuclear Option, and Path Dependence in the US Senate
The recent moves by senators to impose majority cloture for nominations provides a unique opportunity for advancing our understanding of the evolution of the Senate into a supermajoritarian institution. We integrate discussion of alternative theoretical perspectives on Senate development and path dependence to shed new light on mechanisms of stability and change, concluding that the perspective that Senate majorities have generally maintained sup…
Reynolds, Molly E. Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate
Reynolds, Molly E. Exceptions to the Rule: The Politics of Filibuster Limitations in the U.S. Senate." Congress & the Presidency, 46(1), pp. 177–178
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Race, gender, and party in EEOC cases, 1996–2006: Assessing the role of judge attributes in case outcomes in the US district courts
We study the relationship between trial judge attributes and monetary outcomes in cases brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We define an estimand, the average feature comparison (AFC), that addresses whether or not a case outcome would differ were it assigned to a judge of one type as opposed to another—here male versus female, White versus non‐White, or Republican versus Democratic appointee. We develop a framework for estima…
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