Sharyn O'Halloran

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Sharyn O’Halloran is the George Blumenthal Professor of Politics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City. A political scientist and economist by training, O’Halloran has written extensively on issues related to the political economy of international trade, regulation and institutional reform, economic growth and democratic transitions, and the political representation of minorities.

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[edit] Career

O’Halloran began her career at the Public Policy Program at Stanford University in 1990. She then joined the Columbia University faculty in the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs in 1993. She has received numerous prestigious grants and awards, including the 2005 Decade of Behavior Award, the Harvard-MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship in Political Economics, a Hoover Institution National Fellowship, a Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship, a Carnegie Corporation Scholarship, and National Science Foundation grants.

O’Halloran received a B.A. degree from University of California San Diego in 1985, studying economics and political science. O’Halloran then went on to receive advanced degrees in political science, her M.A. in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1991, also from University of California San Diego. Her graduate work focused on formal and quantitative methods and their application to politics and economics.

[edit] Selected publications

  • Politics, Process and American Trade Policy (University of Michigan Press, 1994)
  • Delegating Powers: A Transaction Cost Politics Approach to Policy Making Under Separate Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
  • “Administrative Procedures, Information, and Agency Discretion.” (American Journal of Political Science 38: 697-722, 1994)
  • “Divided Government and U.S. Trade Policy.” (International Organization 48: 595-632, 1994)
  • “Do Majority-Minority Districts Maximize Substantive Black Representation in Congress?” (American Political Science Review 90: 794-812, 1996)
  • “Democratic Transitions.” (American Journal of Political Science 50 (July): 551–569, 2006)

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