JoBeth Shafran

JoBeth Shafran Image
Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Political Science and Public Affairs

351 Stillwell Building

Education

  • Ph D, University of Texas Austin, Government
  • MA, University of Texas Austin

Teaching Interests

American politics and institutions;policy theories and processes; bureaucratic politics; congressional-bureaucratic interactions; subsystem policy making, including problem definition, agenda setting, and implementation; and research design

Research Interests

My research centers on information sharing in subsystems which consist of issue-specific experts from three sources: congressional committees with jurisdiction, relevant bureaucracies, and vested interest groups. I focus on the conditions under which information is supplied to Congress and the effects of information on problem definitions and the policy process.