Jowei Chen
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
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Jowei Chen’s research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies, and legislatures. He has studied how legislators’ pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts, and he has examined how government spending influences voters. He is also interested in the political control of executive agencies.
- Jowei Chen, Stehpanopolous, N.. 2025. Democracy?s Denominator. California Law Review 109
- Chen, Jowei, Private: Valliant, Richard L, Elliott, Michael R. 2019. Calibrating non-probability surveys to estimated control totals using LASSO, with an application to political polling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) 68(3):657-681.
- Chen, Jowei. 2017. The Impact of Political Geography on Wisconsin Redistricting: An Analysis of Wisconsin's Act 43 Assembly Districting Plan. Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy 16(4):443-452.
- Chen,Jowei. 2017. Analysis of Computer-Simulated Districting Maps for the Wisconsin State Assembly. Analysis of Computer-Simulated Districting Maps for the Wisconsin State Assembly 16(4)
- Chen, Jowei, Cottrell, David . 2016. Evaluating partisan gains from Congressional gerrymandering: Using computer simulations to estimate the effect of gerrymandering in the US House. Electoral Studies 44:329-340.
- Jessica Danielle Faul, Jowei Chen, Youhong Liu, David R Weir, Hall, Patricia, et al. 2015. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature 518(7538):197-206.
- Chen, Jowei, Rodden, Jonathan . 2015. Cutting Through the Thicket: Redistricting Simulations and the Detection of Partisan Gerrymanders. Election Law Journal 14(4):331-345.
- Chen, Jowei, Johnson, Tim . 2015. Federal employee unionization and presidential control of the bureaucracy: Estimating and explaining ideological change in executive agencies. Journal of Theoretical Politics 27(1):151-174.
- Chen, Jowei, Brown, Daniel G., John, R , Zhang, Y , Shao, C , Batkhishig, O , Amarjargal, A , Ouyang, Z , Dong, G , Wang, D , Qi, J . 2015. Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau. BioScience 65(6):559-570.
- Chen, Jowei, Bradley, Katharine W. V.. 2014. Participation without Representation? Senior Opinion, Legislative Behavior, and Federal Health Reform. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 39(2):263-293.