Curriculum Vitae
Ross Buchanan
ADDRESS: 3600 GREYSTONE
DR. Apt 547 ● AUSTIN, TX 78731
PHONE: (512) 363-0671 ● EMAIL: ross.buchanan@utexas.edu
WEBSITE: www.rossabuchanan.com
Education & Experience
University of Texas at Austin 2013
– Present
- Ph.D.,
Government
o Expected graduation, Spring 2020
- Committee:
o Bryan Jones (co-Chair), Christopher Wlezien (co-chair), Brian
Roberts,
Eugenio Y. Arima (UT Geography Dept.)
Fulbright Korea 2010
– 2013
·
Taught English speaking and writing
classes at Cheongwon High School
in South Korea.
·
Critical Language Enhancement Award at
Jungwon University (2011).
AmeriCorps City Year 2009
– 2010
·
Tutored and organized service
activities for low income high school
students in Seattle.
College of Wooster
2005 – 2009
·
B.A., International Relations
Dissertation
·
Dynamic Policy Responsiveness without
Democracy: The Importance of Outcomes
·
Examines the tangible outcomes of policy
responsiveness and how they dynamically feed back on
both public opinion and policy.
·
Analysis focuses on air pollution;
includes the states and 319 localities in the United States (2006 – 2016), and
the provinces and 274 localities in China (2013 – 2015).
Research Interests
Public Policy
- Policy Responsiveness, Public Opinion,
Authoritarianism, Federalism, Policy Implementation.
Environmental Politics
- Air Pollution Outcomes, Policy Effectiveness,
Public Awareness, Remote Sensing Data.
Academic Publications
·
Lavenex, Sandra, Flavia Jurje, Terri
Givens, and Ross Buchanan. 2016. “Regional Migration Governance”. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism, eds. Tanja
A. Börzel and Thomas Risse.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 457–85.
·
Qin, Xiaolei, and Ross Buchanan. Forthcoming.
“Policy and Public Preferences Regarding the University Enrollment Quotas
System across Chinese Provinces”. Higher Education Policy.
Conference Papers
- “All Politics is Local? Policy Responsiveness of Local, State,
and National Governments in the United States.” Midwest Political Science
Association. 2019.
- “Responsiveness and Feedback under
Authoritarianism: The Public, City Governments, and Air Pollution in
China.” Southern Political Science
Association. 2019.
- Responsiveness
and Feedback under Authoritarianism: The Public, City Governments, and Air
Pollution in China.” Southern
Political Science Association.
2019.
- “Policy Implementation Responsiveness to
Public Participation in an Authoritarian Regime.” Midwest Political Science
Association. 2018.
- “Policy
Responsiveness in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Air Pollution in
China.” Midwest Political Science
Association. 2017.
Research Skills
Geospatial analysis in R
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Working with satellite-derived air
pollution data and NOAA atmospheric data
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Using explicitly spatial models such
as lagged spatial autoregressive (SAR) models.
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Completed specialized course at the
Statistics & Data Sciences Dept. at UT Austin (2017).
Structural Equation Modeling in R
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Using structural equation models to
account for error correlation in systems of equations and estimating latent
variables.
·
Completed specialized course at the
Statistics & Data Sciences Dept. at UT Austin (2018).
Web Scraping in Python
·
Used Python (through Selenium WebDriver)
to collect and analyze thousands of Chinese government work reports and
articles in state newspapers.