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     Susan Webb Yackee


Title: Assistant Professor
Joint Appt: LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Office: 210 North Hall
Office Hours: Thursdays 11:00 - 1:00
Phone: 608.265.6017
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: syackee@lafollette.wisc.edu
Keywords: Bureaucratic Politics, Policy Making, Regulation


Susan Webb Yackee is an assistant professor of public affairs and political science. Her research and teaching interests include bureaucratic politics, social policy and the policymaking process. Her work has been published in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Policy Studies Journal.

Yackee won the 2008 Paul Volcker Endowment Junior Scholar Research Grant from the American Political Science Association's Public Administration Section. She also received ASPA's 2007 "Emerging Scholar Award" from its Political Parties and Organizations Section; and the Midwest Political Science Association honored her for the "Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar" Award for her 2007 presentation.

From 2003-05, Dr. Yackee was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has served as a Smith Richardson Domestic Policy Fellow and a Harry S. Truman Scholar. Before beginning her academic training, she worked as a legislative research assistant in the U.S. Senate.

 


Recent Publications

Susan Yackee. “Private Conflict and Policy Passage:  Interest Group Conflict and State Medical Malpractice Reform.” Policy Studies Journal 37 (2009): 213-31.   
Susan Yackee, Jason Webb Yackee. 2009. "Divided Government and U.S. Federal Rulemaking." Regulation and Governance 3: 128-44.   
Susan Yackee, Christine Kelleher Palus. 2009. "A Political Consequence of Contracting:  Organized Interests and State Agency Decision-Making." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19: 579-602.   
Susan Yackee, Jason Webb Yackee: “Is the Bush Bureaucracy Any Different?  A Macro-Empirical Examination of Notice and Comment Rulemaking under '43,'" in President George W. Bush's Influence Over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers, eds. Colin Provost and Paul Teske. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 41-59.   
Susan Yackee, Keith Naughton, Celeste Schmid, and Xueyong Zhan: “Understanding Commenter Influence During Agency Rule Development.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28 (2009): 258-77.   
 

Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010

695 - The American Policy-Making Process

Instructors: Susan Yackee      Field: American Politics

827 - Interest Groups in American Politics

Instructors: Susan Yackee      Field: American Politics