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     Susan Webb Yackee


Title: Associate Professor
Joint Appt: LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Office: 402 North Hall
Office Hours: https://kb.wisc.edu/polisci/page.php?id=28163
Phone: 608.265.6017
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: syackee@lafollette.wisc.edu
Keywords: Bureaucratic Politics, Policy Making, Political Institutions, Regulation


Susan Webb Yackee is an associate professor of public affairs and political science. Her research and teaching interests include regulation, administrative law, interest groups, bureaucratic politics, and the policymaking process. Her work has been published in the Journal of Politics, George Washington Law Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, and Policy Studies Journal.

Yackee won the 2008 Paul Volcker Endowment Junior Scholar Research Award fromthe American Political Science Association's Public Administration Section. She also received APSA'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 in 2008. In 2010, she received a poster session award for “Excellent Research by New and EmergingScholars” from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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, a UW-Madison Vilas Associate Professor, and a Harry S. Truman Scholar. Before beginning her academic training, she worked as a legislative research assistant in the U.S. Senate.

View an interview with Susan Webb Yackee about her research on rulemaking
 


Recent Publications

Susan Yackee, “The Politics of Ex Parte Lobbying:  Pre-Proposal Agenda Building and Blocking During Agency Rulemaking.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 22 (2012): 373-393   
Susan Yackee, David Nelson, “Lobbying Coalitions and Government Policy Change: An Analysis of Federal Agency Rulemaking.” Journal of Politics 74, 2 (2012): 339-353   
Susan Yackee, and Jason Webb Yackee. "Is Agency Rulemaking 'Ossified'?  Testing Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial Procedural Constraints." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20 (2010): 261-82   
Susan Yackee, and Christine Kelleher Palus. "Learning from Experience? Second-Order Policy Devolution and Government Responsiveness."  Journal of Local Self-Government 8 (2010): 65-92.   
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 Spring 2012-2013

874 - Policy-Making Process

Instructors: Susan Yackee      Field: American Politics
Section Number: 001