Keith Schnakenberg is a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St Louis. His research interests include game theory, political economy, and special interest politics.
Research
Selected Publications
- Dark Money and Politician Learning (with Ian Turner). Accepted at Journal of Politics (SoxArXiv)
- Informative Campaigns, Overpromising, and Policy Bargaining (with Dahjin Kim and Gechun Lin). Accepted. Journal of Theoretical Politics. (SocArXiv)
- Formal Theories of Special Interest Influence (with Ian Turner). Annual Review of Political Science. (SocArXiv)
- Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics (with Carly Wayne). American Political Science Review. (SocArXiv)
- Global climate policy and collective action: A comment (with Amanda Kennard). Forthcoming. Global Environmental Politics. (SocArXiv)
- Designing the Optimal International Climate Agreement with Variability in Commitments (with Jordan McCallister). 2022. International Organization. (SocArXiv)
- Motivated Reasoning and Democratic Accountability (with Andrew Little and Ian Turner). 2022. American Political Science Review. (SocArXiv)
- Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and policy effects of campaign finance contributions (with Ian Turner). 2021. American Journal of Political Science. (SocArXiv)
- Candidate Traits in Elections: When Good News for Selection is Bad News for Accountability. 2021. Political Science Research and Methods.(SocArXiv)
- Signaling with reform: How the threat of corruption prevents informed policymaking (with Ian Turner). 2019. American Political Science Review. (SocArXiv)
- The downsides of information transmission and voting. 2017. Public Choice. (SSRN)
- Allies or commitment devices? A model of appointments to the Federal Reserve (with Ian Turner and Alicia Uribe). 2017. Economics and Politics. (SSRN)
- Informational Lobbying and Legislative Voting. 2017. American Journal of Political Science. (SSRN)
- Directional cheap talk in electoral campaigns. 2016. Journal of Politics. (SSRN)
- Expert advice to a voting body. 2015. Journal of Economic Theory. (SSRN)
- Scoring from contests (with Maggie Penn). 2014. Political Analysis. (PDF)
- Group identity and symbolic political behavior. 2014. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (SSRN).
Working papers
- Dark Money and Voter Learning (with Collin Schumock and Ian Turner). R&R. (SoxArXiv)
- Preregistration and Strategic Private Experimentation (with Zion Little and Jacob Montgomery). (Coming soon)
- Democratic Accountability with Citizen Coproduction (with Jie Ma and Ian Turner). (Coming soon)
Teaching
Washington University
- Game theory (graduate)
- Advanced game theory (graduate)
- Theoretical and empirical models (graduate)
- Game theory (undergraduate)
- Public policy analysis (undergraduate)
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
- Game theory (doctoral students)
- Program evaluation (MPP/MPA)
- Applied regression (MPP/MPA)
Volleyball
My non-professional pursuits include recreational volleyball. This picture with my colleague Carly Wayne was taken moments after we won our first tournament, after an undisclosed number of attempts.
