Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Researcher ( current)

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1 Alex Ruder Heldrich Center for Workforce Development Rutgers University Education Princeton University Ph.D. Politics, 2014 Dissertation: Attribution, Accountability, and Institutional Design in Bureaucratic Politics Committee: R. Douglas Arnold, Nolan McCarty, and Kosuke Imai M.A. Politics, 2010 University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies Master in Public Policy, 2007 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Bachelor of Arts, 2003 Current Position Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Researcher ( current) Teaching Interests American Politics bureaucratic and executive branch politics, law and regulation, mass media Methodology Probability and statistics, causal inference, experiments, text data, data visualization, statistical computing Public Policy Federal, state, and local policymaking, program evaluation, labor economics Publications Institutional Design and the Attribution of Presidential Control: Insulating the President from Blame (Quarterly Journal of Political Science) Agency Design and the Blame for Agency Scandals (forthcoming September 2015, Presidential Studies Quarterly) Working Papers: American Politics Partisan Bias in Media Coverage of the Environmental Protection Agency: An Empirical Analysis Working Papers: Public Policy Applied Predictive Analytics for Workforce Development (with Bill Mabe and Scott Powell) Alex Ruder 1 November 24, 2014

2 Employer Quality and the Stagnation of Nursing Wages Labor Market Information and Major Choice: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (with Michelle Van Noy) Works in Progress The Employment Effects of Recent-College Graduates in the Great Recession Reforming Regulators in the American States Agency Design and the Performance of State-Level Bureaucracies Grants Russell Sage Foundation, Social Class, Risk Aversion, and Student Educational Choices (with Michelle Van Noy) U.S. Department of Labor/New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Workforce Data Quality Initiative, Round Four Grantee Winner (with Bill Mabe and Scott Powell). Grant to conduct research and disseminate workforce and educational tools to the public Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Graduate Student Research Grant, Princeton University, Grant to conduct survey experiment on public perceptions of bureaucratic accountability National Science Foundation, Summer Institute on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models, Institute Participant, University of California, Berkeley (2010) American Political Science Association Graduate Student Travel Grant 2012 to present at the American Political Science Association annual meeting Stafford Fund Travel Grant, Department of Politics, Princeton University 2011 to present at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting 2012 to present at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting Referee Service American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Quarterly Journal of Political Science Conferences and Presentations Labor Market Outcomes and Major Choice: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (with Michelle Van Noy), peer-review acceptance to be presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference (2014) Alex Ruder 2 November 24, 2014

3 Wage Information to Improve Student Educational Choices (with Michelle Van Noy), peer-review acceptance to be presented at the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment s The Value of Higher Education, and How to further Strengthen It (2014) Employer Quality and the Stagnation of Nursing Wages, peer-review acceptance for the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting (2014) Using Administrative Data to Improve Major Choices for College Students, presented at the U.S. Department of Labor series on the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (2013) The Media and Bureaucratic Accountability, presented at the Princeton Conference on Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to the Administrative Presidency (2012); the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (2013); and the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (2013) Using Topic Models to Study the Administrative State, accepted to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (2012 annual meeting canceled) Institutional Design and the Transparency of Presidential Control, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2012) Textual Analysis and the Study of Bureaucracy, presented at the Princeton Political Methodology Poster Session (2012) Agency Responsiveness to Public and Political Influence, presented to the Princeton Public Law Working Group (2012, 2013) Administrative Procedure Acts as Instruments of Political Control: Evidence from the States, presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (2012, with Alex Acs) Conferences Organized Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to the Administrative Presidency (2012; co-organized with Sharece Thrower) Teaching Experience Mass Media and American Politics (Spring 2013). Undergraduate Course. Preceptor for Professor Martin Gilens. Statistical Programming Camp (Spring 2013, Spring 2012). Graduate Course. Faculty Adviser: Kosuke Imai. Quantitative Analysis 1 (Fall 2011). Graduate Course. Preceptor for Professor Xun Pang. Political Theory (Fall 2010). Undergraduate Course. Preceptor for Professor Alan Ryan. Alex Ruder 3 November 24, 2014

4 Introduction to L A TEX (Spring 2013). Wilson College, Princeton University. Data Visualization with R (Winter 2013). Wilson College, Princeton University. Short course for undergraduates. An Introduction to R (Winter 2013). Wilson College, Princeton University. Short course for undergraduates. Freshman Scholars Institute (Summer 2012). Princeton University. Graduate Coordinator and Lead Tutor, Quantitative Methods: Introduction to Statistics. An Introduction to Statistics with R (Summer 2012). McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University. Short course for undergraduates. Fellowships and Awards Princeton University Graduate Fellowship ( ) Dean s Fellowship, University of Chicago, Harris School ( ) McCormick Tribune Leadership Fellow, University of Chicago, Harris School (declined) President s Honor Society, University of Florida ( ) Florida Bright Future Scholar, State of Florida ( ) Public Sector Experience Policy Adviser, Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Workforce Development ( ) Managed statewide effort to engage private sector, local governments, and non-profit organizations in developing and implementing workforce and economic development policy. Research and Strategic Planning Intern, The Miami-Dade County Economic Development Organization (2006) Managed project collecting workforce and operations data from Miami-Dade s major employers. Professional Activities Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association Service Steering Committee Member, City of Newark Workforce Investment Board, Workforce Innovation Fund ( current) Politics Department, Graduate Student Committee ( ) Alex Ruder 4 November 24, 2014

5 Graduate Student Events Board, Princeton University ( ) Chicago Environmental Policy Association, Harris School ( ) Committee on International Affairs and Public Policy, Harris School ( ) English Society, Vice President, University of Florida (2003) Programming Experience R, Python, Java, Stata, Matlab, Octave Research Experience Research Assistant, Professor Thomas Romer, Princeton ( ). Conducted large data collection effort for two projects on school district financing and elections. Research Assistant, Professor Jonathan Kastellec, Princeton ( ). Coded death penalty appellate court decisions. Service to Undergraduate Community Resident Graduate Student: Wilson College, Princeton University. Responsible for civic engagement, academic advising, application reviews, and other aspects of undergraduate life at one of Princeton s six residential colleges (academic years , ). Graduate Coordinator and Lead Statistics Tutor, Freshman Scholars Institute: Princeton University. References Available upon request Alex Ruder 5 November 24, 2014