About Jason

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I'm an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and Statistics (by courtesy) at the University of Georgia, a faculty fellow at the UGA Center for International Trade and Security (CITS), and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

I am also a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Civic Leadership Education and Research (CLEAR) Initiative.

Research

My interests are broadly in the political economy of technology, bureaucracy, public administration, and political methodology.

My research focuses on the political economy of technology, examining how political institutions essential for maintaining democratic governance respond to technological changes and whether these responses strengthen or weaken democratic institutions.

My current substantive work includes:

• Research on the connection between macroeconomic cycles and the creation of executive agencies in the United States.

• Research on the connection between democratic backsliding and technological change in historical context.

• Research on the change political role of central banks.

• Behavioral research on the political implications of automation technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

In addition to my substantive research interests, my work in political methodology focuses on:

• Empirical implications of theoretical models with a focus on measuring concepts such as delegation of powers and other concepts relevant to principal-agent theory in political institutions.

• Research on improving causal inference with Bayesian and machine learning methods.

I teach courses on the political economy of technology, public administration, Python and R programming, statistics, natural language processing, deep learning, and introductory machine learning.

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