Research

My research focuses on American institutions.  In particular, I focus on the consequences of institutional design on policymaking. Areas of interest include:  American Institutions, Legislative Politics, Public Administration, Public Policy, Bureaucratic Politics, State and Local Politics, and Political Methodology.  

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Rauhaus, Beth, Laine P. Shay, and Wendi Pollock. "Zero Tolerance, Zero Problems? The Conditional Effect that Police Officers' Perceptions of Zero-Tolerance for Discrimination have among Hispanic Officers." Accepted for Publication at Public Personnel Management. 

• Shay, Laine P and Beth Rauhaus.  “Stressed Out”: The Conditional Effect of Organizational Belongingness on Burnout among Local Law Enforcement Officers.” Accepted for Publication at Review of Public Personnel Administration.

• Byers, Jason S. and Laine P. Shay. 2024. “‘Still Doin' Time': An Analysis of the Conditional Effects of Legislative Term Limits on State Incarceration Rates.” Accepted for Publication at Journal of Policy History. 

• Byers, Jason S. and Laine P. Shay. 2023.  "What Explains a Representative’s Staffing “Style”? Exploring the Relationship between Congressional Staffing Decisions and Electoral Considerations.  American Politics Research. 51(6): 749-62.

  • Figure 1 information is here.

• Shay, Laine P. and Beth M. Rauhaus. 2023. “Closing the Gap: An Analysis of Women’s Representation in State Legislatures and the Gender Pay Gap.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 48(4): 897-911. 

  • Updated Appendix is here.

• Byers, Jason S. and Laine P. Shay. 2023. “Can’t Buy Me Love? An Experiment on the Relationship between Federal Grant Dollars and Federal Agency Approval.” Public Management Review 26(6): 1547-65. 

• Byers, Jason S. and Laine P. Shay. 2022. “We Have it Totally Under Control? Exploring the Effects of Ideology and Knowing Someone Diagnosed with COVID-19 on Evaluations of President Trump’s Leadership on the Pandemic.” American Politics Research 50(1): 83-96.  

• Shay, Laine P.  2021.  "Do Term Limits ‘Limit’ the Speaker? Examining the Effects of Legislative Term Limits on State Speaker Power."  State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 21(2): 139-64.  

• Byers, Jason S. and Laine P. Shay. 2021. “Position-Taking on the President’s Agenda.” Political Behavior, 43(2): 495-516.

  • Replication Code is here.  Dataset is here.

• Shay, Laine P. 2020.  “Closing Time! Examining the Impact of Gender and Executive Branch Policymakers on the Timing of Stay-at-Home Orders.”  Politics & Gender, 16(4): 935-942.

  • Replication Code is here.  Dataset is here.  

• Black, Bryan M. and Laine P. Shay.  2018.  "States Testing the Legal Limits:  The Effect of Electoral Competition on the Constitutionality of State Statutes." State Politics & Policy Quarterly 18(3): 246-70.  

Working Papers

• Shay, Laine P.  "Agency Insulation and Federal Spending."

• Shay, Laine P.  "Elected Administrators and Policy Innovation."

• Madonna, Anthony and Laine P. Shay.  "The Relationship Between Committee Autonomy and Legislative Capacity:  The Case of Committee Amendments."  (Most recent version here)

• Lynch, Michael S. and Laine P. Shay.  "Valuable Vacancies." (Most recent version here)