September 28, 2015
John E. Barnes ("Jeb")
Department of Political Science Work Tel.: (213) 740-1689
University of Southern California FAX: (213) 740-8893
Von KleinSmid Center 327 E-mail:
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0044 Webpage: jebbarnes.com
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor. University of Southern California, Department of Political Science (Fall 2001 to Spring 2008).
Associate Professor (with tenure). University of Southern California, Department of Political Science (Spring 2008 to present).
Vice Chair. University of Southern California, Department of Political Science (Fall 2011-present).
Dornsife Distinguished Faculty Fellow. Dornsife College, University of Southern California (Summer 2011 to Spring 2013).
Director of Graduate Studies. University of Southern California, Department of Political Science (Fall 2005 to 2011).
Field Coordinator, American Politics. Department of Political Science and School of International Relations Graduate Program, University of Southern California (2008 to 2011).
Faculty Council, Elected Member. University of Southern California (Fall 2007 to Spring 2009, Fall 2012 to Spring 2014).
Executive Council, Law & Courts Section. American Political Science Association (Summer 2015 to present).
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. May 2001.
M.A. University of California, Berkeley. Political Science. May 1995.
J.D. University of Chicago Law School. June 1989.
B.A. Brown University. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. History.
June 1986.
University Press Books and Edited Volumes
1. Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, How Policy Creates Politics: Rights, Courts,
Litigation, and the Struggle over Injury Compensation (Oxford University Press 2015)
2. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes, Finding Pathways: Case Selection for Studying Causal Mechanisms in Mixed-Methods Research (Cambridge University Press 2014)
3. Jeb Barnes, Dust-Up: Asbestos Litigation and the Failure of Common Sense
Reform (Georgetown University Press 2011)
4. Jeb Barnes, Overruled? Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary
Court-Congress Relations (Stanford University Press 2004)
5. Mark Miller and Jeb Barnes, editors, Making Policy, Making Law: An
Interbranch Perspective (Georgetown University Press, American Governance
and Public Policy Series 2004)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
1. Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes, “Pathway Analysis and the Search for Causal Mechanisms,” Sociological Methods & Research (advance copy online, August 12, 2014)
2. Jeb Barnes, “National Interbranch Politics in the United States,” Oxford University Reference Series (2013)
3. Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “Making Way: Legal Mobilization, Organizational Response, and Wheelchair Access,” Law & Society Review (2012) 46(1): 167-198
4. Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “Is There an Empirical Rights Literature?” Studies for Law, Politics & Society (2009) 48:69-91
5. Jeb Barnes, “In Defense of Asbestos Litigation: Judicial Policy-Making in a
World of Uncertainty, Second Bests and Shared Policy-Making Responsibilities”
Law & Social Inquiry (2009) 34(1): 5-30
6. Jeb Barnes, “Courts and the Puzzle of Institutional Stability and Change:
Administrative Drift and Judicial Innovation in the Case of Asbestos” Political
Research Quarterly (2008) 61(4):636-648
7. Jeb Barnes, “Bringing the Courts Back In: Interbranch Perspectives on the Role of Courts in American Politics and Policy Making,” Annual Review of Political Science (2007) 10:25-43
8. Jeb Barnes, “Rethinking the Landscape of Tort Reform: Lessons from the Asbestos Case,” Justice Systems Journal (2007) 28(2): 157-181
9. Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “The Diffusion of Rights: From Law on the Books to Organizational Practices,” Law & Society Review (2006) 40(3):493-524
Book Chapters and Law Journal Articles
1. Jeb Barnes, “Why Study Political Science? Answers for Homo Politicus and Homo Civicus,” in Vaidya, ed., Political Science for the Curious: Why Study Political Science (Canberra forthcoming)
2. Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “Kagan the Explorer,” Judicature (March/April 2013) Vol. 96(5): 2-4 (reposted in University of Pennsylvania Law School’s RegBlog December 2013)
3. Jeb Barnes, “What Do Trial Courts Do? Civil Litigation and the Policy-
Making Process,” in Exploring Judicial Politics (Oxford University Press 2008)
4. Jeb Barnes, “Adversarial Legalism, the Rise of Judicial Policy-Making, and
the Separation of Powers Doctrine,” in Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective (Georgetown University Press 2004)
5. Jeb Barnes and Mark Miller, “Putting the Pieces Together: American Lawmaking from an Inter-Branch Perspective,” in Making Policy, Making Law supra.
6. -----. “Governance as Dialogue,” Making Policy-Making Law, supra.
7. Jeb Barnes, “Congressional Compromise on Election Reform: A Look Forward and Backward,” in Crigler, Just, and MacCaffrey, eds., After 2000: The Politics of Election Reform (Oxford University Press 2003)
8. Jeb Barnes, “Bankrupt Bargain? Bankruptcy Reform and the Politics of
Adversarial Legalism,” The Journal of Law & Politics (Fall 1997) XIII(4): 893-935
Book Reviews
1. Jeb Barnes, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State by Megan Ming Francis, Law & Society Review 49(2) (2015): 540-542
2. Jeb Barnes, Compensating Asbestos Victims: Law and the Dark Side of Industrialization by Andrea Boggio, Law & Politics Book Review 24(3) (2014): 105-109
3. Jeb Barnes, “Law’s Allure and an Interbranch Perspective on Law and Politics,” Law & Social Inquiry (Symposium on Law’s Allure) (2010) 35(4): 1029-40
4. Jeb Barnes, Suing the Tobacco and Lead Paint Industries: Government Litigation as a Public Health Prescription by Donald Gifford, Law & Politics Book Review (2010) 20(12): 666-670
Blogs
Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “Republicans Want to Reform Disability Insurance. Here’s Why That is Hard,” The Monkey Cage (www.washingtonpost.com), February 17, 2015
Jeb Barnes, “Turning the Page on Higher Education?,” January 3, 2015
Jeb Barnes, “How Much Do Mandates Matter for Obamacare?” September 23, 2011
Jeb Barnes, “Getting Bit by COBRA,” September 9, 2011
Jeb Barnes, “A Billion Dollar Campaign? Good!” September 2, 2011
Other Publications
Jeb Barnes, editor, Judicial Policymaking: Readings on Law, Politics and Public
Policy (Cognella Academic Publishing 2011)
Selected Works-in-Progress
Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, editors, The Politics of Legalism (under contract with Routlege Press)
Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes, Mixed-Method Studies of Causal Mechanisms
(book proposal under review at Cambridge University Press)
Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “The Civil Rights Template and the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Socio-Legal Perspective on the Promise and Limits of Individual Rights,” in The Rights Revolution Revisited: Institutional Perspectives on the Role of Private Enforcement of Civil Rights in the U.S. (volume under review at Cambridge Press)
Jeb Barnes, “Approaches and Directions in Studying Courts and Social Policy in an Age of Judicialization,” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Oxford University Press)
Selected Conference Papers
Jeb Barnes and Parker Hevron, “Framed? Media Coverage of Asbestos versus Black Lung Injury Compensation,” 2015 Law & Society Association Conference,
Seattle, Washington
Jeb Barnes and Adam Feldman, “Rules of Law? Purposes and Canons of Statutory Construction in Supreme Court Bankruptcy and Tax Decisions 1990-2013,” 2015 Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2015 American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California (forthcoming)
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Template,” 2014 Law & Society Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “Is Law Different? Rethinking the Political Consequences of Relying on Litigation to Make and Implement Policy?,” 2013 Law & Society Association, Boston, Massachusetts
Nicholas Weller and Jeb Barnes, “Pathway Case Analysis and the Policy
Diffusion Literature,” 2013 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois
Jeb Barnes and Nicholas Weller, “Selecting a Pathway: Case Selection for
Exploring Causal Mechanisms in Mixed-Methods Research,” 2012 Institute for
Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse, New York
Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “Is There an Empirical Literature on Rights,” Meet the Authors Roundtable, 2011 Law & Society Association, San Francisco, California
Jeb Barnes and Nicholas Weller, “Selecting Pathway Cases in a World of Causal
Complexity,” 2011 Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference,
Chicago, Illinois
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “Intercurrence, Adversarial Legalism and the Politics of Injury Compensation,” 2010 Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts and 2011 Seminar on History, Institutions and Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “The Politics of Injury in the United States: How Law Shapes Politics,” 2009 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “Mobilization and Diffusion of Law: Organizational Responses the Accessibility Laws at the Community Level,” 2007 Law & Society Association Conference, Berlin, Germany
Jeb Barnes, “In Defense of Asbestos Litigation: Judicial Policy-Making in
a World of Second Bests and Shared Policy-Making Responsibility,” 2007 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (Initial draft presented in a roundtable discussion at 2007 New England Political Science Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts)
Jeb Barnes, “Courts and the Puzzle of Institutional Stability and Change: Administrative Drift and Judicial Innovation in the Case of Asbestos,” 2006 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jeb Barnes, “Is Adversarial Legalism Path Dependent? Congressional Inertia and Court-Based Tort Reform during the Asbestos Crisis,” 2005 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “The Diffusion of Rights: From Law on the Books to Organizational Practices,” 2005 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
Jeb Barnes, “Is Adversarial Legalism Path Dependent? Congressional Inertia and Reform through Adaptation in the Case of Asbestos,” 2005 Law and Society Summer Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Jeb Barnes and Thomas F. Burke, “The Diffusion of Rights: Mapping Pathways from Disability Rights on the Books to Rights Practices at the Community Level,” 2005 Western Political Science Association Meeting, Oakland, California
Jeb Barnes, “Trying to Settle the Dust: Courts, Congress and the Politics of Asbestos,” 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Conference, The Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado
Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes, “What Do Rights Do? A Research Design for Studying the Community Level Effects of Disability Rights,” 2004 Western Political Science Association Meeting, Portland, Oregon
Jeb Barnes, “Smoke Signals or Marching Orders? Testing Whether Legislative Overrides Matter,” 2002 American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts
Jeb Barnes, “Does Pluralism Work? A View from the Override Process (Or An Experiment in Large-N Process-Tracing…),” 2002 Western Political Science Association Meeting, Long Beach, California
Jeb Barnes, “Congressional Strategies for Counting Votes and Making Votes Count After the 2000 Election; Theoretical Approaches, Political Prospects, and Hidden Costs,” Election Reform: 2000 and Beyond, A Conference Sponsored by USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law & Politics, April 26, 2001, Los Angeles, California
Awards
• Political Research Quarterly, Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2015.
• USC Dornsife Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 2011-13.
• Alpha Gamma Sigma, Professor of the Year, 2008
• Certificate for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, American Political
Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor
Society, 2007.
• Albert S. Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, USC, 2005-06.
• General Education Teaching Award, USC, 2005-06.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Political Science, USC, 2005-06.
• Honorable Mention, USC Parents Association Teaching and Mentoring Award,
2006.
• Nominee, Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper at the
2005 Annual American Political Science Association Conference.
• Law and Society Association Special Recognition for Dissertation in Public
Law (Award Committee Chair: Professor Susan Silbey, MIT). Spring 2002.
• Peter Odegard Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Doctoral
Candidate. University of California, Berkeley. 1997-98.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley.
Spring 1999.
• Academic Distinction, Public Law and Public Administration Field
Examinations. 1996-97.
Fellowships, Research Grants and Scholarships
• Research Grant (with Parker Hevron), Texas Woman's University, New Investigator
Research Enhancement Program Grant, 2014.
• Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, USC,
2007.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Fellowship, 2003-
05.
• Research Grant, Cal-Tech/USC Center for the Study of Law & Politics.
Spring, 2002.
• Faculty Development Awards, USC, 2001-2014.
• Continuing Student Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-
2000.
• Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship, Alpha Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 1999.
• Continuing Student Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-99.
• Henry Robert Braden Scholarship, 1995-96.
• Charles Atwood Kofoid Eugenics Fellowship, 1994-95.
• Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley.
Fall 1994.
Special Training
Visiting Scholar. Summer 1998. Attended seminars on Advanced Regression Analysis, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Matrix Algebra and Calculus at ICPSR, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Professional Memberships and Activities
• Faculty, Institute for Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Policy (seminar on using multi-methods to study causal mechanisms)
• Professional Association Memberships: American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Midwestern Political Science Association, Law and Society Association
• American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section, Professions Committee, 2012-14; Executive Council, Law and Courts Section, 2015
• Law & Society Association, Nominated as trustee, 2014; Co-Chair, Early Career Workshop Committee, 2013-14; Best Article Award Committee 2012; Graduate Student Workshop Committee, 2008-09, 2015-2016
• Western Political Science Association, Best Dissertation Award Committee,
2005
• Manuscript and grant reviews for the National Science Foundation, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, CQ Press, Routlege Press, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Polity, Political Research Quarterly, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Justice Systems Journal, Studies for Law, Politics & Society, Law & Politics Book Review, Regulation and Governance
• Invited Presentations at Oxford, Northwestern, UC Berkeley’s Center for the
Study of Law and Society, Boalt Hall and Political Science Department’s Research Workshop on American Politics, Brandeis, UC Santa Barbara, USC Marshall School of Business, the Aspen Institute, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Maxwell School of Public Policy at Syracuse University, American Bar Foundation and the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
• Committee service on the Political Science Department’s Executive Committee, Personnel Committee (chair), Graduate Committee (chair), Ad Hoc Graduate Program Reform Committee, Undergraduate Committee, Committee on Teaching Faculty Tenure (Chair), Faculty Evaluation Committee for Promotion of Teaching Track Faculty (chair), and various search committees (member and diversity liaison); Political Science and International Relations (POIR)’s Steering Committee, and University’s Writing Committee, Committee on Teaching Faculty Tenure Review for Writing Program, Committee of General Education Reform, Committee on General Education Curricula Review (Social Analysis Subcommittee) (chair) and Committee on Curriculum