JoBeth Shafran

Political Science and Public Affairs
Biography
Education
- Ph D, University of Texas Austin, Government
- MA, University of Texas Austin
Teaching Interests
American politics and institutions;policy theories and processes; bureaucratic politics; congressional-bureaucratic interactions; subsystem policy making, including problem definition, agenda setting, and implementation; and research design
Research Interests
My research centers on information sharing in subsystems which consist of issue-specific experts from three sources: congressional committees with jurisdiction, relevant bureaucracies, and vested interest groups. I focus on the conditions under which information is supplied to Congress and the effects of information on problem definitions and the policy process. Substantively, much of my research centers on energy and finance.