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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jude Collin Hays

Jude Collin Hays

Assistant Professor
264B Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-5615
jchays@illinois.edu


Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2000.

research interests:

  • Comparative and International Political Economy
  • Quantitative Methodology and Formal Models
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy

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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching

  • 2007: Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, (PS 549: CPE II, Methods of Political Economic Analysis, Fall) (2007)
  • 2006-2007: Political Science award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Mentoring, and Service (2006-2007)
  • 2006: Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (PS 531: Probability Theory, Spring). (2006)
  • 2005: Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (PS 499: Globalization, Democracy and Societal Welfare, Fall) (2005)

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research

  • Sage Award for Best Paper Published in European Union Politics, Volume 7.  "Strategic Interaction among EU Governments in Active-Labor-Market Policymaking: Subsidiarity and Policy Coordination under the European Employment Strategy." 2007

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

Chapters in Books

  • "Learning, Central Bank Independence, and the Politics of Excess Foreign Returns" (with Diana Richards). In Computational Models in Political Economy, Eds. Ken Kollman, John Miller, and Scott Page, pp. 85-108, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
  • "Empirical Modeling of Spatial Interdependence in Tax Competition" (with Robert J. Franzese, Jr.). In International Tax Handbook, Ed. Greg N. Gregoriou, pp. 45-72, Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier, 2007.
  • "Inequality & Unemployment, Redistribution & Insurance, and Participation: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical System of Endogenous Equations" (with Robert J. Franzese, Jr.) In Democracy, Inequality, and Representation, Eds. P. Beramendi & C. Anderson, Russell Sage Foundation, Forthcoming, 2008.
  • "Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in the OECD: An Empirical Test of the Embedded Liberalism Thesis" (with Sean Ehrlich and Clint Peinhardt). Reprinted in John G. Ruggie, Embedding Global Markets: An Enduring Challenge, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Forthcoming, 2008.
  • "Empirical Models of Spatial Interdependence" (with Robert J. Franzese, Jr.) In Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, Eds. Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry Brady, and David Collier, Oxford U.K.: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, 2008.

Journal Articles

  • “Democracies May Rarely Fight One Another, But Developed Socialist States Rarely Fight At All” (with Ido Oren). Alternatives, 1997, 22(4): 493-521.
  • “Navigating a Nonlinear Environment: An Experimental Study of Decision Making in a Chaotic Setting” (with Diana Richards). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1998, 35: 281-308.
  • “Democracy and Markets: The Case of Exchange Rates” (with John R. Freeman and Helmut Stix). American Journal of Political Science, 2000, 44(3): 449-468.
  • “Exchange Rate Volatility and Democratization in Emerging Market Countries” (with John R. Freeman and Hans Nesseth). International Studies Quarterly, 2003, 47(2): 203-228.
  • “Globalization and Capital Taxation in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies” World Politics, 2003, 56(1):79-113.
  • “Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in the OECD: An Empirical Test of the Embedded Liberalism Thesis” (with Sean Ehrlich and Clint Peinhardt) International Organization, 2005, 59(2):473-494.
  • “Strategic Interaction among EU Governments in Active-Labor-Market Policymaking: Subsidiarity and Policy Coordination under the European Employment Strategy” (With Robert J. Franzese, Jr.) European Union Politics, 2006, 7(2):167-189.
  • “Spatial-Econometric Models of Cross-Sectional Interdependence in Political-Science Panel and TSCS Data,” (with Robert J. Franzese) Political Analysis, 2007, 15(2):140-164.
  • “Interdependence in Comparative Politics: Substance, Theory, Empirics, Substance” (with Robert J. Franzese, Jr.), Comparative Political Studies, 40th Anniversary Issue: “Frontiers of Comparative Politics,” 2008, 41(4/5): 742-780.