Brian J Gaines

About

Brian J Gaines is the Honorable W. Russell Arrington Professor in State Politics for the University of Illinois system, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research primarily deals with elections, electoral rules, and public opinion. Gaines has contributed to the field through various publications, including articles on public health policy framing, survey design, causal mediation analysis, and the influence of motivation on political decision-making. He has also served as an editor for the Political Methodologist and American Politics Research, and has been involved in providing expert commentary on political and electoral issues. Gaines holds a BA with honours from the University of British Columbia and AM and PhD degrees from Stanford University.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Computer Security
• Mathematics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Statistics
• Microeconomics
• Internal medicine
• Econometrics
• Economics

Selected publications

• Provable Convex Co-clustering of Tensors.

  PubMed · 2020 · 27 citations

  Cluster analysis is a fundamental tool for pattern discovery of complex heterogeneous data. Prevalent clustering methods mainly focus on vector or matrix-variate data and are not applicable to general-order tensors, which arise frequently in modern scientific and business applications. Moreover, there is a gap between statistical guarantees and computational efficiency for existing tensor clustering solutions due to the nature of their non-convex formulations. In this work, we bridge this gap by…

• The study of legislative committees

  Journal of Legislative Studies · 2019-07-03 · 21 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Proving that legislative committees really matter is not simple. The assembled papers aim to demonstrate fruitful paths to analysing when committees influence policy, what they can and should do, and how to detect their importance to the political process.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• A bouncy house? UK select committee newsworthiness, 2005–18

  Journal of Legislative Studies · 2019-07-03 · 8 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select committees, rendering them genuinely important to policy and the scrutiny of government; others see little sign of change. We examine House of Commons select committees in regard to exactly one indicator of significance, their newspaper coverage. We detect significant gains in salience of some committees, as compared…

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• Conclusion: prospects for analysing committees in comparative perspective

  Journal of Legislative Studies · 2019-07-03 · 5 citations

  articleOpen access1st author

  While theories of committees in the U.S. Congress can continue to play a central role in the still-growing comparative study of committees, they require careful, frequent modification. Moreover, more fruitful study of committees may require a wider framework, recognising more fully that committees are institutions embedded in wider social structures.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on State Court Proceedings: Five Key Findings

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022 · 2 citations

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Wendy K. Tam Cho

  University of California, San Francisco

  10 shared

• Gisela Sin

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  7 shared

• James H. Kuklinski

  7 shared

• Robin Wilson

  6 shared

• Jason Mazzone

  5 shared

• Stephen Bates

  5 shared

• Mark Goodwin

  5 shared

• Brian R. Sala

  University of California, Davis

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• Honorable W. Russell Arrington Professor in State Politics

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