Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

About

I am an associate professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. I was previously an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton. I study the political economy of technology, innovation, and public policy.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Sociology
• Law
• Demographic economics
• Political economy
• Development economics
• Economic system
• Public administration
• Demography

Selected publications

• The American Political Economy

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021 · 61 citations

  This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in the United States, focusing on three key factors: uniquely fragmented and decentralized political institutions; an interest group landscape characterized by weak labor organizations and powerful, parochial business groups; and an entrenched legacy…

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• The Political Economies of Red States

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-11-11 · 24 citations

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  A striking feature of the American political economy is its fragmentation. The constitutionally protected role of the states and the localized quality of many crucial policies foster a political economy that is at once national – the rich world's most extensive nation-spanning market – and sectional, with states or groups of states constituting distinct political economies that often have enormous scope of their own.

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• American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2022-01-01 · 21 citations

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  The United States has a particularly decentralized form of federalism that provides important authority to multiple levels of government. This decentralization is typically seen as beneficial for democratic politics. But while federalism both constrains and enables democratic participation, we argue that it does so unevenly, and in ways that deepen inequalities in the processes of democracy. We propose four mechanisms by which the institutional decentralization of American federalism obstructs o…

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• Old Money: Campaign Finance and Gerontocracy in the United States

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 10 citations

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• Unions Can Help White Workers Become More Racially Tolerant

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-01-20 · 4 citations

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  Labor unions are important organizations in shaping worker attitudes about their political world. In this chapter, we build and contextualize with recent work by Frymer and Grumbach (2020) that finds that being a union member leads workers to be more tolerant towards racial diversity and more supportive of civil rights policy. Here, we argue that for this dynamic to occur, unions need to be active in promoting greater racial diversity to its members. After examining the historical variation with…

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Frequent coauthors

• Paul Frymer

  36 shared

• Charlotte Hill

  University of California, Berkeley

  7 shared

• Jennifer Karas Montez

  Syracuse University

  6 shared

• Alexander Sahn

  5 shared

• Jacob S. Hacker

  Yale University

  5 shared

• Sarah Staszak

  Princeton Public Schools

  4 shared

• Anna Zajacova

  3 shared

• Steven H. Woolf

  Virginia Commonwealth University

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  Princeton University

• B.A., Political Science

  University of California, Berkeley

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