Research
Books
Ban, Pamela, Ju Yeon Park, and Hye Young You. 2024. Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress. Cambridge University Press. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series.
Winner of the 2026 Alan Rosenthal Book Award, Legislative Studies Section, American Political Science Association
Articles
Ban, Pamela, Ju Yeon Park, and Hye Young You. 2026. “Bureaucrats in Congress: The Politics of Interbranch Information Sharing.” Journal of Politics 88(2): 787-804. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela and Seth J. Hill. 2025. “Efficacy of Congressional Oversight.” American Political Science Review 119(4): 1742-1760. [open access PDF]
Ban, Pamela and Jaclyn Kaslovsky. 2025. “Local Orientation in the U.S. House of Representatives.” American Journal of Political Science 69(3): 1082-1098. [open access PDF]
Ban, Pamela. 2024. “Information and Party Influence in the U.S. Congress.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 4(4): 497-521. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela, Ju Yeon Park, and Hye Young You. 2023. “How Are Politicians Informed? Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress.” American Political Science Review 117(1): 122-139. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela, Justin Grimmer, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, and Emily West. 2022. “How Does the Rising Number of Women in the U.S. Congress Change Deliberation? Evidence from House Committee Hearings.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 17(3): 355-387. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela, Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer. 2019. “From the Halls of Congress to K Street: Government Experience and its Value for Lobbying.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 44(4): 714-752. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela and Hye Young You. 2019. “Presence and Influence in Lobbying: Evidence from Dodd-Frank.” Business and Politics 21(2): 267-295. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela, Alexander Fouirnaies, Andrew B. Hall, and James M. Snyder, Jr. 2019. “How Newspapers Reveal Political Power.” Political Science Research and Methods 7(4): 661-678. [pre-print]
Ban, Pamela, Elena Llaudet, and James M. Snyder, Jr. 2016. “Challenger Quality and the Incumbency Advantage.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 41(1): 153-179.
Selected Working Papers / Works in Progress
Ban, Pamela, Ju Yeon Park, and Hye Young You. “The Politicization of Expertise in Congress.”
Ban, Pamela, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, and Rachel Porter. “Elite Status and Legislative Interaction in the U.S. Congress.”
Ban, Pamela and Jennifer Gaudette. “Interest Groups and Information Provision in Judicial Politics: Evidence from Amicus Briefs.”