Derek Epp is an assistant professor in the Department of Government. He joined the faculty in 2017 from Dartmouth College where he was a postdoc within the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center. In May 2015, he received his Ph.D. in American Politics with a minor in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation is titled Information Processing and the Instability of Political Outcomes and he currently has a book expanding on themes from his dissertation forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 with a bachelor's in Political Science.
His research agenda focuses on policy change, asking why some policies persist - remaining the status quo for decades - while others undergo frequent adjustments. In particular, he is interested in measuring the capacity of institutions to attend to political information and then tracking the allocation of that attention across issues: what issues receive attention, for how long, and to what effect. He also study criminal justice, with a particular focus on racial patterns in police traffic stops.
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–presentAssistant professor in the Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
- Austin, Texas, U.S.
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