Natalie Smith

Position title: Ph.D. Candidate: American Politics

Email: NLSMITH6@WISC.EDU

Interests

Regulation, Policymaking Process, Bureaucratic Politics, Public Administration

Education

B.A.s in Political Science and French and Francophone Studies, Rhodes College, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

Smith, Natalie and Susan Webb Yackee. 2024. “A New Measure of U.S. Public Agency Policy Discretion.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 34(3): 404 – 417.

Smith, Natalie and Susan Webb Yackee. 2025. “Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking.” Governance, forthcoming.

Teodoro, Manuel P. and Natalie L. Smith. 2025. “Women in Water: Gender, Executive Leadership, and Regulatory Implementation.” In Women in Regulation: Challenging the Status Quo, eds. Sara R. Rinfret and Michelle C. Pautz. Temple University Press, forthcoming.

Bowie, Jennifer, Ali Masood, Elisha Savchak, Natalie Smith, Bianca Wieck, Cameron Abrams, and Meghna Melkote. 2024. “Lower Court Influence on High Courts: Evidence from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.” Journal of Law and Courts, 12(1): 217 – 238.