Lindsey A. Gailmard

I am a Research Manager at the Regulation, Evaluation, Governance Lab (RegLab) at Stanford University.

I study power relations embedded in structures of administrative law. Using quantitative and positive theoretical methods of social science, I show how the formal, textual, and procedural aspects of administrative law structure and channel the power of the state.

My dissertation explores strategic limits of the administrative presidency stemming from political appointees’ dual roles as agents of the president and managers of the bureaucracy. This view of appointee–careerist relations complicates standard notions of presidential control and bureaucratic power by recognizing that appointees are reliant on presidential support to maintain their position within an administration.

Prior to joining RegLab, I completed a Ph.D. in Social Science at the California Institute of Technology, and received a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley and an M.P.P. from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.