Gina Yannitell Reinhardt
Assistant Professor
Gina Yannitell Reinhardt joined the Bush School faculty as an assistant professor after completing her Ph.D. in political science at Washington University in St. Louis (2005). She has spent time researching in Brazil, Japan, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, where she investigates the competition for resources among nonprofit foreign aid recipients. This research fuels her interest in questions regarding decision-making under uncertainty and the distribution of wealth in society. In 2007-08, she worked on the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, fulfilling a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association. While there, she investigated credit card abuses, money laundering, tax evasion, and foreign corruption, and was able to observe congressional oversight first-hand.
Dr. Yannitell Reinhardt teaches quantitative methods, game theory, political economy of international development, and public policy analysis. She specializes in political economy, game theory, and statistical methods of examining decision-making. Currently, she is working on several projects investigating decision-making under uncertainty, including a project funded by the National Science Foundation to ascertain how public perceptions of risk, uncertainty, and governmental effectiveness have changed since the occurrence of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Her previous work can be seen in World Development, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Review of Development Economics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and PS: Political Science and Politics, as well as in Congressional reports issued by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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