Associate Professor
Biography
Ph.D., Political Science, Emory University, 2016
M.A., Political Science, Emory University, 2016
B.A., Economics and Political Science, Emory University, 2010
Caitlin Ainsley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Her primary research interests include the politics of money, monetary and currency policy, the institutional design of central banks, and comparative political institutions. She teaches Ph.D.-level courses in research design, quantitative methods, and applied game theory as well as undergraduate courses in political methodology and political economy.
Research
Selected Research
- Ainsley, Caitlin. 2021. “Federal Reserve Appointments and the Politics of Senate Confirmation.” PublicChoice 190, 93–110.
- Ainsley, Caitlin. 2021. “Decentralized Central Banks: Political Ideology and the Federal Reserve Systemof Regional Banks.” Governance 34: 277-294.
- Ainsley, Caitlin, Carrubba, Clifford, Brian Crisp, Betul Demirkaya, Matthew Gabel, and Dino Hazdic. 2020. “Roll Call Vote Selection: Implications for the Study of Legislative Politics." American Political Science Review 114: 691-706.
- Ainsley, Caitlin. "The Politics of Central Bank Appointments." Journal of Politics, vol. 79, no. 4, pp.1205-1219, 2017.
- Ainsley, Caitlin, Gabel, Matthew, Clifford Carrubba, and Donald Beaudette. 2012. “Of Courts andCommerce.” Journal of Politics 74: 1125-137.
Courses Taught
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Autumn 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Affiliations
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