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    Nick Ottone
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    Nicholas Ottone is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution studying local politics, public policy, and public opinion. His work primarily focuses on the ways in which privatization and criminal legal policies shape local political economies and mass public opinion. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University in 2026.

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Nicholas Ottone is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution studying local politics, public policy, and public opinion. His work primarily focuses on the ways in which privatization and criminal legal policies shape local political economies and mass public opinion. In his dissertation, he argued that privatizing and outsourcing social services has empowered local nonprofit service providers to influence budgetary and regulatory policy. While privatization and outsourcing claim to enhance efficiency by introducing  market competition, he argued that the policy undermines its own objectives by fostering funding dependency among nonprofits, weakening local state capacity, and entrenching monopolistic interest groups at the expense of an independent civil society. In another strand of research, he studies how policies such as US prison construction and the defunding of public media affect political behavior, drawing on novel datasets constructed from administrative data and electoral results. His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science and American Politics Research. He received his PhD in political science from Yale University.

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