BIOGRAPHY

Olatayo “Tayo” Bakare joined the PhD program in Fall 2022. He is particularly interested in the political control of the bureaucracy, interest group influence, interbranch policymaking, institutional trust, and federalism. His current research examines how interest group mobilization and lobbying influenced the implementation of Dodd-Frank and the Affordable Care Act. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR), and is a member of the Teaching, Researching, and Understanding the Social Science of Trust (TRUSST) Lab. At IPPSR, he conducts research on public programs that are jointly administered by federal and state level bureaucracies. In the TRUSST Lab, he works with his colleagues on projects that examine the fluctuations in public trust of administrative agencies. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Central Florida. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, watching documentaries, and playing table tennis (ping-pong).

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PUBLICATIONS

Van Fossen, J. A., Bakare, O., Olson, T. H., Zwickle, A., & Hamm, J. A. (2024). The Dynamics of Trust and Trustworthiness Perceptions in a Government Agency: A Longitudinal Perspective. The American Review of Public Administration, 0(0), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241283031 

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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Bureaucratic Politics
• Trust in the administrative state
• Interest Groups
• Public Policy
• Public Administration
• Federalism

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