Prior to his time at Yale, he was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Turner’s research interests center on American political institutions with a particular focus on the institutional determinants of bureaucratic policymaking behavior. Much of his work is focused on utilizing game-theoretic methods to evaluate how interactions both between and within governmental institutions structure incentives for political accountability, effective policymaking, and institutional design. Currently, his main project focuses on how oversight institutions provide incentives for bureaucratic policymakers to more effectively develop and implement public policy, and provides insight into how one might design institutions to foster desirable political behavior.