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Wittmer, Colorado College This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. Learn more Published Research When the smoke clears: expertise, learning and policy diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan In federal systems, governments have the opportunity to learn from the policy experiments – and the potential successes – of other governments. Whether they seize such opportunities, however, may depend on the expertise or past experiences of policymakers. Learn more Published Research The Communication of Ideas across Subfields in Political Science Authors: Craig Volden, Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan What factors inhibit or facilitate cross-subfield conversations in political science? This article draws on diffusion scholarship to gain insight into cross-subfield communication. Learn more Published Research Who Heeds the Call of the Party in Congress? Authors: Craig Volden, William Minozzi When party leaders seek support, who heeds the call and who remains unswayed? The canonical error-free spatial model of voting predicts the targeting of fence-sitting moderates. Learn more Published Research The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science Authors: Craig Volden, Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Learn more Published Research Leadership When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, Dana E. Wittmer, Colorado College Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. We argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Learn more Published Research Policy Diffusion: Seven Lessons for Scholars and Practitioners Authors: Craig Volden The scholarship on policy diffusion in political science and public administration is extensive. This article provides an introduction to that literature for scholars, students, and practitioners. It offers seven lessons derived from that litereature, build from numerous empirical studies an applied to contemporary policy debates. Based on these seven lessons, the authors offer guidance to policy makers and present opportunities for future research to students and scholars of policy diffusion. Learn more Published Research Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Vanessa Bouché The privatization of government services tends to bring about a more rapid adoption of innovative policies due to the competitive pressures of the market. In federal systems, however, the diffusion of innovations across subnational governments may offset such benefits of privatization. Learn more Published Research Health Policy Breaking Gridlock: The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Scholars have often commented that health policymaking in Congress is mired in political gridlock, that reforms are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and the path forward is unclear. To reach such conclusions, scholars of health politics have tended to analyze individual major reform proposals to determine why they succeeded or failed and what lessons could be drawn for the future. Learn more Published Research The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings. Learn more Published Research A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Michael M. Ting, Daniel P. Carpenter We present a model of learning and policy choice across governments. Governments choose policies with known ideological positions but initially unknown valence benefits, possibly learning about those benefits between the model’s two periods. 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Published Research Incorporating Legislative Effectiveness into Nonmarket Strategy: The Case of Financial Services Reform and the Great Recession Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman The field of nonmarket strategy has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years to provide theoretical and practical guidance for managers seeking to influence policymaking. Much of this scholarship has built directly on spatial and “pivotal politics” models of lawmaking. Learn more
Published Research Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, Dana E. Wittmer, Colorado College This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. Learn more
Published Research When the smoke clears: expertise, learning and policy diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan In federal systems, governments have the opportunity to learn from the policy experiments – and the potential successes – of other governments. Whether they seize such opportunities, however, may depend on the expertise or past experiences of policymakers. Learn more
Published Research The Communication of Ideas across Subfields in Political Science Authors: Craig Volden, Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan What factors inhibit or facilitate cross-subfield conversations in political science? This article draws on diffusion scholarship to gain insight into cross-subfield communication. Learn more
Published Research Who Heeds the Call of the Party in Congress? Authors: Craig Volden, William Minozzi When party leaders seek support, who heeds the call and who remains unswayed? The canonical error-free spatial model of voting predicts the targeting of fence-sitting moderates. Learn more
Published Research The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science Authors: Craig Volden, Erin R. Graham, Charles R. Shipan Over the past fifty years, top political science journals have published hundreds of articles about policy diffusion. This article reports on network analyses of how the ideas and approaches in these articles have spread both within and across the subfields of American politics, comparative politics and international relations. Learn more
Published Research Leadership When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men? Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University, Dana E. Wittmer, Colorado College Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. We argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Learn more
Published Research Policy Diffusion: Seven Lessons for Scholars and Practitioners Authors: Craig Volden The scholarship on policy diffusion in political science and public administration is extensive. This article provides an introduction to that literature for scholars, students, and practitioners. It offers seven lessons derived from that litereature, build from numerous empirical studies an applied to contemporary policy debates. Based on these seven lessons, the authors offer guidance to policy makers and present opportunities for future research to students and scholars of policy diffusion. Learn more
Published Research Privatization and the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Vanessa Bouché The privatization of government services tends to bring about a more rapid adoption of innovative policies due to the competitive pressures of the market. In federal systems, however, the diffusion of innovations across subnational governments may offset such benefits of privatization. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Breaking Gridlock: The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress Authors: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman Scholars have often commented that health policymaking in Congress is mired in political gridlock, that reforms are far more likely to fail than to succeed, and the path forward is unclear. To reach such conclusions, scholars of health politics have tended to analyze individual major reform proposals to determine why they succeeded or failed and what lessons could be drawn for the future. Learn more
Published Research The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings. Learn more
Published Research A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion Authors: Craig Volden, Michael M. Ting, Daniel P. Carpenter We present a model of learning and policy choice across governments. Governments choose policies with known ideological positions but initially unknown valence benefits, possibly learning about those benefits between the model’s two periods. Learn more