Faculty & Research Published Research Research Political Science Domestic Policy & Politics Health Policy Leadership Facet Area of Focus - Research Christopher J. Ruhm Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou Benjamin Castleman Sarah Turner Edgar O. Olsen Sophie Trawalter Benjamin Converse Christine Mahoney Timothy Wilson Adam Leive James H. Wyckoff William Shobe Charles Holt Daniel W. Player Daphna Bassok Harry Harding Jay Shimshack Jeanine Braithwaite John Pepper Richard Bonnie David Leblang John Holbein Leora Friedberg Molly Lipscomb James Savage Sebastian Tello-Trillo Frederick P. Hitz Gabrielle Adams Gerald Warburg Isaac Mbiti Paul S. Martin Raymond C. Scheppach Ruth Gaare Bernheim Andrew S. Pennock Gerald Higginbotham Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Jennifer Lawless Michele Claibourn Noah Myung Philip Potter (-) Craig Volden Facet People - Research Center for Effective Lawmaking Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Studies of policy diffusion often focus on the horizontal spread of enactments from one state to another, paying little or no attention to the effects of local laws on state-level adoptions. For example, scholars have not tested whether local policy adoptions make state action more likely (through a snowball effect) or less likely (through a pressure valve effect). Learn more Published Research States as Policy Laboratories: Emulating Success in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Authors: Craig Volden This article illustrates the use of the directed dyad-year event history analysis to study policy diffusion, with an application to policy changes in the Children’s Health Insurance Program from 1998 to 2001. This analysis reveals strong evidence that states with successful policies are more likely to be emulated than are those with failing policies. Learn more Published Research The Role of Policy Attributes in the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Todd Makse Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the mechanisms through which diffusion occurs. We adopt Everett Rogers’ (1983, 2004) attribute typology from the diffusion of innovations literature and apply it to a sample of 27 policy innovations from the sphere of criminal justice policy in the U.S. states between 1973 and 2002. Learn more Published Research Coalitional Politics and Logrolling in Legislative Institutions Authors: Craig Volden, Clifford J. Carrubba We examine how a foresighted legislative chamber will design its institutions in response to ex ante incentives for universalism and ex post incentives for minimum winning coalitions and what coalitions will form as a result. To do so, we develop a model of vote trading with an endogenous voting rule and coalition formation process. Learn more Published Research Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants: Analysis and Implications for U.S. Welfare Policy Authors: Craig Volden Theories of federal grants to states and localities suggest that these grants have a stimulative effect on spending, causing recipient governments to expand and contract programs along with changes in the grants. However, policymakers may respond differently to grant decreases than to grant increases because they face political and bureaucratic pressures to expand programs. Learn more Published Research Sophisticated Voting in Supermajoritarian Settings Authors: Craig Volden Empirical support for sophisticated voting in the legislative setting has been sparse. This is due to a number of factors, including the difficulty of identifying the ideal points of legislators in multidimensional spaces. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3
Published Research Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States Authors: Craig Volden, Charles R. Shipan Studies of policy diffusion often focus on the horizontal spread of enactments from one state to another, paying little or no attention to the effects of local laws on state-level adoptions. For example, scholars have not tested whether local policy adoptions make state action more likely (through a snowball effect) or less likely (through a pressure valve effect). Learn more
Published Research States as Policy Laboratories: Emulating Success in the Children’s Health Insurance Program Authors: Craig Volden This article illustrates the use of the directed dyad-year event history analysis to study policy diffusion, with an application to policy changes in the Children’s Health Insurance Program from 1998 to 2001. This analysis reveals strong evidence that states with successful policies are more likely to be emulated than are those with failing policies. Learn more
Published Research The Role of Policy Attributes in the Diffusion of Innovations Authors: Craig Volden, Todd Makse Studies of policy diffusion have given insufficient attention to the role that characteristics of the policies themselves play in determining the speed of policy diffusion and the mechanisms through which diffusion occurs. We adopt Everett Rogers’ (1983, 2004) attribute typology from the diffusion of innovations literature and apply it to a sample of 27 policy innovations from the sphere of criminal justice policy in the U.S. states between 1973 and 2002. Learn more
Published Research Coalitional Politics and Logrolling in Legislative Institutions Authors: Craig Volden, Clifford J. Carrubba We examine how a foresighted legislative chamber will design its institutions in response to ex ante incentives for universalism and ex post incentives for minimum winning coalitions and what coalitions will form as a result. To do so, we develop a model of vote trading with an endogenous voting rule and coalition formation process. Learn more
Published Research Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants: Analysis and Implications for U.S. Welfare Policy Authors: Craig Volden Theories of federal grants to states and localities suggest that these grants have a stimulative effect on spending, causing recipient governments to expand and contract programs along with changes in the grants. However, policymakers may respond differently to grant decreases than to grant increases because they face political and bureaucratic pressures to expand programs. Learn more
Published Research Sophisticated Voting in Supermajoritarian Settings Authors: Craig Volden Empirical support for sophisticated voting in the legislative setting has been sparse. This is due to a number of factors, including the difficulty of identifying the ideal points of legislators in multidimensional spaces. Learn more