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ResearchPaul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State: A Twentieth Anniversary Reassessment
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ResearchDecision Making for Student Success: Behavioral Insights to Improve College Access and PersistenceScholars from the fields of behavioral economics, education, and public policy explore contemporary research on decision-making and highlight behavioral insights that can improve postsecondary access and success. Written in collaboration with Saul Schwartz, Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Canada and Sandy Baum, Research Professor of Education Policy at George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, USA. -
ResearchPaperless and soulless. E-signatures diminish the signer’s presence and decrease acceptanceE-signatures are one of the fastest growing global practices because of their convenience. Much less is known, however, about whether people perceive e-signatures to be symbolically equivalent to traditional hand signatures.
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ResearchIncorporating Legislative Effectiveness into Nonmarket Strategy: The Case of Financial Services Reform and the Great RecessionThe 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.
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ResearchFraming in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European CommissionFraming plays an important role in public policy. Interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of a policy proposal while ignoring others in order to gain an advantage in the policy debate.
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ResearchImproving Weight of Evidence Approaches to Chemical EvaluationsFederal and other regulatory agencies often use or claim to use a weight of evidence (WoE) approach in chemical evaluation. Their approaches to the use of WoE, however, differ significantly, rely heavily on subjective professional judgment, and merit improvement.
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ResearchMeasuring interest group framing strategies in public policy debatesFraming plays an important role in lobbying, as interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of policy proposals while ignoring others to shape policy debates in their favour. However, due to methodological difficulties, we have remarkably little systematic data about the framing strategies of interest groups.
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ResearchPartners in Advocacy: Lobbyists and Government Officials in WashingtonOne of the most important demonstrations of power in Washington is the ability to recruit sitting government officials to become active proponents of one’s position. Many have suggested money is the key: Campaign contributions buy friends, access, and perhaps even policy activism.