Presidential Prescriptions for State Policy
Obama's Race to the Top Initiative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11680487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Howell (0000-0003-1733-2127, corresponding author), Asya Magazinnik (0000-0002-6822-4153) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 502-531 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/pam.21986 |
| OpenAlex | W2617212271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 50 |
With increasing frequency, U.S. presidents have orchestrated relations between federal and state governments. A defining feature of this "executive federalism" is a pragmatic willingness to both borrow from and reconstitute very different types of past federalisms. A case in point is President Barack Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative, which sought to stimulate the adoption of specific education reforms in state governments around the country through a series of highly prescriptive but entirely voluntary policy competitions. This paper evaluates the results of such efforts. To do so, it draws on four original data sets: a nationally representative survey of state legislators, an analysis of State of the State speeches, another of state applications to the competitions themselves, and finally, an inventory of state policymaking trends in a range of education policies that were awarded under the competition. This paper then relies upon a variety of identification strategies to gauge the influence of RttT on the nation's education policy landscape. Taken as a whole the evidence suggests that RttT, through both direct and indirect means, augmented the production of state policies that were central components of the president's education agenda
Competition (biology · Education policy · Federalism · Higher education · Identification (biology · Policy analysis · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Race (biology · Race to the Top · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
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The Implications of No Child Left Behind’s Waivers for Contemporary School Improvement Systems
Financial Incentives in Vertical Diffusion
A “Race to the Top” in Public Higher Education to Improve Education and Employment Among the Poor
Teachers’ unions and school board elections
Race to the top and the diffusion of state education intervention policy in the American states
Particularism or Policy? When Distributive Outlays Flow to the President’s Core Supporters
An exploration of spillover effects
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption
The Effects of Race to the Top on Student Achievement
Navigating Rivalry and Insight
The Study of Executive Policy Making in the US States
Incentives or Disincentives
Topics as Outcomes
When Federalism Works
The Particularistic President
The Ordeal of Equality
The Influence of Federal Grants
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The Politics of Federal Grants
Top-Down Federalism
Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants
The Politics of Diffusion
Innovation and Reinvention in State Policymaking
Federalism and Policy Responsiveness
Making the National Local
Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research
Competitive Grants and Educational Federalism
Policy Diffusion
Vertical Diffusion and the Policy-Making Process
Federal Policy Activity and the Mobilization of State Lobbying Organizations
Modeling Regional Effects on State Policy Diffusion
Disentangling Diffusion
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change
There Will Always Be a New Federalism
Legislative Morality in the American States
The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion
States as Policy Laboratories
The Impact of Federal Incentives on State Policy Innovation
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Ideology and Learning in Policy Diffusion
State and Local Governments under Federal Grants
Vested Interests and Political Institutions
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending
Persistent Policy Pathways
Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Interstate Competition
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States
Poverty and Public Policy
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |