Dana Lee Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Lee Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4066-3768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lead Kindly Light
Human neurodiversity matters. Neurodivergence and neurodiversity are fundamental characteristics of the (human) population. The essential nature of this diversity means that the quality of government and governance is unavoidably affected by approaches taken to neuroinclusion in the cultural, political, and economic spaces of current societies. Public administration cannot avoid being both entangled with the construction of neuroinclusion and aff…
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior
News media and fisheries-independent data reveal hidden impacts of hurricanes
Applicant responses to diversity selection criteria in academic staff position descriptions
Diversifying the academic staff may improve access and participation for underrepresented students; a policy of diversity selection criteria in academic staff position descriptions may advance this goal. This study examined applications to academic staff positions with diversity selection criteria to characterise applicants' responses to such criteria, and the diversity of applicant pools. The 454 applications to 11 research and teaching academic…
Prescribing Experience
Health care extends beyond pills and medical devices. Truncated conceptions of health care can be particularly challenging for disabled people and people with disabilities. This truth resonates even deeper given that the roles of spirituality, religion, and the wellbeing of the whole person occupy the central role of health care. Despite hard-won advances in parity of coverage and in health promotion, prescriptions and coverage of care beyond med…
Defining diversity
A desirable societal goal may not imply a common understanding of that goal. As organizations seek to foster inclusion through a focus on diversity, understanding the operational definition employed by stakeholders becomes important. This study focuses on how candidates applying for employment address their diversity-related qualifications when specifically asked to do so. A model-driven qualitative coding system is used to characterize the diver…
Policy Awareness, Financial Hardship, and Work Impact
Individuals with disabilities often report difficulty interacting with health care professionals. Addressing this challenge requires greater understanding of factors that exacerbate the odds of negative interactions between health care providers and patients with disabilities. Drawing on the qualitative research describing the features of such incidents, we use logistic regression to explore two dimensions of this dynamic: negative experiences wi…
Diversity statements
The purpose of the present study was to examine application materials for assistant professor positions in 3 academic disciplines. Applicants were asked to write a diversity statement describing how they would advance diversity through their research, teaching, and service. The sample included application materials submitted by 191 candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at a public research university in computer science, political science…
Use of Science in Autism Policy Development
Though ultimately beneficial to society, interactions between science and politics require careful tending. Because science is an exercise in trial and error, public policy development can be affected by both scientific missteps and the length of time it takes to produce reasonable scientific certainty. Introduction of scientific findings, especially more preliminary ones, into the political process has a mixed record. Understanding how these ten…
Mostly the mother
Creating comprehensive and effective social welfare and anti-poverty policy is an ever-elusive task. A key component of such policies and their related programs is the encouragement and protection of parents’ employment. However, such efforts become more complicated when families are faced with additional challenges such as difficulties, which may arise when parenting a child with a disability. Although both paid employment and parenting are wide…
An Elephant’s Eye View of the Mouse
Canada and the United States share a border with one of the longest peaceful existencies in the world. Yet relationships between the two countries, while seemingly routine, often lack transparency and mutual comprehension. Of particular concern in Canada is a growing impression that public discourse in the United States considers Canadian governance to be flawed. This article employs the cases of terrorism and SARS to examine discourse regarding …
Comparative Policy Entrepreneurship
Policy entrepreneurs are expected players in modern democracy. Nevertheless, the relationship between political context and successful policy entrepreneurship has been incompletely addressed. This is particularly the case when it comes to public health issues. We examine comparative policy entrepreneurship by comparing the emergence of policy entrepreneurs surrounding autism in Canada and the United States. Our study of federal autism policy in C…
Issue definition in rights‐based policy focused on the experiences of individuals with disabilities
In issue definition in rights‐based policy Canada stereotypically embraces a more positive, human rights‐centered approach as compared with the American stereotype associated with the USA’s more presumptively negative, civil rights‐based tack. Since exclusionary infrastructures violate the core values of democratic governance, a failure to address unnecessarily exclusive infrastructures presents a rights‐based public challenge surrounding disabil…
Defining autism in Canada
Modern disability policy seeks a balance between individual and social responsibility for disability. Striking this balance involves redefining issues related to disability. This article presents an analysis of the issue definition process on autism in Canada. The findings suggest although autism became an increasingly present issue in public discourse in Canada during the last 20 years, no specific aspect of the autism experience became defined …
Brain Politics
The construction of public problems has a lasting influence on implementation in a given policy subsystem. National and sociopolitical contexts influence issue definition differently across nations. However, the degree to which nation‐specific issue definition takes place has been insufficiently explored. In recent years, the growing incidence of autism has led to a quest for causal factors. One hypothesis posits that the use of mercury in vaccin…
Comparative issue definition in public health
Differential issue definition might be expected to be most prevalent in domestic policy such as health care, education and social welfare policy. However, in the context of globalization, there is rising concern that issue definition will become homogenized. A comparative analysis of whether nation-specific issue definition takes place is key to understanding the nature of policy transfer, convergence and divergence. In this article, issue defini…
Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public sector
Neurodiversity and neurological disabilities reflect rising public sector challenges. Both refer to the same set of medical conditions, but speak to different aspects of diversity affecting the public sector. Neurodiversity describes features of neurological difference associated with individual or community identity that is a more or less elective choice of those experiencing neurological difference. Neurological disability refers to impairment …
Case Study of Interagency Coordinating Councils
Children with disabilities often require a variety of services to develop to their full potential. Currently, centralized services and residential institutions have become less accepted as a matter of course. Interagency Coordinating Councils (ICCs) were created to lead integration of services for children with disabilities in the context of decentralized service provision and a growing preference for person-centered, community-based services. In…
Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public sector
Neurodiversity and neurological disabilities reflect rising public sector challenges. Both refer to the same set of medical conditions, but speak to different aspects of diversity affecting the public sector. Neurodiversity describes features of neurological difference associated with individual or community identity that is a more or less elective choice of those experiencing neurological difference. Neurological disability refers to impairment …
Mostly the mother
Creating comprehensive and effective social welfare and anti-poverty policy is an ever-elusive task. A key component of such policies and their related programs is the encouragement and protection of parents’ employment. However, such efforts become more complicated when families are faced with additional challenges such as difficulties, which may arise when parenting a child with a disability. Although both paid employment and parenting are wide…
Comparative Policy Entrepreneurship
Policy entrepreneurs are expected players in modern democracy. Nevertheless, the relationship between political context and successful policy entrepreneurship has been incompletely addressed. This is particularly the case when it comes to public health issues. We examine comparative policy entrepreneurship by comparing the emergence of policy entrepreneurs surrounding autism in Canada and the United States. Our study of federal autism policy in C…
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior
Defining autism in Canada
Modern disability policy seeks a balance between individual and social responsibility for disability. Striking this balance involves redefining issues related to disability. This article presents an analysis of the issue definition process on autism in Canada. The findings suggest although autism became an increasingly present issue in public discourse in Canada during the last 20 years, no specific aspect of the autism experience became defined …
Brain Politics
The construction of public problems has a lasting influence on implementation in a given policy subsystem. National and sociopolitical contexts influence issue definition differently across nations. However, the degree to which nation‐specific issue definition takes place has been insufficiently explored. In recent years, the growing incidence of autism has led to a quest for causal factors. One hypothesis posits that the use of mercury in vaccin…
Diversity statements
The purpose of the present study was to examine application materials for assistant professor positions in 3 academic disciplines. Applicants were asked to write a diversity statement describing how they would advance diversity through their research, teaching, and service. The sample included application materials submitted by 191 candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at a public research university in computer science, political science…
Comparative issue definition in public health
Differential issue definition might be expected to be most prevalent in domestic policy such as health care, education and social welfare policy. However, in the context of globalization, there is rising concern that issue definition will become homogenized. A comparative analysis of whether nation-specific issue definition takes place is key to understanding the nature of policy transfer, convergence and divergence. In this article, issue defini…
Case Study of Interagency Coordinating Councils
Children with disabilities often require a variety of services to develop to their full potential. Currently, centralized services and residential institutions have become less accepted as a matter of course. Interagency Coordinating Councils (ICCs) were created to lead integration of services for children with disabilities in the context of decentralized service provision and a growing preference for person-centered, community-based services. In…
Defining diversity
A desirable societal goal may not imply a common understanding of that goal. As organizations seek to foster inclusion through a focus on diversity, understanding the operational definition employed by stakeholders becomes important. This study focuses on how candidates applying for employment address their diversity-related qualifications when specifically asked to do so. A model-driven qualitative coding system is used to characterize the diver…
Case Study of Interagency Coordinating Councils
Children with disabilities often require a variety of services to develop to their full potential. Currently, centralized services and residential institutions have become less accepted as a matter of course. Interagency Coordinating Councils (ICCs) were created to lead integration of services for children with disabilities in the context of decentralized service provision and a growing preference for person-centered, community-based services. In…
Neurodiversity, neurological disability and the public sector
Neurodiversity and neurological disabilities reflect rising public sector challenges. Both refer to the same set of medical conditions, but speak to different aspects of diversity affecting the public sector. Neurodiversity describes features of neurological difference associated with individual or community identity that is a more or less elective choice of those experiencing neurological difference. Neurological disability refers to impairment …
Comparative issue definition in public health
Differential issue definition might be expected to be most prevalent in domestic policy such as health care, education and social welfare policy. However, in the context of globalization, there is rising concern that issue definition will become homogenized. A comparative analysis of whether nation-specific issue definition takes place is key to understanding the nature of policy transfer, convergence and divergence. In this article, issue defini…
Defining autism in Canada
Modern disability policy seeks a balance between individual and social responsibility for disability. Striking this balance involves redefining issues related to disability. This article presents an analysis of the issue definition process on autism in Canada. The findings suggest although autism became an increasingly present issue in public discourse in Canada during the last 20 years, no specific aspect of the autism experience became defined …
Brain Politics
The construction of public problems has a lasting influence on implementation in a given policy subsystem. National and sociopolitical contexts influence issue definition differently across nations. However, the degree to which nation‐specific issue definition takes place has been insufficiently explored. In recent years, the growing incidence of autism has led to a quest for causal factors. One hypothesis posits that the use of mercury in vaccin…
Issue definition in rights‐based policy focused on the experiences of individuals with disabilities
In issue definition in rights‐based policy Canada stereotypically embraces a more positive, human rights‐centered approach as compared with the American stereotype associated with the USA’s more presumptively negative, civil rights‐based tack. Since exclusionary infrastructures violate the core values of democratic governance, a failure to address unnecessarily exclusive infrastructures presents a rights‐based public challenge surrounding disabil…
Comparative Policy Entrepreneurship
Policy entrepreneurs are expected players in modern democracy. Nevertheless, the relationship between political context and successful policy entrepreneurship has been incompletely addressed. This is particularly the case when it comes to public health issues. We examine comparative policy entrepreneurship by comparing the emergence of policy entrepreneurs surrounding autism in Canada and the United States. Our study of federal autism policy in C…
Mostly the mother
Creating comprehensive and effective social welfare and anti-poverty policy is an ever-elusive task. A key component of such policies and their related programs is the encouragement and protection of parents’ employment. However, such efforts become more complicated when families are faced with additional challenges such as difficulties, which may arise when parenting a child with a disability. Although both paid employment and parenting are wide…
An Elephant’s Eye View of the Mouse
Canada and the United States share a border with one of the longest peaceful existencies in the world. Yet relationships between the two countries, while seemingly routine, often lack transparency and mutual comprehension. Of particular concern in Canada is a growing impression that public discourse in the United States considers Canadian governance to be flawed. This article employs the cases of terrorism and SARS to examine discourse regarding …
Use of Science in Autism Policy Development
Though ultimately beneficial to society, interactions between science and politics require careful tending. Because science is an exercise in trial and error, public policy development can be affected by both scientific missteps and the length of time it takes to produce reasonable scientific certainty. Introduction of scientific findings, especially more preliminary ones, into the political process has a mixed record. Understanding how these ten…
Policy Awareness, Financial Hardship, and Work Impact
Individuals with disabilities often report difficulty interacting with health care professionals. Addressing this challenge requires greater understanding of factors that exacerbate the odds of negative interactions between health care providers and patients with disabilities. Drawing on the qualitative research describing the features of such incidents, we use logistic regression to explore two dimensions of this dynamic: negative experiences wi…
Diversity statements
The purpose of the present study was to examine application materials for assistant professor positions in 3 academic disciplines. Applicants were asked to write a diversity statement describing how they would advance diversity through their research, teaching, and service. The sample included application materials submitted by 191 candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at a public research university in computer science, political science…
Defining diversity
A desirable societal goal may not imply a common understanding of that goal. As organizations seek to foster inclusion through a focus on diversity, understanding the operational definition employed by stakeholders becomes important. This study focuses on how candidates applying for employment address their diversity-related qualifications when specifically asked to do so. A model-driven qualitative coding system is used to characterize the diver…
Prescribing Experience
Health care extends beyond pills and medical devices. Truncated conceptions of health care can be particularly challenging for disabled people and people with disabilities. This truth resonates even deeper given that the roles of spirituality, religion, and the wellbeing of the whole person occupy the central role of health care. Despite hard-won advances in parity of coverage and in health promotion, prescriptions and coverage of care beyond med…
Applicant responses to diversity selection criteria in academic staff position descriptions
Diversifying the academic staff may improve access and participation for underrepresented students; a policy of diversity selection criteria in academic staff position descriptions may advance this goal. This study examined applications to academic staff positions with diversity selection criteria to characterise applicants' responses to such criteria, and the diversity of applicant pools. The 454 applications to 11 research and teaching academic…
News media and fisheries-independent data reveal hidden impacts of hurricanes
The role of value(s) in theories of human behavior
Lead Kindly Light
Human neurodiversity matters. Neurodivergence and neurodiversity are fundamental characteristics of the (human) population. The essential nature of this diversity means that the quality of government and governance is unavoidably affected by approaches taken to neuroinclusion in the cultural, political, and economic spaces of current societies. Public administration cannot avoid being both entangled with the construction of neuroinclusion and aff…
Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Autism (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Diversity (politics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)