Daniel J Mallinson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1487784 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel J Mallinson |
| PRENOMES | Daniel J |
| SOBRENOME | Mallinson |
| ASSINATURA | MALLINSON D J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8094-6685 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 253 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Building Trust in Government AI
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence in healthcare services has raised concerns about privacy, accountability, and public trust, particularly for vulnerable populations. This study examines state-level governance frameworks regulating artificial intelligence in the United States healthcare. It analyzes 141 enacted state laws to identify key regulatory themes, including data privacy, electronic health records, patient consent, bio…
Elite Socialization Diffusion
As diffusion scholars increasingly focus on the various mechanisms underlying the spread of policy innovations, it is important to establish clear theoretical foundations for each one. Elite socialization—innovations that diffuse because of the convergence of lawmakers and policy advocates around norms of appropriateness—is the most underdeveloped mechanism in the American diffusion literature. This is a critical oversight given the application o…
Teaching Through Grief
Grief comes for all of us, but faculty often keep it close. Many of us suffer in silence. This article uses autoethnography and literature review to explore the full experience of faculty grief on an academic career. Using an autoethnography of my mother’s death by suicide, I explore the impacts of grief and trauma on relationships with colleagues and students, limits of institutional support, and the isolation of grief. In response, the article …
Regulating AI in State Governments
Off to the Polls and Then Down the Ballot
Unions are successful at mobilizing voter turnout, but does this success translate to voting down-ballot? Raising this question brings together two disparate strains of research on ballot-roll off and union voter mobilization. Using data from the Cooperative Election Study (2012, 2016, and 2020), we find that union voters are more likely to vote in down ballot U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections. Though members of union households are…
Policy performance in crisis
Adding Nuance to Understanding the Effects of Cannabis Legalization by Using Policy Bundles
BACKGROUND: Variation in policy design presents a challenge for understanding the positive and negative externalities of cannabis legalization. We offer an advancement on measuring state cannabis policy variation - policy bundles - and demonstrate how the measure can be used to test the effects of cannabis legalization on youth mental health. METHODS: This research employs data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released by the Centers f…
Rural reticence to inform physicians of cannabis use
PURPOSE: Over 75% of Americans have legal access to medical cannabis, though physical access is not uniform and can be difficult for rural residents. Additionally, substantial stigma remains in using medical cannabis, particularly within the health care system. This article argues that rural Americans may be particularly affected by such stigma and may thus be more likely to not report cannabis use to health care providers. METHODS: Data were obt…
When Is the Right Time to Do a Policy Diffusion Study
Event history analysis (EHA) revolutionized the study of policy diffusion. However, many diffusion studies are snapshots of a policy’s spread. This begs the question of what we are learning from studies of (often) incomplete diffusion. The simple question that we ask – when should a diffusion study be conducted? – is complex to answer. We offer insight into this question using literature on EHA and empirical observation. We use data from the Stat…
Reply to Reviewers
Artificial intelligence policy, the Trump Administration, and federalism
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories
We integrate the study of policy design and diffusion theoretically and empirically to advance each and raise novel research questions. We argue that policy dissemination is an important rationale in the design of model legislation and present a theory for how each of the five elements of design map onto the policy innovation attribute of complexity. Empirically, we both hand code policy design elements and use a novel textual approach to measure…
Playing Outside the Lines
Artificial intelligence technology, public trust, and effective governance
Advancement in information technology continues to evolve especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Research studies have been conducted to evaluate the perceptions of Americans on the development and utilization of AI technology and if it is appropriate to use AI in public administrative duties. The research revealed that society is fragmented regarding the acceptance of AI, and whether AI decisions could have long-term effects on…
The Impact of Sustainable Nitrogen Management on the Health Risks of Unsafe Drinking Water and the Mediating Role of Food Production
This study adopts a policy-centric perspective to explore the complex relationship between sustainable nitrogen management (SNM) and the health risks associated with unsafe drinking water. The critical policy challenge lies in balancing the essential role of nitrogen fertilizers in achieving high agricultural productivity with their detrimental environmental impacts. Using the Sustainable Nitrogen Management Index (SNMI) as a measure of nitrogen …
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation
Measuring the stasis
The American policy process is characterized by a pattern known as “Punctuated Equilibrium,” manifesting as periods of stasis interspersed with large periods of change. Punctuated equilibrium suggests that friction in the policy process and uneven information processing result in a policy process that over‐ and underreacts to problems. Increasingly, American political institutions are also characterized by high levels of partisanship, which are r…
Courts-First Federalism
States and interest groups are facilitating a redistribution of government powers under a new courts-first federalism. States are working to claw back powers while interest groups drafting model laws strategically tailor them to skirt the limits of federal law and, once adopted by states, prompt federal courts to review them as parties litigate to clarify their rights. States do not need to be completely successful in litigation to shift the bala…
AI Policies, Equity, and Morality and the Implications for Faculty in Higher Education
West Darrel M and Allen John R (2020) Turning Point
The potential of smart home technology for improving healthcare
As aging populations grow and contribute to rising healthcare costs, policymakers and scholars recognize the need for technological solutions that reduce the costs of public service delivery. Smart homes, equipped with an array of physical and virtual networks, automated products, and intelligent system controls, present a cost-effective solution to extend the independence of older adults and persons with disabilities. We conduct a scoping review…
Catching up with AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributes to public administration by augmenting public services, including managing big data and information technology. AI is currently utilized in e‐government services that contribute value to American citizens, including providing a personalized customer experience, such as linking individualized data and processing individual assistance requests. Furthermore, AI can take over redundant routine tasks such as di…
How NIL and student athletes are prompting changes in higher education administration
Name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies are expanding rapidly in the United States and affecting the roles of higher education administrators. Athletics compliance officers are dealing with an uncertain and rapidly shifting policy landscape that includes vague state and NCAA regulations and burgeoning third parties trying to capitalize for the sake of schools and athletes. Using interviews with compliance officers at five institutions, we demons…
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty
Differences in policy responses have enabled some nations to successfully mitigate COVID-19 cases and deaths while others continue to struggle. In their efforts to contain the virus, nations have pursued disparate policy responses with policy stringency ranging from policy over-reactions to under-reactions. As nations look towards recovery, a retroactive evaluation of the relationship between policy responses and outcomes can provide much-needed …
Trumping the Centers for Disease Control
Despite being the richest and most prepared nation in the world, the U.S. responded badly to the COVID-19 crisis. This paper examines the nature of political control and the essence of bureaucratic failure for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an independent agency. In three case studies, we analyze the CDC’s success in handling H1N1 and Ebola, and its failures on COVID-19. We find that the CDC suffered not only from political…
Who Are Your Neighbors? The Role of Ideology and Decline of Geographic Proximity in the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
States adopt policy innovations within the confines of a dynamic American federal system, but our study of policy diffusion tends to be fairly static. Single‐policy studies incorporate temporal variation, but for only one innovation. Macro‐level analyses examine broad patterns, but often by completely pooling across policy and time. This makes it difficult to identify how diffusion patterns change over time, though Walker's early work explicitly …
Defiant Innovation
Diffusion research often characterizes the role of the federal government in innovation adoption as a supportive one, either increasing the likelihood of adoption or its speed. We examine the adoption of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) from 1996 to 2014 to shed light on what motivates states to adopt innovations that are in explicit defiance of federal law. Furthermore, we examine whether federal signals have any influence on the likelihood of adop…
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course
This study develops and tests a theory of the diffusion life course using a dataset of 566 policies adopted between 1960 and 2016. Previous small‐N studies found differences between leaders and laggards, but broader innovation theory points to five stages of adoption: innovation, early adoption, early majority, late majority, and laggard. This study demonstrates that predictors of policy adoption change throughout the diffusion life course. Neigh…
Building a Better Speed Trap
A comparative approach to studying the spread of policy innovations has recently yielded new and interesting results, as well as theoretical advancements, for policy diffusion research. Specifically, punctuated equilibrium theory has been offered as an explanation for why some policies spread quickly, while others do so normally, and still others are adopted very slowly. Studies of adoption speed, however, currently rely on careful case selection…
Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During Covid-19
This essay discusses how scholarship on state politics and policy, intergovernmental relations, and federalism provides necessary context for understanding governmental responses to COVID-19. It also highlights how observing those responses can further push the bounds of existing scholarship and theory regarding policy innovation and cooperative and conflictual federalism. It argues that there is a space for mutual learning and sharing between sc…
Policy and Political Learning
Policy diffusion studies often infer that learning occurs, but statistical analyses cannot demonstrate it definitively. The spread of medical marijuana offers the opportunity to take a closer look at whether policy and political learning occur during diffusion. An increasing number of states have adopted medical marijuana policies in defiance of federal prohibition and in the space created by federal inactivity. Furthermore, early adopting states…
Artificial intelligence technology, public trust, and effective governance
Advancement in information technology continues to evolve especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Research studies have been conducted to evaluate the perceptions of Americans on the development and utilization of AI technology and if it is appropriate to use AI in public administrative duties. The research revealed that society is fragmented regarding the acceptance of AI, and whether AI decisions could have long-term effects on…
Growth and gaps
Research on how policies diffuse throughout the American federal system is robust and vast, but there has yet to be a systematic accounting for its results. Using a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of how policy innovation flows state-to-state and the average effects of commonly used variables in the study of policy diffusion (for example, neighbour adoptions, ideological distance be…
Measuring the stasis
The American policy process is characterized by a pattern known as “Punctuated Equilibrium,” manifesting as periods of stasis interspersed with large periods of change. Punctuated equilibrium suggests that friction in the policy process and uneven information processing result in a policy process that over‐ and underreacts to problems. Increasingly, American political institutions are also characterized by high levels of partisanship, which are r…
Disproportionate policy dynamics in crisis and uncertainty
Differences in policy responses have enabled some nations to successfully mitigate COVID-19 cases and deaths while others continue to struggle. In their efforts to contain the virus, nations have pursued disparate policy responses with policy stringency ranging from policy over-reactions to under-reactions. As nations look towards recovery, a retroactive evaluation of the relationship between policy responses and outcomes can provide much-needed …
Policy Diffusion Speed
Data accumulation efforts are pushing the study of policy innovation diffusion in new directions. This replication study uses one such effort, the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion database, to interrogate the claim that policy attributes like salience and complexity condition the speed of innovation adoption. The study finds that policy complexity does push the effect of policy salience in a negative direction. However, it also finds substan…
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation
Courts-First Federalism
States and interest groups are facilitating a redistribution of government powers under a new courts-first federalism. States are working to claw back powers while interest groups drafting model laws strategically tailor them to skirt the limits of federal law and, once adopted by states, prompt federal courts to review them as parties litigate to clarify their rights. States do not need to be completely successful in litigation to shift the bala…
Catching up with AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) contributes to public administration by augmenting public services, including managing big data and information technology. AI is currently utilized in e‐government services that contribute value to American citizens, including providing a personalized customer experience, such as linking individualized data and processing individual assistance requests. Furthermore, AI can take over redundant routine tasks such as di…
Evaluating punctuated equilibrium dynamics within a crisis context
The theoretical evolution of punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) and empirical expansion of its research agenda to non-democratic countries, demonstrate that democratic nations feature less punctuated policymaking than autocracies, owing to informational advantages. However, can these differences be identified cross-sectionally across numerous political systems facing a common policy problem? To assess this, we present a broad and robust empirica…
Business Improvement District Enabling Laws in the United States and Germany
This study aims to answer the question of how political cultures of respective countries affect policy learning processes. Using historical and contextual information about the political cultures of the United States and Germany and with applications of the advocacy coalition framework and cultural theory, this study finds that the originally American business improvement district (BID) institutional form was adopted in Germany when its political…
Agenda instability in Pennsylvania politics
Research on agenda-setting dynamics in American politics has a rich and deep history. Recent efforts to extend this work into other countries provides a comparative perspective on how differing institutional designs shape attention allocation and punctuated equilibrium. This comparison is not only possible cross-nationally, but also between the American states. Using an untapped resource—the Pennsylvania Policy Agendas Project—the author replicat…
Upstream influence
Smart home technology
Developing and developed nations face demographic challenges in the coming decades. Aging populations are expected to strain health resources and social safety nets. Smart home technology (SHT) is touted as a means for simultaneously improving quality of life and independence, while also reducing the long-term costs of caring for an aging population. SHT also presents myriad governance and policy challenges, especially the protection and use of v…
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states
Background: Though evidence-based policy (EBP) has attracted considerable attention from the public, academics, and governments, prior studies have revealed little about how political parties, institutions, and policy context shape the adoption and implementation of these policies in the American states. Aims and objectives: Develop objective criteria for measuring these policies, as well as a hierarchy which describes the features that make some…
Sharing economy
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Policy performance in crisis
Artificial intelligence policy, the Trump Administration, and federalism
Linking policy design and policy diffusion to advance both theories
We integrate the study of policy design and diffusion theoretically and empirically to advance each and raise novel research questions. We argue that policy dissemination is an important rationale in the design of model legislation and present a theory for how each of the five elements of design map onto the policy innovation attribute of complexity. Empirically, we both hand code policy design elements and use a novel textual approach to measure…
The Impact of Sustainable Nitrogen Management on the Health Risks of Unsafe Drinking Water and the Mediating Role of Food Production
This study adopts a policy-centric perspective to explore the complex relationship between sustainable nitrogen management (SNM) and the health risks associated with unsafe drinking water. The critical policy challenge lies in balancing the essential role of nitrogen fertilizers in achieving high agricultural productivity with their detrimental environmental impacts. Using the Sustainable Nitrogen Management Index (SNMI) as a measure of nitrogen …
Upstream influence
Party Control and Perverse Effects in Majority-Minority Districting
Every 10 years, states set about redrawing the lines of their Congressional districts. Scholars in political science have long been interested in the strategic behavior and representational outcomes of this process. While majority-minority districts are intended to provide a constraint on strategic party behavior in order to ensure substantive representation of minority interests, researchers have noted a perverse effect that results in potential…
Agenda instability in Pennsylvania politics
Research on agenda-setting dynamics in American politics has a rich and deep history. Recent efforts to extend this work into other countries provides a comparative perspective on how differing institutional designs shape attention allocation and punctuated equilibrium. This comparison is not only possible cross-nationally, but also between the American states. Using an untapped resource—the Pennsylvania Policy Agendas Project—the author replicat…
Building a Better Speed Trap
A comparative approach to studying the spread of policy innovations has recently yielded new and interesting results, as well as theoretical advancements, for policy diffusion research. Specifically, punctuated equilibrium theory has been offered as an explanation for why some policies spread quickly, while others do so normally, and still others are adopted very slowly. Studies of adoption speed, however, currently rely on careful case selection…
Apsa Teaching and Learning Conference and Track Summaries
This year's program committee organized a dynamic program of sessions and workshops around the theme "The 21st Century Classroom: Creating an Engaging Environment for All Students," focusing on best practices and inventive methodologies for the political science classroom
Geologic History, Hydrology, and Current Public Policy
The natural gas industry is a boon to the economy of the United States and will continue to expand in the following decades. Hydraulic fracturing (fracking), however, produces much waste and it must be determined how to dispose of unwanted byproducts of natural gas drilling, such as produced wastewater, solid scale, and oil. Radionuclides such as uranium were deposited in the Marcellus Shale millions of years ago and are now being returned to the…
Lessons on Running a Laboratory Experiment (in Graduate School)
Experimentation has taken on a new life in political science. As the use of experimental methods proliferates, it is important for researchers to share their experiences and best practices, particularly with early-career researchers. This article provides reflections from practical experience in the laboratory, particularly geared toward graduate students and early-career researchers who are conducting their first laboratory experiment. These les…
Defiant Innovation
Diffusion research often characterizes the role of the federal government in innovation adoption as a supportive one, either increasing the likelihood of adoption or its speed. We examine the adoption of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) from 1996 to 2014 to shed light on what motivates states to adopt innovations that are in explicit defiance of federal law. Furthermore, we examine whether federal signals have any influence on the likelihood of adop…
Teaching Environmental Policy by Having Students Write Case Studies
Instructors, particularly those teaching public policy, often wish to incorporate the development of practical skills into their course assessments. These can range from writing briefs to novel research papers. Instructors also often desire to increase the rigor and utility of these assignments. More often than not, a skill may be developed, but the product is discarded at the end of the course. This article describes the incorporation of writing…
Invasive Snakehead and Introduced Sport Fish Illustrate an Environmental Health Paradox of Invasive Species and Angler Demand
The invasive snakehead fish, which is native to Africa, Asia, Indonesia, and Malaysia, has been found in nine states in the United States and has notably developed a reproducing population in South Florida, Maryland, and Hawaii. This case study discusses the environmental impact and policies surrounding the snakehead fish population in the United States’ waters, as well as three other fishes (smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and trout) that are …
From Criminalizing to Decriminalizing Marijuana
As marijuana liberalization progresses in the United States, criminalization’s historical context must not be ignored. Scholars have begun to understand the spread of recent marijuana liberalization, but their work is not always grounded in the historical context of drug control. Nikolay Anguelov’s book From Criminalizing to Decriminalizing Marijuana does this by situating recent advancements in marijuana liberalization within the historical arc …
Explaining variation in evidence-based policy making in the American states
Background: Though evidence-based policy (EBP) has attracted considerable attention from the public, academics, and governments, prior studies have revealed little about how political parties, institutions, and policy context shape the adoption and implementation of these policies in the American states. Aims and objectives: Develop objective criteria for measuring these policies, as well as a hierarchy which describes the features that make some…
Cooperation and Conflict in State and Local Innovation During Covid-19
This essay discusses how scholarship on state politics and policy, intergovernmental relations, and federalism provides necessary context for understanding governmental responses to COVID-19. It also highlights how observing those responses can further push the bounds of existing scholarship and theory regarding policy innovation and cooperative and conflictual federalism. It argues that there is a space for mutual learning and sharing between sc…
Marijuana Federalism
The progression of marijuana liberalization in the American states has provided a fascinating look into the complicated dynamics of federalism.Several books have been published about marijuana policy, but none have focused on the role of federalism in structuring the path of legalization.Marijuana Federalism is an important foundation for understanding the complexities of marijuana policy and the legal implications of the divergence between feder…
Policy and Political Learning
Policy diffusion studies often infer that learning occurs, but statistical analyses cannot demonstrate it definitively. The spread of medical marijuana offers the opportunity to take a closer look at whether policy and political learning occur during diffusion. An increasing number of states have adopted medical marijuana policies in defiance of federal prohibition and in the space created by federal inactivity. Furthermore, early adopting states…
Sharing economy
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Can We Break the Hold of Partisanship
The relationship between state-level carbon emissions and average working hours in the United States
Climate change is perhaps the most pressing problem facing humanity over the coming century. One proposed solution to climate change is reducing employee work hours which potentially allows for degrowth or the radical restructuring of the economy without greatly increasing unemployment. Using 2007–2013 data from the United States, research by Fitzgerald, Schor, and Jorgenson lent support to this policy option by finding a positive and statistical…
Growth and gaps
Research on how policies diffuse throughout the American federal system is robust and vast, but there has yet to be a systematic accounting for its results. Using a systematic review and meta-analysis, this study presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of how policy innovation flows state-to-state and the average effects of commonly used variables in the study of policy diffusion (for example, neighbour adoptions, ideological distance be…
Policy Innovation Adoption Across the Diffusion Life Course
This study develops and tests a theory of the diffusion life course using a dataset of 566 policies adopted between 1960 and 2016. Previous small‐N studies found differences between leaders and laggards, but broader innovation theory points to five stages of adoption: innovation, early adoption, early majority, late majority, and laggard. This study demonstrates that predictors of policy adoption change throughout the diffusion life course. Neigh…
Who Are Your Neighbors? The Role of Ideology and Decline of Geographic Proximity in the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
States adopt policy innovations within the confines of a dynamic American federal system, but our study of policy diffusion tends to be fairly static. Single‐policy studies incorporate temporal variation, but for only one innovation. Macro‐level analyses examine broad patterns, but often by completely pooling across policy and time. This makes it difficult to identify how diffusion patterns change over time, though Walker's early work explicitly …
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Victor David CRUZ-Aceves, The Diffusion of Morality Policies
The complexities, boundaries, and definitions of morality policy have long intrigued policy scholars. Within the study of policy diffusion, scholars have considered whether and how morality policies spread differently than those with less morality content. Of course, morality content is a dimension, not a simple dichotomy. Victor David Cruz-Aceves’s book, The Diffusion of Morality Policies, is an important step forward for this strain of research…
Race to the top and the diffusion of state education intervention policy in the American states
This study aims to explain the adoption and spread of school turnaround legislation in the American states. While turnaround policy started in New Jersey in 1989, it did not spread rapidly or widely until the eras of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top (RTTT). We specifically address how RTTT leveraged a coercive federalism that helped propel policies like school turnarounds. Using data on turnaround adoptions from 1989 to 2019 and applying …
The Scourge of Orphaned and Abandoned Wells
Orphaned and abandoned wells are emblematic of the challenges of abandoned infrastructure. With over 2.5 million idle wells in the United States, this is a large problem that requires engagement across the public, private, non-profit, and civic sectors. This article conducts a focused case study on orphaned and abandoned well reclamation in Pennsylvania. Elite interviews, government document review, and scholarly literature reveal the barriers to…
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