Grant W Neeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 2173893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant W Neeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant W |
| FAMILY NAME | Neeley |
| SIGNATURE | NEELEY G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dayton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2323-0848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Teaching With AI, Not for AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping public administration, yet public affairs curricula often stress tool proficiency and “human-in-the-loop” cautions without helping students examine how their own assumptions shape AI-assisted analysis. This paper uses learner-centered pedagogy that embeds AI as a “mirror” to surface human biases across problem framing, evidence use, alternative generation, and evaluation in a policy analysis assignment. Drawin…
Influences on cannabis policy design and adaptation in the American states
Despite federal prohibitions, three‐quarters of states had implemented medical marijuana laws (MML) and one‐third had implemented recreational cannabis laws (RCL) by 2020. State policy designs varied considerably, and we focus on policy development and maturation in policy implementation, examining factors influencing design features of policy bundles for MML and RCL policies. Using data for 50 states from 1994 to 2020, we categorized 36 policies…
The Effect of State Regulations on Truck-Crash Fatalities
To improve traffic safety, states limit truck length and weight, and some set lower speed limits for trucks than for other vehicles. We examined the impact of truck-specific restrictions and general traffic-safety policies on fatality rates from crashes involving large trucks. We used state-level data from 1991 to 2005 with a cross-sectional time-series model that controlled for several policy measures. We found that higher speed limits for cars …
Can Deliberative Democracy Work in Hierarchical Organizations
Some measure of equality is necessary for deliberative democracy to work well, yet empirical scholarship consistently points to the deleterious effect that hierarchy and inequalities of epistemological authority have on deliberation. This article tests whether real-world deliberative forums can overcome these challenges. Contrary to skeptics, it concludes that the act of deliberation itself and the presence of trained moderators ameliorate inequa…
Perceived Risk and Citizen Preferences for Governmental Management of Routine Hazards
Risk perceptions are important to the policy process because they inform individuals’ preferences for government management of hazards that affect personal safety, public health, or ecological conditions. Studies of risk in the policy process have often focused on explicating the determinants of risk perceptions for highly salient, high consequence hazards (e.g., nuclear energy). We argue that it is useful to also study more routinely experienced…
The State of Surveying Legislators
State-level research affords scholars a unique opportunity to study legislative behavior because state legislators are accessible in ways that members of congress are not. State legislators' willingness to respond to interviews and questionnaires has provided scholars with a rich array of data about their behavior and perceptions. This survey research has contributed greatly to our theoretical and practical knowledge of legislative behavior and i…
The Effectiveness of Child Safety Seat Laws in the Fifty States
This study evaluates the effectiveness of state child safety seat laws in the United States. Data for all fifty states for the period 1975 to 1994 are used. Pooled time series analysis is employed to estimate a model of the rate of fatalities suffered by children ages 0–5 years as occupants in automobile crashes. The occupant fatality rate for children 6–11 years of age is used as a comparison group to control for other trends not introduced in t…
Who is early voting? An individual level examination
Objective. Early voting has been suggested as one method of increasing voter turnout. Allowing voters to cast their ballots during a longer time period may ameliorate some barriers to participation that exist. However, the question of whether early voting mobilizes previous nonvoting registrants or simply makes voting easier for those who would have participated anyway remains largely unanswered. Methods. We test these questions through the use o…
Penny Pinching or Politics? The Line Item Veto and Military Construction Appropriations
Penny Pinching or Politics? the Line Item Veto and MilitaryConstruction Appropriations
Although scholars have studied the item veto and its effects-at the state-level-for years, there is considerable disagreement over the national-level political and fiscal ramifications of the implementation of the item veto. Our analysis is the first empirical examination of the use of the item veto at the federal level. We find that partisan politics and an interest in fiscal austerity played little or no role in the president' decision-making c…
Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization
Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization
The bulk of the literature on group mobilization focuses on why individu als join groups and virtually ignores the group leader (entrepreneur). Thus, we argue that there is a gap in the literature on group development: while entrepreneurs are critical in the process of group mobilization, little is known about what they do and why and how they do it. Studies of group mobilization continue to focus on group supporters-the patrons and members who p…
Toward an Explanation for Public Interest Group Formation and Proliferation
Utilizing data from a survey of 60 national public interest group founders, this paper addresses two related questions: (a) What factors explain the (relatively) recent proliferation of public interest groups? (b) What factors determine in which policy areas public interest group activity is most likely? The results of the data analysis suggest that several factors have contributed to group proliferation. Among the most important are law group st…
Who is early voting? An individual level examination
Objective. Early voting has been suggested as one method of increasing voter turnout. Allowing voters to cast their ballots during a longer time period may ameliorate some barriers to participation that exist. However, the question of whether early voting mobilizes previous nonvoting registrants or simply makes voting easier for those who would have participated anyway remains largely unanswered. Methods. We test these questions through the use o…
The State of Surveying Legislators
State-level research affords scholars a unique opportunity to study legislative behavior because state legislators are accessible in ways that members of congress are not. State legislators' willingness to respond to interviews and questionnaires has provided scholars with a rich array of data about their behavior and perceptions. This survey research has contributed greatly to our theoretical and practical knowledge of legislative behavior and i…
Perceived Risk and Citizen Preferences for Governmental Management of Routine Hazards
Risk perceptions are important to the policy process because they inform individuals’ preferences for government management of hazards that affect personal safety, public health, or ecological conditions. Studies of risk in the policy process have often focused on explicating the determinants of risk perceptions for highly salient, high consequence hazards (e.g., nuclear energy). We argue that it is useful to also study more routinely experienced…
Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization
The bulk of the literature on group mobilization focuses on why individu als join groups and virtually ignores the group leader (entrepreneur). Thus, we argue that there is a gap in the literature on group development: while entrepreneurs are critical in the process of group mobilization, little is known about what they do and why and how they do it. Studies of group mobilization continue to focus on group supporters-the patrons and members who p…
Toward an Explanation for Public Interest Group Formation and Proliferation
Utilizing data from a survey of 60 national public interest group founders, this paper addresses two related questions: (a) What factors explain the (relatively) recent proliferation of public interest groups? (b) What factors determine in which policy areas public interest group activity is most likely? The results of the data analysis suggest that several factors have contributed to group proliferation. Among the most important are law group st…
Influences on cannabis policy design and adaptation in the American states
Despite federal prohibitions, three‐quarters of states had implemented medical marijuana laws (MML) and one‐third had implemented recreational cannabis laws (RCL) by 2020. State policy designs varied considerably, and we focus on policy development and maturation in policy implementation, examining factors influencing design features of policy bundles for MML and RCL policies. Using data for 50 states from 1994 to 2020, we categorized 36 policies…
Penny Pinching or Politics? the Line Item Veto and MilitaryConstruction Appropriations
Although scholars have studied the item veto and its effects-at the state-level-for years, there is considerable disagreement over the national-level political and fiscal ramifications of the implementation of the item veto. Our analysis is the first empirical examination of the use of the item veto at the federal level. We find that partisan politics and an interest in fiscal austerity played little or no role in the president' decision-making c…
Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization
Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization
The bulk of the literature on group mobilization focuses on why individu als join groups and virtually ignores the group leader (entrepreneur). Thus, we argue that there is a gap in the literature on group development: while entrepreneurs are critical in the process of group mobilization, little is known about what they do and why and how they do it. Studies of group mobilization continue to focus on group supporters-the patrons and members who p…
Toward an Explanation for Public Interest Group Formation and Proliferation
Utilizing data from a survey of 60 national public interest group founders, this paper addresses two related questions: (a) What factors explain the (relatively) recent proliferation of public interest groups? (b) What factors determine in which policy areas public interest group activity is most likely? The results of the data analysis suggest that several factors have contributed to group proliferation. Among the most important are law group st…
Penny Pinching or Politics? The Line Item Veto and Military Construction Appropriations
Penny Pinching or Politics? the Line Item Veto and MilitaryConstruction Appropriations
Although scholars have studied the item veto and its effects-at the state-level-for years, there is considerable disagreement over the national-level political and fiscal ramifications of the implementation of the item veto. Our analysis is the first empirical examination of the use of the item veto at the federal level. We find that partisan politics and an interest in fiscal austerity played little or no role in the president' decision-making c…
The Effectiveness of Child Safety Seat Laws in the Fifty States
This study evaluates the effectiveness of state child safety seat laws in the United States. Data for all fifty states for the period 1975 to 1994 are used. Pooled time series analysis is employed to estimate a model of the rate of fatalities suffered by children ages 0–5 years as occupants in automobile crashes. The occupant fatality rate for children 6–11 years of age is used as a comparison group to control for other trends not introduced in t…
Who is early voting? An individual level examination
Objective. Early voting has been suggested as one method of increasing voter turnout. Allowing voters to cast their ballots during a longer time period may ameliorate some barriers to participation that exist. However, the question of whether early voting mobilizes previous nonvoting registrants or simply makes voting easier for those who would have participated anyway remains largely unanswered. Methods. We test these questions through the use o…
The State of Surveying Legislators
State-level research affords scholars a unique opportunity to study legislative behavior because state legislators are accessible in ways that members of congress are not. State legislators' willingness to respond to interviews and questionnaires has provided scholars with a rich array of data about their behavior and perceptions. This survey research has contributed greatly to our theoretical and practical knowledge of legislative behavior and i…
Perceived Risk and Citizen Preferences for Governmental Management of Routine Hazards
Risk perceptions are important to the policy process because they inform individuals’ preferences for government management of hazards that affect personal safety, public health, or ecological conditions. Studies of risk in the policy process have often focused on explicating the determinants of risk perceptions for highly salient, high consequence hazards (e.g., nuclear energy). We argue that it is useful to also study more routinely experienced…
Can Deliberative Democracy Work in Hierarchical Organizations
Some measure of equality is necessary for deliberative democracy to work well, yet empirical scholarship consistently points to the deleterious effect that hierarchy and inequalities of epistemological authority have on deliberation. This article tests whether real-world deliberative forums can overcome these challenges. Contrary to skeptics, it concludes that the act of deliberation itself and the presence of trained moderators ameliorate inequa…
The Effect of State Regulations on Truck-Crash Fatalities
To improve traffic safety, states limit truck length and weight, and some set lower speed limits for trucks than for other vehicles. We examined the impact of truck-specific restrictions and general traffic-safety policies on fatality rates from crashes involving large trucks. We used state-level data from 1991 to 2005 with a cross-sectional time-series model that controlled for several policy measures. We found that higher speed limits for cars …
Influences on cannabis policy design and adaptation in the American states
Despite federal prohibitions, three‐quarters of states had implemented medical marijuana laws (MML) and one‐third had implemented recreational cannabis laws (RCL) by 2020. State policy designs varied considerably, and we focus on policy development and maturation in policy implementation, examining factors influencing design features of policy bundles for MML and RCL policies. Using data for 50 states from 1994 to 2020, we categorized 36 policies…
Teaching With AI, Not for AI
Artificial intelligence is reshaping public administration, yet public affairs curricula often stress tool proficiency and “human-in-the-loop” cautions without helping students examine how their own assumptions shape AI-assisted analysis. This paper uses learner-centered pedagogy that embeds AI as a “mirror” to surface human biases across problem framing, evidence use, alternative generation, and evaluation in a policy analysis assignment. Drawin…
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