Stephen Ceccoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Ceccoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ceccoli |
| SIGNATURE | CECCOLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3789-061X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: Policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation
While policy transfer remains a widely used approach for understanding public policy formation, several conceptual shortcomings limit the approach’s capacity for explanation. Notably, the concept of “transfer pathway” lacks a precise conceptual definition and empirical specification, limitations reflecting broader gaps in the policy transfer literature. This article contributes to the study of policy transfer by explicitly defining transfer pathw…
Foreign Policy Orientations and U.S. Counterterrorism Support
Since terrorism has an undeniable psychological component; how citizens think about counterterrorism offers important implications for determining successful state responses. This research note examines empirical linkages between foreign policy preferences and support for eight counterterrorism measures, especially military-focused approaches associated with the “war model” of counterterrorism. Findings derived from the Chicago Council Survey of …
Averting institutional disasters? Drawing lessons from China to inform the Cypriot response to the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using ‘t Hart's (2014) typology of crises, we explore the Republic of Cyprus's initial response to the COVID‐19 crisis and contend Cypriot leaders indirectly drew lessons from the Chinese experience to prevent a situational crisis from metastasizing into a much broader institutional crisis. The lessons Cyprus drew from China to secure this outcome reinforced the critical nature of transparency and timeliness in sharing epidemiological information…
The Language We Use Matters”: Streams, Narratives, and the Obama Administration Drone Strike Program in Yemen
Despite its ubiquity in the literature, John Kingdon’s multiple streams framework (MSF) has rarely been applied to defense and foreign policy domains. Moreover, as a rationalist‐based systemic explanation, scholars have generally underappreciated the framework’s attention to the role of ideas and policy narratives. Deriving theoretical insights from the narrative policy framework (NPF), this article marries MSF’s systemic components with a policy…
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Taking the lead? Transatlantic attitudes towards lethal drone strikes
Explaining Attitudes Toward U.S. Energy Extraction: Offshore Drilling, the Keystone XL Pipeline, and Hydraulic Fracturing
Objective This research develops and tests several individual‐level explanations of citizen attitudes toward offshore drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline, and hydraulic fracturing. Methods Using survey data from the Pew Research Center, logistic regression models analyze the effects of partisan and ideological considerations, presidential approval, affect for various levels of government, and a number of demographic considerations. Results Finding…
Explaining Divergent Attitudes Toward Lethal Drone Strikes
Although lethal drone strikes have become a central component of the U.S. campaign against international terrorism, the program remains a low salience issue with considerable bi-partisan consensus and a supportive U.S. general public. This article explains American attitudes toward lethal drone strikes by testing arguments based on partisanship and ideology, core values and abstract beliefs, and elite cues. Results suggest that respondent core va…
Explaining individual level support for organ procurement policy
The demand for human organs for transplantation – both from live and deceased donors – has become a public health issue in the United States, as thousands of Americans die each year due to the lack of a needed transplant. The current policy basis for organ procurement is voluntarism as federal organ procurement policy, based on the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), prohibits the exchange of human organs for “valuable consideration.” Whil…
Taking your medicine? Attitudes toward direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA)
Highlights► Important divides exist when predicting individual level patterns of support for DTCA. ► The shared decision making model can help explain consumer support for increased DTCA. ► Searching for health information on the Internet, education, and ethnicity are strong predictors of support for DTCA. ► DTCA support is increased by select characteristics generally associated with weaker health outcomes. ► Patterns of support for increased DT…
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
The Sources of Pakistani Attitudes toward Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study is interested in understanding public opinion in Pakistan toward terror attacks. Specifically, this study explores (1) the general picture of attitudes in Pakistan toward terrorism and (2) which individuals are most likely to support terrorism in Pakistan. The study aims to give insights into how pervasive a support base exists for terrorism as a tactic in Pakistan and it seeks to isolate the individual-level traits that account for th…
Attitudes toward Eliminating Income Inequality in Europe
In this paper, we seek to understand why attitudes vary among individuals regarding the issue of income distribution in European Union member states. We believe that the issue of income inequality is a potentially significant political cleavage that may have an important influence in meaningful ways in European politics. Rather than focusing on the national context to explain variation in citizen attitudes toward income inequality, we control for…
Explaining patterns of support for the provision of citizen welfare
This study seeks to explain individual-level variation in attitudes toward the responsibility of welfare provision. We seek to understand the microfoundations of support or opposition to the government's role in welfare provision in Europe. While other studies have explored the role that economic or political attitudes have on support for the government's role in welfare provision, this is the first study to assess the relative role that individu…
The 2005–2006 Congressional Fellows: The Three Roles of the CFP Fellow
On November 7, 2005, APSA Executive Director Michael Brintnall welcomed the 2005–2006 class of APSA Congressional Fellowship Program (CFP) Fellows. In his opening remarks to 31 Fellows, Brintnall articulated three primary roles of the APSA congressional Fellows. First, he noted that following the five-week intensive orientation, APSA Fellows would become full-time Capitol Hill staff members. In this capacity Fellows are typically expected to demo…
Media coverage of drug approvals
This research examines how newly approved drugs are presented in newspapers, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) press releases, and websites. It finds that the print media coverage is more positive than FDA press releases and lacks basic information that would be important to consumers. The shortcomings of traditional media appear to be mitigated by the varied sources of information about prescription drugs available on the Internet
Explaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalization
This paper examines individual attitudes in six industrialized democracies to determine what factors condition citizens' support for trade liberalization. We argue that public support for trade liberalization is influenced by politically driven views and individual economic utilitarian considerations. To test our propositions, we develop and estimate a series of logistic regression models of public support for trade liberalization. That data are …
Policy Punctuations and Regulatory Drug Review
The FDA has dramatically decreased the regulatory review time for new drugs since the early 1990s. For example, according to the Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), which conducts triennial analyses of new drug approvals in the United States, the average FDA review time for approved New Chemical Entities (NCEs) decreased from 35.6 months in 1984–86 to 16.8 months in 1996–98. Thus, in a little more than a decade, the …
Divergent Paths to Drug Regulation in the United States and the United Kingdom
Significant differences in the availability of new medicines in the United States and the United Kingdom became apparent in the 1970s. This article examines the history of drug regulation in the two countries and argues that the divergence was the result of distinctive regulatory approaches that emerged simultaneously throughout the twentieth century. The British approach was based largely on informal, nonstatutory controls, while the American ap…
Explaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalization
This paper examines individual attitudes in six industrialized democracies to determine what factors condition citizens' support for trade liberalization. We argue that public support for trade liberalization is influenced by politically driven views and individual economic utilitarian considerations. To test our propositions, we develop and estimate a series of logistic regression models of public support for trade liberalization. That data are …
Attitudes toward Eliminating Income Inequality in Europe
In this paper, we seek to understand why attitudes vary among individuals regarding the issue of income distribution in European Union member states. We believe that the issue of income inequality is a potentially significant political cleavage that may have an important influence in meaningful ways in European politics. Rather than focusing on the national context to explain variation in citizen attitudes toward income inequality, we control for…
The Sources of Pakistani Attitudes toward Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study is interested in understanding public opinion in Pakistan toward terror attacks. Specifically, this study explores (1) the general picture of attitudes in Pakistan toward terrorism and (2) which individuals are most likely to support terrorism in Pakistan. The study aims to give insights into how pervasive a support base exists for terrorism as a tactic in Pakistan and it seeks to isolate the individual-level traits that account for th…
Explaining patterns of support for the provision of citizen welfare
This study seeks to explain individual-level variation in attitudes toward the responsibility of welfare provision. We seek to understand the microfoundations of support or opposition to the government's role in welfare provision in Europe. While other studies have explored the role that economic or political attitudes have on support for the government's role in welfare provision, this is the first study to assess the relative role that individu…
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
Averting institutional disasters? Drawing lessons from China to inform the Cypriot response to the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using ‘t Hart's (2014) typology of crises, we explore the Republic of Cyprus's initial response to the COVID‐19 crisis and contend Cypriot leaders indirectly drew lessons from the Chinese experience to prevent a situational crisis from metastasizing into a much broader institutional crisis. The lessons Cyprus drew from China to secure this outcome reinforced the critical nature of transparency and timeliness in sharing epidemiological information…
Explaining Divergent Attitudes Toward Lethal Drone Strikes
Although lethal drone strikes have become a central component of the U.S. campaign against international terrorism, the program remains a low salience issue with considerable bi-partisan consensus and a supportive U.S. general public. This article explains American attitudes toward lethal drone strikes by testing arguments based on partisanship and ideology, core values and abstract beliefs, and elite cues. Results suggest that respondent core va…
Policy Punctuations and Regulatory Drug Review
The FDA has dramatically decreased the regulatory review time for new drugs since the early 1990s. For example, according to the Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), which conducts triennial analyses of new drug approvals in the United States, the average FDA review time for approved New Chemical Entities (NCEs) decreased from 35.6 months in 1984–86 to 16.8 months in 1996–98. Thus, in a little more than a decade, the …
The Language We Use Matters”: Streams, Narratives, and the Obama Administration Drone Strike Program in Yemen
Despite its ubiquity in the literature, John Kingdon’s multiple streams framework (MSF) has rarely been applied to defense and foreign policy domains. Moreover, as a rationalist‐based systemic explanation, scholars have generally underappreciated the framework’s attention to the role of ideas and policy narratives. Deriving theoretical insights from the narrative policy framework (NPF), this article marries MSF’s systemic components with a policy…
Taking the lead? Transatlantic attitudes towards lethal drone strikes
Explaining Attitudes Toward U.S. Energy Extraction: Offshore Drilling, the Keystone XL Pipeline, and Hydraulic Fracturing
Objective This research develops and tests several individual‐level explanations of citizen attitudes toward offshore drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline, and hydraulic fracturing. Methods Using survey data from the Pew Research Center, logistic regression models analyze the effects of partisan and ideological considerations, presidential approval, affect for various levels of government, and a number of demographic considerations. Results Finding…
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Media coverage of drug approvals
This research examines how newly approved drugs are presented in newspapers, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) press releases, and websites. It finds that the print media coverage is more positive than FDA press releases and lacks basic information that would be important to consumers. The shortcomings of traditional media appear to be mitigated by the varied sources of information about prescription drugs available on the Internet
Divergent Paths to Drug Regulation in the United States and the United Kingdom
Significant differences in the availability of new medicines in the United States and the United Kingdom became apparent in the 1970s. This article examines the history of drug regulation in the two countries and argues that the divergence was the result of distinctive regulatory approaches that emerged simultaneously throughout the twentieth century. The British approach was based largely on informal, nonstatutory controls, while the American ap…
Policy Punctuations and Regulatory Drug Review
The FDA has dramatically decreased the regulatory review time for new drugs since the early 1990s. For example, according to the Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), which conducts triennial analyses of new drug approvals in the United States, the average FDA review time for approved New Chemical Entities (NCEs) decreased from 35.6 months in 1984–86 to 16.8 months in 1996–98. Thus, in a little more than a decade, the …
Explaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalization
This paper examines individual attitudes in six industrialized democracies to determine what factors condition citizens' support for trade liberalization. We argue that public support for trade liberalization is influenced by politically driven views and individual economic utilitarian considerations. To test our propositions, we develop and estimate a series of logistic regression models of public support for trade liberalization. That data are …
Media coverage of drug approvals
This research examines how newly approved drugs are presented in newspapers, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) press releases, and websites. It finds that the print media coverage is more positive than FDA press releases and lacks basic information that would be important to consumers. The shortcomings of traditional media appear to be mitigated by the varied sources of information about prescription drugs available on the Internet
The 2005–2006 Congressional Fellows: The Three Roles of the CFP Fellow
On November 7, 2005, APSA Executive Director Michael Brintnall welcomed the 2005–2006 class of APSA Congressional Fellowship Program (CFP) Fellows. In his opening remarks to 31 Fellows, Brintnall articulated three primary roles of the APSA congressional Fellows. First, he noted that following the five-week intensive orientation, APSA Fellows would become full-time Capitol Hill staff members. In this capacity Fellows are typically expected to demo…
Attitudes toward Eliminating Income Inequality in Europe
In this paper, we seek to understand why attitudes vary among individuals regarding the issue of income distribution in European Union member states. We believe that the issue of income inequality is a potentially significant political cleavage that may have an important influence in meaningful ways in European politics. Rather than focusing on the national context to explain variation in citizen attitudes toward income inequality, we control for…
Explaining patterns of support for the provision of citizen welfare
This study seeks to explain individual-level variation in attitudes toward the responsibility of welfare provision. We seek to understand the microfoundations of support or opposition to the government's role in welfare provision in Europe. While other studies have explored the role that economic or political attitudes have on support for the government's role in welfare provision, this is the first study to assess the relative role that individu…
The Sources of Pakistani Attitudes toward Religiously Motivated Terrorism
This study is interested in understanding public opinion in Pakistan toward terror attacks. Specifically, this study explores (1) the general picture of attitudes in Pakistan toward terrorism and (2) which individuals are most likely to support terrorism in Pakistan. The study aims to give insights into how pervasive a support base exists for terrorism as a tactic in Pakistan and it seeks to isolate the individual-level traits that account for th…
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
Explaining individual level support for organ procurement policy
The demand for human organs for transplantation – both from live and deceased donors – has become a public health issue in the United States, as thousands of Americans die each year due to the lack of a needed transplant. The current policy basis for organ procurement is voluntarism as federal organ procurement policy, based on the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA), prohibits the exchange of human organs for “valuable consideration.” Whil…
Taking your medicine? Attitudes toward direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA)
Highlights► Important divides exist when predicting individual level patterns of support for DTCA. ► The shared decision making model can help explain consumer support for increased DTCA. ► Searching for health information on the Internet, education, and ethnicity are strong predictors of support for DTCA. ► DTCA support is increased by select characteristics generally associated with weaker health outcomes. ► Patterns of support for increased DT…
Explaining Divergent Attitudes Toward Lethal Drone Strikes
Although lethal drone strikes have become a central component of the U.S. campaign against international terrorism, the program remains a low salience issue with considerable bi-partisan consensus and a supportive U.S. general public. This article explains American attitudes toward lethal drone strikes by testing arguments based on partisanship and ideology, core values and abstract beliefs, and elite cues. Results suggest that respondent core va…
Taking the lead? Transatlantic attitudes towards lethal drone strikes
Explaining Attitudes Toward U.S. Energy Extraction: Offshore Drilling, the Keystone XL Pipeline, and Hydraulic Fracturing
Objective This research develops and tests several individual‐level explanations of citizen attitudes toward offshore drilling, the Keystone XL pipeline, and hydraulic fracturing. Methods Using survey data from the Pew Research Center, logistic regression models analyze the effects of partisan and ideological considerations, presidential approval, affect for various levels of government, and a number of demographic considerations. Results Finding…
The Language We Use Matters”: Streams, Narratives, and the Obama Administration Drone Strike Program in Yemen
Despite its ubiquity in the literature, John Kingdon’s multiple streams framework (MSF) has rarely been applied to defense and foreign policy domains. Moreover, as a rationalist‐based systemic explanation, scholars have generally underappreciated the framework’s attention to the role of ideas and policy narratives. Deriving theoretical insights from the narrative policy framework (NPF), this article marries MSF’s systemic components with a policy…
Diffusion and policy transfer in armed UAV proliferation: The cases of Italy and Germany
In a 2015 policy change, the U.S. State Department released guidelines governing the sale of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to other countries, and several export agreements were signed shortly later. While considerable scholarly effort has been devoted to the impact or consequences of UAV proliferation, few studies have analyzed the actual diffusion process. This article applies the insights from both diffusion theory and policy transfer …
Averting institutional disasters? Drawing lessons from China to inform the Cypriot response to the Covid‐19 pandemic
Using ‘t Hart's (2014) typology of crises, we explore the Republic of Cyprus's initial response to the COVID‐19 crisis and contend Cypriot leaders indirectly drew lessons from the Chinese experience to prevent a situational crisis from metastasizing into a much broader institutional crisis. The lessons Cyprus drew from China to secure this outcome reinforced the critical nature of transparency and timeliness in sharing epidemiological information…
Foreign Policy Orientations and U.S. Counterterrorism Support
Since terrorism has an undeniable psychological component; how citizens think about counterterrorism offers important implications for determining successful state responses. This research note examines empirical linkages between foreign policy preferences and support for eight counterterrorism measures, especially military-focused approaches associated with the “war model” of counterterrorism. Findings derived from the Chicago Council Survey of …
Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: Policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation
While policy transfer remains a widely used approach for understanding public policy formation, several conceptual shortcomings limit the approach’s capacity for explanation. Notably, the concept of “transfer pathway” lacks a precise conceptual definition and empirical specification, limitations reflecting broader gaps in the policy transfer literature. This article contributes to the study of policy transfer by explicitly defining transfer pathw…
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