Natalie L Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie L Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9863-2537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking
Scholars have documented a steep decline in Americans' trust in the bureaucracy. This trend is problematic because it threatens the legitimacy of democratic policymaking by public sector agencies. We hypothesize that the participation of the bureaucracy's elected political principals in agency policy decision‐making increases public confidence in the regulatory process. To test this argument, we implement a vignette‐based survey experiment with r…
A new measure of US public agency policy discretion
The US bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literature, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency pol…
Lower Court Influence on High Courts
Do lower court judges influence the content of Supreme Court opinions in the United Kingdom? Leveraging original data, we analyze opinion language adoption practices of the UK Supreme Court. We advance a theory where the justices’ choices to adopt language from lower court opinions are influenced by Supreme Court-level attributes and Court of Appeal case characteristics. We uncover compelling evidence that UK Supreme Court justices incorporate la…
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking
Scholars have documented a steep decline in Americans' trust in the bureaucracy. This trend is problematic because it threatens the legitimacy of democratic policymaking by public sector agencies. We hypothesize that the participation of the bureaucracy's elected political principals in agency policy decision‐making increases public confidence in the regulatory process. To test this argument, we implement a vignette‐based survey experiment with r…
A new measure of US public agency policy discretion
The US bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literature, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency pol…
Lower Court Influence on High Courts
Do lower court judges influence the content of Supreme Court opinions in the United Kingdom? Leveraging original data, we analyze opinion language adoption practices of the UK Supreme Court. We advance a theory where the justices’ choices to adopt language from lower court opinions are influenced by Supreme Court-level attributes and Court of Appeal case characteristics. We uncover compelling evidence that UK Supreme Court justices incorporate la…
Lower Court Influence on High Courts
Do lower court judges influence the content of Supreme Court opinions in the United Kingdom? Leveraging original data, we analyze opinion language adoption practices of the UK Supreme Court. We advance a theory where the justices’ choices to adopt language from lower court opinions are influenced by Supreme Court-level attributes and Court of Appeal case characteristics. We uncover compelling evidence that UK Supreme Court justices incorporate la…
A new measure of US public agency policy discretion
The US bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literature, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency pol…
Boosting Public Confidence in U.S. Agency Policymaking
Scholars have documented a steep decline in Americans' trust in the bureaucracy. This trend is problematic because it threatens the legitimacy of democratic policymaking by public sector agencies. We hypothesize that the participation of the bureaucracy's elected political principals in agency policy decision‐making increases public confidence in the regulatory process. To test this argument, we implement a vignette‐based survey experiment with r…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)