LaTasha Y Chaffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6177603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | LaTasha Y Chaffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | LaTasha Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaffin |
| SIGNATURE | CHAFFIN L Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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Public policy scholars have long recognized the importance of focusing events in shaping policy change. We argue that the 2015 Charleston church shooting served as a focusing event that opened a policy window, leading to the vote to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. While Democrats voted unanimously to remove the flag, we employ logistic regression models to explore the determinants of the decision to remove …
Furling the Flag
Public policy scholars have long recognized the importance of focusing events in shaping policy change. We argue that the 2015 Charleston church shooting served as a focusing event that opened a policy window, leading to the vote to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds. While Democrats voted unanimously to remove the flag, we employ logistic regression models to explore the determinants of the decision to remove …
How do social security expenditures vary by state? The surprising impact of unemployment
We examine state-level variation in the flow of benefits under the largest Social Security programme – the Old-Age (OA) programme. OA pensions remain a robust and growing component of the American social safety net. Although OA pensions are entirely administered by the federal government, state-level demographic features can imply different aggregate levels of programme expenditures across states. We describe high levels of variation in the resou…
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Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Contentious politics (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Demographic economics (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work)