Elizabeth Rigby
Biographic Data
| ID | 839804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Rigby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigby |
| SIGNATURE | RIGBY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5816-9843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 290 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Democratic Policymakers' Ambiguous Support for Reparations: Implications for the Policymaking Process
This paper investigates the increasing, but complex, support for reparations among Democratic elected officials-highlighting their tendency to endorse the concept while deferring discussion of policy details. This strategic ambiguity is common in policy discourse and can be embedded within policy design, such as legislative proposals to create commissions tasked with studying and recommending future actions on reparations. The effectiveness of th…
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys
Background: Policy advocates play a key role linking the separate worlds of research and policymaking – often serving as research brokers who increase the use of research and promoting more informed decision making. Yet this group is often overlooked in studies of research utilisation. Methods: We undertook two surveys of state-level advocates in the United States in order to better understand the views of these ‘research brokers’ on the utility …
Income Inequality and State Parties: Who Gets Represented
Recent studies of representation at the national and state levels have provided evidence that elected officials' votes, political parties' platforms, and enacted policy choices are more responsive to the preferences of the affluent, while those with average incomes and the poor have little or no impact on the political process. Yet, this research on the dominance of the affluent has overlooked key partisan differences in the electorate. In this e…
The Symbolic Politics of Poverty in the United States: A Review Essay
IN 1964, PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON declared a national War on Poverty—followed by an active period of lawmaking that resulted in a steady 10 percentage point decline in the poverty rate. Yet since the 1970s, the U.S. poverty rate has hovered between 12 percent and 16 percent,1 despite decades of government attention to this problem. Over the last half century, poverty seems to have served as a particularly stubborn enemy undermining America’s e…
For Richer or Poorer: The Politics of Redistribution in Bad Economic Times
This paper examines the consequences of economic downturns for states’ redistributive politics. We track state policies from 1980 through 2010 and illustrate how economic downturns led states to adopt budget-balancing policies by suppressing both the increased spending on programs benefiting the poor otherwise expected under Democratic Party control and the tax cuts for the wealthy otherwise expected under Republican Party control. We also undert…
Laboratories of (In)equality? Redistributive Policy and Income Inequality in theAmericanStates
Prior literature has emphasized demographic, economic, and political explanations for increasing income inequality in theUnitedStates, with little attention paid to the role of state‐level policy. This is despite great variation across states in both the level of inequality and the rate at which it is rising. This paper asks whether differences in state policy choices can help explain this variation; specifically, we examined a range of state red…
Tour of a German Artist in England: With Notices of Private Galleries, and Remarks on the State of Art
The German artist Johann David Passavant (1787–1861) visited Britain in 1831 in order to examine works by Raphael in private and public galleries for a book he was preparing. He had not been able to find any helpful German accounts of British collections, and so decided to publish a narrative of his own travels and observations. The British writer and art critic Elizabeth Rigby (later Lady Eastlake) produced a two-volume translation in 1836, beli…
Tour of a German Artist in England: With Notices of Private Galleries, and Remarks on the State of Art
The German artist Johann David Passavant (1787–1861) visited Britain in 1831 in order to examine works by Raphael in private and public galleries for a book he was preparing. He had not been able to find any helpful German accounts of British collections, and so decided to publish a narrative of his own travels and observations. The British writer and art critic Elizabeth Rigby (later Lady Eastlake) produced a two-volume translation in 1836, beli…
Tour of a German Artist in England: Volume 1
Tour of a German Artist in England: Volume 2
Hybrid Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Early Implementation of State Health Insurance Exchanges
A central provision of the Affordable Care Act is establishment of state-level health exchanges. While states are given the opportunity to develop and administer these private insurance marketplaces, their plans must meet certain minimum standards or risk preemption by the federal government. This policy design establishes a hybrid model of intergovernmental policy making, which may serve to heighten conflict during implementation and further pol…
Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States
Motivated by recent work suggesting that low‐income citizens are virtually ignored in the American policymaking process, this article asks whether a similar bias shapes the policy positions adopted by political parties much earlier in the policymaking process. While the normative hope is that parties serve as linkage institutions enhancing representation of those with fewer resources to organize, the resource‐dependent campaign environment in whi…
Accountability in an Intergovernmental Context: Federal Education Policy as a Cautionary Tale
Do State Policies Constrain Local Actors? The Impact of English Only Laws on Language Instruction in Public Schools
This study examines how instrumental and symbolic messages embedded in state law shape the practices of "street-level" bureaucrats. Specifically, we investigate whether passage of state-level English Only laws influences the way English language learners are instructed in local public schools. Using data on state English Only laws from 1987 to 2004 and school-level data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, we find that instrumenta…
Does Electoral Reform Increase (or Decrease) Political Equality
Over recent decades, the American states have implemented electoral reforms that make it easier for citizens to register and vote. This article examines the “equality effects” of these reforms: the degree to which reform serves to equalize or further skew participation rates between the rich and poor. Using the Voter Supplement to the Current Population Survey, the authors generate state-level estimates of income bias in registration and voting f…
A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic: Described in a Series of Letters
When Elizabeth Rigby (1809–1893) embarked on her travels to the Baltic states in 1838, she was already a published author. She was to play a significant role as a writer and public figure throughout the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1841 as two separate volumes, this book is a compilation of letters written to her mother during her journey to Estonia. Travelling alone was an unusual undertaking for a single woman at the time, and he…
The impact of child care subsidy use on child care quality
PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals: Ecological Archives E090‐184
Analyses of life‐history, ecological, and geographic trait differences among species, their causes, correlates, and likely consequences are increasingly important for understanding and conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid global change. Assembling multispecies trait data from diverse literature sources into a single comprehensive data set requires detailed consideration of methods to reliably compile data for particular species, and to de…
Public Responses to Health Disparities: How Group Cues Influence Support for Government Intervention
Objective. To examine whether public support for government intervention to address health disparities varies when disparities are framed in terms of different social groups. Method. A survey experiment was embedded in a public opinion poll of Wisconsin adults. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions about either racial, economic, or education disparities in health. Ordered logit regression analyses examine differences across exper…
Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program
Journal Article Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program Get access Colleen M. Grogan, Colleen M. Grogan **University of Chicago; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Rigby Elizabeth Rigby †University of Houston; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Child care quality in different state policy contexts
Using data from the Child Care Supplement to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we test associations between the quality of child care and state child care policies. These data, which include observations of child care and interviews with care providers and mothers for 777 children across 14 states, allow for comparisons across a broader range of policy regimes and care settings than earlier research on this topic. Using multilevel l…
Same Policy Area, Different Politics: How Characteristics of Policy Tools Alter the Determinants of Early Childhood Education Policy
This article tests a theory of how key characteristics of a policy tool under debate magnify the importance of particular elements of the policymaking context in U.S. states. In particular, it is expected that state use of more visible policy tools will depend on the economic context in the state, whereas state use of more coercive policy tools will vary with the ideological and partisan context in the state. These hypotheses are tested in a poli…
Linking research and policy on Capitol Hill: Insights from research brokers
English Much policy research is proposed, designed and funded to inform policy debates. Yet, given the value-laden nature of policy making and the limitations of social science in providing definitive answers devoid of caveats, some question the ability of research to affect policy making at all. Examining this question, this article compiles commentary from 14 individuals convened to discuss the research-to-policy connection as it actually occur…
Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States
Motivated by recent work suggesting that low‐income citizens are virtually ignored in the American policymaking process, this article asks whether a similar bias shapes the policy positions adopted by political parties much earlier in the policymaking process. While the normative hope is that parties serve as linkage institutions enhancing representation of those with fewer resources to organize, the resource‐dependent campaign environment in whi…
Does Electoral Reform Increase (or Decrease) Political Equality
Over recent decades, the American states have implemented electoral reforms that make it easier for citizens to register and vote. This article examines the “equality effects” of these reforms: the degree to which reform serves to equalize or further skew participation rates between the rich and poor. Using the Voter Supplement to the Current Population Survey, the authors generate state-level estimates of income bias in registration and voting f…
Child care quality in different state policy contexts
Using data from the Child Care Supplement to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we test associations between the quality of child care and state child care policies. These data, which include observations of child care and interviews with care providers and mothers for 777 children across 14 states, allow for comparisons across a broader range of policy regimes and care settings than earlier research on this topic. Using multilevel l…
The impact of child care subsidy use on child care quality
Hybrid Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Early Implementation of State Health Insurance Exchanges
A central provision of the Affordable Care Act is establishment of state-level health exchanges. While states are given the opportunity to develop and administer these private insurance marketplaces, their plans must meet certain minimum standards or risk preemption by the federal government. This policy design establishes a hybrid model of intergovernmental policy making, which may serve to heighten conflict during implementation and further pol…
Public Responses to Health Disparities: How Group Cues Influence Support for Government Intervention
Objective. To examine whether public support for government intervention to address health disparities varies when disparities are framed in terms of different social groups. Method. A survey experiment was embedded in a public opinion poll of Wisconsin adults. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions about either racial, economic, or education disparities in health. Ordered logit regression analyses examine differences across exper…
Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program
Journal Article Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program Get access Colleen M. Grogan, Colleen M. Grogan **University of Chicago; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Rigby Elizabeth Rigby †University of Houston; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Laboratories of (In)equality? Redistributive Policy and Income Inequality in theAmericanStates
Prior literature has emphasized demographic, economic, and political explanations for increasing income inequality in theUnitedStates, with little attention paid to the role of state‐level policy. This is despite great variation across states in both the level of inequality and the rate at which it is rising. This paper asks whether differences in state policy choices can help explain this variation; specifically, we examined a range of state red…
Same Policy Area, Different Politics: How Characteristics of Policy Tools Alter the Determinants of Early Childhood Education Policy
This article tests a theory of how key characteristics of a policy tool under debate magnify the importance of particular elements of the policymaking context in U.S. states. In particular, it is expected that state use of more visible policy tools will depend on the economic context in the state, whereas state use of more coercive policy tools will vary with the ideological and partisan context in the state. These hypotheses are tested in a poli…
Do State Policies Constrain Local Actors? The Impact of English Only Laws on Language Instruction in Public Schools
This study examines how instrumental and symbolic messages embedded in state law shape the practices of "street-level" bureaucrats. Specifically, we investigate whether passage of state-level English Only laws influences the way English language learners are instructed in local public schools. Using data on state English Only laws from 1987 to 2004 and school-level data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, we find that instrumenta…
For Richer or Poorer: The Politics of Redistribution in Bad Economic Times
This paper examines the consequences of economic downturns for states’ redistributive politics. We track state policies from 1980 through 2010 and illustrate how economic downturns led states to adopt budget-balancing policies by suppressing both the increased spending on programs benefiting the poor otherwise expected under Democratic Party control and the tax cuts for the wealthy otherwise expected under Republican Party control. We also undert…
Linking research and policy on Capitol Hill: Insights from research brokers
English Much policy research is proposed, designed and funded to inform policy debates. Yet, given the value-laden nature of policy making and the limitations of social science in providing definitive answers devoid of caveats, some question the ability of research to affect policy making at all. Examining this question, this article compiles commentary from 14 individuals convened to discuss the research-to-policy connection as it actually occur…
Income Inequality and State Parties: Who Gets Represented
Recent studies of representation at the national and state levels have provided evidence that elected officials' votes, political parties' platforms, and enacted policy choices are more responsive to the preferences of the affluent, while those with average incomes and the poor have little or no impact on the political process. Yet, this research on the dominance of the affluent has overlooked key partisan differences in the electorate. In this e…
Democratic Policymakers' Ambiguous Support for Reparations: Implications for the Policymaking Process
This paper investigates the increasing, but complex, support for reparations among Democratic elected officials-highlighting their tendency to endorse the concept while deferring discussion of policy details. This strategic ambiguity is common in policy discourse and can be embedded within policy design, such as legislative proposals to create commissions tasked with studying and recommending future actions on reparations. The effectiveness of th…
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys
Background: Policy advocates play a key role linking the separate worlds of research and policymaking – often serving as research brokers who increase the use of research and promoting more informed decision making. Yet this group is often overlooked in studies of research utilisation. Methods: We undertook two surveys of state-level advocates in the United States in order to better understand the views of these ‘research brokers’ on the utility …
Linking research and policy on Capitol Hill: Insights from research brokers
English Much policy research is proposed, designed and funded to inform policy debates. Yet, given the value-laden nature of policy making and the limitations of social science in providing definitive answers devoid of caveats, some question the ability of research to affect policy making at all. Examining this question, this article compiles commentary from 14 individuals convened to discuss the research-to-policy connection as it actually occur…
Child care quality in different state policy contexts
Using data from the Child Care Supplement to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we test associations between the quality of child care and state child care policies. These data, which include observations of child care and interviews with care providers and mothers for 777 children across 14 states, allow for comparisons across a broader range of policy regimes and care settings than earlier research on this topic. Using multilevel l…
Same Policy Area, Different Politics: How Characteristics of Policy Tools Alter the Determinants of Early Childhood Education Policy
This article tests a theory of how key characteristics of a policy tool under debate magnify the importance of particular elements of the policymaking context in U.S. states. In particular, it is expected that state use of more visible policy tools will depend on the economic context in the state, whereas state use of more coercive policy tools will vary with the ideological and partisan context in the state. These hypotheses are tested in a poli…
Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program
Journal Article Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children's Health Insurance Program Get access Colleen M. Grogan, Colleen M. Grogan **University of Chicago; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elizabeth Rigby Elizabeth Rigby †University of Houston; [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals: Ecological Archives E090‐184
Analyses of life‐history, ecological, and geographic trait differences among species, their causes, correlates, and likely consequences are increasingly important for understanding and conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid global change. Assembling multispecies trait data from diverse literature sources into a single comprehensive data set requires detailed consideration of methods to reliably compile data for particular species, and to de…
Public Responses to Health Disparities: How Group Cues Influence Support for Government Intervention
Objective. To examine whether public support for government intervention to address health disparities varies when disparities are framed in terms of different social groups. Method. A survey experiment was embedded in a public opinion poll of Wisconsin adults. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer questions about either racial, economic, or education disparities in health. Ordered logit regression analyses examine differences across exper…
A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic: Described in a Series of Letters
When Elizabeth Rigby (1809–1893) embarked on her travels to the Baltic states in 1838, she was already a published author. She was to play a significant role as a writer and public figure throughout the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1841 as two separate volumes, this book is a compilation of letters written to her mother during her journey to Estonia. Travelling alone was an unusual undertaking for a single woman at the time, and he…
The impact of child care subsidy use on child care quality
Accountability in an Intergovernmental Context: Federal Education Policy as a Cautionary Tale
Do State Policies Constrain Local Actors? The Impact of English Only Laws on Language Instruction in Public Schools
This study examines how instrumental and symbolic messages embedded in state law shape the practices of "street-level" bureaucrats. Specifically, we investigate whether passage of state-level English Only laws influences the way English language learners are instructed in local public schools. Using data on state English Only laws from 1987 to 2004 and school-level data from the National Center for Educational Statistics, we find that instrumenta…
Does Electoral Reform Increase (or Decrease) Political Equality
Over recent decades, the American states have implemented electoral reforms that make it easier for citizens to register and vote. This article examines the “equality effects” of these reforms: the degree to which reform serves to equalize or further skew participation rates between the rich and poor. Using the Voter Supplement to the Current Population Survey, the authors generate state-level estimates of income bias in registration and voting f…
Hybrid Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Early Implementation of State Health Insurance Exchanges
A central provision of the Affordable Care Act is establishment of state-level health exchanges. While states are given the opportunity to develop and administer these private insurance marketplaces, their plans must meet certain minimum standards or risk preemption by the federal government. This policy design establishes a hybrid model of intergovernmental policy making, which may serve to heighten conflict during implementation and further pol…
Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States
Motivated by recent work suggesting that low‐income citizens are virtually ignored in the American policymaking process, this article asks whether a similar bias shapes the policy positions adopted by political parties much earlier in the policymaking process. While the normative hope is that parties serve as linkage institutions enhancing representation of those with fewer resources to organize, the resource‐dependent campaign environment in whi…
Tour of a German Artist in England: With Notices of Private Galleries, and Remarks on the State of Art
The German artist Johann David Passavant (1787–1861) visited Britain in 1831 in order to examine works by Raphael in private and public galleries for a book he was preparing. He had not been able to find any helpful German accounts of British collections, and so decided to publish a narrative of his own travels and observations. The British writer and art critic Elizabeth Rigby (later Lady Eastlake) produced a two-volume translation in 1836, beli…
Tour of a German Artist in England: With Notices of Private Galleries, and Remarks on the State of Art
The German artist Johann David Passavant (1787–1861) visited Britain in 1831 in order to examine works by Raphael in private and public galleries for a book he was preparing. He had not been able to find any helpful German accounts of British collections, and so decided to publish a narrative of his own travels and observations. The British writer and art critic Elizabeth Rigby (later Lady Eastlake) produced a two-volume translation in 1836, beli…
Tour of a German Artist in England: Volume 1
Tour of a German Artist in England: Volume 2
Laboratories of (In)equality? Redistributive Policy and Income Inequality in theAmericanStates
Prior literature has emphasized demographic, economic, and political explanations for increasing income inequality in theUnitedStates, with little attention paid to the role of state‐level policy. This is despite great variation across states in both the level of inequality and the rate at which it is rising. This paper asks whether differences in state policy choices can help explain this variation; specifically, we examined a range of state red…
For Richer or Poorer: The Politics of Redistribution in Bad Economic Times
This paper examines the consequences of economic downturns for states’ redistributive politics. We track state policies from 1980 through 2010 and illustrate how economic downturns led states to adopt budget-balancing policies by suppressing both the increased spending on programs benefiting the poor otherwise expected under Democratic Party control and the tax cuts for the wealthy otherwise expected under Republican Party control. We also undert…
The Symbolic Politics of Poverty in the United States: A Review Essay
IN 1964, PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON declared a national War on Poverty—followed by an active period of lawmaking that resulted in a steady 10 percentage point decline in the poverty rate. Yet since the 1970s, the U.S. poverty rate has hovered between 12 percent and 16 percent,1 despite decades of government attention to this problem. Over the last half century, poverty seems to have served as a particularly stubborn enemy undermining America’s e…
What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys
Background: Policy advocates play a key role linking the separate worlds of research and policymaking – often serving as research brokers who increase the use of research and promoting more informed decision making. Yet this group is often overlooked in studies of research utilisation. Methods: We undertook two surveys of state-level advocates in the United States in order to better understand the views of these ‘research brokers’ on the utility …
Income Inequality and State Parties: Who Gets Represented
Recent studies of representation at the national and state levels have provided evidence that elected officials' votes, political parties' platforms, and enacted policy choices are more responsive to the preferences of the affluent, while those with average incomes and the poor have little or no impact on the political process. Yet, this research on the dominance of the affluent has overlooked key partisan differences in the electorate. In this e…
Democratic Policymakers' Ambiguous Support for Reparations: Implications for the Policymaking Process
This paper investigates the increasing, but complex, support for reparations among Democratic elected officials-highlighting their tendency to endorse the concept while deferring discussion of policy details. This strategic ambiguity is common in policy discourse and can be embedded within policy design, such as legislative proposals to create commissions tasked with studying and recommending future actions on reparations. The effectiveness of th…
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