Elizabeth Bell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3607935 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Bell |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Bell |
| ASSINATURA | BELL E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1021-9287 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 302 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Conditional Compliance
The role of principal-agent dynamics in performance and accountability reforms has been a recurring theme in public administration research. Yet, less attention has been dedicated to how the intersection of sector and policy design shapes principal-agent dynamics and subsequent policy outcomes. This study theoretically explores and empirically tests how sector and policy design shape the effects of state legislation that seeks to prevent shirking…
Representative Bureaucracy and Administrative Burdens
Lived experience representative bureaucracy theory has expanded the scope of representative bureaucracy by exploring traits beyond race, ethnicity, and gender. However, scholars have yet to focus on the intersection of symbolic representation, intersectionality, and professional qualities. In this article, we employ lived experience representative bureaucracy theory and intersectionality theory to understand which identities (veteran status, gend…
Gendered Bureaucratic Discrimination
This study investigates factors that shape case prioritization in public service delivery, focusing on Title IX coordinators (n = 371) handling sexual misconduct cases in U.S. colleges. Using a conjoint experiment, we find that coordinators deprioritize complex, time-sensitive cases involving transgender victims and prioritize severe cases and those with less ambiguity. When we examine the intersection of severity, complexity, and ambiguity, we f…
Costly withdrawals reduce future college-going for low-income students
Governments must strike a balance between promoting access to financial aid while at the same time remaining good stewards of taxpayer funds by preventing fraudulent access. This paper focuses on one of the largest-scale and most consequential policies determining whether students maintain access to Title IV aid, the “Return of Title IV” funds policy, referred to as R2T4. Students receiving Title IV aid who withdraw from college before completing…
Mindfulness, music, visual occlusion in ketamine therapy for depression
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05168735, identifier NCT05168735
Tuition‐Free College Policies and Workforce Diversity
While scholars have built considerable evidence on representative bureaucracy as a transformational independent variable, less is known about the organizational and policy conditions that motivate public institutions to invest in workforce diversity. Drawing on resource dependency theory, we argue that tuition‐free college policies (‘Promise Programs’) will alter organizational incentives by expanding financial resources and diversifying clientel…
Matching Potential with Promise
Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness
The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but undeserving in another. We argue that perceived deservingness and distributions of policy benefits to depe…
Interventions to Mitigate the Impact of Covid-19 Among People Experiencing Sheltered Homelessness
Objectives. To compare the incidence, case-hospitalization rates, and vaccination rates of COVID-19 between people experiencing sheltered homelessness (PESH) and the broader community in Chicago, Illinois, and describe the impact of a whole community approach to disease mitigation during the public health emergency. Methods. Incidence of COVID-19 among PESH was compared with community-wide incidence using case-based surveillance data from March 1…
Regulation timing in the states
Bureaucratic rulemaking is a key feature of American policymaking. However, rulemaking activities do not occur uniformly, but fluctuate throughout the year. We consider three mechanisms to explain these changes in rule volume, each of which produces unique expectations for rulemaking during periods of divided government and legislative recess. To test these expectations, we leverage an original dataset including all rules proposed by bureaucratic…
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs
Persistent disparities in program access jeopardize social equity and erode a key pillar of democratic governance. Scholars have uncovered the causes of these disparities, including administrative burden and front-line discrimination, but less attention has been devoted to identifying tools for reducing disparities. We build on this work by arguing that reducing street-level bureaucrats’ workload may be a key lever for reducing disparities. We al…
Does administrative burden create racialized policy feedback? How losing access to public benefits impacts beliefs about government
Public trust and civic predisposition are cornerstones of well-functioning democratic societies, and burdensome citizen-state encounters may undermine positive views of government, especially for racially minoritized clientele. Leveraging insights from policy feedback theory, we argue that administrative burden has the potential to undermine trust in government and civic predisposition through two mechanisms: (1) interpretive effects: burdensome …
How reducing documentation burdens impacts equity in access to small business Covid ‐19 relief funding
Scholars have unveiled how and why administrative burdens perpetuate inequity in access to government benefits. However, less is known about the tools public managers can use to reduce burdens and disparities in program access. We partner with a local government in the U.S. to investigate whether a reduction in documentation requirements increased equity by promoting access for “underserved” small business owners (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities, …
How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During Covid-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
To address the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF I) in March 2020 with over $6 billion allocated for emergency financial aid. In this paper, we utilize the administrative burden framework to analyze HEERF I implementation for a stratified random sample of colleges, focusing on the implications for equity. We find that disbursement policies varied along two dime…
Integrating identity in policy design theory
Extant literature highlights how socially constructed target populations shape the distribution of benefits and burdens, focusing on political elites. In this article, we examined how linked fate, intersectionality and identity complexity shape the impacts of socially constructed target populations on public support for affirmative action in the US. In our nationally representative survey experiment, we randomly assigned respondents to evaluate e…
Field epidemiology training programs contribute to Covid-19 preparedness and response globally
Our findings demonstrate the value of FETPs in responding to public health threats like COVID-19. This program provides critical assistance to countries' COVID-19 response efforts but also enhances epidemiologic workforce capacity, public health emergency infrastructure and helps ensure global health security as prescribed in the WHO's International Health Regulations
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State
Public administration researchers have found that unfavorable state actions can trigger negative emotions in citizens, but the behavioral consequences of these emotions have been understudied. We draw on psychological insights to predict how discrete emotional responses to unfavorable interactions with the state (specifically: administrative decisions to deny access to public benefits) will predict citizens’ coping behaviors, such as whether they…
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden
Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or exacerbate onerous experiences of the administrative state. First, we find that SLBs’ role perceptions shaped not only uses of discretionary power—as either a force of client empowerment or disentitlement—but also program access. Second, we find that the local a…
Health in citizen‐state interactions
Public services represent a key means by which societies seek to reduce inequalities. However, some people may experience administrative procedures as more burdensome than others, creating inequality within programs intended to be equity‐enhancing. Prior work has found human capital (e.g., education and conditions like scarcity) to affect burden and take‐up. We build on this by examining the role of health in the form of attention disorders, pain…
Measuring interest group agendas in regulatory proposals
We introduce a new way to measure interest group agendas and demonstrate an approach to extending the CAP topic coding scheme to policy domains at lower levels of analysis. We use public comments on regulatory proposals in US education policy to examine the topics contained in policy arguments. We map the education policy space using a data set of 493 comments and 5315 hand-coded comment paragraphs. A unique measurement model accounts for group a…
Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes
Promise programs, or place-based tuition-free college policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers looking to expand postsecondary attainment. In this article, we examine Tulsa Achieves, a widespread, albeit understudied type of promise program that covers the balance of students’ tuition and fees after other aid is exhausted at a single community college. Utilizing a difference-in-differences and event-study design, we investiga…
Deserving to Whom? Investigating Heterogeneity in the Impact of Social Constructions of Target Populations on Support for Affirmative Action
The social construction of target populations has emerged as an influential framework for understanding the public policy process. In particular, target populations have been shown to shape the allocation of benefits and burdens by political elites. However, existing studies focus on the elite level, which overlooks whether public preferences are aligned with the allocation of policy benefits and burdens by political elites. Moreover, many studie…
Exploring Public Perceptions of Nonprofit Policy Advocacy
Research on nonprofit advocacy has grown in recent years, and many nonprofit organizations have expanded and refined their efforts to influence public policies in ways they believe will benefit society. Despite the growing body of literature on nonprofit advocacy, there is substantial room for development on questions related to public perceptions of nonprofit advocacy activities. Utilizing an experimental design, we examine the ways in which the…
Interjurisdictional Competition and Policy Preferences of the Public
The federal structure of the US government provides states and localities with significant autonomy in many policy domains. Prior research provides evidence that jurisdictions compete with one another in several of these domains. This evidence, however, comes almost exclusively from the decisions of political elites and provides little insight into potential public responsiveness to interjurisdictional competition. In this paper, we leverage a st…
The Politics of Designing Tuition-Free College
As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college. However, existing scholarly evidence has focused almost exclusively on student outcomes, leaving the political decision-making processes among the public and policymakers unexamined. In this article, I leverage a nationally representative survey experiment and policy de…
Health in citizen‐state interactions
Public services represent a key means by which societies seek to reduce inequalities. However, some people may experience administrative procedures as more burdensome than others, creating inequality within programs intended to be equity‐enhancing. Prior work has found human capital (e.g., education and conditions like scarcity) to affect burden and take‐up. We build on this by examining the role of health in the form of attention disorders, pain…
Deserving to Whom? Investigating Heterogeneity in the Impact of Social Constructions of Target Populations on Support for Affirmative Action
The social construction of target populations has emerged as an influential framework for understanding the public policy process. In particular, target populations have been shown to shape the allocation of benefits and burdens by political elites. However, existing studies focus on the elite level, which overlooks whether public preferences are aligned with the allocation of policy benefits and burdens by political elites. Moreover, many studie…
Working Within a System of Administrative Burden
Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or exacerbate onerous experiences of the administrative state. First, we find that SLBs’ role perceptions shaped not only uses of discretionary power—as either a force of client empowerment or disentitlement—but also program access. Second, we find that the local a…
Does administrative burden create racialized policy feedback? How losing access to public benefits impacts beliefs about government
Public trust and civic predisposition are cornerstones of well-functioning democratic societies, and burdensome citizen-state encounters may undermine positive views of government, especially for racially minoritized clientele. Leveraging insights from policy feedback theory, we argue that administrative burden has the potential to undermine trust in government and civic predisposition through two mechanisms: (1) interpretive effects: burdensome …
Resistance or Capitulation? How Discrete Emotions Shape Citizens’ Interactions With the Administrative State
Public administration researchers have found that unfavorable state actions can trigger negative emotions in citizens, but the behavioral consequences of these emotions have been understudied. We draw on psychological insights to predict how discrete emotional responses to unfavorable interactions with the state (specifically: administrative decisions to deny access to public benefits) will predict citizens’ coping behaviors, such as whether they…
Does Reducing Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Workload Enhance Equity in Program Access? Evidence from Burdensome College Financial Aid Programs
Persistent disparities in program access jeopardize social equity and erode a key pillar of democratic governance. Scholars have uncovered the causes of these disparities, including administrative burden and front-line discrimination, but less attention has been devoted to identifying tools for reducing disparities. We build on this work by arguing that reducing street-level bureaucrats’ workload may be a key lever for reducing disparities. We al…
The Politics of Designing Tuition-Free College
As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college. However, existing scholarly evidence has focused almost exclusively on student outcomes, leaving the political decision-making processes among the public and policymakers unexamined. In this article, I leverage a nationally representative survey experiment and policy de…
Toward a pleasure‐centered economy
The visceral, somatic, and material pleasures of performance have been masked in text‐centered approaches to performance that divest the performer of materiality and agency while investing the text with corporeality and power. A feminist aesthetics would place pleasure at the center of performance theory to imagine alternate discourses of performance practice, to interrogate sexuality in and of performance as constitutive of its power, and to mar…
Performance studies as women's work
Constructing a consciousness of the presence and absence of sexual difference in performance studies mandates a new story of performance as women's work. This construction moves women from the periphery of performance history to the center, problematizes the presence and performances of women in the past, and interrogates the politics of oral interpretation textbooks' gender neutrality. The sight of the first actress/readers on the American platf…
Sex Acts Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
This essay calls for heterosexual feminists in performance studies to engage in theorizing and problematizing sex, its expressions and effects, evidenced in sanctioned and mundane moments in our lives. Sex acts, at their most normative, can be engaged contextually and critically for the ways disciplinary practices and discourses operate more powerfully on women's bodies than on those of men. This essay utilizes Foucault's characteristics of scien…
Integrating identity in policy design theory
Extant literature highlights how socially constructed target populations shape the distribution of benefits and burdens, focusing on political elites. In this article, we examined how linked fate, intersectionality and identity complexity shape the impacts of socially constructed target populations on public support for affirmative action in the US. In our nationally representative survey experiment, we randomly assigned respondents to evaluate e…
Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes
Promise programs, or place-based tuition-free college policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers looking to expand postsecondary attainment. In this article, we examine Tulsa Achieves, a widespread, albeit understudied type of promise program that covers the balance of students’ tuition and fees after other aid is exhausted at a single community college. Utilizing a difference-in-differences and event-study design, we investiga…
Office folklore in the academic paperwork empire
“Office folklore,” the ubiquitous cartoons, parodies, and sayings photocopied, faxed, and displayed in millions of offices across the United States, is an expressive nexus of individual and organization, work and play, handicraft and technology. This feminist cultural critique locates office folklore in the interstices of organizational structure as cooperatively created spaces of hypochondriasis, resistance, and pleasure for organizational membe…
Weddings and pornography
Weddings and pornography are cultural performances. This essay analyzes these performances, not as cultural opposites, but as mirror doubles, complementary and necessary to each other to solidify social organization through control of sex. Their complementarity emerges from the nexus of church, public performance, and state as both weddings and pornography make, fake, and break cultural insiders and outsiders, norms for sexual and social behavior…
Issue Prioritization by Bureaucratic Leaders
Attention is an important factor in the study of institutional agenda setting. It has been shown to influence the selection of issues to consider and the prioritization of these issues. This article brings theories of issue attention and prioritization to bureaucracy, focusing on how institutional factors affect bureaucracies’ prioritization of issues. Using quantitative survey data and statistical techniques, we assess the impact of institutiona…
Voices and Silences in Our Classrooms
If student voices and silences represent strategic performances navigating sex/gender, race, and class, then such performances pose teaching dilemmas for the authors: how to (1) intervene in “Good Girl” silences without privileging masculine voice, (2) celebrate African-American women without reinforcing racist essentialisms, (3) keep class and women's labor from going “missing in action,” and (4) pre-empt poisonous voices without silencing. This…
To All the Girls I've Loved Before
Journal Article To All the Girls I've Loved Before: Academic Love Letters on Mentoring, Power, and Desire Get access Elizabeth Bell, Elizabeth Bell 1Elizabeth Bell is an associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kim Golombisky, Kim Golombisky 2Kim Golombisky is a doctoral candidate in communication at USF and teaches in the Department of Mass C…
Socioeconomic-Based School Assignment Policy and Racial Segregation Levels
In the wake of political and legal challenges facing race-based integration, districts have turned to socioeconomic integration initiatives in an attempt to achieve greater racial balance across schools. Empirically, the extent to which these initiatives generate such balance is an open question. In this article, we leverage the school assignment system that the Wake County Public School System employed throughout the 2000s to provide evidence on…
This Isn't Underground; This Is Highlands”
The Maya hip hop scene that is currently growing around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala seeks to educate Maya youth about their culture by way of lyrics in Mayan languages as well as references to historical Maya texts such as the Popol Wuj and the Chilam Balam . This musical genre combines ancestral local knowledge, accessed by way of pre-Colombian texts and sacred fire ceremonies, with popular music in a manner that attracts Maya youth who may otherwis…
How reducing documentation burdens impacts equity in access to small business Covid ‐19 relief funding
Scholars have unveiled how and why administrative burdens perpetuate inequity in access to government benefits. However, less is known about the tools public managers can use to reduce burdens and disparities in program access. We partner with a local government in the U.S. to investigate whether a reduction in documentation requirements increased equity by promoting access for “underserved” small business owners (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities, …
How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During Covid-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
To address the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF I) in March 2020 with over $6 billion allocated for emergency financial aid. In this paper, we utilize the administrative burden framework to analyze HEERF I implementation for a stratified random sample of colleges, focusing on the implications for equity. We find that disbursement policies varied along two dime…
Do You Believe in Fairies
The intersection of text, culture, and identity is a site of much contemporary theory and research, especially in the critique of Disney organizational stories. This essay, however, moves outside the Disney organization to the class of stories labeled urban legends—the stories we hear, tell, and believe of Walt Disney and his company's work. These legends perform identity work, negotiating adult realities with adolescent fantasies, and parallel b…
Regulation timing in the states
Bureaucratic rulemaking is a key feature of American policymaking. However, rulemaking activities do not occur uniformly, but fluctuate throughout the year. We consider three mechanisms to explain these changes in rule volume, each of which produces unique expectations for rulemaking during periods of divided government and legislative recess. To test these expectations, we leverage an original dataset including all rules proposed by bureaucratic…
Exploring Public Perceptions of Nonprofit Policy Advocacy
Research on nonprofit advocacy has grown in recent years, and many nonprofit organizations have expanded and refined their efforts to influence public policies in ways they believe will benefit society. Despite the growing body of literature on nonprofit advocacy, there is substantial room for development on questions related to public perceptions of nonprofit advocacy activities. Utilizing an experimental design, we examine the ways in which the…
Matching Potential with Promise
Elik and Other Stories of the Mackenzie Eskimos, by Herbert T. Schwarz
Eskimo Art Is For Kabloona
The real story of Oonark is to be understood through the pictures she draws, not through any written history. Nevertheless there are certain pieces of information about this fine Eskimo woman that do not appear in her drawings
Performance studies as women's work
Constructing a consciousness of the presence and absence of sexual difference in performance studies mandates a new story of performance as women's work. This construction moves women from the periphery of performance history to the center, problematizes the presence and performances of women in the past, and interrogates the politics of oral interpretation textbooks' gender neutrality. The sight of the first actress/readers on the American platf…
Office folklore in the academic paperwork empire
“Office folklore,” the ubiquitous cartoons, parodies, and sayings photocopied, faxed, and displayed in millions of offices across the United States, is an expressive nexus of individual and organization, work and play, handicraft and technology. This feminist cultural critique locates office folklore in the interstices of organizational structure as cooperatively created spaces of hypochondriasis, resistance, and pleasure for organizational membe…
Toward a pleasure‐centered economy
The visceral, somatic, and material pleasures of performance have been masked in text‐centered approaches to performance that divest the performer of materiality and agency while investing the text with corporeality and power. A feminist aesthetics would place pleasure at the center of performance theory to imagine alternate discourses of performance practice, to interrogate sexuality in and of performance as constitutive of its power, and to mar…
Invisible rendezvous
(1996). Invisible rendezvous: Mapping the music and community of computer‐mediated communication through performance (point and counterpoint) Text and Performance Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 172-188
Do You Believe in Fairies
The intersection of text, culture, and identity is a site of much contemporary theory and research, especially in the critique of Disney organizational stories. This essay, however, moves outside the Disney organization to the class of stories labeled urban legends—the stories we hear, tell, and believe of Walt Disney and his company's work. These legends perform identity work, negotiating adult realities with adolescent fantasies, and parallel b…
Weddings and pornography
Weddings and pornography are cultural performances. This essay analyzes these performances, not as cultural opposites, but as mirror doubles, complementary and necessary to each other to solidify social organization through control of sex. Their complementarity emerges from the nexus of church, public performance, and state as both weddings and pornography make, fake, and break cultural insiders and outsiders, norms for sexual and social behavior…
To All the Girls I've Loved Before
Journal Article To All the Girls I've Loved Before: Academic Love Letters on Mentoring, Power, and Desire Get access Elizabeth Bell, Elizabeth Bell 1Elizabeth Bell is an associate professor of communication at the University of South Florida. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kim Golombisky, Kim Golombisky 2Kim Golombisky is a doctoral candidate in communication at USF and teaches in the Department of Mass C…
Voices and Silences in Our Classrooms
If student voices and silences represent strategic performances navigating sex/gender, race, and class, then such performances pose teaching dilemmas for the authors: how to (1) intervene in “Good Girl” silences without privileging masculine voice, (2) celebrate African-American women without reinforcing racist essentialisms, (3) keep class and women's labor from going “missing in action,” and (4) pre-empt poisonous voices without silencing. This…
Sex Acts Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
This essay calls for heterosexual feminists in performance studies to engage in theorizing and problematizing sex, its expressions and effects, evidenced in sanctioned and mundane moments in our lives. Sex acts, at their most normative, can be engaged contextually and critically for the ways disciplinary practices and discourses operate more powerfully on women's bodies than on those of men. This essay utilizes Foucault's characteristics of scien…
Pirates of Our Spirituality
Maya spirituality serves as a locus of enunciation for the ongoing negotiation between local expressive culture and a changing globalized society. In recent years the Mayas of Guatemala have subversively used the global market provided by tourism to survive economically, recover their cultural property, and reclaim their heritage. Lacking voice and representation in an environment that has historically threatened their way of life, they assert th…
Geographic Mapping, Social Mapping
The Rab'inal Achi, a Maya drama originating in the sixteenth century, contains an encoded discourse about the human body. Using four components-the heart, the whole body, the navel, and the head-this play explores and negotiates the territorial disputes of the Maya region during the time in which it was written and performed. An examination of the cultural symbolism of each of these body parts reveals that the Rab'inal Achi uses them to talk indi…
This Isn't Underground; This Is Highlands”
The Maya hip hop scene that is currently growing around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala seeks to educate Maya youth about their culture by way of lyrics in Mayan languages as well as references to historical Maya texts such as the Popol Wuj and the Chilam Balam . This musical genre combines ancestral local knowledge, accessed by way of pre-Colombian texts and sacred fire ceremonies, with popular music in a manner that attracts Maya youth who may otherwis…
Understanding Local Service Delivery Arrangements
The authors utilize the two latest ICMA Profile of Local Government Service Delivery Choices surveys to investigate whether the service provision and delivery arrangement information reported in the surveys accurately represents reality and, if not, what factors contribute to generating incorrect or unreliable survey responses. Interviews with practitioners are used to better understand both the accuracy of the survey responses and improvements t…
Issue Prioritization by Bureaucratic Leaders
Attention is an important factor in the study of institutional agenda setting. It has been shown to influence the selection of issues to consider and the prioritization of these issues. This article brings theories of issue attention and prioritization to bureaucracy, focusing on how institutional factors affect bureaucracies’ prioritization of issues. Using quantitative survey data and statistical techniques, we assess the impact of institutiona…
Teachers’ Sensemaking and Data Use Implementation in Science Classrooms
Accountability policies assume that educators will use student data to improve student learning, but data use in practice has turned out to be harder than theorized. The purpose of this article was to examine how science teachers in Grades 5 to 8 used data in their classrooms. Utilizing sensemaking theory, we found that teachers decided how to use data based on district and school policies and expectations around assessment and data use, balancin…
Exploring Public Perceptions of Nonprofit Policy Advocacy
Research on nonprofit advocacy has grown in recent years, and many nonprofit organizations have expanded and refined their efforts to influence public policies in ways they believe will benefit society. Despite the growing body of literature on nonprofit advocacy, there is substantial room for development on questions related to public perceptions of nonprofit advocacy activities. Utilizing an experimental design, we examine the ways in which the…
Interjurisdictional Competition and Policy Preferences of the Public
The federal structure of the US government provides states and localities with significant autonomy in many policy domains. Prior research provides evidence that jurisdictions compete with one another in several of these domains. This evidence, however, comes almost exclusively from the decisions of political elites and provides little insight into potential public responsiveness to interjurisdictional competition. In this paper, we leverage a st…
The Politics of Designing Tuition-Free College
As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college. However, existing scholarly evidence has focused almost exclusively on student outcomes, leaving the political decision-making processes among the public and policymakers unexamined. In this article, I leverage a nationally representative survey experiment and policy de…
Socioeconomic-Based School Assignment Policy and Racial Segregation Levels
In the wake of political and legal challenges facing race-based integration, districts have turned to socioeconomic integration initiatives in an attempt to achieve greater racial balance across schools. Empirically, the extent to which these initiatives generate such balance is an open question. In this article, we leverage the school assignment system that the Wake County Public School System employed throughout the 2000s to provide evidence on…
Just or Unjust? How Ideological Beliefs Shape Street‐Level Bureaucrats’ Perceptions of Administrative Burden
Existing research finds that increases in administrative burden reduce client access, political efficacy, and equity. However, extant literature has yet to investigate how administrative burden policies are interpreted by street‐level bureaucrats (SLB), whose values and beliefs structure uses of discretion and client experiences of programs. In this article, we utilize quantitative and qualitative data to examine SLB policy preferences regarding …
Measuring interest group agendas in regulatory proposals
We introduce a new way to measure interest group agendas and demonstrate an approach to extending the CAP topic coding scheme to policy domains at lower levels of analysis. We use public comments on regulatory proposals in US education policy to examine the topics contained in policy arguments. We map the education policy space using a data set of 493 comments and 5315 hand-coded comment paragraphs. A unique measurement model accounts for group a…
Can Free Community College Close Racial Disparities in Postsecondary Attainment? How Tulsa Achieves Affects Racially Minoritized Student Outcomes
Promise programs, or place-based tuition-free college policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers looking to expand postsecondary attainment. In this article, we examine Tulsa Achieves, a widespread, albeit understudied type of promise program that covers the balance of students’ tuition and fees after other aid is exhausted at a single community college. Utilizing a difference-in-differences and event-study design, we investiga…
Deserving to Whom? Investigating Heterogeneity in the Impact of Social Constructions of Target Populations on Support for Affirmative Action
The social construction of target populations has emerged as an influential framework for understanding the public policy process. In particular, target populations have been shown to shape the allocation of benefits and burdens by political elites. However, existing studies focus on the elite level, which overlooks whether public preferences are aligned with the allocation of policy benefits and burdens by political elites. Moreover, many studie…
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