Journal ArticlePerspectives on Politics · June 25, 2024
As the pandemic accelerated calls to provide relief to millions of student borrowers, President Biden announced executive action to cancel $10,000 of student debt for most federal student loan holders. Both prior to and following his announcement, policyma ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Studies Journal · May 1, 2024
Scholars have charted a dramatic rise in the use of preemption both at the federal and state levels since the 1970s, with courts and politicians from both parties enacting preemptions across a range of contentious issues. Thus, preemption is a critical fea ...
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Journal ArticleForum (Germany) · April 1, 2024
Less than 1 year after President Biden announced a sweeping plan to reduce – and in many cases eliminate – the student loan burden for the 46 million Americans who hold educational debt, the Supreme Court ruled the proposal unconstitutional in Biden v. Neb ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy Studies Journal · February 1, 2024
Nearly, all Americans have received social policy benefits, yet many do not acknowledge “using government social programs.” Why? Work on the submerged state proposes that people who receive social assistance through market mechanisms do not realize that th ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Science Review · August 28, 2023
Consumer credit is a crucial source of financial support for most Americans - part of what scholars dub the credit-welfare state. Yet, borrowers have been reluctant to take political action to demand better consumer financial protection, even as subprime l ...
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Journal ArticleResearch and Politics · April 1, 2023
Are people likely to reward politicians who support canceling student loan debt? This paper draws on original conjoint and survey experimental data to assess the effects of student debt relief proposals on voter behavior. Using data collected 3 months prio ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2023
How do policies, once created, reshape politics, and how might such transformations in turn affect subsequent policymaking? This chapter explores policy feedback theory: the ability of policies through their design, resources, and implementation to shape t ...
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Journal ArticleInterest Groups and Advocacy · June 1, 2022
As the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated housing precarity, tenant organizations grew in numbers and salience. But membership-based tenant organizations predated the pandemic and will persist beyond it. There are (at least) hundreds of them in localities ac ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Politics Research · March 1, 2022
Public policies that promote personal responsibility while minimizing government responsibility are a key feature of modern American political economy. They can decrease Americans’ political participation on a given issue, with detrimental consequences for ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
The goal of policy feedback research is to ask how policies can influence subsequent politics, and how that process ultimately affects future efforts at policy reform. This chapter considers how to conceptualize and design feedback studies, discusses the m ...
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Journal ArticleInterest Groups and Advocacy · June 1, 2021
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 introduced formal legal barriers designed to limit the political activities of foundations. How do these constraints affect foundations’ funding decisions and the capacity of public interest organizations that rely on philanthrop ...
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Book · April 2021
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Chapter · 2021
Uniting scholars from across disciplines, this volume delves into the theory of the public option, explores several important case studies, and shows how public options could be a corrective to the trend toward privatization and subsidies. ...
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Book · December 7, 2020
In Democracy Declined, Mallory E. SoRelle argues that the failure of federal policy makers to curb risky practices can be explained by the evolution of consumer finance policies aimed at encouraging easy credit in part by foregoing more ... ...
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Chapter · 2017
"A comprehensive primer to the major contemporary theoretical frameworks used in policy process research written by leading public policy scholars"-- ...
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Journal ArticlePublius · September 1, 2016
Federal preemption by both parties has risen dramatically since the 1960s. Scholars note that Democrats and Republicans routinely employ preemption to advance partisan political goals, but we know very little about how each party uses this tool of federal ...
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