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Kristin Anne Goss

Kristin Anne Goss CV

Susan B. King Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
kgoss@duke.edu
Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0245
234 Sanford School Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Fall 2023: Tuesday, 2-4 pm, Sanford 234  
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Selected Publications

Why Do Issues Whose Time Has Come Stick Around? Attention Durability and the Case of Gun Control

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · June 17, 2024 In any healthy democracy, myriad policy issues compete for the public's attention. Most remain on the periphery of politics, either because they achieve salience only in narrow communities of interest or because they grab headlines only for brief periods o ... Full text Cite

Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion

Journal Article Policy Studies Journal · May 1, 2019 Featured Publication Policy feedback scholarship has focused on how laws and their implementation affect either organizations (e.g., their resources, priorities, political opportunities, or incentive structures) or individuals (e.g., their civic skills and resources or their p ... Full text Open Access Cite

Gun Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice

Book · November 29, 2018 Featured Publication Journal of Consumer Research, Oxford University Press, 41(3), pp. 858–875. Mead, N.L., Baumeister, R.F., Stillman, T.F., Rawn, C.D. and Vohs, K.D. (2011) “ Social exclusion causes people to spend and consume strategically in the service of ... ... Cite

Donors for democracy? Philanthropy and the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century

Journal Article Interest Groups and Advocacy · October 1, 2018 Featured Publication After the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, a self-defined “resistance” movement arose to block his agenda. This movement cut across the normal boundaries of political activism to create new forms of advocacy and new models of cooperation. M ... Full text Open Access Cite

Foundations as interest groups

Journal Article Interest Groups and Advocacy · October 1, 2018 Foundations are traditionally viewed as civic-minded but politically neutral organizations. Yet foundations, if they choose, can become involved in a wide variety of activities aimed at influencing public policy. Here we lay out the rationale for thinking ... Full text Open Access Cite

US women's groups in national policy debates, 1880-2000

Chapter · February 15, 2018 Featured Publication This chapter considers appearances by women's organizations at US congressional hearings from 1920 to 2000. By three measures-the number of times women's groups testified, the number of women's organizations that appeared, and the breadth of issues to whic ... Full text Cite

Introduction to Advancing Philanthropic Scholarship: The Implications of Transformation

Journal Article PS - Political Science and Politics · January 1, 2018 Full text Open Access Cite

Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 2017 ObjectivesTo examine the relation of "shall-issue" laws, in which permits must be issued if requisite criteria are met; "may-issue" laws, which give law enforcement officials wide discretion over whether to issue concealed firearm carry permits or ... Full text Open Access Cite

Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990-2015.

Journal Article American journal of preventive medicine · November 2017 IntroductionFirearm violence injures or kills 100,000 Americans each year. This paper applies the Host-Agent-Vector-Environment model to this issue. Research on firearm violence tends to focus on two elements-the host (i.e., victims of firearm vio ... Full text Open Access Cite

State Intimate Partner Violence-Related Firearm Laws and Intimate Partner Homicide Rates in the United States, 1991 to 2015.

Journal Article Annals of internal medicine · October 2017 BackgroundTo prevent intimate partner homicide (IPH), some states have adopted laws restricting firearm possession by intimate partner violence (IPV) offenders. "Possession" laws prohibit the possession of firearms by these offenders. "Relinquishm ... Full text Open Access Cite

Firearm-Related Laws in All 50 US States, 1991-2016.

Journal Article American journal of public health · July 2017 ObjectivesTo describe a new database containing detailed annual information on firearm-related laws in place in each of the 50 US states from 1991 to 2016 and to summarize key trends in firearm-related laws during this time period.Methods ... Full text Open Access Cite

The Socialization of Conflict and Its Limits: Gender and Gun Politics in America*

Journal Article Social Science Quarterly · June 1, 2017 Objective: This study considers efforts by gun rights and gun regulation groups to socialize the conflict over firearms policy by engaging a coveted issue public—women. I assess whether gun rights groups have succeeded in weakening women's support for gun ... Full text Open Access Cite

Gendering the second amendment

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · January 1, 2017 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Policy Plutocrats: How America's Wealthy Seek to Influence Governance

Journal Article PS - Political Science and Politics · July 1, 2016 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Cite

Defying the odds on gun regulation: The passage of bipartisan mental health laws across the states.

Journal Article The American journal of orthopsychiatry · May 2015 Featured Publication Full text Open Access Cite

Two years after Sandy Hook, the gun control movement has new energy

Other Washington Post - MonkeyCage Blog · December 16, 2014 Link to item Cite

Turn Emotion Into Action

Other New York Times · April 2014 Cite

In School Rampages, the Weapon Matters

Other CNN.com · April 2014 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know

Book · 2014 Featured Publication This book is a must-read for anyone interested in getting a clear view of the highly polarizing topic of gun control. ... Cite

Up in Arms: The Political Science Behind Gun Control

Other Georgetown Public Policy Review · March 2013 Cite

Why We Need to Talk About Guns

Other Newsweek · January 2013 Cite

The Paradox of Gender Equality

Book · December 5, 2012 Featured Publication A challenge to conventional notions about American women's collective engagement in public policy-making ... Cite

NRA's Vision of Genuine Monsters

Other CNN.com · December 2012 Cite

Rallying for Gun Reform

Other Tampa Bay Times; News & Observer (Raleigh) · December 2012 Cite

The paradox of gender equality: How American women's groups gained and lost their public voice

Journal Article The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice · December 1, 2012 Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which gran ... Cite

Disarmed: The missing movement for gun control in America

Book · December 16, 2010 More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence. Each year, some 30,000 people die by gunfire. Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the murders of beloved public figures; massacres i ... Cite

Civil society and civic engagement: Towards a multi-level theory of policy feedbacks

Journal Article Journal of Civil Society · September 1, 2010 Scholars are increasingly recognizing that design of a public policy influences the scope and nature of political engagement around that policy. Such 'policy feedback' models typically focus on organizational engagement (such as interest group lobbying) or ... Full text Open Access Cite

Research service-learning: Making the academy relevant again

Journal Article Journal of Political Science Education · April 1, 2010 For at least 20 years, American universities, political scientists, and college students have each been criticized for holding themselves aloof from public life. This article introduces a pedagogical method-research service-learning (RSL)-and examines whet ... Full text Open Access Cite

Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21st Century

Journal Article · March 2010 The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the War in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized women as women in an era when other women’s groups struggled to maintain critical mas ... Open Access Cite

Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21st Century,

Journal Article Perspectives on Politics · March 2010 Featured Publication The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the War in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized women as women in an era when other women’s groups struggled to maintain critical mas ... Open Access Cite

Taking Aim at the Gun Debate

Other Newark Star-Ledger; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Raleigh News & Observer; · 2010 Cite

Is Tenure a Matter of Life or Death?

Other Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education) · 2010 Cite

Never Surrender? How Women's Groups Abandoned Their Policy Niche in U.S. Foreign Policy Debates, 1916–2000

Journal Article Politics and Gender · January 1, 2009 From World War I through the 1960s, U.S. women's organizations regularly trekked to Capitol Hill to influence congressional foreign policy debates. Yet by the 1990s, these groups had largely disengaged from international affairs. Why? Using an original dat ... Full text Cite

Foundations of feminism: How philanthropic patrons shaped gender politics

Journal Article Social Science Quarterly · December 1, 2007 Although recent research has documented the contributions of philanthropic foundations as "patrons" of the major identity movements, scholars know very little about the specific ways foundations have influenced these movements' development and impact. This ... Full text Cite

Good Policy, Not Stories, Can Reduce Violence

Other Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education) · May 2007 Cite

Do Personal Stories Help Shape Good Policy?

Other Durham Herald-Sun · April 2007 Cite

A Family Affair

Other The Guardian (online) · April 2007 Cite

Grassroots Gun Control Effort Needed

Other Durham Herald-Sun · December 2006 Cite

The Missing Movement for Gun Control

Other The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education) · October 2006 Cite

"Keeping Arms Behind Our Backs"

Other Newark Star-Ledger; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Des Moines Register; Raleigh News & Observer; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Jackson Clarion-Ledger · October 2006 Cite

Review: Why Women Don’t Run for Office

Other Georgetown Public Policy Review · March 1, 2006 Cite

Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America

Book · 2006 Featured Publication More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence. Each year, some 30,000 people die by gunfire. Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the murders of beloved public figures; massacres i ... Cite

Rethinking the Political Participation Paradigm: The Case of Women and Gun Control

Journal Article Women and Politics · December 1, 2003 Political-participation studies have paid too little attention to the cognitive and emotional motivations for citizen engagement. This study uses a natural experiment in issue-centered mobilization, a women's march for stricter gun control, to construct a ... Full text Cite

Altruism

Chapter · 2003 Cite

Review: Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control

Other Political Science Quarterly · September 2, 2002 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Volunteering and the long civic generation

Journal Article Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly · January 1, 1999 By virtually every conceivable measure, civic participation is on the decline in America. Volunteering is one important exception. An analysis of a newly available archive of national surveys finds that the frequency with which Americans volunteer has incr ... Full text Cite