Current Political Science Scholars
received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington in 2007, and will be on leave from the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, where he is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and State Politics. His research focuses on public policy innovation and political decision-making in America. His book Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), integrates research from agenda setting and epidemiology to model factors that shape the speed and scope of public policy diffusion. As a scholar, he will explore how American state governments respond to complex health policy threats, initially focusing on state vaccination programs.
received a Ph.D. in political science at Duke University in 2011. His primary research interests are in the fields of political theory and religion and politics. His dissertation develops a political liberal ethics of citizenship that reconciles conflicting religious and civic obligations concerning political participation and deliberation. He defends norms for democratic decision-making that allow citizens to make religious and other controversial arguments in public political discussions while preserving citizens' commitments to liberal-democratic legitimacy, commitments that underlie protection for citizens' basic rights and liberties. Benjamin plans to consider the normative implications of religious conflicts in health policy while a fellow in the program.
received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 2011. She specializes in the field of American politics, with a particular focus on race and ethnic politics and the political consequences of poverty. Her current project uses health care as a lens through which to examine whether, how and when economically disadvantaged groups engage in the political process. Following the program, she will join the faculty at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.
earned his Ph.D. in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University in 2008, and is currently on leave from Washington University in St. Louis where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on the American political economy, especially subnational social policies. Dr. Moore's current projects include contributions to research on subnational pensions, health care, and redistributive policies; he also works on causal inference methods for experimental and observational data. As a Scholar, he is working on state institutional variation in ACA
received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2011. His dissertation draws on political psychology and formal modeling to explain how individuals' interests and the dynamics of group discussion bias the way groups use information in deliberation. More broadly, he is interested in political psychology, game theory, experimental methods and deliberative democracy. He is currently working on projects examining how people and institutions learn from the policy choices of others and how emotional arousal affects group discussion.
holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Virginia and is currently on leave from the University of Montana, where he is an assistant professor in the Political Science Department. He is the author of War, the American State, and Politics since 1898 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and his scholarly articles have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Politics, Journal of Policy History, and Political Research Quarterly. As a RWJF Scholar, he is using an historical institutionalist approach to study long-term care’s policy history and its place in the American welfare regime.
holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and is currently on leave from University of Chicago, where he is an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. His research focuses on ideology and political parties in American legislatures. One current project focuses on how well state legislatures and congressional delegations represent the ideological preferences of citizens at the micro and macro levels. Another seeks to find the roots of political polarization at the state level, as well as its policy consequences. He is interested in explaining the vastly different choices states make in deciding health policy.
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