Browsing by Subject "policy analysis"

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Applying Method to Madness: A User's Guide to Causal Inference in Policy Analysis (Summer 2020)
(Texas National Security Review, 2020) Blankshain, Jessica D.; Stigler, Andrew L.
Healthcare policy: Cost versus solutions
(2012) Woolheater, Katelyn
Healthcare is a dynamic policy issue, encompassing a number of multifaceted problem areas such as insurance, cost-efficiency, equity, and recourse allocation. As a result, legislation often addresses the broader problem piecemeal, on a one-issue-at-a-time basis. This project aims to examine this piecemeal process, with regard to the proportion of legislation devoted to amending prior bills and the proportion of legislation advancing novel solutions to pressing healthcare problems. Further, because legislation has often historically targeted specific populations, I examine which populations are most often targeted in reform efforts, and how targeted efforts play a role in legislative success. I analyzed major health care legislation through data gathered from the Policy Agendas Project as well as other policy databases, with a focus on three essential reform efforts including the successful New Deal implementation of Medicare and Medicaid, the failed Clinton effort, and the controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Using an original coding system to categorize the provisions bills and enable a clear breakdown of their content, I look at the proportions of each bill that are amendments to prior legislation and the proportions that are targeted to special populations. By accumulating enough data, I develop an average threshold of these proportions by comparing legislation that pass and that failed. My analysis reinforces the idea that policy makers often function as pluralists, and special populations will amass the most awareness, impeding more universal reform.
Ken Judd on Climate Change Policy Analysis
(Salem Center, 2020-10-07) Judd, Ken
LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 11, 1999
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 12, 2000
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 13, 2001
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 14, 2002
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 15, 2003
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2003
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2004
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2004
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 18, 2007
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 18, Issue 1, 2005
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 18, Issue 2, 2006
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 19, 2008
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LBJ Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 20, 2012
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Reproductive Rights Through the Lens of Causal Stories: A Policy Analysis
(2023-05) Rodman, Sheyla
Reproductive Rights Through the Lens of Causal Stories: A Policy Analysis seeks to draw a connection between reproductive rights policy, causal stories, and public opinion. The causal stories theory explains that the way we define a problem–specifically, how we attribute blame and responsibility to that problem and whether or not we view it as amenable to change by human intervention–influences the government’s response to them. Thus, causal stories often translate into public policy responses. By marking out important punctuations in reproductive rights policy, this thesis traces the historical evolution of reproductive rights, uses the events of the time to gauge the causal stories influencing policy, evaluates the role that political actors have played in promoting those causal stories, and measures how public opinion has responded to certain policy decisions. A core argument in this thesis is that, for a causal story to effect policy change, the causal story must have majority public support because the U.S. government is designed to be responsive to public opinion. To assess this claim, I compare reproductive rights policy and the causal stories implicated in it with public opinion, mainly gathered through public opinion polling results throughout the last few decades. I find that, for the most part, this claim holds up relatively well; however, in 2022, reproductive rights experienced a significant shift that ran contrary to public opinion. The thesis ends with a discussion of what the overturn of Roe v. Wade signals for the democraticness of the Supreme Court, the causal stories involved in the decision, and what this means for the future of American democracy.
Vol. 3, Iss. 3: Changing the Tools of Power (Summer 2020)
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