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8724
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1409
National Ranking
700

Overview

Charles R. Shipan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans several disciplines including Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Law.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics such as Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Legal and Constitutional Studies, Policy Transfer and Learning, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Judicial and Constitutional Studies, and Game Theory and Applications.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • "Policy Diffusion: The Issue-Definition Stage" (2020) in the American Journal of Political Science
  • "Where Is Presidential Power? Measuring Presidential Discretion Using Experts" (2021) in the British Journal of Political Science
  • "How many major US laws delegate to federal agencies? (almost) all of them" (2021) in Political Science Research and Methods
  • "Measuring the Legislative Design of Judicial Review of Agency Actions" (2021) in The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
  • "Replication Data for: Where is Presidential Power? Measuring Presidential Discretion with Experts" (2021) in Harvard Dataverse

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Fabrizio Gilardi, Bruno Wüest, Frederick J. Boehmke, Douglas Dion, and Pamela J. Clouser McCann.

Charles R. Shipan has a strong presence in various publication venues, with numerous contributions to:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Political Science Research and Methods
  • American Journal of Political Science
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • The Journal of Law Economics and Organization

In addition to articles, the scientist has contributed a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don't) (2021).

Best Publications

  • The mechanisms of policy diffusion

    Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • Congressional Influence on Bureaucracy

    John Ferejohn;Charles Shipan

  • Deliberate Discretion?

    Unknown

  • Bottom-Up Federalism: The Diffusion of Antismoking Policies from U.S. Cities to States

    Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • Policy Diffusion: Seven Lessons for Scholars and Practitioners

    Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • The Diffusion of Policy Diffusion Research in Political Science

    Erin R. Graham;Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • Legislatures and statutory control of bureaucracy

    John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan;Madelaine Pfahler

  • The Politics of Supreme Court Nominations: A Theory of Institutional Constraints and Choices

    Bryon J. Moraski;Charles R. Shipan

  • The Costs of Control: Legislators, Agencies, and Transaction Costs

    John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan

  • Regulatory Regimes, Agency Actions, and the Conditional Nature of Congressional Influence

    Charles R. Shipan

  • Delaying Justice(s): A Duration Analysis of Supreme Court Confirmations

    Charles R. Shipan;Megan L. Shannon

  • Environmental Policy and Party Divergence in Congress

    Charles R. Shipan;William R. Lowry

  • Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy

    John D. Huber;Charles R. Shipan

  • Change, Continuity, and the Evolution of the Law

    Forrest Maltzman;Charles R. Shipan

  • Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy

    Charles R. Shipan

  • The Legislative Design of Judicial Review A Formal Analysis

    Charles R. Shipan

  • When the smoke clears: expertise, learning and policy diffusion

    Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • Top-Down Federalism: State Policy Responses to National Government Discussions

    Pamela J. Clouser McCann;Charles R. Shipan;Craig Volden

  • A social choice approach to expert consensus panels.

    Matthew J. Gabel;Charles R. Shipan

  • Measuring Gubernatorial Budgetary Power A New Approach

    Yanna Krupnikov;Charles Shipan

  • Policy Diffusion: The Issue-Definition Stage

    Fabrizio Gilardi;Charles R. Shipan;Bruno Wüest

  • Comparative Judicial Politics

    John Ferejohn;Frances Rosenbluth;Charles R. Shipan

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Huber
John D. Huber Columbia University
Craig Volden
Craig Volden University of Virginia
Forrest Maltzman
Forrest Maltzman George Washington University
Fabrizio Gilardi
Fabrizio Gilardi University of Zurich
John Ferejohn
John Ferejohn New York University
Yanna Krupnikov
Yanna Krupnikov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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