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Overview

Deserai A. Crow is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States and has conducted research primarily within the social sciences and environmental science fields. Their scholarly output includes a significant focus on disaster management, policy learning, and public administration.

Their research spans main topics such as:

  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Risk Perception and Management

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Elizabeth A. Albright
  • Rob A. DeLeo
  • Kristin Taylor
  • Thomas A. Birkland
  • Elizabeth A. Koebele

Deserai A. Crow has published extensively in venues such as:

  • Policy Sciences
  • International Review of Public Policy
  • Review of Policy Research
  • Policy Studies Journal
  • Politics & Policy

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID-19 policy responses across six states, 2022, Review of Policy Research
  • Mitigating conflict with collaboration: Reaching negotiated agreement amidst belief divergence in environmental governance, 2023, Policy Studies Journal

Other notable papers relevant to their field, though authored primarily by frequent collaborators, include:

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives, 2020, Policy Sciences
  • During Disaster: Refining the Concept of Focusing Events to Better Explain Long-Duration Crises, 2021, International Review of Public Policy
  • Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Publius The Journal of Federalism

Deserai A. Crow's contributions also include a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Community Disaster Recovery (2021).

Best Publications

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives.

    Christopher M. Weible;Daniel Nohrstedt;Paul Cairney;David P. Carter

  • Understanding a Period of Policy Change: The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing Disclosure Policy in Colorado

    Tanya Heikkila;Jonathan J. Pierce;Samuel Gallaher;Jennifer Kagan

  • Media in the Policy Process: Using Framing and Narratives to Understand Policy Influences

    Deserai A. Crow;Andrea Lawlor

  • Narratives as tools for influencing policy change

    Deserai Crow;Michael Jones

  • Policy entrepreneurs, issue experts, and water rights policy change in Colorado.

    Deserai Anderson Crow

  • How can we use the ‘science of stories’ to produce persuasive scientific stories?

    Michael D. Jones;Deserai Anderson Crow

  • Local Media and Experts: Sources of Environmental Policy Initiation?

    Deserai Anderson Crow

  • Beliefs about climate change in the aftermath of extreme flooding

    Elizabeth A Albright;Deserai Crow

  • Using the Narrative Policy Framework to Understand Stakeholder Strategy and Effectiveness: A Multi-Case Analysis

    Deserai Anderson Crow;John Berggren

  • During Disaster: Refining the Concept of Focusing Events to Better Explain Long-Duration Crises

    Rob A. DeLeo;Kristin Taylor;Deserai A. Crow;Thomas A. Birkland

  • Policy learning and change during crisis: COVID‐19 policy responses across six states

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  • Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government

    Deserai A. Crow;Elizabeth A. Albright;Todd Ely;Elizabeth Koebele

  • Capacity Building toward Resilience: How Communities Recover, Learn, and Change in the Aftermath of Extreme Events

    Elizabeth A. Albright;Deserai A. Crow

  • Learning processes, public and stakeholder engagement: Analyzing responses to Colorado’s extreme flood events of 2013

    Elizabeth A. Albright;Deserai A. Crow

  • Local media coverage of wildfire disasters: An analysis of problems and solutions in policy narratives:

    Deserai A Crow;John Berggren;Lydia A Lawhon;Elizabeth A Koebele

  • A narrative policy framework analysis of wildfire policy discussions in two Colorado communities: wildfire policy framework analysis

    Deserai A. Crow;Lydia A. Lawhon;John Berggren;Juhi Huda

  • Governing in a Polarized Era: Federalism and the Response of U.S. State and Federal Governments to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Thomas A Birkland;Kristin Taylor;Deserai A Crow;Rob DeLeo

  • Risk‐Based Policy Narratives

    Andrea Lawlor;Deserai Crow

  • Intergovernmental relationships after disaster: state and local government learning during flood recovery in Colorado

    Deserai A. Crow;Elizabeth A. Albright

  • Learning in the Aftermath of Extreme Floods: Community Damage and Stakeholder Perceptions of Future Risk

    Elizabeth A. Albright;Deserai A. Crow

  • Wildfire Outreach and Citizen Entrepreneurs in the Wildland–Urban Interface: A Cross-Case Analysis in Colorado

    Elizabeth Koebele;Deserai A. Crow;Lydia A. Lawhon;Adrianne Kroepsch

  • Culture, Politics and Climate Change : How Information Shapes our Common Future

    Deserai A. Crow;Maxwell T. Boykoff

  • Evaluating Informational Inputs in Rulemaking Processes: A Cross-Case Analysis

    Deserai A. Crow;Elizabeth A. Albright;Elizabeth Koebele

  • The role of coalitions in disaster policymaking.

    Deserai A. Crow;Elizabeth A. Albright;Elizabeth Koebele

  • Information, Resources, and Management Priorities: Agency Outreach and Mitigation of Wildfire Risk in the Western United States

    Deserai A. Crow;Lydia A. Lawhon;Elizabeth Koebele;Adrianne Kroepsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
Michael D. Jones
Michael D. Jones University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold University of Bern
Allan McConnell
Allan McConnell University of Sydney
Paul Cairney
Paul Cairney University of Stirling
Diane Stone
Diane Stone European University Institute
Daniel Nohrstedt
Daniel Nohrstedt Uppsala University

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