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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Lawrence R. Jacobs is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of social sciences and economics, with a significant emphasis on political science and international relations as well as economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Legal and Constitutional Studies
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Lawrence R. Jacobs has contributed scholarly articles to various publication venues. These include:

  • Policy Studies Journal
  • American Political Science Review
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • UNC Libraries

Notable recent papers authored by Jacobs include:

  • The Pathways of Policy Feedback: How Health Reform Influences Political Efficacy and Participation (2021, Policy Studies Journal)
  • Democratic Capacity: Election Administration as Bulwark and Target (2022, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
  • What Health Reform Tells Us about American Politics (2020, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law)

Jacobs has collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Suzanne Mettler
  • Ling Zhu
  • Judd Choate
  • Jonathan Oberlander
  • Theodore R. Marmor

The research interests of Jacobs include exploring health reform impact on political behavior, policy feedback mechanisms, election administration, and healthcare policy frameworks. This research base positions Jacobs within multiple interdisciplinary realms, combining political science, law, sociology, and economics to examine institutional and public policy dynamics.

In 2020, Lawrence R. Jacobs was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This award marks a significant milestone within their academic career.

Best Publications

  • Public deliberation, discursive participation, and citizen engagement: A review of the empirical literature

    Michael X. Delli Carpini;Fay Lomax Cook;Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Fay Lomax Cook;Michael X. Delli Carpini

  • Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Benjamin I. Page

  • Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

    Lawrence R Jacobs;Theda Skocpol

  • ISSUES, CANDIDATE IMAGE, AND PRIMING: THE USE OF PRIVATE POLLS IN KENNEDY'S 1960 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Candidate Strategies to Prime Issues and Image

    James N. Druckman;Lawrence R. Jacobs;Eric Ostermeier

  • Class War?: What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality

    Benjamin I. Page;Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Theda Skocpol

  • The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy

    Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Trusting What You Know: Information, Knowledge, and Confidence in Social Security

    Fay Lomax Cook;Lawrence R. Jacobs;Dukhong Kim

  • Studying Substantive Democracy

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • THE RISE OF PRESIDENTIAL POLLING THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • The Oregon Health Plan and the political paradox of rationing: what advocates and critics have claimed and what Oregon did

    Lawrence Jacobs;Theodore Marmor;Jonathan Oberlander

  • The polls-trends: Welfare

    R. Kent Weaver;Robert Y. Shapiro;Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Why states expand Medicaid: party, resources, and history.

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Timothy Callaghan

  • Lumpers and Splitters The Public Opinion Information that Politicians Collect and Use

    James N. Druckman;Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • Rationing medical care: rhetoric and reality in the Oregon Health Plan

    Jonathan Oberlander;Theodore Marmor;Lawrence Jacobs

  • The Recoil Effect: Public Opinion and Policymaking in the U.S. and Britain

    Lawrence R. Jacobs

  • When and How New Policy Creates New Politics: Examining the Feedback Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Public Opinion

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Suzanne Mettler

  • Why public opinion changes: the implications for health and health policy.

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Suzanne Mettler

  • The Unsustainable American State

    Lawrence R. Jacobs;Desmond S. King

  • The Oxford handbook of American public opinion and the media

    George C. Edwards;Lawrence R. Jacobs;Robert Y. Shapiro

  • Who governs?: Presidents, public opinion, and manipulation (Chicago studies in american politics)

    James N. Druckman;Lawrence R. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Y. Shapiro
Robert Y. Shapiro Columbia University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Benjamin I. Page
Benjamin I. Page Northwestern University
Fay Lomax Cook
Fay Lomax Cook Northwestern University
Desmond King
Desmond King University of Oxford
Michael X. Delli Carpini
Michael X. Delli Carpini University of Pennsylvania
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman University of Rochester
Jonathan Oberlander
Jonathan Oberlander University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Suzanne Mettler
Suzanne Mettler Cornell University
Joe Soss
Joe Soss University of Minnesota

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