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Research

Affiliated Centers

Public Policy Lab

The Public Policy Lab is an intellectual home for researchers who study public policies and the social processes relevant to their development and consequences. Housed in the College of Liberal Arts, the nonpartisan lab provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of contemporary policy issues, research support for faculty and student scholarship, and a mechanism to disseminate participants’ research findings.

University Community Collaborative 

The collaborative prepares and supports youth and young adults to become confident, effective leaders and creates cultures that value and integrate the contributions of youth, thereby building stronger communities.

Faculty Publications

Andrew Buss
  • Buss, A., & Lardy, J. (2015). A New Community Space: The Culture of the Urban Bike Café.  Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and Extra Urban Studies, 5(3-4), 13-25.

Elise Chor
Nyron Crawford
  • Owens, M. L., Schuett, A., Crawford, N. N., & Benjamin, A. (2024). Race and perceptions of revitalisation in the ‘District of Gentrification’. Urban Studies, 61(8), 1563-1580. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231211819
  • Crawford, N. N. (2023). Lost boys, invisible men: Racialized policy feedback after marijuana legalization. Public Administration Quarterly, 47(3), 327-346.
  • Crawford, N. N. (2021). We’d go well together: A critical race analysis of marijuana legalization and expungement in the United States. Public Integrity, 23(5), 459-483.
  • Crawford, N. N., & Confalone, D. (2022). Marijuana legalization and automatic criminal record expungement (Policy Brief No. 15). Temple Public Policy Lab.
Joshua Mask
Gary Mucciaroni

Recent Publications

  • Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880-1945. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Research in Progress

  • The Politics of LGBTQ Inclusion in School Curricula in the American States. 
Joseph P. McLaughlin, Jr.
  • Lecture, An Introduction to American Government, for 25 public officials from Vietnam in the Executive Leadership program, Fox School of Business, Temple University, 2019.

  • Lecture, Failed Public Investments: Lessons Learned, for 25 public officials from Vietnam in the Executive Leadership program, Fox School of Business, Temple University, 2019.

  • Co-author with Jay Jennings and Stefanie Kasparek, The Pennsylvania Policy Database Project, in Comparative Policy Agendas Theory, Tools Data, edited by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman. Oxford University Press, 2019.

  • Remembering Dan Elazar. Tribute Page, Center for the Study of Federalism, Lafayette College, 2016.

  • Co-editor, Special Issue on Education, COMMONWEALTH, A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy. 2016-17.

  • My Life as a Thinker and Doer in Politics, Pennsylvania Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2015.

Christina Rosan
Michael Sances
  • “The Politics of Policy: The Initial Mass Political Effects of Medicaid Expansion in the States.” With Joshua Clinton. American Political Science Review112(1): 167-185. February 2018.
  • Attribution Errors in Federalist Systems: When Voters Punish the President for Local Tax Increases.” Journal of Politics 79(4): 1286-1301. October 2017.

  • “Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources.” With Hye Young You. Journal of Politics 79(3): 1090-1094. July 2017.

Alison Shott
  • Shott, A. (2019). Developing and executing a data collection plan for archival research. SAGE Research Methods Cases.
  • Wong, S., Miles, D., Connor, G., Queenan, B., & Shott, A. (2017). Residential demographic multipliers: Using public use microdata sample records to estimate housing development impacts. Cityscape, 19(3), 415-427.
  • Shott, A. (2017). Increasing the competitiveness of municipal council elections. In A. Marland & L. Moore (Eds.), The democracy cookbook: Recipes to renew governance in Newfoundland and Labrador (pp. xx-xx). St. John’s: IESR Books.
  • Shott, A. (2017). The composition of municipal associations and policy requests to provincial governments: Selected cases. Canadian Public Administration, 60(1), 111-134. 
Marisa Waxman
  • Saidel, J., Waxman, M., & Di Martino, A. (2006). Philadelphia: A new urban direction (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saint Joseph’s University Press. 

Program Contact

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    Gary Mucciaroni

    • College of Liberal Arts

      • Political Science

        • Professor and Director of Master of Public Policy Program - On Leave

          Programs

          • Master of Public Policy Program
        • Affiliated Faculty

          Programs

          • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
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    Kasey Trapp

    • College of Liberal Arts

        • Associate Director

          Programs

          • Master of Public Policy Program