Elizabeth Rigby

Policy Studies Organization

The George Washington University

Assistant Professor of Public Policy & Public Administration

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Politics of Poverty & Inequality
Health, Education and Social Policy
Policymaking Process
State Politics

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Politics of Inequality

Public Values, Health Inequality, and Alternative Notions of a “Fair” Response (with Erika Blacksher and Claire Espey), Forthcoming in Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (2010)

Does Electoral Reform Increase (or Decrease) Political Equality? (with Melanie J. Springer), Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly (2010)

Whose Statehouse Democracy?: Policy Responsiveness to Poor vs. Rich Constituents in Poor vs. Rich States (with Gerald C. Wright), Who is Represented? (2010)

Public Responses to Health Disparities: How Group Cues Structure Support for Government Intervention (with Joe Soss, Bridget Booske, Angela Rohan, and Stephanie Roberts), Social Science Quarterly (2009)

Public Views on Determinants of Health, Interventions to Improve Health, and Priorities for Government (with Stephanie Roberts, Bridget Booske, and Angela Rohan), Wisconsin Medical Journal (2008)

Policy Process

Do State Policies Constrain Local Actors? The Impact of English Only Laws on Language Instruction in Public Schools (with Melissa Marschall and Jasmine Jenkins), Forthcoming in Publius: The Journal of Federalism (2011)

Federalism, Partisan Politics, and Shifting Support for State Flexibility: The Case of the U.S. State Children’s Health Insurance Program (with Colleen Grogan), Publius: The Journal of Federalism (2009)

Alternative Policy Designs and the Socio-Political Construction of Child Care (with Kate Tarrant and Michelle Neuman), Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, Special Issue: Child Care Politics (2007)

Same Policy Area, Different Politics: How the Characteristics of Policy Tools Alter the Determinants of Early Childhood Policymaking, Policy Studies Journal (2007)

Policy Analysis

Federal Food Assistance Programs: Part of the Early Childhood Obesity Solution or Part of the Problem? (with Rachel Kimbro), Health Affairs (2010)

Child Care Quality in Different State Policy Contexts (with Rebecca M. Ryan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2007)

POLICY COUNTS: Improving the Readiness of Children for School, Recommendations for State Policy (with Sharon Lynn Kagan), A Concept Paper Commissioned for the Policy Counts Project, Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003)