Charles Shipan | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Charles R. Shipan

J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences; Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy)
(734) 615-6929 [email protected]

Charles R. Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences, with an appointment in the Department of Political Science and a courtesy appointment at the Ford School.

Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Shipan served on the faculty at the University of Iowa. He has also held visiting positions at the Brookings Institution, Trinity College (Dublin), the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, the London School of Economics, and Australian National University, and most recently was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen.

He has written several books, including Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don’t), Designing Judicial Review, and Deliberate Discretion?, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on political institutions and public policy. He is currently engaged in studies that examine whether elected politicians influence the regulation of nursing homes in the US states, how politics and elections affect government responses to the opioid crisis, and whether political institutions constrain or enhance environmental policymaking in autocracies.

Educational background

  • PhD in political science, Stanford University
  • BA in chemistry, Carleton College

Recent publications

  • "How Many Major Laws Delegate to Federal Agencies? (Almost) All of Them." 2022. Political Science Research and Methods. Coauthored with Pamela J. Clouser McCann.
  • "Where is Presidential Power? Action, Expectations, and Executive Discretion." 2022. British Journal of Political Science. Coauthored with Kenneth Lowande.
  • "Policy Diffusion: The Issue Definition Stage." 2021. American Journal of Political Science 65 (1): 21-35. Coauthored with Fabrizio Gilardi and Bruno Wüest.
  • "Why Bad Policies Spread (and Good Ones Don’t)." 2021. Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with Craig Volden.
  • "How Many Major Laws Delegate to Federal Agencies? (Almost) All of Them." Forthcoming. Political Science Research and Methods. Coauthored with Pamela J. Clouser McCann.
  • "Where is Presidential Power? Action, Expectations, and Executive Discretion." Forthcoming. British Journal of Political Science. Coauthored with Kenneth Lowande.
  • "Policy Diffusion: The Issue Definition Stage." 2021. American Journal of Political Science 65 (1): 21-35. Coauthored with Fabrizio Gilardi and Bruno Wüest.
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