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David L. Weimer
David L. Weimer (Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy, Ph.D. Berkeley, 1978.) He has a joint appointment with the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public Affairs. His teaching interests include public policy, political economy, and research methods. He served as editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1985-89) and as president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2006). In 2008 he was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has long-standing interests in policy craft, including cost-benefit analysis, and institutional analysis and design. His recent work in the area of health policy includes studies of the role of report cards on organizational quality, the governance of the organ transplantation network, and the role of advisory committees in the regulatory process. His publications include: (with William Gormley) Organizational Report Cards (Harvard, 1999); (with Aidan Vining) Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice (Prentice Hall, 1989, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2011) and Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies (Georgetown University Press, 2009); The Political Economy of Property Rights: Institutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centralized Economies (Cambridge,1997), Institutional Design (Kluwer, 1995), and Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation (Georgetown University Press, 2010).
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Recent Publications
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David Weimer, and Simon F. Haeder, “You Can't Make Me Do It: State Implementation of Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.” Public Administration Review 2013.
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David Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, Charlene Harrington, William D. Spector, Heather Ladd, and Yue Li, “The Effect of State Regulatory Stringency on Nursing Home Quality,” Health Services Research 47, 5 (2012): 1791–1813.
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David Weimer, Stéphane Lavertu, Daniel Walters. "Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests: MEDCAC and Medicare Coverage Decisions." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 22, 1 (2012): 55–81.
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David Weimer, “The Universal and the Particular in Policy Analysis and Training.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 14, 1 (2012): 1–8
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David Weimer, Stéphane Lavertu. “Federal Advisory Committees, Policy Expertise, and the Approval of Drugs and Medical Devices at the FDA,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21, 2 (2011): 211–37.
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David Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, Jacqueline Zinn, David L. Weimer, and Richard Ahn, "Changes in Clinical and Hotel Expenditures following Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report Card," Medical Care 48, 10 (2010): 869–74
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David Weimer, "Stakeholder Governance of Organ Transplantation: A Desirable Model for Inducing Evidence-Based Medicine?" Regulation & Governance 4, 3 (2010): 281–302
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David Weimer, "Stakeholder Governance of Organ Transplantation: A Desirable Model for Inducing Evidence-Based Medicine?" Regulation & Governance 4:3 (2010), 281–302.
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David Weimer, John G. Richards and Aidan R. Vining “Aboriginal Performance on Standardized Tests: Evidence and Analysis from Provincial Schools in British Columbia,” Policy Studies Journal 38:1 (2010), 47-67.
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David Weimer, and Aidan R. Vining. Policy Analysis (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Longman, 2011).
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David Weimer. Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2010.
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David Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, Jacqueline Zinn and Heather Ladd. "Is There Evidence of Cream Skimming Among Nursing Homes following Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report Card?" The Gerontologist 49:6 (2009), 793–802.
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David Weimer, "Making Education Research More Policy Analytic," in Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, and David N. Plank, eds. Handbook of Education Policy Research. New York: Routledge (2009), 93–100.
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David Weimer, Mark A Sager. "Early Identification and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: Social and Fiscal Outcomes," Alzheimer’s & Dementia 5:3 (2009), 215–226.
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David Weimer, Aidan R. Vining, eds., Investing in the Disadvantages: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2009.
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David Weimer, Stéphane Lavertu: "Integrating Delegation into the Policy Theory Literature." Policy Studies Journal 37 (1, 2009): 93-102.
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David Weimer, Aidan R Vining and Randall K. Thomas: Cost-Benefit Analysis Involving Addictive Goods: Contingent Valuation to Estimate Willingness-to-Pay for Smoking Cessation," Health Economics 18:2 (2009), 181-202.
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David Weimer “Theories Of and In the Policy Process,” Policy Studies Journal 36, 4 (2008): 489-495
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David Weimer, Jaqueline Zinn, William Spector and Dana B. Mukamel. "Strategic Orientation and Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality Measures: An Application of the Miles and Snow Typology," Health Services Research 43:2 (2008), 598–615.
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David Weimer, Editor, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
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David Weimer, "Cost-Benefit Analysis," in Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2008).
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David Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, Heather Ladd, and Jaqueline Zinn. "Publication of Quality Report Cards and Trends in Reported Quality Measures in Nursing Homes," Health Services Research 43:4 (2008), 1244-1262.
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David Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li, William Spector, Jacqueline Zinn, and Laura Mosqueda. "Does Risk Adjustment of the CMS Quality Measures for Nursing Homes Matter?" Medical Care 46:5 (2008), 532-541.
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Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013
813 - Statistical Inference - Political Research
Instructors: David Weimer Field: Political Methodology
Section Number: 001
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