Scott Robinson, associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, and the Bush School’s Executive Associate Dean Arnold Vedlitz have been awarded the 2014 Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Public Administration Section.  Vedlitz and Robinson were honored for their paper entitled “Organizational Trust and Risk Communication: Trust in the […]

ISTPP Director Vedlitz, along with ISTPP Fellows Douglas Oxley and Sammy Zahran, and co-authors Jeremy Brooks and Charles Lindsey, have published their article, “Abnormal Daily Temperature and Concern about Climate Change Across the United States,” in Review of Policy Research. In this study, the researchers sought to examine the relationship of environmental conditions on attitudes toward […]

ISTPP Director Vedlitz, along with ISTPP Fellows B. Dan Woods and Douglas Oxley, have published their article, “The Effect of Persuasive Messages on Policy Problem Recognition,” in Policy Studies Journal. In this manuscript, the authors extend current theories about how individual behavior leads to policy recognition through an embedded experiment in a national survey. Specifically, they […]