Virginia Gray

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Virginia Gray is affiliated with the following schools: Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Virginia Gray 's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Virginia Gray is an American political scientist, currently the Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studies public policy and interest groups with a particular focus on U.S. state politics. Her work on policy diffusion, which concerns how innovation in policies within one region can lead to adoptions of that policy by other regions, has been cited as foundational in developing that research topic.

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Virginia Gray 's Published Works

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Published Works

Innovation in the States: A Diffusion Study (1973) (1024)
The Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Lobbying Communities in the American States (1996) (435)
Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis (1990) (230)
The Population Ecology of Gucci Gulch, or the Natural Regulation of Interest Group Numbers in the American States (1995) (210)
A Niche Theory of Interest Representation (1996) (195)
A Neopluralist Perspective on Research on Organized Interests (2004) (186)
Public Opinion, Public Policy, and Organized Interests in the American States (2004) (124)
Interest Group Politics and Economic Growth in the U.S. States (1988) (117)
Models of Comparative State Politics: A Comparison of Cross-Sectional and Time Series Analyses (1976) (102)
The Density of State Interest Group Systems (1993) (93)
To Lobby Alone or in a Flock (1998) (85)
The Institutionalization of State Communities of Organized Interests (2001) (82)
Federal Policy Activity and the Mobilization of State Lobbying Organizations (2009) (80)
The Expression of Density Dependence in State Communities of Organized Interests (2001) (78)
How some rules just don't matter: The regulation of lobbyists (1997) (78)
Interest Representation and Democratic Gridlock (1995) (75)
External Limits and Internal Determinants of State Public Policy (1991) (75)
Reconceptualizing Pac Formation (1997) (72)
Life in a Niche: Mortality Anxiety Among Organized Interests in the American States (1997) (72)
The Demography of Interest Organization Communities (1995) (69)
Battle Cries on the Family Front@@@The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground.@@@The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment.@@@Feminism and the New Right: Conflict Over the American Family. (1984) (66)
The Diversity of State Interest Group Systems (1993) (62)
Bias in the Heavenly Chorus (2004) (61)
Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy (2005) (61)
The Dominance of Institutions in Interest Representation: A Test of Seven Explanations (1998) (59)
State Lobbying Regulations and Their Enforcement: Implications for the Diversity of Interest Communities (1998) (58)
Sisyphus Meets the Borg (2005) (55)
A Note on Competition and Turnout in the American States (1976) (45)
Public Opinion, Organized Interests, and Policy Congruence in Initiative and Noninitiative U.S. States (2009) (45)
Environmental Limits on the Diversity of State Interest Organization Systems: A Population Ecology Interpretation (1996) (40)
Living in the Moment: Lags, Leads, and the Link Between Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy* (2004) (39)
Representational Concentration and Interest Community Size: A Population Ecology Interpretation (1998) (39)
Reconsidering The Counter-Mobilization Hypothesis: Health Policy Lobbying In The American States (2005) (36)
Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions (2004) (36)
Where Do Policy Ideas Come From? A Study of Minnesota Legislators and Staffers (2000) (36)
State lobby registration data: The anomalous case of Florida (and Minnesota too!) (1999) (35)
Policy Attention in State and Nation: Is Anyone Listening to the Laboratories of Democracy? (2011) (33)
Generalist Interest Organizations and Interest System Density: A Test of the Competitive Exclusion Hypothesis (2012) (31)
Incrementing Toward Nowhere: Universal Health Care Coverage in the States (2010) (31)
Mayflies and Old Bulls: Organization Persistence in State Interest Communities (2004) (31)
Public preferences and organized interests in health policy: state pharmacy assistance programs as innovations. (2007) (30)
Copy and Paste Lawmaking: Legislative Professionalism and Policy Reinvention in the States (2018) (29)
Party Competition, Party Polarization, and the Changing Demand for Lobbying in the American States (2015) (28)
Public Opinion and Policy Change in the American States (1989) (24)
The determinants of public policy (1980) (24)
The Construction of Interest Communities: Distinguishing Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models (2008) (24)
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi‐State Lobbying in State Interest Communities (2002) (23)
Expenditures and Innovation as Dimensions of "Progressivism": A Note on the American States (1974) (22)
Explaining the Anomalous Growth of Public Sector Lobbying in the American States, 1997-2007 (2013) (22)
Temporal Change in the Density of State Interest Communities (2015) (21)
The political management of managed care: explaining variations in state health maintenance organization regulations. (2007) (20)
Understanding the Relationship between Health PACs and Health Lobbying in the American States (2008) (20)
Demographic Opportunities, Collective Action, Competitive Exclusion, and the Crowded Room: Lobbying Forms among Institutions (2004) (20)
Captured Development (2017) (19)
Rejoinder to “Comment” by Jack L. Walker (1973) (19)
Single-issue voting: Elite-mass linkages (1982) (19)
Interest Group System Density and Diversity: A Research Update (1994) (18)
The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities. Assessment and Agenda (2015) (17)
Minnesota Politics and Government (1999) (17)
American states and cities (1991) (16)
What’s on the Table? The Content of State Policy Agendas (2006) (15)
How Much Do Interest Groups Influence State Economic Growth? (1989) (15)
1 Mayflies and Old Bulls : Demographic Volatility and Experience in State Interest Communities (2003) (15)
Organized Interests and Political Extortion: A Test of the Fetcher Bill Hypothesis* (2005) (15)
The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities (2015) (14)
The Density of State Interest-Communities: Do Regional Variables Matter? (1998) (14)
What Happens When Insurers Make Insurance Laws? State Legislative Agendas and the Occupational Makeup of Government (2019) (12)
Interest Groups and Health Care Reform across the United States (2013) (11)
An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach (2015) (11)
State Interest Group Research and the Mixed Legacy of Belle Zeller (2002) (10)
Economic change and the supply of interest representation in the American States (2013) (10)
Mediated Density (2011) (9)
THE USE OF TIME SERIES ANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF PUBLIC POLICY (1973) (9)
Policy Agendas, Party Control, and PAC Contributions in the American States (2010) (8)
Understanding Interest System Diversity: Health Interest Communities in the American States (2007) (8)
California Dreaming: Replicating the ESA Model, Unusual Cases, and Comparative State Political Analysis (2001) (8)
The irresistible force meets the immovable object: Minnesota's moralistic political culture confronts Jesse Ventura (2000) (7)
Corporatism Without Labor? Industrial Policymaking in the American States (1991) (7)
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research (2010) (5)
The Politics and Economics of Corporate Subsidies in the 21st Century (2014) (5)
The Effect of Party Competition on State Policy, a Reformulation: Organizational Survival (1974) (5)
On the political origins of bias in the heavenly chorus (2016) (4)
Federalism and Health Care (1994) (4)
Determinants of Public Policy: Cities, States, Nations (1977) (4)
The Organizational Politics of Criminal Justice: Policy in Context.@@@The Policy Dilemma: Federal Crime Policy and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, 1968-1978. (1982) (3)
The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation (2015) (2)
In Search of the Master Science: Population Policy in the Seventies@@@Power and Choice@@@Population Policymaking in the American States@@@Population Dynamics and International Violence@@@Population and Politics@@@Research in the Politics of Population@@@Political Issues in American Population Policy (1975) (2)
Policy Content on the U.S. Supreme Court: A View from the States (2017) (1)
The Underpopulated Interest Communities of the South: Partially Decomposing a Dummy Variable (2008) (1)
Minnesota politics & government (1999) (1)
On the political origins of bias in the heavenly chorus (2015) (0)
The Power of Bad Habits: How the Real Estate Industry Lobbied Successfully Against its Own Interests in the Face of the Foreclosure Crisis (2012) (0)
Replication Data for: What Happens When Insurers Make the Insurance Laws? State Legislative Agendas and the Occupational Makeup of Government (2018) (0)
Multi-State Lobbying in State Interest Communities (2016) (0)
CONCLUSION BY THE SYMPOSIUM CO‐EDITOR (1979) (0)
Bureaucracy, Innovation, and Public Policy . By Downs George W. Jr. (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, 1976. Pp. xiii + 150. $14.00.) (1978) (0)
State Interest Group Research and the (2016) (0)
The Political Economy of Public Service Options (1981) (0)
FEDERALISM, POLICY, AND INNOVATION IN CORRECTIONS (1981) (0)
Silent Hattie Speaks: The Personal Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway . Edited by Kincaid Diane D.. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979. Pp. ix + 151. $16.95.) (1980) (0)
What Do Health PACs Purchase? Policy and Access in State Interest Communities (2008) (0)
Whose Influence (and Money) Matters in State Health Care Reform (2009) (0)
and Mary Policy and PACs Mediated Density : The Indirect Relationship between U . S . State Public (2011) (0)
Introduction (1981) (0)
I choose you! Interest group endorsements in the 2018 US House midterm elections (2020) (0)
I choose you! Interest group endorsements in the 2018 US House midterm elections (2020) (0)
Population Policy Making in the American States: Issues and Processes.@@@Political Issues in U.S. Population Policy. (1976) (0)

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