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Charles Shipan


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J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science
Professor of Public Policy
Ph.D. Stanford

7764 Haven Hall
(734) 615-9140
cshipan@umich.edu
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Chuck Shipan is the Ira J. and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Science at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Shipan served on the faculty at the University of Iowa and held positions as a research fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin. His most recent book, Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy (co-authored with John D. Huber), received the Richard F. Fenno Prize, the William Riker Award, and the Gregory Luebbert Award from the American Political Science Association. Shipan is also the author of Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy and has written numerous articles and book chapters on political institutions and public policy. He is currently engaged in a large-scale study of the diffusion of antismoking laws in U.S. states and cities and an examination of why some public policies have longer lives than others. Shipan received a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.

Selected Publications

  • Deliberate Discretion? The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy. 2002. New York: Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with John D. Huber.
  • Designing Judicial Review: Interest Groups, Congress, and Communications Policy. 1997. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Independence and the Irish Environmental Protection Agency: A Comparative Assessment. 2006. Dublin: The Policy Institute.
  • Bottom up Policy Diffusion: The Spread of Antismoking Laws from U.S. Cities to States. Forthcoming 2006. American Journal of Political Science. Co-authored with Craig Volden
  • Regulatory Regimes, Agency Actions, and the Conditional Nature of Political Influence. 2004. American Political Science Review 93 (August): 467-480.
  • Party Differentiation in Congress. 2002. Legislative Studies Quarterly 27 (1): 33-61. Coauthored with William R. Lowry.

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