Cocked, Locked, and Loaded: An Analysis of the Five Policy Regimes of Concealed Carry on College Campuses

LaPlant, Kristina M.; Seckinger, Deryl Mack; Lee, Keith E.; LaPlant, James T.

doi:10.1111/polp.12389

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“…Similarly, LaPlant and others (2021) examined the factors that can predict whether states adopted campus carry policies or not. They found that state liberalism, the extent of the gun culture in a given state, and number of minorities in the state, all had an impact.…”

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Taking stock: The contribution of policy studies to our understanding of gun policy

Schwartz

2023

Politics & Policy

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In the summer of 2022, the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas once again thrust firearms policy onto the public agenda and opened an agenda window for bipartisan gun reforms in the Senate. Almost simultaneously, the Supreme Court struck down restrictions on concealed carry in New York state in the first major ruling on Second Amendment Rights since MacDonald v. Chicago. Given the salience of firearms policy to contemporary policy debates, it is important to take stock of how the discipline of policy studies has contributed to our understanding of this pressing area of policy. As we see, scholars of policy studies have largely left discussions of firearms policy to disciplines like criminology, sociology, economics, and public health. Despite this, a small group of scholars has used the theoretical toolkit of our discipline to better understand this issue. This short review article will present the contribution of policy studies to our understanding of firearms policy from Sandy Hook to Uvalde and provide suggestions for areas where the discipline can contribute to our understanding of this vitally important regulatory issue. Most importantly, more work is needed to develop robust and multidimensional evaluations of firearms policies. Related Articles Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. 2019. “Understanding Gun Violence: Public Health vs. Public Policy.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 38(3): 788–95. https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22141. Haider‐Markel, Donald P., and Mark R. Joselyn. 2017. “Special Issue Editors' Introduction: Gun Politics.” Social Science Quarterly 98(2): 377–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12415.

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Taking stock: The contribution of policy studies to our understanding of gun policy

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2023

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“…LaPlant et al. (2021) explore the five types of policy regimes on campus carry laws across the 50 states from strict prohibition by law to concealed carry on college campuses being fully allowed by law. The analysis reveals that an interaction term of the South and the percentage minority population (percentage African American + percentage Hispanic) is a strong predictor of the adoption of campus carry laws.…”

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Introduction to the symposium: A reexamination of southern distinctiveness through the lens of firearm policy

LaPlant

Morris

Shields

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective: This article reviews the extant literature on southern politics and gun/firearm ownership in the South as a precursor to three symposium papers. Methods: We employ standard literature review techniques to synthesize two significant bodies of literature. The latter part of the article introduces the three papers in the symposium. Results: We find that the papers in this symposium share two common themes: continued southern distinctiveness, and the importance of the role of race in southern politics and policymaking. Conclusion:We find support for a hypothesis that the South remains distinctive as a region in the policy arena of gun ownership/firearm policy.The political, social, cultural, and economic role of firearms in American society has been a flash point for decades, and recently has become a significant point of contention. Arguments tend to coalesce around differing definitions and interpretations of the Second Amendment, personal freedom, community safety, personal security, and a host of other values. As Stone (1997) so aptly illustrates, differences in value definition may be found at the root of nearly all policy disagreements. As hyperpartisanship has combined with an increase in mass shootings, economic uncertainty, racial tensions, and a number of high-profile incidents involving gun violence, the issue of firearm policy has been thrust firmly into the public spotlight.Like many policy arenas, the nature of the policy problem is not felt equally across the nation, nor are the policy choices to address those problems the same across states. State political culture, history, political control, and a range of other factors have led to a broad patchwork of state policies regarding firearms, all against a backdrop of limited federal law on the topic. States have thus taken very different positions on firearm ownership and the means through which firearms are regulated (or not regulated) within the states. In this sense, states are truly "policy laboratories" (Dror, 1968). While state variation is clearly evident, a less-examined question concerns the degree to which regional policy differences can be detected.While regional studies have largely faded from scholarly agendas, a clear exception is the region of the American South. While studies of most regions in the nation have fallen into disfavor, regional studies of the South have seen something of a resurgence in the past two decades. A field of study led by V.O. Key's seminal Southern Politics in State and Nation (1949), students, and scholars of southern politics has grappled

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Trigger Warnings: From Sword Fights to Campus Carry in Higher Education

Somers

Taylor

Soucy

2022

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

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Cocked, Locked, and Loaded: An Analysis of the Five Policy Regimes of Concealed Carry on College Campuses

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Taking stock: The contribution of policy studies to our understanding of gun policy

Taking stock: The contribution of policy studies to our understanding of gun policy

Introduction to the symposium: A reexamination of southern distinctiveness through the lens of firearm policy

Trigger Warnings: From Sword Fights to Campus Carry in Higher Education

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