The Structure of Bureaucratic Decisions in the American States

Schneider, Saundra K.; Jacoby, William G.; Coggburn, Jerrell D.

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“…For this reason, the political liberalism of a state may be a better measure of ideological support for adding optional Medicaid programs than partisanship. The bureaucratic capacity measure, the number of FTEs per thousand people, was chosen to represent governing capacity because the literature suggests that program administrators demonstrate considerably more influence than governors or state legislatures in highly technical areas such as Medicaid policy (Schneider and Jacoby 1996;Schneider, Jacoby, and Coggburn 1997;E. Miller 2006).…”

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Why Do States Pursue Medicaid Home Care Opportunities? Explaining State Adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Home and Community-Based Services Initiatives

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2020

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) included new optional Medicaid home and communitybased (HCBS) initiatives: the Balancing Incentive Program, the 1915(k) Community First Choice personal care benefit, and the revised 1915(i) state plan benefit. This study identifies political, economic, programmatic, and intergovernmental factors that facilitated or impeded state participation in these ACA programs. Longitudinal and cross-sectional regression analyses were used to model state adoption from 2011 to 2015. Findings indicate that political ideology, economic factors, and existing HCBS policies were the most important determinants of whether a state adopted the ACA's HCBS opportunities. This research has implications for federal officials interested in spurring states to achieve greater rebalancing of Medicaid long-term services and supports toward HCBS.

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Why Do States Pursue Medicaid Home Care Opportunities? Explaining State Adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Home and Community-Based Services Initiatives

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2020

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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“…A Mokken scale is a probabilistic formulation of a cumulative scale (Mokken, 1971). It has been used extensively in psychological research (see Molenaar, 1983;Kingma and Reuvekamp, 1984;Kingma and TenVergert, 1985;Kingma, 1987, 1988), but less frequently in political science research (Scarritt, 1986;Jacoby, 1994Jacoby, , 1995Schneider, Jacoby, and Coggburn, 1997). 9 Table 1 summarizes the results of our MSA of government respect for four physical integrity rights during the period 1981-1996.…”

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Measuring the Level, Pattern, and Sequence of Government Respect for Physical Integrity Rights

1999

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We employ a polychotomous version of Mokken Scaling Analysis to create an improved measure of government respect for a subset of human rights known as physical integrity rights. The scale we produce is shown to be unidimensional, and it contains information about the level, pattern, and sequence of government respect for these rights. No previous measure has explicitly addressed the issue of sequence of government respect for human rights. The sequence, or ordering, of respect for physical integrity rights that we find tells us which rights are more commonly respected (the rights not to be killed or disappeared) and which ones are more commonly violated (the rights not to be imprisoned arbitrarily or tortured). Our findings improve upon previous studies that have assumed unidimensionality and that have made a priori assertions of patterns of respect. They also stand in contrast to McCormick and Mitchell's (1997) claim that government respect for physical integrity rights is necessarily a multidimensional phenomenon.Almost all empirical human rights research has focused on government respect for one category of human rights, physical integrity rights, as the main concept of theoretical interest. Physical integrity rights are the entitlements individuals have in international law to be free from arbitrary physical harm and coercion by their government. 1 Human rights violations in this category include extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances, and political imprisonment. As in many other subfields of political science, a debate over how to measure the main concept of theoretical interest has hindered the cumulation of findings. The most frequently used measure of government human rights practices is the Political Terror Scale (PTS), a fivecategory scale measuring the amount of government violation of physical integrity rights. While the PTS represents an improvement over previous measures of government respect for physical integrity, it too has certain limitations that can be overcome. Using Mokken Scaling Analysis (MSA), a cumulative scaling technique, on disaggregated information about government respect for particular physical International Studies Quarterly (1999) 43, 407-417

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“…This program is available from www.rummlab.com.au; e-mail: rummlab@arach.net.au. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpg002 (1999), Davenport (1995), Jacoby (1994Jacoby ( , 1995, Mokken (1971), Richards, et al (2001), Scarritt (1996), Schneider et al (1997), Stokman (1977), Van Schuur and Vis (2000), and Zin et al (1992.…”

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Mokken Scale Analysis: Between the Guttman Scale and Parametric Item Response Theory

Schuur¹

2003

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This article introduces a model of ordinal unidimensional measurement known as Mokken scale analysis. Mokken scaling is based on principles of Item Response Theory (IRT) that originated in the Guttman scale. I compare the Mokken model with both Classical Test Theory (reliability or factor analysis) and parametric IRT models (especially with the one-parameter logistic model known as the Rasch model). Two nonparametric probabilistic versions of the Mokken model are described: the model of Monotone Homogeneity and the model of Double Monotonicity. I give procedures for dealing with both dichotomous and polytomous data, along with two scale analyses of data from the World Values Study that demonstrate the usefulness of the Mokken model.

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The Structure of Bureaucratic Decisions in the American States

Cited by 24 publications

References 22 publications

Why Do States Pursue Medicaid Home Care Opportunities? Explaining State Adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Home and Community-Based Services Initiatives

Why Do States Pursue Medicaid Home Care Opportunities? Explaining State Adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Home and Community-Based Services Initiatives

Measuring the Level, Pattern, and Sequence of Government Respect for Physical Integrity Rights

Mokken Scale Analysis: Between the Guttman Scale and Parametric Item Response Theory

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