Citation

LaPlant KM, Seckinger DM, Lee Jr. KE, LaPlant JT. Polit. Policy 2021; 49(1): 61-86.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Policy Studies Organization (USA), Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/polp.12389

PMID

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Abstract

What are the predictors of the five types of policy regimes on campus carry across the 50 U.S. states? This study explores the roles of problem environment, gun culture, state policy liberalism, region, and racial politics to answer that research question. We argue that morality policy, the role of region in the adoption of public policy, and the southern subculture of violence are useful theoretical lenses for examining campus carry. We find that the problem environment--measured as gun murders per 100,000 population and the violent crime rate on college campuses--is negatively related to the adoption of campus carry policy regimes, while the gun culture (measured as gun purchases per capita and the total number of gun-related interest groups) is positively related to the adoption of campus carry. State policy liberalism is a significant predictor of the type of policy regime adopted across the states, and the interaction term of percentage minority population and the South is a powerful predictor of adopting campus carry. The findings highlight the extant significance of the role of region, but it is conditioned by racial politics in the case of campus carry. Morality policy suggests that the rapid spread of concealed carry on college campuses may have hit a ceiling. Related Articles Butz, Adam M., Michael P. Fix, and Joshua L. Mitchell. 2015. "Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Stand-Your-Ground Laws." Politics & Policy 43 (3): 347-377. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12116 Joslyn, Mark R., and Donald P. Haider-Markel. 2018. "Motivated Innumeracy: Estimating the Size of the Gun Owner Population and its Consequences for Opposition to Gun Restrictions." Politics & Policy 46 (6): 827-850. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12276 Smith-Walter, Aaron, Holly L. Peterson, Michael D. Jones, and Ashley Nicole Reynolds Marshall. "Gun Stories: How Evidence Shapes Firearm Policy in the United States." Politics & Policy 44 (6): 1053-1088. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12187

Language: en

Keywords

Adopción de políticas; Campus Carry; Comparative Politics; Gun Policy; Innovación de políticas; Morality Policy; Policy Adoption; Policy Innovation; Policy Regimes; Política comparada; Política de armas; Política de moralidad; Política de seguridad y defensa; Política racial; Política regional / regionalización; Porte de armas en los campus; Racial Politics; Regímenes políticos; Regional Policy/Regionalization; Security and Defense Policy; Southern United States; Sur de Estados Unidos; 地区政策/地区化; 安全与防卫政策; 政策创新; 政策制度; 政策采纳; 枪支政策; 校园持枪; 比较政治; 种族政治; 美国南部; 道德政策