Kristin A. Goss, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science
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- Education:
- PhD, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2003
- A.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1999
- Master of Public Policy, with faculty award, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1996
- Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 1987
- Specialties:
- American Politics
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Kristin A. Goss joined Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2005 as an assistant professor of public policy studies and political science. Her research focuses on why people do (or don't) participate in political life and how their participation or non-participation affects public policymaking. At Duke, she is working with Professor Joel Fleishman to expand our understanding of philanthropic foundations' impact on public policy.
- Representative Publications
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- K.A. Goss, Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (September, 2006), Princeton University Press .
- K.A. Goss and Theda Skocpol, Changing Agendas: The Impact of Feminism on American Politics, in Gender and Social Capital, edited by Brenda O'Neill and Elisabeth Gidengil (2006), New York: Routledge .
- K.A. Goss, Policy, Politics, and Paradox: The Institutional Origins of the Great American Gun War, Fordham Law Review, vol. 73 no. 2 (2004), pp. 681-714 .
- K.A. Goss, Rethinking the Political Participation Paradigm: The Case of Women & Gun Control, Women & Politics, vol. 25 no. 4 (2003), pp. 83-118 .