David L. Weimer
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 262-5713; (608) 263-2325
Fax: (608) 265-3233
E-mail: weimer@lafollette.wisc.edu
PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS
July 2012 – present
July 2000 – June 2012
Aug. 2008 – July 2015
Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2007
July 2000 – June 2005
Aug. 2000 – July 2002
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy
Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs
Field Chair, Political Methodology
Field Chair, Political Methodology
Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professorship
Field Chair, American Politics
July 1996 – June 2000
July 1991 – June 1993
July 1989 – present
July 1986 – June 2000
July 1982 – June 1986
July 1982 – June 1989
Jan. 1984 – June 1984
July 1978 – June 1982
July 1977 – June 1978
University of Rochester
Acting Director, Public Policy Analysis Program
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science
Research Fellow, Rochester Center for Economic Research
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Associate Professor of Political Science
Deputy Director, Public Policy Analysis Program
Acting Director, Public Policy Analysis Program
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Instructor, Department of Political Science
Sept. 1994 – Aug. 1995
Lingnan College, Hong Kong
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences
Founding Director, Centre for Public Policy Studies
Sept. 1989 – June 1990
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs
June 1980 – June 1981
U.S. Department of Energy
Economist, Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis
Sept. 1976 – June 1977
Jan. 1975 – March 1976
University of California–Berkeley
Teaching Fellow, Graduate School of Public Policy
Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Public Policy
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EDUCATION
1978
1976
1975
University of California–Berkeley
Ph.D., Public Policy
M.A., Statistics
M.P.P., Public Policy
1973
1973
University of Rochester
B.A., Urban Studies (Phi Beta Kappa)
B.S., Engineering and Applied Science (Tau Beta Pi Prize)
OTHER APPOINTMENTS AND SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, September 2015–July 2016
Daniel Louis and Genevieve Rustvold Goldy Fellowship, La Follette School of Public Affairs, 2014
Member, Board of Directors, Iwamoto North American Foundation for Go, 2014–present
President, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2013
Coach, Policy Solutions Challenge USA (regional and national champions), 2013
Editorial Board, Journal of Public Policy, 2013–present
Member, Wisconsin Criminal Justice Coordinating Council’s Evidence-Based Practices Subcommittee,
August 2013–September 2014
Member, Department of Energy, Global Threat Reduction Initiative Expert Panel on Nuclear
Replacement, May 2013–May 2014
With Stéphane Lavertu and Daniel Walters, winner 2012 Radin Award for the Best Article in the Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2013
Vice President and President-Elect, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2012
Member, Cost-Benefit Analysis Methods Working Group, Vera Institute of Justice, 2012–2014
Member, Expert Review Panel for Pew Charitable Trusts Results First 50-State Project, 2010–2014
Finalist, Berkeley Electronic Press 2010 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, 2011
Reviewer, Vera Institute of Justice, WSIPP Cost-Benefit Project, 2010
Visiting Professor, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 22–June 7, 2009
Editorial Board, Evaluation & the Health Professions, 2009–present
Editorial Board, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2009–present
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 2008–present
Inaugural Board of Directors, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, September 2008–August 2010
Committee on Strengthening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood
Interventions, National Academies, September 2008–December 2009
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Award Committee, Peter H. Rossi Award for
Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation, 2007–2012
American Political Science Association, Gaus Award Committee, October 2006–September 2007
Committee on Radiation Source Use and Replacement, National Research Council, July 2006–May 2007
President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
President-Elect, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
Program Chair, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
Advisor, Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, 2004
Chair, College of Letters and Science, Partners in Giving Campaign, 2003
Member, Committee on the Future of the Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy
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Analysis and Management, 2003
Chairman of the Board of Directors, American Go Association, August 2002–October 2003
Editorial Board, Policy Studies Journal, 2003–present
External Examiner, Lingnan University, 2002–present
Participant, European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions, Torino, Italy, March 22–27,
2002, Workshop 18: The Politics of Biomedicine: Explaining and Evaluating Policy Design
Vernon Prize Committee, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002 and 1997
Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Property and Liberty,” Indianapolis, Indiana, October 25–28, 2001
Reviewer, Healthcare Technology and Decision Sciences Study Section, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, June 7–8, 2001
Honorary Visiting Scholar, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 22–30, 2000
Chair, Review Committee for the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, September 2000–
June 2001
Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 1998–present
Editorial Board, Journal of Public Affairs Education, 1998–2009
Chair, American Political Science Association’s Lasswell Dissertation Prize Committee, 1998
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s Dissertation Prize Committee, 1996 (Chair),
1994 and 1995
Scholar in Residence, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy,
June 21–July 20, 1996
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Peking University,
17 December 1992– 5 January 1993
Distinguished Public Policy Lecturer, Public Policy Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 19–20 March 1992
Director, 1991 U.S. Go Congress
Editorial Board, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, July 1989–January 2003
Editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, July 1985–June 1989
Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, October 1988–October 1992
Committee on State and Federal Roles in Energy Emergency Preparedness, National Research Council,
April–December 1988
Academic Outreach Advisory Committee, Bureau of Mines, May 1988–June 1989
Chevron Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University,
10–14 March 1986
Bridging Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and Dentistry,
University of Rochester, January–June 1983
National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, September 1973–June 1977
Graduate Intern, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, June–August 1974
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Edited Volumes
David L. Weimer, Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation
(Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2010).
David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, Editors, Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits
and Costs of Social Policies (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2009).
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David L. Weimer, Editor, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy (New York: John Wiley & Sons,
2008).
William T. Gormley, Jr. and David L. Weimer, Organizational Report Cards (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1999).
David L. Weimer, Editor, Political Economy of Property Rights: Institutional Change and Credibility in
the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Anthony E. Boardman, David H. Greenberg, Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, Cost-Benefit
Analysis: Concepts and Practice (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996, 2001,
2006, 2011). [2nd edition published in Romanian by ARC Publishing House and in Japanese by
Pearson Education Japan]
David L. Weimer, Editor, Institutional Design (Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic, 1995).
David L. Weimer, Editor, Policy Analysis and Economics: Developments, Tensions, Prospects (Boston,
Mass.: Kluwer Academic, 1991).
David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice (Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey: Longman, 1989, 1992, 1999, 2005, 2011). [2nd edition published in Hungarian by
Aula Publishing House and in Ukrainian by Osnovy Publishers; 3rd edition published in Chinese
by Shanghai Translation Publishing House (PRC) and Weber Publication (Taiwan) and in
Romanian by ARC Publishing House]
George Horwich and David L. Weimer, Editors, Responding to International Oil Crises (Washington,
D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research, 1988).
George Horwich and David L. Weimer, Oil Price Shocks, Market Response, and Contingency Planning
(Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1984).
David L. Weimer, The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Planning, Implementation and Analysis (Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982).
David L. Weimer, Improving Prosecution? The Inducement and Implementation of Innovations for
Prosecution Management (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980).
Articles and Book Chapters
Dara H. Sorkin, Alpesh Amin, David L. Weimer, Joseph Sharit, Heather Ladd and Dana B. Mukamel,
“Rationale and Study Protocol for the Nursing Home Compare Plus (NHCPlus) Randomized
Controlled Trial: A Personalized Decision Aid for Patients Transitioning from the Hospital to a
Skilled-Nursing Facility,” Contemporary Clinical Trials (forthcoming).
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “The Challenges of Fractionalized Property Rights in PublicPrivate Hybrid Organizations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Regulation & Governance
(forthcoming).
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Simon F. Haeder and David L. Weimer, “Inching Towards Universal Coverage: State-Federal Healthcare
Programs in Historical Perspective,” Journal of Policy History 27:4 (2015), 746–770.
Simon F. Haeder, David L. Weimer and Dana B. Mukamel, “Narrow Networks and the Affordable Care
Act,” Journal of the American Medical Association 314:7 (2015), 669–670.
David L. Weimer, “The Thin Reed: Accommodating Weak Evidence for Critical Parameters in CostBenefit Analysis,” Risk Analysis 35:6 (2015), 1101–1113.
Aidan R. Vining, Claude Laurin, and David L. Weimer, “The Longer-Run Performance Effects of
Agencification: Theory and Evidence from Québec Agencies,” Journal of Public Policy 35:2
(2015), 193–222.
Simon F. Haeder and David L. Weimer, “You Can't Make Me Do It, but I Could Be Persuaded: A
Federalism Perspective on the Affordable Care Act,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
40:2 (2015), 281–323.
Robert H. Haveman and David L. Weimer, “Public Policy Induced Changes in Employment: Valuation
Issues for Benefit-Cost Analysis,” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 6:1 (2015), 112–153.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Policy Analysis,” in James D. Wright, ed., International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Ed. Vol. 18 (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015),
273–280.
Simon F. Haeder, David L. Weimer, and Dana B. Mukamel, “California Hospital Networks Are
Narrower In Marketplace Than In Commercial Plans, But Access And Quality Are Similar,”
Health Affairs 34:5 (2015), 741–748.
David L. Weimer, “La Evolución del Análisis de Políticas en Estados Unidos: Cuatro Fuentes de
Demanda,” Foro Inernacional 40:2 (2015), 540–575. (Translated from English)
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Cost-Benefit Analyses of Economic Policies (2000s–Present),”
in Robert Wright and Thomas Zeiler, eds., Guide to U.S. Economic Policy (Thousand Oaks, CA:
CQ Press, 2014), 391– 401.
Dana B. Mukamel, Simon F. Haeder, and David L. Weimer, “Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to
Health Care Quality: The Impacts of Regulation and Report Cards,” Annual Review of Public
Health 35 (2013), 477–497.
Simon F. Haeder and David L. Weimer, “You Can’t Make Me Do It! State Implementation of Insurance
Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act,” Public Administration Review 73:1 (2013), S34–S47.
Dana B. Mukamel, Yue Li, David L. Weimer, William D. Spector, Lauren G. Bailey, and Charlene
Harrington, “What Factors Contribute to Successful Appeals of Nursing Homes’ Deficiencies in
the Informal Dispute Resolution Process?” Journal of the American Medical Directors
Association 14:2 (2013), 101–104.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application
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of Benefit-Cost Analysis to Social Policy,” in Scott Farrow and Richard O. Zerbe, Jr., eds.,
Principles and Standards for Benefit-Cost Analysis (Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013),
25–62.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Charlene Harrington,William D. Spector, Heather Ladd, and Yue
Li, “The Effect of State Regulatory Stringency on Nursing Home Quality,” Health Services
Research 47:5 (2012), 1791–1813. (Published as one of the Best of the 2012 AcademyHealth
Annual Research Meeting.)
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Yue Li, Lauren Bailey, William D. Spector, and Charlene
Harrington, “Nursing Homes’ Appeals of Deficiencies: The Informal Dispute Resolution
Process,” Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 13:6 (2012), 512–516.
David L. Weimer, “The Universal and the Particular in Policy Analysis and Training,” Journal of
Comparative Policy Analysis 14:1 (2012), 1–8.
Stéphane Lavertu, Daniel Walters, and David L. Weimer, "Scientific Expertise and the Balance of
Political Interests: MEDCAC and Medicare Coverage Decisions," Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory 22:1 (2012), 55–81. (Winner 2012 Radin Award for the
Best Article in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory)
Lara Rosen, Aidan R. Vining, and David L. Weimer, “Addressing the Shortage of Kidneys for
Transplant: Purchase and Allocation Through Chain Auctions,” Journal of Health Politics,
Policy and Law 36:4 (2011), 717–755.
Dana B Mukamel, Yue Li, Charlene Harrington, William D. Spector, David L. Weimer, and Lauren
Bailey, “Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes?” Medical Care 49:6
(2011), 529–534.
Stéphane Lavertu and David L. Weimer, “Federal Advisory Committees, Policy Expertise, and the
Approval of Drugs and Medical Devices at the FDA,” Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory 21:2 (2011), 211–237.
Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, Jacqueline Zinn, David L. Weimer, and Richard Ahn, “Changes in
Clinical and Hotel Expenditures following Publication of the Nursing Home Compare Report
Card,” Medical Care 48:10 (2010), 869–874.
David L. Weimer, “Stakeholder Governance of Organ Transplantation: A Desirable Model for Inducing
Evidence-Based Medicine?” Regulation & Governance 4:3 (2010), 281–302.
Jacqueline Zinn, David L. Weimer, Dana B. Mukamel, and William Spector, "Factors Influencing
Nursing Home Response to Quality Measure Publication: A Resource Dependence Perspective,"
Health Care Management Review 35:3 (2010), 256–265.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, "An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application
of Benefit-Cost Analysis to Social Policy," Journal of Benefit–Cost Analysis 1:1 (2010), 1–38.
(One of two finalists, Berkeley Electronic Press 2010 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Senior
Economists)
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John G. Richards, Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Aboriginal Performance on Standardized
Tests: Evidence and Analysis from Provincial Schools in British Columbia,” Policy Studies
Journal 38:1 (2010), 47–67.
Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, David L. Weimer, Jacqueline Zinn and Heather Ladd, “Is There
Evidence of Cream Skimming Among Nursing Homes following Publication of the Nursing
Home Compare Report Card?” The Gerontologist 49:6 (2009), 793–802.
David L. Weimer and Mark A. Sager, “Early Identification and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: Social
and Fiscal Outcomes,” Alzheimer’s & Dementia 5:3 (2009), 215–226.
David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining and Randall K. Thomas, “Cost-Benefit Analysis Involving Addictive
Goods: Contingent Valuation to Estimate Willingness-to-Pay for Smoking Cessation,” Health
Economics 18:2 (2009), 181–202.
Stéphane Lavertu and David L. Weimer, “Integrating Delegation into the Policy Theory Literature,”
Policy Studies Journal 37:1 (2009), 93–102.
David L. Weimer, “Making Education Research More Policy Analytic,” in Gary Sykes, Barbara
Schneider, and David N. Plank, eds. Handbook of Education Policy Research. New York:
Routledge (2009), 93–100.
David L. Weimer, “Theories Of and In the Policy Process,” Policy Studies Journal 36:4 (2008), 489–495.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, William Spector, Heather Ladd and Jaqueline Zinn, “Publication
of Quality Report Cards and Trends in Reported Quality Measures in Nursing Homes,” Health
Services Research 43:4 (2008), 1244–1262.
Dana B. Mukamel, Laurent G. Glance, Yue Li, David L. Weimer, William Spector, Jacqueline Zinn and
Laura Mosqueda, “Does Risk Adjustment of the CMS Quality Measures for Nursing Homes
Matter?” Medical Care 46:5 (2008), 532–541.
Jaqueline Zinn, William Spector, David L. Weimer and Dana B. Mukamel, “Strategic Orientation and
Nursing Home Response to Public Reporting of Quality Measures: An Application of the Miles
and Snow Typology,” Health Services Research 43:2 (2008), 598–615.
David L. Weimer, “Cost-Benefit Analysis,” in Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds. The New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2008).
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer and Alvin I. Mushlin, “Interpreting Market Share Changes as
Evidence for Effectiveness of Quality Report Cards,” Medical Care 45:12 (2007), 1227–1232.
Dana B. Mukamel, William Spector, Jaqueline Zinn, Lynn Huang, David L. Weimer and Ann Dozier,
“Nursing Homes’ Response to the Nursing Home Compare Report Card,” Journals of
Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences 62:4 (2007), S218–S225.
John F. Witte, David L. Weimer, Arnold A. Shober and Paul F. Scholmer, “The Performance of Charter
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Schools in Wisconsin,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 26:3 (2007), 557–573.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Thomas C. Buchmueller, Heather Ladd and Alvin I. Mushlin,
“Changes in Racial Disparities in Access to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery between
the Late 1990s and Early 2000s,” Medical Care 45:7 (2007), 664–671.
David L. Weimer, “Medical Governance: Are We Ready to Prescribe?” Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management 26:2 (2007), 217–239.
David L. Weimer, “Public and Private Regulation of Organ Transplantation: Liver Allocation and the
Final Rule,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32:1 (2007), 9–49.
Dana B. Mukamel, Laurent G. Glance, David L. Weimer, Thomas Pearson, Todd Massey, Jeffery P.
Gold, Sheldon Greenfield, James Jackson and Alvin I. Mushlin, “Racial Variations in the Choice
of On-pump versus Off-pump CABG Surgery,” Journal for Health Services Research and Policy
12:1 (2007), 31–35.
David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, “Policy Analysis in Representative Democracy,” in Alan Gerber
and Eric Patashnik, editors, Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the
Political Economy of Government Performance (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press,
2006), 19–39.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer and Alvin I. Mushlin, “Referrals to High Quality Cardiac Surgeons:
Patients’ Race and Characteristics of their Physicians,” Health Services Research 41:4, Pt. I
(2006), 1276–1295.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis,” in B. Guy Peters and
Jon Pierre, editors, Handbook of Public Policy (Thousands Oaks, Cal.: Sage Publications, 2006),
417–432.
David L. Weimer, “The Puzzle of Private Rulemaking: Scientific Expertise, Flexibility, and Blame
Avoidance in Regulation,” Public Administration Review 66:4 (2006), 569–582.
Hui Li, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva and David L. Weimer,
“Testing for Budget Constraint Effects in a National Advisory Referendum Survey on the Kyoto
Protocol,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 30:2 (2005), 230–366.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations,” in Ewan
Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Christopher Pollitt, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Public
Management (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005), 209–233.
Hui Li, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva and David L. Weimer,
“Exploring the Beta Model Using Proportional Budget Information in a Contingent Valuation
Study,” Economics Bulletin 17:8 (2005), 1–9.
David L. Weimer, “Institutionalizing Neutrally Competent Policy Analysis: Resources for Promoting
Objectivity and Balance in Consolidating Democracies,” Policy Studies Journal 33:2 (2005),
131–146.
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David L. Weimer, “The Potential of Contingent Valuation for Public Administration Practice and
Research,” International Journal of Public Administration 28:1&2 (2005), 73–87.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “The P-Case: One Strategy for Creating the Policy ‘Case’,” in
Iris Geva-May, editor, Thinking Like a Policy Analyst: A Clinical Approach to Policy Analysis
(New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2005), 153–170.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Jack Zwanziger, Shih-Fang Huang Gorthy and Alvin I. Mushlin,
“Quality Report Cards, Selection of Cardiac Surgeons and Racial Disparities: A Study of the
Publication of the NYS Cardiac Surgery Reports,” Inquiry 41:4 (Winter 2004/2005), 435–446.
Hui Li, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva and David L. Weimer,
“Would Developing Country Commitments Affect U.S. Households’ Support for a Modified
Kyoto Protocol?” Ecological Economics 48:3 (2004), 329–343.
Mark A. Moore, Anthony E. Boardman, Aidan R. Vining, David L. Weimer and David H. Greenberg,
“‘Just Give Me a Number!’ Practical Values for the Social Discount Rate,” Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management 23:4 (2004), 789–812.
Hui Li, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva and David L. Weimer,
“Telephone versus Internet Samples for a National Advisory Referendum: Are the Underlying
Stated Preferences the Same?” Applied Economic Letters 11:3 (2004), 173–176.
David L. Weimer, “Strategic Petroleum Reserves,” Encyclopedia of Energy, Volume 5 (New York:
Elsevier, 2004), 739–748.
Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva, and David L. Weimer,
“Information and Effort in Contingent Valuation Surveys: Application to Global Climate Change
Using National Internet Samples,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47:2
(2004), 331–363.
David L. Weimer, “Comments on ‘School Accountability Ratings and Housing Values’,” William G.
Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack, editors, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs
(2003),133–136.
David L. Weimer, “Reflections on ‘Reflections on Building an MPA Program’,” Journal of Public
Affairs Education 9:1 (2003), 39–41.
Richard Schwindt, Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “A Policy Analysis of the B.C. Salmon
Fishery,” Canadian Public Policy 29:1 (2003), 73–94.
Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol Silva, and David L. Weimer, “The
Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet
Samples,” Political Analysis 11:1 (2003), 1–22.
Dana B. Mukamel, David L. Weimer, Jack Zwanziger, Alvin I. Mushlin, “Quality of Cardiac Surgeons
and Managed Care Contracting Practices,” Health Services Research 37:5 (2002), 1129–11 44.
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David L. Weimer, “An Institutional Rational Choice Perspective on Biomedicine,” Swiss Political
Science Review 8:3/4 (2002), 149–155.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Introducing Policy Analysis Craft: The Sheltered Workshop,”
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21:4 (2002), 697–707.
David L. Weimer, “A Better Corporate Tax?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21:4 (2002),
693–696.
David L. Weimer, “Commentary: JPAM Reaches Majority,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
21:3 (2002), 355–358.
David L. Weimer, “Enriching Public Discourse: Policy Analysis in Representative Democracies,” The
Good Society 11:1 (2002), 61–65.
Robert H. Haveman and David L. Weimer, “Cost-Benefit Analysis,” International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral Sciences (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Pergamon, 2002), 2845–2851.
Myron King and David L. Weimer, “Price and Income Elasticities of Demand for Energy,” Encyclopedia
of Life Support Systems, EOLSS Publishers (2002).
Nikolai Mikhailov, Richard G. Niemi, and David L. Weimer, “Application of Theil Group Logit Methods
to District-Level Vote Shares: Tests of Prospective and Retrospective Voting in the 1991, 1993,
and 1997 Polish Elections,” Electoral Studies 21:4 (2002), 631–648.
David L. Weimer and Michael Wolkoff, “School Performance and Housing Values: Using NonContiguous District and Incorporation Boundaries to Identify School Effects,” National Tax
Journal 54:2 (2001), 231–253.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Criteria for Infrastructure Investment: Normative, Positive, and
Prudential Perspectives,” in John Richards and Aidan Vining, eds., Building the Future: Issues in
Public Infrastructure in Canada (Toronto: C. D. Howe Institute, 2001), 131–165.
David L. Weimer, Don-Yun Chen and Yu-Ying Kuo, “Policy Analysis: Opportunities and Challenges in
Democratic Polities,” The Chinese Public Administration Review 11:1 (2001), 1–28.
Dana Mukamel, Ananthram Murthy, David L. Weimer, “Racial Differences in Access to High-Quality
Cardiac Surgeons,” American Journal of Public Health 90:11 (2000), 1774–1777.
Dana Mukamel, Alvin Mushlin, David L. Weimer, Jack Zwanziger, Todd Parker, and Indridi Indridason,
“Do Quality Report Cards Play a Role in HMO’s Contracting Practices? Evidence from New
York State,” Health Services Research 35:1, Part II (2000), 319–332.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Inefficiency in Public Organizations,” The International Public
Management Journal 2:1 (1999), 1–24.
David L. Weimer, “Comment: Q-Method and the Isms,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
18:3 (1999), 426–429.
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Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Informing Institutional Design: Strategies for Comparative
Cumulation,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 1:1 (1998), 39–60.
David L. Weimer, “Policy Analysis and Evidence: A Craft Perspective,” Policy Studies Journal 26:1
(1998), 114–128.
Lorene Allio, Mariusz Mark Dobek, and David L. Weimer, “The Political Circumstances of Instrument
Design: The Case of Privatization in Eastern Europe,” in B. Guy Peters and Frans Van Nispen,
editors, Public Policy Instruments: Evaluating the Tools of Public Administration (Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar, 1998), 120–149.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Passive Use Benefits: Existence, Option, and Quasi-Option
Value,” in Fred Thompson and Mark Green, editors, Handbook of Public Finance (New York:
Marcel Dekker, 1998), 319–345.
David Newman and David L. Weimer, “The Credibility of the PRC Commitment to a Market Economy
in Hong Kong: Hypotheses and Evidence,” Economics & Politics 9:3 (1997), 251–280.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Saintly Supervision: Monitoring Casino Gambling in British
Columbia,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 16:4 (1997), 615–620.
Anthony Boardman, David Greenberg, Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “`Plug-in’ Shadow Price
Estimates for Policy Analysis,” Annals of Regional Science 31:3 (1997), 299–324.
David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining, "Economics," in Donald F. Kettl and H. Brinton Milward,
editors, The State of Public Management (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996), 92–117.
David L. Weimer, "Petroleum and National Security," in Siamack Shojai, editor, The New Global Oil
Market: Understanding Energy Issues in the World Economy (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers,
1995), 225–237.
William H. Riker and David L. Weimer, "The Political Economy of Transformation: Liberalization and
Property Rights," in Jeffrey Banks and Eric Hanushek, editors, Modern Political Economy: Old
Topics, New Directions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 80–107.
David L. Weimer, "Impotence and Intransigence: An Unavoidable Evolutionary Curse?" Politics and the
Life Sciences 13:1 (1994), 33–34.
William H. Riker and David L. Weimer, "The Economic and Political Liberalization of Socialism: The
Fundamental Problem of Property Rights," Social Philosophy & Policy 10:2 (1993), 79-102.
Reprinted in Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, editors, Liberalism and the
Economic Order (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 79–102.
David L. Weimer, "The Current State of Design Craft: Borrowing, Tinkering, and Problem Solving,"
Public Administration Review 53:2 (1993), 110–120.
David L. Weimer, "The Craft of Policy Design: Can It Be More Than Art?" Policy Studies Review 11:3/4
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(1992), 370–388.
David L. Weimer, "Claiming Races, Broiler Contracts, Heresthetics, and Habits: Ten Concepts for Policy
Design," Policy Sciences 25:2 (1992), 135–159.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, "Welfare Economics as the Foundation for Public Policy:
Incomplete and Flawed but Nevertheless Desirable," Journal of Socio-Economics 21:1 (1992),
25–37.
David L. Weimer, "Political Science, Practitioner Skill, and Public Management," Public Administration
Review 52:3 (1992), 240–245.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, "Government Supply and Government Production Failure: A
Framework Based on Contestability," Journal of Public Policy 10:1 (1990), 1–22.
David L. Weimer, "An Earmarked Fossil Fuels Tax to Save the Rain Forests," Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management 9:2 (1990), 254–259.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, "Information Asymmetry Favoring Sellers: A Policy
Framework," Policy Sciences 21:4 (1988), 281–303.
George Horwich and David L. Weimer, "The Economics of International Oil Sharing," The Energy
Journal 9:4 (1988), 17-33.
David L. Weimer, "Collective Delusion in the Social Sciences," Review of Policy Research 5:4 (1986),
705–708.
Hank Jenkins-Smith and David L. Weimer, "Rescuing Policy Analysis from the Civil Service," Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management 5:1 (1985), 143–147.
Jerry Blankenship and David L. Weimer, "The Double Inefficiency of the Windfall Profits Tax on Crude
Oil," The Energy Journal 6:Special Tax Issue (1985), 189–202.
Hank Jenkins-Smith and David L. Weimer, "Analysis as Retrograde Action: The Case of Strategic
Petroleum Reserves," Public Administration Review 45:4 (l985), 485–494.
George Horwich and David L. Weimer, "The Next Oil Shock—Giving the Market a Chance," Regulation
(March/April 1984), 16–24.
Bruce Jacobs and David L. Weimer, "Inducing Capacity Building: The Role of the External Agent" in
Beth Honadle and Arnold M. Howitt, eds., Perspectives on Capacity-Building: Challenge for the
Eighties (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), 139–160.
David L. Weimer, "Problems of Expedited Implementation," Journal of Public Policy 3:2 (1983), 169–
190.
Richard G. Niemi, David Newman, and David L. Weimer, "Reassessing the Political Influence of Parents
on Children," Micropolitics 2:3 (1982), 203–217.
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David L. Weimer, "Routine SPR Acquisitions: The In-Kind Import Tariff and Spot Market Purchase
Authority," in Strategic Petroleum Reserve Financing, Hearings before the Subcommittee on
Fossil and Synthetic Fuels of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives, 97th Congress, 1st Session, March 18, 1981, 117–125. Reprinted in George
Horwich and Edward J. Mitchell (eds.), Policies for Coping with Oil-Supply Disruptions
(Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1982), 124–128.
Karen A. Reixach and David L. Weimer, "American Jails: Still Cloacal After Ten Years," in Jameson
Doig (ed.), Criminal Corrections: Ideals and Realities (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books,
1982), 95–105. Summarized in "A Note on America's `Cloacal' Jails," Policy Studies Review 2:2
(1982), 239–245.
David L. Weimer, "Vertical Prosecution and Career Criminal Bureaus: How Many and Who?" Journal of
Criminal Justice 8:6 (1980), 369–378.
David L. Weimer, "Safe—and Available—Drugs," in Robert W. Poole, Jr. (ed.), Instead of Regulation
(Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1981), 239–283. Reprinted in LeRoy Graymer and
Frederick Thompson (eds.), Reforming Social Regulation (Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage Publications,
1982), 19–69.
Arthur D. Fulton and David L. Weimer, "Regaining a Lost Policy Option: Neighborhood Parking
Stickers in San Francisco," Policy Analysis 6:3 (1980), 335–348.
David L. Weimer, "Federal Intervention in the Process of Innovation in Local Public Agencies: A Focus
on Organizational Incentives," Public Policy 28:1 (1980), 83–116.
David L. Weimer, "CMIS Implementation: A Demonstration of a Predictive Analysis," Public
Administration Review 40:3 (1980), 231–240.
David L. Weimer, "A Note on the Optimal Use of Clearance Procedures," Public Choice 34:4 (l979),
463–466.
David L. Weimer, "Prosecution Management: Evaluating an Innovation” in Patricia L. Brantingham and
Thomas G. Blomberg (eds.), Courts and Diversion: Policy and Operations Studies (Beverly
Hills, Cal.: Sage Publications, 1979), 47–62.
David L. Weimer and Lee S. Friedman, "Efficiency Considerations in Criminal Rehabilitation Research:
Costs and Consequences" in Lee Sechrest, Susan White, and Elizabeth D. Brown (eds.), The
Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders: Problems and Prospects (Washington, D.C.: National
Academy of Sciences, 1979), 251–272.
David L. Weimer, "Plea Bargaining and the Decision to Go to Trial: The Application of a Rational
Choice Model," Policy Sciences 10:1 (1978), 1–24.
Opinion/Editorial/Other
Simon Haeder, Dana Mukamel, and David Weimer, “Network Adequacy Standards and Health
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Insurance—Reply,” Journal of the American Medical Association 314:22 (December 8, 2015),
2415.
David L. Weimer, “The Synergy of Practice and Theory: Niskanen’s Contribution to the Study of
Bureaucracy,” The Political Economist 10:1 (Summer 2013), 8–10.
David L. Weimer, “Stakeholder Rulemaking: A Model for Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine,” La
Follette Policy Report 22:2 (Summer 2013), 1–5.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “Policy Analysis,” Foundations of Public Administration Series
(2010) http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index_par_foundationsseries.cfm.
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer, “The Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Social Policy,” La
Follette Policy Report 19:2 (Spring 2010), 1–4.
John F. Witte, David L. Weimer, Paul A. Schlomer, and Arnold F. Schober,“The Performance of Charter
Schools in Wisconsin,” La Follette Policy Report 17:1 (Spring 2007), 11–14.
Pär Jason Engle and David L. Weimer, “Enhancing Criminal Sentencing Options in Wisconsin: The State
and County Correctional Partnership,” La Follette Policy Report 15:1 (Spring 2005), 15–18.
David L. Weimer, “A Better Corporate Tax?” La Follette Policy Report 13:2 (Winter 2002-2003), 20–21.
Dana Mukamel, David L. Weimer, and Ananthram Murthy, Letter to the editor on “Managed Care
Insurance and Use of Higher-Mortality Hospitals,” Journal of the American Medical Association
284:7 (August 16, 2000), 830.
David Newman and David L. Weimer, “Boltholes for Hong Kong Business,” Asian Wall Street Journal
(May 15, 1996), 6.
David Newman and David L. Weimer, “Hong Kong May Be Good Model for U.S. Congress `Takings
Bills’,” The Washington Times (November 17, 1995), A17.
David L. Weimer, "Reducing the Costs of a New Oil Price Shock," The Journal of Commerce (June 1,
1984), A4.
Book Reviews
Review of How Information Matters: Networks and Public Policy Innovation by Kathleen Hale in
Perspectives on Politics 10:2 (2012).
Review of Cultural Analysis: Politics, Public Law, and Administration by Aaron Wildavsky (Edited by
Brendon Swedlow), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 11:3 (2009).
Review of Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis edited by Mark Bovens,
Paul `t Hart and B. Guy Peters, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 12:3 (2004).
Review of Holding the State to Account: Citizen Monitoring in Action by Samuel Paul in The
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International Public Management Journal 6:2 (2003).
Review of From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by
David T. Beito in Journal of Risk and Insurance 69:3 (2002).
Review of The Nature, Estimation, and Management of Political Risk by Janice Monti-Belkaoui and
Ahmed Riahi-Belkoaui, in Journal of Risk and Insurance 67:4 (2000).
Review of The Economic Pivot in a Political Context by Charles Wolf Jr., in Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management 19:4 (2000).
Review of Economics, Values, and Organization edited by Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman and
Debating Rationality edited by Jennifer J. Halpern and Robert N. Stern, in Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management 18:4 (1999).
Review of Policy Design for Democracy by Anne Larason Schneider and Helen Ingram, in The Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science 559:September (1998).
Review of The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient by Donald Wittman
in Journal of Politics 59:1 (1997).
Review of Markets and Majorities by Steven Sheffrin in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
14:2 (1995).
Review of Breaking Through Bureaucracy by Michael Barzelay, Managerial Dilemmas: The Political
Economy of Hierarchy by Gary J. Miller, and Reinventing Government by David Osborne and
Ted Gaebler in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 13:1 (1994).
Review of The Development of American Public Policy: The Structure of Policy Restraint by David B.
Robertson and Dennis R. Judd and Social Scientists, Policy, and the State edited by Stephen
Brooks and Alain-G. Gagnon in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 10:2 (1991).
Review of Rules for Rulers: The Politics of Advice by Arnold J. Meltsner, in Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management 10:1 (1991).
Review of The Economics of Crime Control by Llad Phillips and Harold L. Votey, Jr., in Policy Sciences
14:4 (1982).
Review of The Management of Information Systems by Kenneth L. Kraemer, William H. Dutton, and
Alana Northrop, in American Political Science Review 76:1 (1982).
Review of Plea Bargaining by Milton Heumann, in Policy Analysis 6:4 (1980).
Review of Bail Reform in America by Wayne H. Thomas, Jr., in Policy Analysis 4:3 (1978).
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