scholarly journals Firearm Surveillance Informs Gun Control Policy: Regression Lines of Discontinuity (Preprint)

10.2196/26042 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Post ◽  
Maryann Mason ◽  
Lauren Nadya Singh ◽  
Nicholas P Wleklinski ◽  
Charles B Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control

How gun control policies influence consumers’ service businesses evaluations

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gregory Cabano ◽  
Amin Attari ◽  
Elizabeth A. Minton
Keyword(s):  
Value Congruence ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Control Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Patronage Behavior ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Service Businesses

Purpose Given the growing prevalence of gun control policies in service settings, this study aims to investigate how the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses influences consumers’ evaluations of the service businesses. Design/methodology/approach Three experiments were conducted to examine how the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses influences consumers’ brand favorability of that service businesses and how value congruence (i.e. the alignment between a consumer’s own personal values and perceptions of the brand’s values) is the underlying mechanism. Findings This study documents several major findings. First, the authors find that the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses increases consumers’ brand favorability. Second, the authors highlight a boundary condition to this effect, such that a gun control policy actually decreases consumers’ brand favorability for people high (vs low) in support for gun rights. Third, the authors show that value congruence is the psychological process underlying these effects. Fourth, the authors generalize the focal effects to a real-world brand and demonstrate that the adoption of a gun control policy increases brand favorability for consumers low (vs high) in patronage behavior of the brand. Finally, the authors find that a pioneer brand strategy in the adoption of a gun control policy significantly increases brand favorability, whereas a follower brand strategy in the adoption of such a policy is less effective. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to provide critical insight to service businesseses as to how their position regarding guns influences consumers’ evaluations of the service businesses.

Default signals further slide for Puerto Rico in 2016

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora

Significance The island's government and public agencies hold 72 billion dollars of debt obligations, but migration to the mainland United States, political unwillingness to cut spending and constitutional difficulties have triggered a severe crisis. Federal US and Puerto Rican lawmakers are concerned that austerity-driven cuts to public services would only exacerbate the problems of the commonwealth. Impacts The Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida may punish Republicans at the ballot box in the event of federal inaction. Anti-gun-control policy 'riders' may scupper congressional efforts to aid Puerto Rico in March. Relief for Puerto Rico may become a vote-winning issue for Democratic presidential candidates in the party primaries.

scholarly journals State Gun-Control, Gun-Rights, and Preemptive Firearm-Related Laws Across 50 US States for 2009‒2018

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e8
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Pomeranz ◽  
Diana Silver ◽  
Sarah A. Lieff
Keyword(s):  
Control Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Us States ◽  
Policy Environments ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives. To assess state policy environments and the relationship between state gun-control, gun-rights, and preemptive firearm-related laws in the United States. Methods. In 2019 through 2020, we evaluated substantive firearm laws and preemptive firearm laws across 50 US states for 2009 through 2018. For each state, we compared substantive measures with preemptive measures on the same policy topic for 2018. Results. The presence of state firearm-related laws varied across states, but with the exception of “punitive preemption” the number of gun-control, gun-rights, and preemptive measures remained unchanged in most states from 2009 through 2018. As of 2018, a majority of states had preemptive measures on almost all gun-control policy topics without enacting substantive gun-control measures. Several states had a combination of gun-control and preemptive measures. Only a small number of states had gun-control measures with few to no preemptive measures. Conclusions. Even where state legislators were unable to pass statewide gun-rights measures, they succeeded in passing preemption, preserving state authority over a wide range of gun-control and gun-rights policy topics. The majority of states used preemption as a tool to support policy frameworks favoring gun rights. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print June 10, 2021: e1–e8. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306287 )

Policy Gridlock versus Policy Shift in Gun Politics: A Comparative Veto Player Analysis of Gun Control Policies in the United States and Canada

World Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 181 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-347
Author(s):  
Rifat Darina Kamal ◽  
Charles Burton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Veto Player ◽  
Incremental Change

Why do major events of gun violence (i.e., mass shootings) lead to incremental change or no federal legislative change at all in the United States while major events of gun violence have resulted in large-scale legislative changes in Canada? Exploring the complexities involved in this compelling question, this article conducts a comparative analysis of recent gun control policy gridlock and shift in these two countries. We concentrate on two mass shooting cases in each country: the Columbine (1990) and Sandy Hook (2012) massacres in the United States and the École Polytechnique Massacre (1989) and Concordia Shooting (1992) in Canada. We use veto player theory to gain insights into why tightening gun policy is so difficult to implement in the United States while Canada often follows up with policy transformations after a focusing event. This theory informs the central argument that the key factors underpinning the divergent policy outcomes on gun control issues in both countries involve differences in the structure of government/institutional design and the role and power of interest groups in each case.

Gun Dealer Motivations for Complying with the Law: Lessons from the Australian Experience of Gun Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110211
Author(s):  
Suzanna Fay
Keyword(s):  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Australian Experience ◽  
Depth Interviews

Gun reform after a major mass shooting in Australia has largely been heralded as a success. However, understanding how compliance is encouraged among the gun owning community with a history of opposing regulation is currently limited in systematic sociological research. Gun dealers in particular appear to be important for understanding levels of compliance and possibilities for promoting compliance, as they are simultaneously involved in the compliance process and subject to its enforcement as members of the gun owning community. This paper positions gun dealers as street-level bureaucrats responsible for implementing gun regulations and uses a Compliance Motivation framework to explore the possible motivations for compliance and their role in promoting compliance within the gun owning community. Findings are based on 28 in-depth interviews with gun dealers across Australia and demonstrate the challenging but important role that gun dealer’s play in enacting gun control policy.

The Deterrence Effects of Gun Laws in Games with Asymmetric Skills and Information

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiano Oliveira ◽  
Giácomo Balbinotto Neto
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Gun Carrying ◽  
Population Type ◽  
Gun Laws ◽  
Game Theoretic

AbstractThis paper presents a game-theoretic model of crime and self-defense with gun use. The main purpose is to evaluate gun control policy effectiveness on crime reduction. The effects of assumption regarding the type of information agent’s possess and some extensions such as criminals’ skills advantage and different costs in gun carrying are studied. The results show that policies that increase gun availability make criminals always carry guns, even if they have a fighting advantage over the victims. The main conclusions are that gun control under complete information assumption leads to a decrease of gun crimes and that such policies are more effective to reduce crime when they affect both criminal’s and victim’s costs. Under incomplete information gun control generates multiple equilibria where criminals alternate between crimes with and without guns. In this case the effects of gun policy on crime depend on the share of population type.

scholarly journals Gun Control Policy to Prevent Public Mass Shootings: Regression Lines of Discontinuety Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Post ◽  
Maryann Mason ◽  
Lauren Nadya Singh ◽  
Nicholas P Wleklinski ◽  
Charles B Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Large Capacity ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Assault Weapons

BACKGROUND Public mass shootings are a significant public health problem that require systematic surveillance to inform policies that combat gun injuries. While there is widespread agreement that something needs to be done to stop public mass shootings, exactly which policies that entails varies such as the prohibition of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. OBJECTIVE Needs to be added METHODS The FAWB resulted in a significant decrease in public mass shootings, number of gun deaths and injuries. We estimate the FAWB prevented 11 public mass shootings during the decade the ban was in place. A continuation of the FAWB would have prevented 30 public mass shootings that killed 339 people and injured an additional 1139 people. RESULTS The FAWB resulted in a significant decrease in public mass shootings, number of gun deaths and injuries. We estimate the FAWB prevented 11 public mass shootings during the decade the ban was in place. A continuation of the FAWB would have prevented 30 public mass shootings that killed 339 people and injured an additional 1139 people. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the utility of public health surveillance on gun violence. Surveillance informs policy on whether a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines reduces public mass shootings. As society searches for effective policies to prevent the next public mass shooter, we must consider the overwhelming evidence that assault weapon bans and/or large capacity magazine bans work. CLINICALTRIAL NA

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