Dawn Carr, Ph.D., was the lead author of a recently published article titled “The Protective Effects of Psychological Resilience on Fall Risk.” The study was a collaborative effort with Shekhar Chauhan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow; Miles G. Taylor, Ph.D., director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and professor of sociology; Matthew Lohman, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina; and Amanda Sonnega, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan.
Research Spotlight: The Minimum Marriageable Age Policy Process in the United States: An Advocacy Coalition Framework Analysis
Florida State University Assistant Professor of public administration Ene Ikpebe, Ph.D., authored “The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis.”
“By identifying the subjects of debate, the paper helps us understand why the formal discussion of child marriage and minimum marriageable age policy in the US has had a relatively late start, compared to similar developed countries. The article also contributes to our understanding of advocacy coalition formation, i.e., the types of beliefs that allow policy actors to organize productively as they seek to influence policymaking,” said Dr. Ikpebe. “Finally, by applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to a policy area to which the lens had not previously been applied, the paper deepens scholarly confidence in the usefulness of the theory.”
