Professor Stephen Ceccoli is the P.K. Seidman Professor of Political Economy. He has been teaching at 野狼社区 since 1998, where he teaches courses mainly on international relations and comparative politics. His regular course offerings also include international relations theory, international political economy, and senior seminar. Professor Ceccoli also regularly leads a summer group study program in Tianjin and Nanjing, China. He has also taught English for a number of years during the summer at Tianjin, Normal University. He received the Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Teaching at 野狼社区 College in 2005.
Professor Ceccoli is primarily interested in conducting academic research on comparative public opinion, health policy, public attitudes toward health policy questions, regulatory politics, and public attitudes toward regulatory issues. He is the author of the book, Pill Politics, which examines regulatory drug approval in the United States. Professor Ceccoli has recently authored a number of articles on public attitudes toward issues such the use of genetically modified foods, the direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines, and federal organ procurement policy. He has also published worked explaining attitudes toward welfare policy, economic inequality, economic privatization, and trade liberalization.
Professor Ceccoli is involved in a variety of work on and off the 野狼社区 campus. He is a former participant in the American Political Science Association鈥檚 Congressional Fellowship Program, where he served for a year working in Washington, DC on the staff of Sen. Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR). He is also a regular reviewer for a number of academic journals and academic book publishers. On the 野狼社区 campus, he has worked closely with students preparing for and returning from study abroad as well as students participating in local and international internships. He has also served on a variety of faculty committees, including the Faculty Governance Committee, the Faculty Professional Interest Committee, the Faculty Committee on Information and Technology, as well as serving as a faculty representative on the Board of Trustees. Professor Ceccoli also spent a few years serving as the Faculty Fellow for International Programs as appointed by the Dean of the College where he promoted the internationalization of the 野狼社区 campus. In 2010, he received the Jameson Jones Award for Outstanding Faculty Service.
Pill Politics: Drugs and the FDA. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2004.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2023). 鈥淩econceptualizing Transfer Pathways: Policy Transfer and Armed UAV Proliferation. Policy Studies. (Published online: November 13, 2023).
Ceccoli, Stephen and Xinran Andy Chen. (2023). 鈥淪ubnational Policy Windows: Shanghai鈥檚 Grid Screening Policy.鈥 In N. Zahariadis, N. Herweg, R. Zohlnhofer and E. Petridou (eds.) A Modern Guide to the Multiple Streams Framework. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 264-284.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2022). 鈥淩esearch Note: Foreign Policy Orientations and U.S. Counterterrorism Support.鈥 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. (Published online: January 9, 2022).
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2022). 鈥淧olicy Styles and the Chinese COVID-19 Response.鈥 In Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos and J枚rgen Sparf (eds.) Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat, National Responses. London: Routledge, pp. 41-58.
Zahariadis, Nikolaos, Stephen Ceccoli & Evangelia Petridou. (2021) Assessing the effects of calculated inaction on national responses to the COVID鈥19 crisis. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. 12: 328-345.
Petridou, Evangelia, Nikolaos Zahariadis & Stephen Ceccoli. (2020) Averting Institutional Disasters? European Policy Analysis. 6: 318-327.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2019). 'The Language We Use Matters': Streams, Narratives and the Obama Administration Drone Strike Program in Yemen. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 48(3): 498-526.
Ceccoli, Stephen and Matthew Crosston. (2018). Diffusion and Policy Transfer in Armed UAV Proliferation: The Cases of Italy and Germany. Policy Studies. 40(2): 111-130.
Ceccoli, Stephen and John Bing. (2018). Taking the Lead? Transatlantic Attitudes toward Lethal Drone Strikes. Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 16(3):247-271.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2018). Explaining Attitudes Toward U.S. Energy Extraction: Offshore Drilling, the Keystone XL Pipeline, and Hydraulic Fracturing. Social Science Quarterly. 99(2): 644-664.
Ceccoli, Stephen, Han Li and Gao Jiayong. (2017). Experiencing China through a 鈥榃ide-Angle Lens鈥: Observation, Participation, Reflection. Education About Asia. 22(3):64-66.
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Ceccoli, Stephen & Bing, John. (2015). Explaining Divergent Attitudes Toward Lethal Drone Strikes. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 38:146-166.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2014). 鈥淒rug Labeling鈥 in Brent Steel (ed.), Science and Politics: An A to Z Guide to Issues and Controversies (CQ Press/Sage Books).
Bing, John & Ceccoli, Stephen. (2013). Contending Narratives in China鈥檚 African Development. Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXX(2):107-136.
Ceccoli, Stephen & Glean, Roland. (2013). Explaining Individual Level Support for Organ Procurement Policy. The Social Science Journal. Vol. 50(4):426-437.
Ceccoli, Stephen & Klotz, Robert. (2013). Taking Your Medicine? Attitudes toward Direct-to Consumer Advertising (DTCA). The Social Science Journal. Vol. 50(4): 501-509.
鈥淯nderstanding Attitudes Toward Genetically Modified Foods in the European Union鈥 With William Hixon. International Political Science Review. 2012, Vol. 33, Issue 3:301鈥319
鈥淭he Sources of Pakistani Attitudes toward Religiously Motivated Terrorism鈥 With K. Kaltenthaler, W. Miller and R. Gelleny, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 9, 2010:815 鈥 835.
鈥淓xplaining Patterns of Support for the Provision of Citizen Welfare鈥 with K. Kaltenthaler, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 7, October 2008: 1041-1068.
鈥淎ttitudes Toward Eliminating Inequality in the European Union鈥 With K. Kaltenthaler and R. Gelleny. European Union Politics, Vol. 9, June 2008: 217 - 241.
鈥淓xplaining Individual-Level Support for Privatization in European Post-Soviet Economies鈥 with A. Michta and K. Kaltenthaler, European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 45, 2006: 1-29.
鈥淢edia Coverage of Drug Approvals鈥 with R. Klotz, Social Science Journal, Vol. 42, 2005: 129-134
鈥淓xplaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalization鈥 with R. Gelleny and K. Kaltenthaler, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2004: 829-51.
鈥淧olicy Punctuations and Regulatory Drug Review鈥 Journal of Policy History, Vol. 15(2), 2003.
鈥淒ivergent Paths to Drug Regulation in the U.S. and U.K.鈥 Journal of Policy History, Vol. 14 (2), 2002.
鈥淎ttentiveness to Television News and Opinion Change in the Fall 1992 Presidential Campaign鈥 with M. Joslyn, Political Behavior, 18 (2):141-170, 1996.
