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Research Interests

• Health Policy
• Social Policy
• State Politics and Policy

Teaching Interests

• Quantitative Methods for MPA students
• Health Politics and Policy
• Introduction to American Politics
• American Public Policy

• Patton, Dana and Richard C. Fording. 2020. “The Effect of Women’s Descriptive Representation on Premature Mortality in the United States.” Social Forces 99(2):820-46.
• Patton, Dana and Joseph Smith. 2020. “Gender, Ideology, and Dominance in Supreme Court Oral Arguments.” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 41(4):393-415.
• Fording, Richard C. and Dana Patton. 2020. “The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(2):131-53.
• Fording, Richard C. and Dana Patton. 2019. “Medicaid Expansion and the Political Fate of The Governors Who Support It.”  Policy Studies Journal 47(2):274-299.        
• Patton, Dana and Joseph L. Smith. 2017. “Lawyer, Interrupted: Gender Bias in Oral Arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.” Journal of Law and Courts 5:337-361.
• Patton, Dana, Julia F. Costich, and Niklas Lidströmer. 2017. “Paid Parental Leave Policies and Infant Mortality in OECD Countries: Policy Implications for the United States.” World Medical & Health Policy 9:6-23.