Mallory Elizabeth SoRelle
· Tony & Teddie Brown Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public PolicyDuke University · Social Policy
Active 2016–2024
About
Mallory Elizabeth SoRelle is the Tony & Teddie Brown Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is also an Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy. Her work includes exploring the implications of dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for Americans. She is the author of the book 'Democracy Declined — The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection.'
Research topics
- Political Science
- Political economy
- Law
- Economics
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Positive economics
- Law and economics
- Finance
- Business
Selected publications
Routledge eBooks · 2023 · 40 citations
Senior authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Computer Science
How do policies, once created, reshape politics, and how might such transformations in turn affect subsequent policymaking? This chapter explores policy feedback theory: the ability of policies—through their design, resources, and implementation—to shape the attitudes and behaviors of political elites and institutions, organized interests, and mass publics with consequences for subsequent policymaking efforts. The chapter begins with a brief overview of the intellectual development of policy feedback theory before describing the four main streams of feedback inquiry and their mechanisms. It then considers new advances in and challenges to the study of policy feedback as well as opportunities for the future development of the field. In particular, it highlights new research that shows how federalism, political polarization, and structural inequality may mitigate feedback effects.
Democracy Declined : The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection
2020 · 20 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Political Science
- Business
From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom-Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship
Perspectives on Politics · 2020 · 111 citations
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political economy
In this article we reassess conceptions of the welfare state with an eye towards the limits of current scholarly approaches. In particular, we propose centering the study of the welfare state around those who occupy the margins of American society. We argue that concentrating on populations at the proverbial “bottom” of standard economic and political hierarchies productively reorients research on social policy and politics by bringing crucial but often overlooked facets of the welfare state into sharper view. Specifically, the bottom-up approach we offer here entreats political scientists to re-consider where they look in their efforts to delineate the welfare state, how to examine what they find, and what kinds of questions to ask in the process. Ultimately, studying the welfare state from the bottom up suggests a host of new directions for scholars seeking to understand its politics.
Frequent coauthors
- 12 shared
Serena Laws
Hartford Financial Services (United States)
- 8 shared
Derek Dube
- 8 shared
Khadijah A. Mitchell
Fox Chase Cancer Center
- 8 shared
Tracie Marcella Addy
- 4 shared
Delphia Shanks
Conway School of Landscape Design
- 4 shared
Jamila Michener
Cornell University
- 3 shared
Suzanne Mettler
Cornell University
- 1 shared
Chloe N. Thurston
Education
PhD, Government
Cornell University
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