Professor Stephen Ceccoli is the P.K. Seidman Professor of Political Economy. He has been teaching at Āé¶¹Ö±²„ 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 Āé¶¹Ö±²„ 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 Āé¶¹Ö±²„ campus. He is a former participant in the American Political Science Associationās 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 Āé¶¹Ö±²„ 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 Āé¶¹Ö±²„ campus. In 2010, he received the Jameson Jones Award for Outstanding Faculty Service.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pill Politics: Drugs and the FDA. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2004.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2023). āReconceptualizing Transfer Pathways: Policy Transfer and Armed UAV Proliferation. Policy Studies. (Published online: November 13, 2023).
Ceccoli, Stephen and Xinran Andy Chen. (2023). āSubnational Policy Windows: Shanghaiās Grid Screening Policy.ā 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). āResearch Note: Foreign Policy Orientations and U.S. Counterterrorism Support.ā Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. (Published online: January 9, 2022).
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2022). āPolicy Styles and the Chinese COVID-19 Response.ā In Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos and Jƶrgen 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 COVIDā19 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 āWide-Angle Lensā: Observation, Participation, Reflection. Education About Asia. 22(3):64-66.
The Tennessean, March 10, 2017
Ceccoli, Stephen & Bing, John. (2015). Explaining Divergent Attitudes Toward Lethal Drone Strikes. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 38:146-166.
Ceccoli, Stephen. (2014). āDrug Labelingā 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 Chinaās 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.
āUnderstanding Attitudes Toward Genetically Modified Foods in the European Unionā With William Hixon. International Political Science Review. 2012, Vol. 33, Issue 3:301ā319
āThe Sources of Pakistani Attitudes toward Religiously Motivated Terrorismā With K. Kaltenthaler, W. Miller and R. Gelleny, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 9, 2010:815 ā 835.
āExplaining Patterns of Support for the Provision of Citizen Welfareā with K. Kaltenthaler, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 15, No. 7, October 2008: 1041-1068.
āAttitudes Toward Eliminating Inequality in the European Unionā With K. Kaltenthaler and R. Gelleny. European Union Politics, Vol. 9, June 2008: 217 - 241.
āExplaining Individual-Level Support for Privatization in European Post-Soviet Economiesā with A. Michta and K. Kaltenthaler, European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 45, 2006: 1-29.
āMedia Coverage of Drug Approvalsā with R. Klotz, Social Science Journal, Vol. 42, 2005: 129-134
āExplaining Citizen Support for Trade Liberalizationā with R. Gelleny and K. Kaltenthaler, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2004: 829-51.
āPolicy Punctuations and Regulatory Drug Reviewā Journal of Policy History, Vol. 15(2), 2003.
āDivergent Paths to Drug Regulation in the U.S. and U.K.ā Journal of Policy History, Vol. 14 (2), 2002.
āAttentiveness to Television News and Opinion Change in the Fall 1992 Presidential Campaignā with M. Joslyn, Political Behavior, 18 (2):141-170, 1996.
Education
1994, M.A., Washington University
1990, B.A., Heidelberg College