Browsing by Author "Siddiki, Saba"

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    All plug-in electric vehicles are not the same: Predictors of preference for a plug-in hybrid versus a battery-electric vehicle
    (Elsevier, 2018-12) Lane, Bradley W.; Dumortier, Jerome; Carley, Sanya; Siddiki, Saba; Clark-Sutton, Kyle; Graham, John D.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    This study analyzes data from a survey of drivers (n = 1080) administered in late 2013 to assess factors that influence potential car buyers to consider two different types of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in the United States: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The results indicate distinct profiles of respondents preferring PHEVs, which have a gasoline backup engine, versus battery BEVs, which rely solely on a battery for power. Respondents interested in selecting a PHEV consider it more for its economic benefits, such as reduced gasoline and maintenance expenditures. Respondents preferring a BEV are drawn to its environmental and technological appeal. The absence of range anxiety for PHEV is a major factor influencing potential PEV buyers.
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    Cheap gas could delay America’s efficiency targets for cars and trucks
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2016-03-04) Siddiki, Saba; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
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    Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
    (2017) Harvey, Heather Marie; Hyatt, Susan; Dickerson-Putman, Jeanette; Siddiki, Saba
    Communities are currently being shaped and influenced by larger neoliberal social policies, which has resulted in decreased funding from public sources, which therefore creates greater competition among neighborhood organizations for limited resources. In this thesis, I analyze how larger neoliberal currents have created conflict within the local policy subsystem of rezoning in the Crooked Creek neighborhood in Indianapolis. My analysis spotlights the consequences of devolution one of which is the shift from government to neighborhood governance; I examine these issues by mapping out the causes and consequences of three separate rezoning cases. I compare the conflicting perspectives among local influential organizations, including the Community Development Corporation (CDC) and a number of state registered neighborhood groups. I frame this conflict through the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier 2007) in order to map out the connections between neoliberal social policies and local level conflict.
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    Comparing Formal and Informal Institutions with the Institutional Grammar Tool
    (2010) Siddiki, Saba; Basurto, Xavier; Weible, Christopher
    "While the role of formal and informal institutions has been long recognized among common-pool resources scholars working under the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD), not much attention has been devoted to disentangling the relative influence of each one on social behavior. We explore this issue through the application of the grammar of institutions, semi-structured interviews, and Q-sort methods. The goal of this paper is two-fold. First, the paper seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the interplay between formal and informal institutions on policy compliance. We do so in the context of aquaculture policies in the State of Colorado, USA. Second, this paper seeks to continue to develop Crawford and Ostrom’s grammar of institutions as an analytical tool for systematic institutional analysis. The results from the case study are mixed. We found some respondents reporting strong alignment between informal and the formal institutions but others reporting weak alignment. Additionally, feelings of personal guilt or shame and fear of social disapproval, together, were cited as being more influential in shaping individuals’ decision making regarding compliance with formal institutions than was fear of monetary sanctioning. The paper concludes with a discussion of the unexpected relationships among different syntactic elements of the grammar thereby deepening the understanding of how the grammar of institutions can help in the examination of policy documents and explain human behavior."
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    Dissecting Policy Designs: An Application of the Institutional Grammar Tool
    (Wiley, 2011-02-01) Siddiki, Saba; Weible, Christopher; Basurto, Xavier; Calanni, John
    An enduring challenge for the policy and political sciences is valid and reliable depiction of policy designs. One emerging approach for dissecting policy designs is the application of Sue Crawford and Elinor Ostrom's institutional grammar tool. The grammar tool offers a method to identify, systematically, the core elements that comprise policies, including target audiences, expected patterns of behavior, and formal modes of sanctioning for noncompliance. This article provides three contributions to the study of policy designs by developing and applying the institutional grammar tool. First, we provide revised guidelines for applying the institutional grammar tool to the study of policy design. Second, an additional component to the grammar, called the oBject, is introduced. Third, we apply the modified grammar tool to four policies that shape Colorado State Aquaculture to demonstrate its effectiveness and utility in illuminating institutional linkages across levels of analysis. The conclusion summarizes the contributions of the article as well as points to future research and applications of the institutional grammar tool.
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    Drawn to the Shadows: Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter?
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Resh, William; Siddiki, Saba; McConnell, Will
    Network governance has been a predominant theme in policy implementation scholarship over the last decade. This focus is especially pertinent to “wicked” policy problems that require cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary coordination, such as those often found in environmental policy. Although the emergence of this research has been accompanied by remarkable conceptual and empirical development, there remains debate over how the relative centrality of government actors (i.e., the “shadow of hierarchy”) within governance networks is associated with network outcomes. Using survey and interview data collected among participants of U.S. marine aquaculture partnerships, we examine how the relative centrality of governmental actors in governance networks facilitates or inhibits coordination behaviors and learning among individual network actors. We operationalize both the "prestige" and degree of closeness that government actors are perceived to have by other actors within a network. We then test the extent to which these measures of network actor centrality are associated with an individual’s coordination behaviors and learning outcomes.
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    Effects of Life Cycle Cost Information Disclosure on the Purchase Decision of Hybrid and Plug-In Vehicles
    (2014-06) Dumortier, Jerome; Siddiki, Saba; Carley, Sanya; Cisney, Joshua; Krause, Rachel M.; Lane, Bradley W.; Rupp, John A.; Graham, John D.
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    Effects of Life Cycle Cost Information Disclosure on the Purchase Decision of Hybrid and Plug-In Vehicles
    (Elsevier, 2015-02) Dumortier, Jerome; Siddiki, Saba; Carley, Sanya; Cisney, Joshua; Krause, Rachel M.; Lane, Bradley W.; Rupp, John A.; Graham, John D.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Energy-saving technologies have a difficult time being widely accepted in the marketplace when they have a high initial purchase price and deferred financial benefits. Consumers might not realize that, in the long-run, the financial benefits from reduced energy consumption offset much or all of the initial price premium. One strategy to address consumer misconception of this advantage is to supply information on the “total cost of ownership”, a metric which accounts for the purchase price, the cost of the fuel, and other costs over the ownership period. In this article, we investigate how providing information on five-year fuel cost savings and total cost of ownership affects the stated preferences of consumers to purchase a gasoline, conventional hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery electric vehicle. Through an online survey with an embedded experimental design using distinct labels, we find that respondent rankings of vehicles are unaffected by information on five-year fuel cost savings. However, adding information about total cost of ownership increases the probability that small/mid-sized car consumers express a preference to acquire a conventional hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or a battery-electric vehicle. No such effect is found for consumers of small sport utility vehicles. Our results are consistent with other findings in the behavioral economics literature and suggest that further evaluation of the effects of providing consumers with information on the total cost of vehicle ownership is warranted.
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    Effects of providing total cost of ownership information on consumers’ intent to purchase a hybrid or plug-in electric vehicle
    (Elsevier, 2015-02) Dumortier, Jerome; Siddiki, Saba; Carley, Sanya; Cisney, Joshua; Krause, Rachel M.; Lane, Bradley W.; Rupp, John A.; Graham, John D.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Energy-saving technologies have a difficult time being widely accepted in the marketplace when they have a high initial purchase price and deferred financial benefits. Consumers might not realize that, in the long-run, the financial benefits from reduced energy consumption offset much or all of the initial price premium. One strategy to address consumer misconception of this advantage is to supply information on the “total cost of ownership”, a metric which accounts for the purchase price, the cost of the fuel, and other costs over the ownership period. In this article, we investigate how providing information on five-year fuel cost savings and total cost of ownership affects the stated preferences of consumers to purchase a gasoline, conventional hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery electric vehicle. Through an online survey with an embedded experimental design using distinct labels, we find that respondent rankings of vehicles are unaffected by information on five-year fuel cost savings. However, adding information about total cost of ownership increases the probability that small/mid-sized car consumers express a preference to acquire a conventional hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or a battery-electric vehicle. No such effect is found for consumers of small sport utility vehicles. Our results are consistent with other findings in the behavioral economics literature and suggest that further evaluation of the effects of providing consumers with information on the total cost of vehicle ownership is warranted.
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    Measuring Impacts of Marine Aquaculture Partnerships
    (2012-11) Calanni, John; Siddiki, Saba; Weible, Christopher; Leach, William; Vince, Scott
    The authors performed a survey of aquaculture partnership participants to understand their perceptions of problems associated with the expansion of U.S. marine aquaculture, as well as the impacts of partnerships on these problems. The partnerships indicated positive impacts on such important problems as dissemination of misinformation as well as insufficient policies regarding leases, licenses and permits. They reported little to no impacts on issues such as financing of startup operations and research.