Nathan Paxton

I assess this model of learning via narrative process-tracing case analysis to the development of Mexico's HIV and AIDS policies from 1985 to 2008.

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The UNAIDS framework for HIV response called for 3 "Ones": one strategy, one coordinating authority, and one monitoring framework. Under the direction of President Festus Mogae, Bot- swana established the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) to bring together and direct the various government efforts against the epidemic. The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership-a PPP bringing together the Botswanan government, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and the Gates Foundation-brought relatively large financial resources to Botswana and became an alternative source of gravity in the Botswanan response. This paper examines how a PPP intended to assist in a national HIV program became a problem: with the advent of ACHAP, practical re- sponsibility for the shape and direction of the national program seemed to have two loci of power.

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Previous studies of war and infectious disease have generated inconsistent findings on the interre- lationships of these phenomena. This study investigates the association of war and democracy with HIV prevalence using time-series cross-section (TSCS) analysis of a new data set that is more in- clusive in both spatial and temporal terms than the data used in previous analyses. http://bit.ly/SXdOrs "Organizational Learning in the Development of HIV/AIDS Policies: Cases from Mexico." Preparing for submission.

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"'Pox vobiscum', or How I learned to forget malaria and love the fight against smallpox." In dra%.

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"Plague and war: Political breakdown and the spread of HIV." Under peer review.

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SOFTWARE "ZeligPanelmodels: Panel data analysis for Zelig." R statistical package that allows user of Zelig (gking.harvard.edu/zelig) to analyze panel data in an econometric framework by connecting Zelig to "plm" package. Source code at http://github.com/napaxton/ZeligPanelmodels.

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Good ideas for policy programs and potential changes may be blocked at a number of points in most political regimes. I argue for an alternative understanding of organizational learning that fo- cuses not on behavioral outcomes (that gatekeepers can halt) but on expansion of policy possibilities.

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For those trying to help implement Botswana HIV policy, there appeared a division in the locus of power: NACA had the final authority, while ACHAP had the superior resources. I examine the network structure of government and PPP actors, and I analyze how the unintentional division brought about by establishing a PPP lessened anti-HIV action at a critical period in the nation's response to the disease.

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This paper examines two questions in the decade-long process to marshal support for the smallpox program. First, I look at how Cold War foreign policy goals, including the scientific rivalry be- tween First and Second worlds, affected the initial decision of WHO/WHA. Did contemporary medical knowledge indicate smallpox was not amenable to elimination, or was opposition about political opposition to Communism? Second, I examine why the United States and the western bloc changed their position, with attention to how WHO institutional factors affected that change. Given the heightened tension of the Cold War, what roles did politics and medicine each play in the policy shift? See http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/napaxton/files/ apsa2014.pdf "Organizational networks, divided policy authority, and the effects on Botswana's HIV response re- gime." In dra%.

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