Philip Rocco, Ph.D.Marquette UniversityWehr Physics Hall, 411
MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3296philip.rocco@marquette.eduPersonal WebsiteCurriculum VitaePhilip Rocco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. He is also the co-editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Prof. Rocco's research examines the intersection between federalism, the policymaking process, and the political economy of policy expertise. He teaches courses on American politics, the policymaking process, and the politics of numbers. Prof. Rocco was formerly a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh's Health Policy Institute. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Prof. Rocco is completing work on a book manuscript, Counting Like a State (University Press of Kansas, 2025), which examines how conflict and cooperation between federal, state, and local governments shapes the implementation of the United States census. A second book project, Madison’s Engineers: How Policy Science Remade Federalism (under contract, Columbia University Press), will analyze how policy experts reshaped the relationship between the federal government and the states during the latter half of the twentieth century. A third project, supported by a multi-year grant from the Joyce Foundation, focuses on how U.S. cities are using their American Rescue Plan Act funds to support novel community violence interventions.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Books
Edited Volumes
Journal Articles
Béland, Daniel, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “’Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States,” Social Policy and Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1017/S1474746423000222.
Rocco, Philip, Andrew S. Kelly, and Ann Keller, “Politics at the Cutting Edge: Intergovernmental Policy Innovation in the Affordable Care Act,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 48 (3, 2018): 425–453.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Obamacare in the Trump Era: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?,” The Political Quarterly 89 (4, 2018): 687–694.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “The ACA and the Politics of Policy Feedback,” Policy Studies Journal (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/ psj.12286
Béland, Daniel, Anahely Medrano, and Philip Rocco, “The Politics of Bottom-Up Social Policy Transfer,” Political Science Quarterly 133 (Fall, 2018): 527–560.
Rocco, Philip and Simon Haeder, “How Intense Policy Demanders Shape Post-Reform Politics: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 43 (2, 2018): 271-304.
Rocco, Philip, “The Anti-Analytic Presidency Revisited,” The Forum 15(2, 2017): 363–378.
Rocco, Philip, “Informal Caregiving and the Politics of Policy Drift,” Journal of Aging and Social Policy 29 (5, 2017): 413-432.
Jarlenski, Marian, Philip Rocco, Renu Tipirneni, Amy Kennedy, Nivedita Gunturi, and Julie Donohue, “Making Health Policy for Low-Income Populations: An Assessment of Public Participation in a New Medicaid Waiver Process,” Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 42 (6, 2017): 1039-1064.
Rocco, Philip, Andrew Kelly, Daniel Béland, and Michael Kinane, “The New Politics of US Health Care Prices: Institutional Reconfiguration and the Emergence of All-Payer Claims Databases,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 42 (1, 2017): 5–52.
Shih-Jiun Shi, Daniel Béland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Paths to Decentralization: Territorial Dynamics and Social Policy in the People’s Republic of China and the US,” Environment and Planning C (2017), http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1177/2399654417725527
Juleen Rodakowski, Philip Rocco, Maqui Ortiz, Barbara Folb, Sally C. Morton, Richard Schulz, Lu Hu, Sally Caine Leathers, and A. Everette James, “Integrating Caregivers of Older Adult Patients into Discharge Planning to Lower Resource Utilization: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 65 (8, 2017): 1748-1755.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Obamacare and the Politics of Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States,” Social Policy & Administration 50(4, 2016): 428-451.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Reassessing Policy Drift: Social Policy Change in the United States,” Social Policy & Administration 50 (2, 2016): 201-218.
Rocco, Philip, Walid F. Gellad, and Julie M. Donohue, “Modernizing Medicaid Managed Care:Can States Meet the Data Challenges?,” JAMA 314 (15, 2015):1559–60.
Tummers, Lars and Philip Rocco, “Serving Clients When the Server Crashes: How Frontline Workers Cope with E-Government Challenges,” Public Administration Review 75(6, 2015): 817-827.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Polarized Stakeholders and Institutional Vulnerabilities: The Enduring Politics of the Affordable Care Act,” Clinical Therapeutics 37 (4, 2015): 720–726.
Rocco, Philip. “Making Federalism Work? The Politics of Intergovernmental Collaboration and The PPACA,” Journal of Health and Human Services Administration 37(4, 2015): 412–461.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Implementing Health Reform in the United States: Intergovernmental Politics and the Dilemmas of Institutional Design,” Health Policy 116 (Spring, 2014): 51–60.
Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan, “Obamacare, Universal Credit, and the Trilemma of Public Services,” Public Administration Review 74(2, 2014): 142–3.
Rocco, Philip and Chloe Thurston, “From Metaphors to Measures: Observable Indicators of Gradual Institutional Change,” Journal of Public Policy 34 (1, 2014): 35–62.
Chatfield, Sara, and Philip Rocco, “Is Federalism a Political Safety Valve? Evidence from Congressional Decision-Making, 1960–2005,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 44 (1, 2014): 1–23.
Book Chapters
Rocco, Philip and Alex Waddan, “The Pathologies of the U.S. Health Care Regime,” in Research Handbook on Health Policy, ed. Tuba Agartan, Daniel Béland, Martin Powell, and Claus Wendt (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024), 374–392.
Rocco, Philip, Andrew Kelly, and Adrianna McIntyre, “Federalism,” in Health Politics and Policy, 6th ed., ed. James Morone and Dan Ehlke (Boston: Cengage, 2024).
Rocco, Philip, and Zachary Callen, “Introduction,” in American Political Development and the Trump Presidency, eds. Zachary Callen and Philip Rocco (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
Rocco, Philip. “The Policy State and the Post-Truth Presidency,” in American Political Development and the Trump Presidency, eds. Zachary Callen and Philip Rocco (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
Rocco, Philip. “The Quiet Politics of Medicaid Work Requirements,” in Medicaid: Enrollment, Eligibility, and Key Issues, ed. Daniel Lanford (Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers, forthcoming).
Rocco, Philip. “Medicaid Expansion: Intergovernmental Reform meets Nationalized Politics,” in Medicare and Medicaid: A Reference Handbook, ed. Greg Shaw (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
Reports
APSA Organized Section on Public Policy: Best Poster on Public Policy Award (2017, shared with Andrew Kelly)
American Political Science Association Research Partnerships on Critical Issues (shared with Amber Wichowsky, Shion Guha, and Jill Birren, 2020)
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