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Does Australia Have A Constitution? Part I - Powers: A Contitution Without Constitutionalism, Kenneth R. Mayer, Howard Schweber Jan 2008

Does Australia Have A Constitution? Part I - Powers: A Contitution Without Constitutionalism, Kenneth R. Mayer, Howard Schweber

Kenneth R Mayer

Forthcoming in the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal


Does Australia Have A Constitution? Part Ii - The Rights Constitution, Howard Schweber, Kenneth R. Mayer Jan 2008

Does Australia Have A Constitution? Part Ii - The Rights Constitution, Howard Schweber, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

Forthcoming in UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal


Public Election Funding, Competition, And Candidate Gender, Timothy Werner, Kenneth R. Mayer Oct 2007

Public Election Funding, Competition, And Candidate Gender, Timothy Werner, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

We analyze the effects of gender and competition on the decision to accept or decline public election funds, in Maine and Arizona since 2000.


Electoral Transitions In Connecticut: The Implementation Of Clean Elections In 2008, Kenneth R. Mayer, Timothy Werner Jan 2007

Electoral Transitions In Connecticut: The Implementation Of Clean Elections In 2008, Kenneth R. Mayer, Timothy Werner

Kenneth R Mayer

No abstract provided.


Comparative Election Administration: Can We Learn Anything From The Australian Electoral Commission?, Kenneth R. Mayer Jan 2007

Comparative Election Administration: Can We Learn Anything From The Australian Electoral Commission?, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

No abstract provided.


Sunlight As The Best Disinfectant: Campaign Finance In Australia, Kenneth R. Mayer Oct 2006

Sunlight As The Best Disinfectant: Campaign Finance In Australia, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

No abstract provided.


Do Public Funding Programs Enhance Electoral Competition?, Kenneth R. Mayer, Timothy Werner, Amanda Williams Jan 2006

Do Public Funding Programs Enhance Electoral Competition?, Kenneth R. Mayer, Timothy Werner, Amanda Williams

Kenneth R Mayer

Finds that public election funding -- "clean elections" -- increases electoral competition in state legislative elections.


Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer May 2003

Political Realities And Unintended Consequences: Why Campaign Finance Reform Is Too Important To Be Left To The Lawyers, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

A review essay on Ian Ayres and Bruce Ackerman, Voting With Dollars, and an exploration of the political and legal foundations of campaign finance regulation.


Unilateral Presidential Powers: Significant Executive Orders, 1949-99, Kenneth R. Mayer, Kevin Price Jun 2002

Unilateral Presidential Powers: Significant Executive Orders, 1949-99, Kenneth R. Mayer, Kevin Price

Kenneth R Mayer

The conventional sense of presidential power remains anchored in Neustadt’s notion of persuasion in a fragmented constitutional system.Here, the authors add to an emerging literature that redirects attention to formal sources of presidential authority. They examine the frequency of executive orders from 1949 to 1999 and offer new evidence that presidents rely on executive orders to effect significant policy change and send strategic signals to other actors in the political system. They contend that executive orders enable presidents to recast the organization and activities of the federal government and, at times, the larger contours ofAmerican politics. After assessing the political …


Executive Orders And Presidential Power, Kenneth R. Mayer May 1999

Executive Orders And Presidential Power, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

This article reassesses the current paradigm of the presidential studies literature, which holds that presidents have limited capacity to act unilaterally or make policy decisions on their own. I explore how presidents have used executive orders as a way of implementing significant policies unilaterally.


Bringing Politics Back In: Defense Policy And The Theoretical Study Of Institutions And Processes, Kenneth R. Mayer, Khademian M. Anne Mar 1996

Bringing Politics Back In: Defense Policy And The Theoretical Study Of Institutions And Processes, Kenneth R. Mayer, Khademian M. Anne

Kenneth R Mayer

Application of public administration theory to defense policy and procruemt. Students of public administration, regulatory processes, public bureaucracy, and policy studies rarely focus on defense as their substantive area. leaving the field to those trained in defense studies and international relations. THe result is negligible attention to the domestic political aspects of defense policy and minimal understanding of the administrative aspects of defense policy. We argue that a realistic examination of procurement in a political context of multiple and competing principals illustrates the difficulty of demanding accountability when goals are diverse and heavily debated, measured with difficulty, and where outcomes …


Closing Military Bases (Finally)): Solving Collective Dilemmas Through Delegation, Kenneth R. Mayer Aug 1995

Closing Military Bases (Finally)): Solving Collective Dilemmas Through Delegation, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

No abstract provided.


Electoral Cycles In Federal Government Prime Contract Awards: State-Level Evidence From The 1988 And 1992 Presidential Elections, Kenneth R. Mayer Feb 1995

Electoral Cycles In Federal Government Prime Contract Awards: State-Level Evidence From The 1988 And 1992 Presidential Elections, Kenneth R. Mayer

Kenneth R Mayer

I test for evidence of an electoral cycle in prime contract awards, testing for state-level accelerations in contract awards and deobligations induced by presidential elections.