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Through The Looking Glass: What Abortion Teaches Us About American Politics, Neal Devins Jan 1994

Through The Looking Glass: What Abortion Teaches Us About American Politics, Neal Devins

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No abstract provided.


Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, And Political Science, Edward M. Wheat May 1993

Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, And Political Science, Edward M. Wheat

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No abstract provided.


Rule Of Law In Legal And Economic Theory, Noel B. Reynolds Apr 1993

Rule Of Law In Legal And Economic Theory, Noel B. Reynolds

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Legal positivism, the leading version of legal theory, has shown that a concentration on the meanings and logical relations of legal concepts, however much supplemented by intuition, common sense and legal experience, is not adequate to make full sense out of the human experience of law, and the traditional understandings of legal obligation and rule of law in particular. However, modern economic science has advanced a radically individualistic theoretical approach which has propelled economics to the fore as the most successful of the social sciences. And its basic theoretical stance is proving both attractive and adaptable to all the other …


Book Review: Grand Strategies In War And Peace, Ed. Paul Kennedy, Harvey Starr Mar 1993

Book Review: Grand Strategies In War And Peace, Ed. Paul Kennedy, Harvey Starr

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No abstract provided.


Aggregate Vote Functions For The Us. Presidency, Senate, And House, Henry W. Chappell, Motoshi Suzuki Feb 1993

Aggregate Vote Functions For The Us. Presidency, Senate, And House, Henry W. Chappell, Motoshi Suzuki

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Estimates vote functions for presidential, House and Senate elections following the premise that vote functions are likely to be related. Use of a seemingly unrelated regressions technique adapted to the case of unequal numbers of observations across equations; On-year versus mid-term congressional elections parameters; Influence of economic variables on election outcomes; Incumbency effects.


Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds Nov 1992

Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds

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In this paper Noel B. Reynolds’s theory of law as convention is compared to the public choice contractarian theory of James M. Buchanan. While there are numerous similarities, major differences emerge. Only conventionalism can produce legal and political authority and norms to guide the use of that authority in maintaining the rule of law. The concept of constructive unanimity is introduced to overcome the ultimate failure of contractarianism to legitimate the authority of law.


Ideology, Status, And The Differential Success Of Direct Parties Before The Supreme Court, Reginald S. Sheehan, William Mishler, Donald R. Songer Jun 1992

Ideology, Status, And The Differential Success Of Direct Parties Before The Supreme Court, Reginald S. Sheehan, William Mishler, Donald R. Songer

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A substantial literature on lower federal courts and state courts suggests that the "haves" usually come out ahead in litigation because they possess superior resources for it and they reap advantages from their repeat player status. We investigate the success of 10 categories of litigants before the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts to determine whether the resources or experience of litigants has effects on Supreme Court outcomes paralleling those found in the courts below. While different categories of litigants are found to have very different rates of success, those differences do not consistently favor litigants with greater resources. A time …


Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst Jun 1992

Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst

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No abstract provided.


Rethinking Accountability, Melvin Dubnick Feb 1992

Rethinking Accountability, Melvin Dubnick

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This presentation examines the author’s work focusing on "rethinking accountability" in public administration. It critiques dominant paradigms, such as rational choice and bureaucratic politics, for their superficial understanding of public sector behavior and provides an overview to the widely cited “accountability framework” developed with Romzek in their 1987 study of the Challenger accident. The framework is based on the idea that public administrators and other decision makers are constantly faced with multiple, diverse and (often) conflicting expectations, and that various forms of accountability develop as a response to such situations. Ultimately, the paper advocates for a deeper, more nuanced understanding …


Book Review: Turbulence In World Politics, James N. Rosenau, Harvey Starr Aug 1991

Book Review: Turbulence In World Politics, James N. Rosenau, Harvey Starr

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No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of The Training Priorities Of Clerical Employees And Their Supervisors, Peter J. Haas Jul 1991

A Comparison Of The Training Priorities Of Clerical Employees And Their Supervisors, Peter J. Haas

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Determines whether and in which ways the priorities of local government employees differ from those of their supervisors using data from employees in the Santa Clara County, California. Respondent profiles; Priorities of employees and supervisors among specific training topics for employees.


The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward Jan 1991

The Limits Of "Liberal Republicanism": Why Group-Based Remedies And Republican Citizenship Don't Mix, Cynthia V. Ward

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No abstract provided.


The Eagle And The Lion: The Tragedy Of American-Iranian Relations, By James A. Bill, Shahrough Akhavi Dec 1990

The Eagle And The Lion: The Tragedy Of American-Iranian Relations, By James A. Bill, Shahrough Akhavi

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No abstract provided.


Politics, Innocence And The Limits Of Goodness By Peter Johnson, Daniel R. Sabia Sep 1990

Politics, Innocence And The Limits Of Goodness By Peter Johnson, Daniel R. Sabia

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No abstract provided.


Opportunity, Willingness, And The Diffusion Of War, Randolph M. Siverson, Harvey Starr Mar 1990

Opportunity, Willingness, And The Diffusion Of War, Randolph M. Siverson, Harvey Starr

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Using borders and alliances as indicators of opportunity and willingness, respectively, we test the relationship between the sea and the diffusion of war during the 1816-1965 period. The impact of borders and alliances, individually and in combination, on the growth of ongoing war through "infectious" diffusion is shown through the comparison of baseline cases to cases where states at peace were exposed to various "treatments" comprised of warring border nations or warring alliance partners. The findings indicate that the probability of war diffusion is substantially increased as opportunities and willingness increase, particularly when such geographic and political factors are combined. …


Public Organizational Existence: A Critique Of Individualism In Democratic Administration, Charles R. Davis Mar 1990

Public Organizational Existence: A Critique Of Individualism In Democratic Administration, Charles R. Davis

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No abstract provided.


Authority And Political Culture In Shicism, Ed. Said Amir Arjomand, Shahrough Akhavi Feb 1990

Authority And Political Culture In Shicism, Ed. Said Amir Arjomand, Shahrough Akhavi

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No abstract provided.


Gestational Age Reporting And Preterm Delivery, Greg R. Alexander, Mark E. Tompkins, Donald A. Cornely Jan 1990

Gestational Age Reporting And Preterm Delivery, Greg R. Alexander, Mark E. Tompkins, Donald A. Cornely

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This study examines recent trends in the reporting completeness and quality of gestational age estimates derived from the date of the last normal menses (DLNM) as reported in South Carolina vital records from 1974 to 1985. Noteworthy improvements in the completeness of reporting emerged during this period with a decline from 31.1 percent missing information in 1974 to 6.6 percent missing in 1985. Completeness of reporting and strategies for imputing values for missing data were analyzed for their impact on the calculation of the percentage of pr?term live births. The results indicate that the underreporting of gestational age can lead …


Islam And Resistance In Afghanistan, By Olivier Roy, Shahrough Akhavi Aug 1989

Islam And Resistance In Afghanistan, By Olivier Roy, Shahrough Akhavi

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No abstract provided.


The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss By Shadia B. Drury, Daniel R. Sabia Aug 1989

The Political Ideas Of Leo Strauss By Shadia B. Drury, Daniel R. Sabia

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No abstract provided.


Regional Security Organizations And National Interests: Analyzing The Nato-Greek Relationship, Constantine P. Danopoulos Oct 1988

Regional Security Organizations And National Interests: Analyzing The Nato-Greek Relationship, Constantine P. Danopoulos

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This article analyzes the reasons which account for Greece's continuing membership in the Atlantic Alliance, even though NATO has not lived up to expectations and has failed to protect the nation's security against threats from Turkey. Following a brief examination of Greek attitudes toward NATO and the nature of dissatisfaction, the article argues that strategic concerns are, at best, of secondary importance. Instead, Greece's continuing membership in the Alliance is a result of the nation's economic ties to the West and the dependency of its military on NATO and Washington for advanced training, arms, war materiel, and other professional considerations. …


Opposition To Human Rights Treaties In The United States Senate: The Legacy Of The Bricker Amendment, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, David Whiteman Aug 1988

Opposition To Human Rights Treaties In The United States Senate: The Legacy Of The Bricker Amendment, Natalie Hevener Kaufman, David Whiteman

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No abstract provided.


Nonpublication In The United States District Courts: Official Criteria Versus Inferences From Appellate Review, Donald R. Songer Feb 1988

Nonpublication In The United States District Courts: Official Criteria Versus Inferences From Appellate Review, Donald R. Songer

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No abstract provided.


Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More Distinctive Contests?, Mark E. Tompkins Feb 1988

Have Gubernatorial Elections Become More Distinctive Contests?, Mark E. Tompkins

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Gubernatorial and presidential elections over the period 1947—1986 are examined, using a previously reported process for decomposing partisan electoral outcomes series into their longterm and short-term components. These measures are employed to examine the proposition that gubernatorial elections have become increasingly isolated from outside forces. It is found that presidential coattails appear to be declining in importance (but not only because a number of states have moved to off-year elections). Gubernatorial elections have converged around a national pattern of relatively close competition, unlike state-level presidential contests, which have shifted in favor of Republican candidates. The pattern of gubernatorial outcomes varies …


Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel Jan 1988

Explaining Policy Failure: Japan And The International Economy, 1969-1971, Robert C. Angel

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This paper examines the determinants of Japan's most serious postwar blunder: failure to define and implement effective and timely countermeasures to deal with its change from deficit to surplus international monetary status during the 1969-1971 period. It concludes that intense bureaucratic compartmentalization and a lack of supra-ministerial leadership of national policy were key determinants of this failure, leaving Japan's political system dependent upon irresistible external pressure (gai-atsu), in this case from the United States, to define and force implementation of necessary policy changes. This critical but largely ignored episode illustrates a negative aspect of the traditional insulation of Japan's national …


The Philippines And Asean: Options For Aquino, Donald E. Weatherbee Dec 1987

The Philippines And Asean: Options For Aquino, Donald E. Weatherbee

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No abstract provided.


Economics Of Agricultural Development In Tropical Africa By Seth La-Anyane, Mark W. Delancey Sep 1987

Economics Of Agricultural Development In Tropical Africa By Seth La-Anyane, Mark W. Delancey

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No abstract provided.


The Impact Of The Supreme Court On Trends In Economic Policy Making In The United States Courts Of Appeals, Donald R. Songer Aug 1987

The Impact Of The Supreme Court On Trends In Economic Policy Making In The United States Courts Of Appeals, Donald R. Songer

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Previous impact research has primarily investigated controversial civil liberties decisions. The present study examines the response of the United States Courts of Appeals to changes in the labor and antitrust policies announced by the Supreme Court between 1950 and 1977. Significant impact was discovered. In each policy area, the decisional trends of the courts of appeals underwent a significant change after each of two policy shifts on the Supreme Court. Changes in the decisional trends of the courts of appeal were in the predicted direction even after controls were introduced for judges' party and holdover effects.


The Political Environment Of Economic Planning In Iran, 1971-1983: From Monarchy To Islamic Republic, By Hossein Razavi And Firouz Vakil, Shahrough Akhavi May 1987

The Political Environment Of Economic Planning In Iran, 1971-1983: From Monarchy To Islamic Republic, By Hossein Razavi And Firouz Vakil, Shahrough Akhavi

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No abstract provided.


What Do They Know And When Do They Know It? Health Staff On The Hill, David Whiteman Apr 1987

What Do They Know And When Do They Know It? Health Staff On The Hill, David Whiteman

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No abstract provided.