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The Appeal of Second Bananas: The Impact of Vice Presidential Candidates on P…
To what extent do vice presidential candidates affect individual-level vote choice for president? The accepted wisdom is that vice presidential candidates are of minor importance to most voters. Yet much energy was spent discussing the potential impact of Biden and Palin as vice presidential candidates. Here, the impact that attitudes toward Palin and Biden had on vote choice in the 2008 electi…
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- Vol. 38 no. 2, March 2010. pp. 330-355
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Were Newspapers More Interested in Pro-Obama Letters to the Editor in 2008? E…
During the 2008 presidential election, the authors submitted letters to the editor at 100 major U.S. newspapers as part of a field experiment to test whether interest in the letter depended on which candidate the letter supported. The authors find, contrary to what charges of a liberal media bias would suggest, that newspapers expressed more interest in pro-McCain letters than pro-Obama letters…
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- Vol. 38 no. 2, March 2010. pp. 356-371
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Priming Bush and Iraq in 2008: A Survey Experiment
Using a question-order experiment, half the respondents in a national RDD (random digit dial) likely voter survey taken just prior to the 2008 Presidential Primary election were primed to think about President Bush and the war in Iraq before making their candidate choice. Results show that the priming had a significant effect on their candidate choice, and that priming individuals to think abou…
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- Vol. 38 no. 2, March 2010. pp. 372-394
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Validation of the Crime and Violence Scale (CVS) Against the Rasch Measuremen…
In assessing criminality, researchers have used counts of crimes, arrests, and so on, because interval measures were not available. Additionally, crime seriousness varies depending on demographic factors. This study examined the Crime and Violence Scale (CVS) regarding psychometric quality using item response theory (IRT) and invariance of the crime seriousness hierarchy for gender, age, and ra…
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- Vol. 34 no. 2 April 2010, pp. 83-115
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Intimate Partner Violence at the Scene: Incident Characteristics and Implicat…
Using data that, to our knowledge, have not been used before for this purpose, we examined 9,231 opposite-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) calls for law enforcement assistance recorded in the Compstat system of a large U.S. city. Although women were the predominant victims, injuries were documented more often for men. Only about 1% of incidents were considered a restraining order violation, …
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- Vol. 34 no. 2 April 2010, pp.16-136
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Comparison of Paper-and-Pencil Versus Web Administration of the Youth Risk Be…
The authors examined whether paper-and-pencil and Web surveys administered in the school setting yield equivalent risk behavior prevalence estimates. Data were from a methods study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in spring 2008. Intact classes of 9th- or 10th-grade students were assigned randomly to complete a survey via paper-and-pencil or Web. Data from 5,227…
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- Vol. 34 no. 2 April 2010, pp. 137-153
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From Partnerships to Networks: New Approaches for Measuring U.S. National Her…
National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are an alternative and increasingly popular form of protected area management in the United States. NHAs seek to integrate environmental objectives with community and economic objectives at regional or landscape scales. NHA designations have increased rapidly in the last 20 years, generating a substantial need for evaluative information about (a) how NHAs work; (b…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 271-298
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Contracting for Independent Evaluation: Approaches to an Inherent Tension
There has recently been discussion of whether independent contract evaluation is possible. This article acknowledges the inherent tension in contract evaluation and in response suggests a range of constructive approaches to improving the independence of contract evaluation. In particular, a clear separation between the official evaluation report and a contractor’s own publication of analysis fr…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 299-333
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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: What Does a Regression Estimate?
Regressions that control for confounding factors are the workhorse of evaluation research. When treatment effects are heterogeneous, however, the workhorse regression leads to estimated treatment effects that lack behavioral interpretations even when the selection on observables assumption holds. Regressions that use propensity scores as weights and regressions based on random coefficients or h…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 334-361
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The Organ of Experience: A Defense of the Primacy of Public Administrators in…
Building on Wilsonian foundations, this article present the normative case for a special, central role for public servants in the design and redesign of public law, including constitutions. Central to the author’s argument are Wilson’s characterization of public administration as “the State’s experiencing organ” and his contention that public administration is the primary institution engaged da…
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010. pp. 263-286
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A Security Preface to 21st-Century Public Administration
The use of lethal technologies by global terror networks has elevated domestic security policy to a central concern of 21st-century public administration. Twentieth-century public administration scholars, influenced by Progressivism, Pluralism, and Public Choice, led the field to believe that it could both develop and administer domestic security policy without a coherent state theory to guide …
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 287-314
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The Relationship Between Intervention by Central/Federal or Local Levels of G…
What impact do interventions by central/federal or local levels of government in local emergency preparedness training have on the focus of training, comprehensiveness, and quality control? An analysis of two cases of intervention by central/federal levels of government reveals that training is likely to be (a) skill oriented and competence framed, (b) comprehensive, and (c) quality controlled …
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 315-342
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Interorganizational Collaboration and the Transition to the Department of Hom…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition has shown problems between executive political leadership, management associations, and labor unions, despite “collaborative efforts,” resulting in bureaucratic inertia. This means slower incremental changes for proposed personnel reforms based on private business models advocated by presidential administrations in recent years. The author su…
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010. pp. 343-360
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An Update of a Classic: Applying Expectancy Theory to Understand Contracted P…
This study explores whether a classic motivation theory traditionally applied by public administration scholars in bureaucratic settings can also be used to understand relationships in intersectoral service delivery networks. It focuses on how well expectancy theory explains contracted provider motivation to properly use service-monitoring tools because of contract rewards and penalties. To exa…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 375-403
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Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when do…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 404-440
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Effects of Information Technology on Policy Decision-Making Processes: Some E…
This study examined the effects of information technology (IT) on policy decision-making processes, especially in the stages of goal setting and choosing among policy alternatives. It used survey data collected in 1998 and 2005 from the metropolitan areas of Seoul and Busan in Korea. The survey results showed that there has been a positive change in the perception of the effects of IT on policy…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 441-459
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Korean Social Concertation at the Crossroads: Consolidation or Deterioration?
Since South Korea made a historic social pact in 1998 amid the Asian financial crisis, a newly established presidential committee, the Korea Tripartite Commission, has become a center of social concertation. The Korean case signifies the need to complement the theory of social concertation with a new set of hypotheses concerning structural factors, with particular attention to industrial struct…
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 449–473
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The Limits of Foreign Aid in Strengthening Bangladesh's Parliament: Analysis …
This paper examines the multi-donor-funded project called Strengthening Parliamentary Democracy (SPD), designed to strengthen Bangladesh's Parliament. In particular, it focuses on attempted reforms in the parliamentary committee system and in its rules of procedure. The article argues that the SPD has only been marginally successful in meeting its objectives, and identifies reasons for this lim…
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 474–496
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Japan's New Regionalism: China Shock, Values, and the East Asian Community
Japan's new thinking on regionalism is a means of soft balancing that counters a rising Chinese influence. A "hard" balancing strategy through an alliance with the United States is insufficient because the Chinese economy is indispensable for Japan's prosperity and because China is rising through soft power. Japan's response uses the concept of community based on universal values.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 497–519
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The Great Recession and China's Policy Toward Asian Regionalism
The global recession has had seemingly conflicting impacts on China's policy toward Asian regionalism. But China has never viewed regionalism and globalism as mutually exclusive and has seen strategic value in pursuing both. A stronger China emerging from the crisis is playing both regional and global games with a stronger hand.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 520–538
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