Philip B Coulter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip B Coulter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip B |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulter |
| SIGNATURE | COULTER P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Measuring Inequality
The impetus to write this book grew out of curiosity and frustration. For a research project in which I was involved, I wanted to select an appropriate index to measure inequality, so I searched for a book that comprehensively reviewed the available indexes, identified their operational similarities and differences, and clarified their theoretical undetpinnings. Discovering that no such book existed, I became increasingly frustrated and curious. …
Democratic Political Development
There's a Madness in the Method
Recent meta-analysis of research on citizen-initiated contacting of government officials revealed that the findings are basically an artifact of the method used. Macroanalytic studies using aggregate data find a negative or curvilinear relationship between contacting and socioeconomic status (SES), and microanalytic studies using survey data find a positive or null relationship between contacting and SES. This author argues that almost all survey…
Who Contacts Officials, and Why
Policy Evaluation for Local Government
Subjective and Objective Measures of Police Service Delivery
In the past decade, we have witnessed a confluence of two previously independent modes of research in the area of urban service delivery. The first mode of analysis involves measuring service delivery performance characteristics using data from official archives of public agencies. Sometimes called measures, these indicators are used to document such performance criteria as effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of policy inputs, outputs, and impa…
Inferring the Distributional Effects of Bureaucratic Decision Rules
Although the bureaucratic decision rules that govern delivery of municipal public services are presumably distributionally benign, they may in fact exert a strong influence on the distribution of urban policy benefits. This article explicates the decision rule governing delivery of two specific types of fire protection services in a small city, measures the distributional inequity characteristic of the patterns of delivery, and infers one or more…
Introduction
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews
Journal Article Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews Get access PATRICK R. COTTER, PATRICK R. COTTER Patrick R. Cotter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of Survey Research and Service in the Center for Administrative and Policy Studies at the University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEFFREY COHEN, JEFFREY COHEN Jeffrey Cohen is an …
Measuring Distributional Inequity
Both policy managers and policy analysts are interested in the distribution of urban public services. It seems clear, however, that minimizing service maldistribution first depends on better measurement. The Index of Inequity is a new statistical procedure designed to measure maldistribution of urban services with respect to any distributional standard stipulated by the analyst. Evaluation of the Index and a proposed alternative provide insight i…
Measuring the Inequity of Urban Public Services Methodological Discussion With Applications
This article attempts to extend the analysis of urban service delivery beyond equality of units of service input to measurement of the equity of both inputs and outputs (impact). The author develops an original technique for measuring and indexing service equity. It is applied to police services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The findings are generally consistent with other recent research around the nation in that only modest inequities in service inpu…
Policy Science
In Search of the Master Science
Political Development & Political Theory
Comparative Community Politics & Public Policy
The Sociological Bases of Party Competition
THE PURPOSE of this study is to examine the ecological bases of party competition.' For over a decade there has been a continuing controversy among social scientists over the nature of the relationship between various forms of ecological structure and the structure of electoral competition between the two major political parties in the United States. The cumulative results of the major studies done in this area are unfortunately not only inconclu…
Urbanization and Party Competition
AREFUL students of politics have long postulated an important relationship between social structure and political structure. To understand any political system, it is argued, one must also have some knowledge of the social environment in which it functions. In recent years there has been considerable interaction between students of society (sociologists) and students of politics (political scientists). Modern political science has developed a com…
Senatorial Politics and Foreign Policy
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews
Journal Article Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews Get access PATRICK R. COTTER, PATRICK R. COTTER Patrick R. Cotter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of Survey Research and Service in the Center for Administrative and Policy Studies at the University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEFFREY COHEN, JEFFREY COHEN Jeffrey Cohen is an …
Measuring the Inequity of Urban Public Services Methodological Discussion With Applications
This article attempts to extend the analysis of urban service delivery beyond equality of units of service input to measurement of the equity of both inputs and outputs (impact). The author develops an original technique for measuring and indexing service equity. It is applied to police services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The findings are generally consistent with other recent research around the nation in that only modest inequities in service inpu…
Comparative Community Politics & Public Policy
Urbanization and Party Competition
AREFUL students of politics have long postulated an important relationship between social structure and political structure. To understand any political system, it is argued, one must also have some knowledge of the social environment in which it functions. In recent years there has been considerable interaction between students of society (sociologists) and students of politics (political scientists). Modern political science has developed a com…
Democratic Political Development
Inferring the Distributional Effects of Bureaucratic Decision Rules
Although the bureaucratic decision rules that govern delivery of municipal public services are presumably distributionally benign, they may in fact exert a strong influence on the distribution of urban policy benefits. This article explicates the decision rule governing delivery of two specific types of fire protection services in a small city, measures the distributional inequity characteristic of the patterns of delivery, and infers one or more…
Measuring Distributional Inequity
Both policy managers and policy analysts are interested in the distribution of urban public services. It seems clear, however, that minimizing service maldistribution first depends on better measurement. The Index of Inequity is a new statistical procedure designed to measure maldistribution of urban services with respect to any distributional standard stipulated by the analyst. Evaluation of the Index and a proposed alternative provide insight i…
Policy Science
The Sociological Bases of Party Competition
THE PURPOSE of this study is to examine the ecological bases of party competition.' For over a decade there has been a continuing controversy among social scientists over the nature of the relationship between various forms of ecological structure and the structure of electoral competition between the two major political parties in the United States. The cumulative results of the major studies done in this area are unfortunately not only inconclu…
In Search of the Master Science
Political Development & Political Theory
Senatorial Politics and Foreign Policy
Urbanization and Party Competition
AREFUL students of politics have long postulated an important relationship between social structure and political structure. To understand any political system, it is argued, one must also have some knowledge of the social environment in which it functions. In recent years there has been considerable interaction between students of society (sociologists) and students of politics (political scientists). Modern political science has developed a com…
The Sociological Bases of Party Competition
THE PURPOSE of this study is to examine the ecological bases of party competition.' For over a decade there has been a continuing controversy among social scientists over the nature of the relationship between various forms of ecological structure and the structure of electoral competition between the two major political parties in the United States. The cumulative results of the major studies done in this area are unfortunately not only inconclu…
Comparative Community Politics & Public Policy
Political Development & Political Theory
In Search of the Master Science
Policy Science
Measuring the Inequity of Urban Public Services Methodological Discussion With Applications
This article attempts to extend the analysis of urban service delivery beyond equality of units of service input to measurement of the equity of both inputs and outputs (impact). The author develops an original technique for measuring and indexing service equity. It is applied to police services in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The findings are generally consistent with other recent research around the nation in that only modest inequities in service inpu…
Measuring Distributional Inequity
Both policy managers and policy analysts are interested in the distribution of urban public services. It seems clear, however, that minimizing service maldistribution first depends on better measurement. The Index of Inequity is a new statistical procedure designed to measure maldistribution of urban services with respect to any distributional standard stipulated by the analyst. Evaluation of the Index and a proposed alternative provide insight i…
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews
Journal Article Race-of-Interviewer Effects in Telephone Interviews Get access PATRICK R. COTTER, PATRICK R. COTTER Patrick R. Cotter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of Survey Research and Service in the Center for Administrative and Policy Studies at the University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JEFFREY COHEN, JEFFREY COHEN Jeffrey Cohen is an …
Policy Evaluation for Local Government
Subjective and Objective Measures of Police Service Delivery
In the past decade, we have witnessed a confluence of two previously independent modes of research in the area of urban service delivery. The first mode of analysis involves measuring service delivery performance characteristics using data from official archives of public agencies. Sometimes called measures, these indicators are used to document such performance criteria as effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of policy inputs, outputs, and impa…
Inferring the Distributional Effects of Bureaucratic Decision Rules
Although the bureaucratic decision rules that govern delivery of municipal public services are presumably distributionally benign, they may in fact exert a strong influence on the distribution of urban policy benefits. This article explicates the decision rule governing delivery of two specific types of fire protection services in a small city, measures the distributional inequity characteristic of the patterns of delivery, and infers one or more…
Introduction
Who Contacts Officials, and Why
There's a Madness in the Method
Recent meta-analysis of research on citizen-initiated contacting of government officials revealed that the findings are basically an artifact of the method used. Macroanalytic studies using aggregate data find a negative or curvilinear relationship between contacting and socioeconomic status (SES), and microanalytic studies using survey data find a positive or null relationship between contacting and SES. This author argues that almost all survey…
Democratic Political Development
Measuring Inequality
The impetus to write this book grew out of curiosity and frustration. For a research project in which I was involved, I wanted to select an appropriate index to measure inequality, so I searched for a book that comprehensively reviewed the available indexes, identified their operational similarities and differences, and clarified their theoretical undetpinnings. Discovering that no such book existed, I became increasingly frustrated and curious. …
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