David Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5527-9825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 93 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1863 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Future of the Historic Environment in Forestry in the UK
With the push to address climate change and reach Net Zero, forestry is arguably going to play a bigger role in United Kingdom society than at any time since the Forestry Commission’s woodland expansion of the 1920s and 1930s. It provides many ecosystem services and significant economic benefit. It is integral in the delivery of the UK’s devolved governments’ tree planting targets, commercial carbon capture, sustainable timber and fuel, and the m…
Open Habitats, Heritage Opportunities
Thetford Forest, in Norfolk, is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for rare plants, invertebrates and ground-nesting birds. The Open Habitats project was developed to improve SSSI conditions, to meet the target set in the UK Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan: 75% of SSSIs to be in ‘favourable condition’ by 2042. The project aims to achieve this by creating open habitat in a form that best suits the widest range of spec…
Synergies in environmental and agricultural water availability under climate change
Andrew Lakoff, Planning for the wrong pandemic
The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord
New Directions in the Study of Scientology - Transcript
Recorded 19 November 2018. Transcribed by Helen Bradstock
Of Mice and Schoolchildren
This article explores a tension at the core of the concept of herd immunity that has been overlooked in public and scientific discussions—namely: how can immunity, a phenomenon of individual biological defenses, be made relevant to populations? How can collectives be considered “immune”? Over the course of more than a century of use of the term, scientists have developed many different understandings of the concept in response to this inherent te…
Leader to Laggard
The U.S. led the world in environmental policy in the 1970s, but now lags behind comparable nations and resists joining others in tackling climate change. Two embedded, entwined, and exceptional American institutions—broad private property rights and competitive federalism—are necessary for explaining this shift. These two institutions shaped the exceptional stringency of 1970s American environmental laws and the powerful backlash against these l…
Christopher Cotter and David Robertson of The Religious Studies Project
The Religious Studies Project is now a well-known fixture in the field, but it was not always as well-known as it is today. In this interview, Dr. Richard Newton from the Bulletin sat down with Dr. Chris Cotter and Dr. David Robertson to discuss their journey in creating the religious studies podcast from simple pub talk in 2010 to its current collection of some 300 episodes. In relaying their strides and struggles in this venture, Cotter and Rob…
Oak Savannas in Western New York State, Circa 1795
This study models and maps oak savanna distribution ca. 1795 and determines how environmental conditions and Native American land use (NALU) shaped its distribution. Historical research has analyzed early landscape accounts to assess how Native Americans modified forests throughout the eastern United States. Predictive spatial modeling has sought to quantify anthropogenic and environmental drivers of forest conditions and to predict locations whe…
Evaluating the Aboriginal child’s mind
This article examines two psychological interventions with Australian Aboriginal children in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The first involved evaluating the cognitive maturation of Aboriginal adolescents using a series of Piagetian interviews. The second, a more extensive educational intervention, used a variety of quantitative tests to measure and intervene in the intellectual performance of Aboriginal preschoolers. In both of these interventi…
Cicero
Reviewed by: Cicero: On Life and Death trans. by John Davie David Robertson John Davie (tr.). Cicero: On Life and Death. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxviii, 251. $16.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-964414-8. With an Introduction and Notes by Miriam T. Griffin. The surge in new translations of Cicero’s philosophical works in recent years continues with this contribution, which contains On Old Age, On Friendship, and…
Liberty and Coercion
Historian Gary Gerstle’s sweeping narrative argues that Americans aspire to an impossible, self-contradictory government: one with strong coercive power, but without the power to inhibit their liberties. Federalism is the unappreciated stage on which these clashing ideas have played out, shaping American history far more profoundly than most realize, often for the worse. These irreconcilable aspirations for government forged racial and gender ine…
A Second Timber Circle, Trackways, and Coppicing at Holme-next-the-Sea Beach, Norfolk
Since 1998 archaeological investigations on Holme-next-the-Sea beach have recorded the waterlogged remains of two Bronze Age timber circles, timber structures, coppiced trees, metal objects, and salt- and freshwater marshes. The second timber circle (Holme II) is only the third waterlogged structure of its type to be discovered in Britain and only the second to be dated by dendrochronology. The felling of timbers used in Holme II has been dated t…
Timber Monuments and Coastal Processes
Between 2003 and 2008 an archaeological walkover and monitoring survey recorded forty-one archaeological features on Holme Beach, including an Early Bronze Age timber circle, at least one Bronze Age trackway and Anglo-Saxon fishweirs. Coastal processes were seen to affect the features in a range of ways, including initial exposure, greater exposure over time, scouring, loss of timbers, retreat of peat beds and dune faces and concealment by sand. …
Listening to the Now
The future of classical music is almost universally thought bleak. Attendance figures are dropping, and some even question whether it is possible to write new classical music that concertgoers will be able to appreciate. This essay locates the origins of such doomsday prophecy in unquestioned assumptions and seeks to establish just the opposite: that classical music is alive and vibrant, that new creative horizons are constantly opening up, and t…
Plato's Forms in Transition
Reviewed by: Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides David Robertson Samuel C. Rickless. Plato's Forms in Transition: A Reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 272. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-96456-9; $39.99 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-521-110488. This book is a fine example of analytic philosophy rigorously applied to the Platonic dialogues. As such, it is a model of disciplined philosophical writing on a …
Fish and The Book off Tobit in Malamud's “The Magic Barrel”
Research Article| January 01 2009 Fish and The Book off Tobit in Malamud's “The Magic Barrel” David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2009) 28: 73–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206116 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Robertson; Fish and The Book off Tobit in Malamud's “The Magic Barrel”. Studies in Americ…
Canadian studies and American geography
Geography is perceived to be a relevant contributing discipline within a growing Canadian studies community in the United States, and the Association of American Geographers (AAG) retains a viable Canadian Studies Specialty Group. Since the early 1990s, however, the number of American geographers affiliated with Canadian studies organizations has not significantly increased: the community of scholars remains small and geography holds a peripheral…
The Heirs of Plato
Reviewed by: The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.) David Robertson John Dillon. The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347–274 B.C.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $104.50 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-19-823766-2; $62.50 (pb.). ISBN: 978-0-19-927946-3. Dillon’s reconstruction of the Early Platonists provides a helpful overview of the leading lights of the Old Academy (Speusippus, Xenocrates, [End Page 85] and Po…
Well-Intentioned Men
Hard as the Rock Itself
"The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, [book title] provides rare insight into the struggles and rewards of life in these communities. [author] contends that these communities ... have a strong and enduring sense of place and have even embraced some of the signs of so-called dereliction. [author] documents the history of Toluca, Illinois; Cokedale, Colorado; and Picher, Oklahoma, from the mineral discovery phase…
A Pivotal Politician and Constitutional Design
A Pivotal Voter From a Pivotal State" argues that Roger Sherman played a central role at the Constitutional Convention, but it takes a different approach to explaining Sherman's role than "Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design." First, the two articles are trying to answer different questions; "A Pivotal Voter" is trying to explain roll call votes, whereas "Madison's Opponents" was trying to explain the Constitution's substantive design. …
Capital, Labor, and State
The King's School, Gloucester
Political Conflict and Lesson-Drawing
Political adversaries have reason and opportunity to use foreign lessons to gain advantage in political conflicts. Political factors strongly affect the way public policy lessons are drawn and transformed into public policy. Political opponents contest the value, practicality, and transferability of policy initiatives in order to bias the outcome. The paper hypothesizes that (i) the politicization of lesson-drawing induces issue experts to emphas…
Fear, black people and mental illness
The relationships between black communities and the mental health (MH) services are fraught. Paradoxically, black communities receive the MH services they don't want, but not the ones they do or might want. Black people mistrust and often fear services, and staff are often wary of the black community, fearing criticism, and not knowing how to respond, are fearful of black people, in particular, young black men. The situation is fuelled by prejudi…
The Bias of American Federalism
Welfare state programs developed later in the United States than in other nations. Today, American programs are less widely accessible, less uniform, and often less generous than programs abroad. Explanations for this relative conservatism usually focus on the lack of a socialist movement or a socialist ideological tradition in the United States. Yet during the Progressive Era, when the gap between the American and European welfare states widened…
Production without Empowerment
This paper examines the relationship between new forms of work organization and worker empowerment from the perspective of workers. The data is drawn from a survey of 5,635 Canadian automobile workers. Workers were asked questions about their work-load, health and safety conditions, empowerment, and relations with management. It examines what it is like to work in plants organized according to the principles of lean production and compares empowe…
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom
Journal Article M. D. Steuer et al. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom Get access The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom. By M. D. Steuer et al. (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1973. Pp. v + 217. £2.10.) David Robertson David Robertson University of Reading. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 334, 1 June 1974, P…
Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design
Understanding what James Madison's opponents sought and won at the U.S. Constitutional Convention revises our understanding of the founders' original intentions for the durable framework that has structured American political development. The Constitution is the by-product of expedient accommodations forced on Madison. Madison sought broad national authority independent of state governments and a swift victory for population-based congressional r…
A Middle Palaeolithic Site at Lynford Quarry, Mundford, Norfolk
In late February and early March 2002, an archaeological watching brief at Lynford Quarry, Mundford, Norfolk revealed a palaeochannel with a dark organic fill containing in situ mammoth remains and associated Mousterian stone tools and debitage buried under 2–3 m of bedded sands and gravels. Well-preserved in situ Middle Palaeolithic open air sites are very unusal in Europe and exceedingly rare within a British context. As such, the site was iden…
The Return to History and the New Institutionalism in American Political Science
When it emerged as a discipline a century ago, the historical and comparative description of political institutions dominated political science. The self-consciously rigorous analysis of behavior inspired by psychology and the physical sciences began to displace historical analysis in the 1920s. By the 1950s and 1960s the behavioral revolution came to dominate the discipline’s research agendas. Leading practitioners acknowledged that the discipli…
Judicial Ideology in the House of Lords
For a variety of reasons political science in Britain has made no serious attempt to study courts and judges as political institutions and actors. Or at least this was true until recently. Several works in the last few years, especially Griffith's, Stevens's and a forthcoming book on the law lords by Alan Paterson, have pointed to a much needed change in this attitude. However, none of them have been works of political science, even though they h…
Mrs. Thatcher's Employment Prescription
Though each of the capitalist democracies has developed a similar battery of programs for mitigating labor market problems, politically significant differences in strategy underlie superficial similarities. By the 1970s, labor market strategies could be distinguished by three models: a passive social democratic or guardian strategy (Britain), an active social democratic or egalitarian strategy (Sweden), and a passive neo-liberal or business-cente…
Economic Integration among Developing Countries
Journal Article Economic Integration among Developing Countries Get access Economic Integration among Developing Countries. By F. Kahnertet al. Preface by André Philip. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1969. 162 pp. Bibliog. (Development Centre Studies) 27s. 6d. 18 F. Sw. Frs. 16. DM 13.70. $4. David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Team Concept and Kaizen
This paper provides some half-time reflections on a longitudinal case study of a unionized Japanese-American automobile factory based in Ingersoll, Ontario
Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Divergence
British and American labor-market policies such as workmen's compensation, public employment offices, and unemployment insurance diverged markedly as they evolved after 1900. Most cross-national social policy studies compare such macropolitical variables as spending, culture, wealth, and political competition. This study takes an alternative micropolitical approach in order to detail the links between policy effort, program design, and macropolit…
Program Implementation Versus Program Design
Many influential implementation scholars now argue that “street‐level” bureaucrats, rather than legislators or high‐level administrators, make public policy in the U.S. Such authors as Pressman and Wildavsky cite creaming in employment and training programs as an especially clear example of well‐meaning programs that fail when implemented. This paper argues that two of the most significant and lasting of these programs, the U.S. Employment Servic…
Beyond Twister
Storm chasing is widely perceived as a new form of extreme sport or adventure travel. Each spring increasing numbers of tourists descend on the Southern Plains, the center of storm chasing in the United States, but little is known about their activities. According to longtime chasers, popular portrayals of storm pursuits are highly misleading, and growing participation in the sport is affecting storm chasing in the region. This study introduces t…
Timber Monuments and Coastal Processes
Between 2003 and 2008 an archaeological walkover and monitoring survey recorded forty-one archaeological features on Holme Beach, including an Early Bronze Age timber circle, at least one Bronze Age trackway and Anglo-Saxon fishweirs. Coastal processes were seen to affect the features in a range of ways, including initial exposure, greater exposure over time, scouring, loss of timbers, retreat of peat beds and dune faces and concealment by sand. …
A Pivotal Politician and Constitutional Design
A Pivotal Voter From a Pivotal State" argues that Roger Sherman played a central role at the Constitutional Convention, but it takes a different approach to explaining Sherman's role than "Madison's Opponents and Constitutional Design." First, the two articles are trying to answer different questions; "A Pivotal Voter" is trying to explain roll call votes, whereas "Madison's Opponents" was trying to explain the Constitution's substantive design. …
Credit transfer and the mobility of credentials in UK higher education
For 30 years public policy towards higher education in the UK has commended the development of credit transfer and the mobility of credentials. Moreover, policy developments internationally encourage the view that improved credit transfer is essential for an affordable higher education system committed to democratic participation and sustainable human development in a changing global economy. Yet, as this paper shows, despite persistent encourage…
Planned Incapacity to Succeed? Policy‐making Structure and Policy Failure
Policies may fail in two analytically distinct ways: they may fail to achieve their goals, or they may fail to retain political support and be terminated. By failing to distinguish between ineffectiveness and political failure, the three most common interpretations of the War on Poverty and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (failure owing to central government incompetence, failure owing to pluralism, and “hidden” success) cannot adeq…
Of Mice and Schoolchildren
This article explores a tension at the core of the concept of herd immunity that has been overlooked in public and scientific discussions—namely: how can immunity, a phenomenon of individual biological defenses, be made relevant to populations? How can collectives be considered “immune”? Over the course of more than a century of use of the term, scientists have developed many different understandings of the concept in response to this inherent te…
Leader to Laggard
The U.S. led the world in environmental policy in the 1970s, but now lags behind comparable nations and resists joining others in tackling climate change. Two embedded, entwined, and exceptional American institutions—broad private property rights and competitive federalism—are necessary for explaining this shift. These two institutions shaped the exceptional stringency of 1970s American environmental laws and the powerful backlash against these l…
Bellwether Politics in Missouri
Professor Robertson explains what makes Missouri a consistent bellwether state in presidential politics, and points to trends in the electorate that show why it will continue to be a microcosm of American politics. In describing recent state campaigns, he demonstrates how the deep urban-rural split in Missouri will endure far beyond the 2004 elections. Missouri Republicans have seized the advantage of a growing rural base and nurtured a rural-sub…
Inconsistent Contextualism
does Michael P. Johnson characterize the scholarship of Professors Pearson and Egerton and my own biography of Denmark Vesey.1 Johnson avers that, by our having accepted uncritically the Official Report, we have reconstructed Vesey as the leader of a slave conspiracy that in fact never existed; by having exercised empiricism's will to truth, we have falsely emplotted Vesey's life and unwittingly perpetuated the Charleston city judges' fictive ver…
Voluntarism Against the Open Shop
Was the American Federation of Labor's (AFL) embrace of “voluntarism” a decisive turning point in American labor and political history? Voluntarism was the belief that trade unions should focus on “pure and simple” gains in wages and working conditions, rather than independent labor politics and industrial unionism. This belief dominated AFL strategy by 1900, and the results seem self-evident. By rejecting public health insurance, unemployment in…
Introduction
The 1970s had at least as powerful an impact on the course of American public policy as the decade that preceded it. Polls showed that confidence in large institutions—including government—was wearing down under the burden of crisis, complexity, scandal, and doubt. Inflation, economic stagnation, and severe oil shortages directly disrupted individual lives. Faith in the future of the nation, its economy, its institutions, and its government erode…
Note concerning the Residence of the Barons Balmerino, in Leith
The author discusses the architecture and owners of the Balmerino mansion in Leith. He quotes Daniel Wilson’s description of the building and its architectural styles, as well as W H Cooper’s then account of the building’s ownership. The second half of the article describes Arthur, the last Baron of Balmerino, who was executed as a Jacobite in 1746
Notice of Supposed Cranium of Robert Logan of Restalrig
A skull and some associated bones were unearthed from beneath St Mary’s Church in Leith in the 1840s. The author, having examined these bones and the history of the church, suggests that they may belong to Robert Logan of Restalrig, who was buried and later disinterred when he was suspected of treason. However, David Laing disagrees with this argument, as he believes there is no solid evidence linking the bones to Logan
The Economics of Inflation
Utility and All That 1
The Religious Foundations of Leveller Democracy
Examines the political ideals of the Levellers in conjunction with their intertwined religious background and orientation. Also looks at their economic interests
Trade Unions
George Mallory
Economic Integration among Developing Countries
Journal Article Economic Integration among Developing Countries Get access Economic Integration among Developing Countries. By F. Kahnertet al. Preface by André Philip. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1969. 162 pp. Bibliog. (Development Centre Studies) 27s. 6d. 18 F. Sw. Frs. 16. DM 13.70. $4. David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Should Churches Be Taxed
The Growth of Firms, Middle East Oil and Other Essays
Journal Article The Growth of Firms, Middle East Oil and Other Essays Get access The Growth of Firms, Middle East Oil and Other Essays. By Edith Penrose. London: Cass. 1971. 336 pp. £4.00. David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1972, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613456 Published: 01 April 1972
The Multinationals and The Strategy of Multinational Enterprise
Journal Article The Multinationals and The Strategy of Multinational Enterprise: Organisation and Finance Get access The Multinationals. By Christopher Tugendhat. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1971. 242 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.The Strategy of Multinational Enterprise: Organisation and Finance. By Michael Z. Brooke and H. Lee Remmers. London: Longman. 1970. 389 pp. Bibliog. Index. £4.75. David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by t…
Problems of Trade Policy
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom
Journal Article M. D. Steuer et al. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom Get access The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the United Kingdom. By M. D. Steuer et al. (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1973. Pp. v + 217. £2.10.) David Robertson David Robertson University of Reading. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 84, Issue 334, 1 June 1974, P…
Well, Does Leviathan
In the October 1973 issue of this Journal, John Orbell and Brent Rutherford published an article which sought to test the central thesis of Hobbes’ Leviathan. Although I shall try to show that as a piece of research it was fatally flawed, the authors deserve acclaim for their boldness, and for showing the way back to serious comparative government research in the Aristotelian manner. To test the basic principles of constitutions against the claim…
Judicial Ideology in the House of Lords
For a variety of reasons political science in Britain has made no serious attempt to study courts and judges as political institutions and actors. Or at least this was true until recently. Several works in the last few years, especially Griffith's, Stevens's and a forthcoming book on the law lords by Alan Paterson, have pointed to a much needed change in this attitude. However, none of them have been works of political science, even though they h…
Program Implementation Versus Program Design
Many influential implementation scholars now argue that “street‐level” bureaucrats, rather than legislators or high‐level administrators, make public policy in the U.S. Such authors as Pressman and Wildavsky cite creaming in employment and training programs as an especially clear example of well‐meaning programs that fail when implemented. This paper argues that two of the most significant and lasting of these programs, the U.S. Employment Servic…
Mrs. Thatcher's Employment Prescription
Though each of the capitalist democracies has developed a similar battery of programs for mitigating labor market problems, politically significant differences in strategy underlie superficial similarities. By the 1970s, labor market strategies could be distinguished by three models: a passive social democratic or guardian strategy (Britain), an active social democratic or egalitarian strategy (Sweden), and a passive neo-liberal or business-cente…
Judges and Law
Journal Article JUDGES AND LAW Get access David Robertson David Robertson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1986, Pages 246–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052042 Published: 01 April 1986
Ideology, Strategy and Party Change
The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties themselves with a starting point for their activity in gover…
Planned Incapacity to Succeed? Policy‐making Structure and Policy Failure
Policies may fail in two analytically distinct ways: they may fail to achieve their goals, or they may fail to retain political support and be terminated. By failing to distinguish between ineffectiveness and political failure, the three most common interpretations of the War on Poverty and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (failure owing to central government incompetence, failure owing to pluralism, and “hidden” success) cannot adeq…
Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Divergence
British and American labor-market policies such as workmen's compensation, public employment offices, and unemployment insurance diverged markedly as they evolved after 1900. Most cross-national social policy studies compare such macropolitical variables as spending, culture, wealth, and political competition. This study takes an alternative micropolitical approach in order to detail the links between policy effort, program design, and macropolit…
Governing & Jobs
The governance of labor markets indicates the balance capitalist democracies strike between market forces and citizen claims for security and equity. This article presents three models of labor market policy-egalitarian, guardian, and business-centered-and finds that American public policy best fits the latter of these. The author argues that labor market policy in the U.S., while similar in many ways to that of other capitalist democracies, diff…
The Bias of American Federalism
Welfare state programs developed later in the United States than in other nations. Today, American programs are less widely accessible, less uniform, and often less generous than programs abroad. Explanations for this relative conservatism usually focus on the lack of a socialist movement or a socialist ideological tradition in the United States. Yet during the Progressive Era, when the gap between the American and European welfare states widened…
Defining Stability
The Development of American Public Policy
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