Michael T Hartney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1093744 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael T Hartney |
| NOMBRES | Michael T |
| APELLIDO | Hartney |
| FIRMA | HARTNEY M T |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1112-2559 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 170 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The politics of teachers' union endorsements
School board candidates supported by local teachers' unions overwhelmingly win, and we examine the causes and consequences of the “teachers' union premium” in these elections. First, we show that union endorsement information increases voter support. Although the magnitude of this effect varies across ideological and partisan subgroups, an endorsement rarely hurts a candidate's prospects with the electorate. Second, we benchmark the size of the e…
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion
We investigate the effects of states’ labor laws, which can enhance or diminish the political power of public and private sector labor unions, on government responsiveness to public opinion. Drawing on newly developed measures of public opinion and policy liberalism in the US states over time, we leverage differences in the timing of law enactments across the states and find that labor laws impact government responsiveness in distinct ways. State…
Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in considering collectivities to be moral agents and holders of collective rights. While the term ‘collective right’ has become familiar through these political debates, one would be hard pressed to find references to collective rights in any dictionary or encyclopaedia of philosophy or in any standard work on political philosophy. Most proponents of collective tights, at least in recent polit…
Teachers’ unions and school board elections
Politics, Markets, and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to examine how local governments respond to a public health crisis amid high levels of partisan polarization. As an arena that has historically been relatively insulated from national partisan cleavages, public schools provide a useful window into understanding the growing nationalization of local politics. Leveraging the fact that all school districts had to adopt a reopening plan in fall 2020,…
Off-Cycle and Out of Sync
States exert significant control over many different types of electoral institutions that influence the tone and direction of political representation in American democracy. Yet almost nothing is known about the consequences of the institution that has the greatest singular impact on the turnout and composition of the electorate: election timing. We argue that off-cycle elections will tend to produce governments that are not well-aligned with the…
Financial Solidarity
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a “right-to-work” (RTW) legal regime for the entire government workforce (Janus v. AFSCME). While many predict lower union membership, few have considered howJanuswill challenge the overall cost-sharing strategy that unions use to ensure their affiliates’ organizational maintenance and survival. Using the National Education Association (NEA) as our empirical example, we develop and test a theory we call “fi…
Off-Cycle and Off Center
Who governs America's cities: organized interests or mass publics? Though recent scholarship finds that local governments enact policies that align with citizens' preferences, others argue that it is organized interests, not mass publics that are influential. To reconcile these perspectives, we show that election timing can help shed light on when voters or groups will be pivotal in city politics. Examining 1,600 large US cities, we find that off…
Show Who the Money? Teacher Sorting Patterns and Performance Pay across U.S. School Districts
Pay for performance (PFP) remains one of the most controversial policy debates in the New Public Management reform era. Skepticism about PFP in the public sector is often grounded in theories of public service motivation that suggest a misalignment between PFP's focus on extrinsic market‐based pay incentives and intrinsically motivated government workers. Frequently missing from this analysis, however, is any consideration for whether PFP leads t…
Racial Inequality in Democratic Accountability
One important and, to date, overlooked component of democratic accountability is the extent to which it might exacerbate existing societal inequalities if the outcomes for some groups of citizens are prioritized over others when voters evaluate governmental performance. We analyze a decade of California school board elections and find evidence that voters reward or punish incumbent board members based on the achievement of white students in their…
Government against Itself
Timing and Turnout
Journal Article Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups Get access Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups by Sarah F. Anzia. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2013. 296 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $30.00. Michael Hartney Michael Hartney Lake Forest College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 20…
When Government Subsidizes Its Own
Government policies can activate a political constituency not only by providing material resources to, or altering the interpretive experiences of, individual citizens, but also by directly subsidizing established interest groups. We argue that state laws mandating collective bargaining for public employees provided organizational subsidies to public sector labor unions that lowered the costs of mobilizing their members to political action. Explo…
Ideas about Interests
In recent years, the American political parties have shifted their positions on elementary and secondary education policy, both relative to each other and to their own past positions. Established explanations for party issue position-taking privilege the influence of groups in the parties' coalitions; yet in this case, both parties have taken positions opposed by important components of their bases. We develop a general framework for understandin…
The Political Foundations of the Black–White Education Achievement Gap
More than 50 years after Brown v. Board, African American students continue to trail their White peers on a variety of important educational indicators. In this article, we investigate the political foundations of the racial “achievement gap” in American education. Using variation in high school graduation rates across the states, we first assess whether state policymakers are attentive to the educational needs of struggling African American stud…
From the Schoolhouse to the Statehouse
Elementary and secondary education policy making in the U.S. states is heavily influenced by the political bargaining of various actors, with teacher unions one of the most important actors. Yet previous studies that assess the impact of teacher unions on education reform use problematic measures of their direct political influence, instead opting for broader measures of membership or collective bargaining power. By contrast, the authors measure …
Philosophie du droitAlain Renaut et Lukas Sosoe Collection «Recherches politiques» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1991, 484 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in considering collectivities to be moral agents and holders of collective rights. Peter French and others have argued that corporations are agents and bear moral responsibility for their actions. Virginia Held makes similar claims about nations. She also believes that we have “obligations to humanity collectively, to bring about its continued existence, and perhaps also to such lesser groups …
General theory of norms
The last work of this celebrated legal theorist, in which he makes some important revisions to his "pure theory of law", and discusses the views of over 200 philosophers and jurists on law morality, and the place of logic in law.
When Government Subsidizes Its Own
Government policies can activate a political constituency not only by providing material resources to, or altering the interpretive experiences of, individual citizens, but also by directly subsidizing established interest groups. We argue that state laws mandating collective bargaining for public employees provided organizational subsidies to public sector labor unions that lowered the costs of mobilizing their members to political action. Explo…
From the Schoolhouse to the Statehouse
Elementary and secondary education policy making in the U.S. states is heavily influenced by the political bargaining of various actors, with teacher unions one of the most important actors. Yet previous studies that assess the impact of teacher unions on education reform use problematic measures of their direct political influence, instead opting for broader measures of membership or collective bargaining power. By contrast, the authors measure …
Ideas about Interests
In recent years, the American political parties have shifted their positions on elementary and secondary education policy, both relative to each other and to their own past positions. Established explanations for party issue position-taking privilege the influence of groups in the parties' coalitions; yet in this case, both parties have taken positions opposed by important components of their bases. We develop a general framework for understandin…
Financial Solidarity
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a “right-to-work” (RTW) legal regime for the entire government workforce (Janus v. AFSCME). While many predict lower union membership, few have considered howJanuswill challenge the overall cost-sharing strategy that unions use to ensure their affiliates’ organizational maintenance and survival. Using the National Education Association (NEA) as our empirical example, we develop and test a theory we call “fi…
Politics, Markets, and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to examine how local governments respond to a public health crisis amid high levels of partisan polarization. As an arena that has historically been relatively insulated from national partisan cleavages, public schools provide a useful window into understanding the growing nationalization of local politics. Leveraging the fact that all school districts had to adopt a reopening plan in fall 2020,…
Racial Inequality in Democratic Accountability
One important and, to date, overlooked component of democratic accountability is the extent to which it might exacerbate existing societal inequalities if the outcomes for some groups of citizens are prioritized over others when voters evaluate governmental performance. We analyze a decade of California school board elections and find evidence that voters reward or punish incumbent board members based on the achievement of white students in their…
Off-Cycle and Off Center
Who governs America's cities: organized interests or mass publics? Though recent scholarship finds that local governments enact policies that align with citizens' preferences, others argue that it is organized interests, not mass publics that are influential. To reconcile these perspectives, we show that election timing can help shed light on when voters or groups will be pivotal in city politics. Examining 1,600 large US cities, we find that off…
The Political Foundations of the Black–White Education Achievement Gap
More than 50 years after Brown v. Board, African American students continue to trail their White peers on a variety of important educational indicators. In this article, we investigate the political foundations of the racial “achievement gap” in American education. Using variation in high school graduation rates across the states, we first assess whether state policymakers are attentive to the educational needs of struggling African American stud…
Teachers’ unions and school board elections
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion
We investigate the effects of states’ labor laws, which can enhance or diminish the political power of public and private sector labor unions, on government responsiveness to public opinion. Drawing on newly developed measures of public opinion and policy liberalism in the US states over time, we leverage differences in the timing of law enactments across the states and find that labor laws impact government responsiveness in distinct ways. State…
Off-Cycle and Out of Sync
States exert significant control over many different types of electoral institutions that influence the tone and direction of political representation in American democracy. Yet almost nothing is known about the consequences of the institution that has the greatest singular impact on the turnout and composition of the electorate: election timing. We argue that off-cycle elections will tend to produce governments that are not well-aligned with the…
Timing and Turnout
Journal Article Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups Get access Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups by Sarah F. Anzia. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2013. 296 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $30.00. Michael Hartney Michael Hartney Lake Forest College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 20…
General theory of norms
The last work of this celebrated legal theorist, in which he makes some important revisions to his "pure theory of law", and discusses the views of over 200 philosophers and jurists on law morality, and the place of logic in law.
Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in considering collectivities to be moral agents and holders of collective rights. Peter French and others have argued that corporations are agents and bear moral responsibility for their actions. Virginia Held makes similar claims about nations. She also believes that we have “obligations to humanity collectively, to bring about its continued existence, and perhaps also to such lesser groups …
Philosophie du droitAlain Renaut et Lukas Sosoe Collection «Recherches politiques» Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1991, 484 p
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From the Schoolhouse to the Statehouse
Elementary and secondary education policy making in the U.S. states is heavily influenced by the political bargaining of various actors, with teacher unions one of the most important actors. Yet previous studies that assess the impact of teacher unions on education reform use problematic measures of their direct political influence, instead opting for broader measures of membership or collective bargaining power. By contrast, the authors measure …
Ideas about Interests
In recent years, the American political parties have shifted their positions on elementary and secondary education policy, both relative to each other and to their own past positions. Established explanations for party issue position-taking privilege the influence of groups in the parties' coalitions; yet in this case, both parties have taken positions opposed by important components of their bases. We develop a general framework for understandin…
The Political Foundations of the Black–White Education Achievement Gap
More than 50 years after Brown v. Board, African American students continue to trail their White peers on a variety of important educational indicators. In this article, we investigate the political foundations of the racial “achievement gap” in American education. Using variation in high school graduation rates across the states, we first assess whether state policymakers are attentive to the educational needs of struggling African American stud…
Government against Itself
Timing and Turnout
Journal Article Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups Get access Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups by Sarah F. Anzia. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2013. 296 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $30.00. Michael Hartney Michael Hartney Lake Forest College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 20…
When Government Subsidizes Its Own
Government policies can activate a political constituency not only by providing material resources to, or altering the interpretive experiences of, individual citizens, but also by directly subsidizing established interest groups. We argue that state laws mandating collective bargaining for public employees provided organizational subsidies to public sector labor unions that lowered the costs of mobilizing their members to political action. Explo…
Show Who the Money? Teacher Sorting Patterns and Performance Pay across U.S. School Districts
Pay for performance (PFP) remains one of the most controversial policy debates in the New Public Management reform era. Skepticism about PFP in the public sector is often grounded in theories of public service motivation that suggest a misalignment between PFP's focus on extrinsic market‐based pay incentives and intrinsically motivated government workers. Frequently missing from this analysis, however, is any consideration for whether PFP leads t…
Racial Inequality in Democratic Accountability
One important and, to date, overlooked component of democratic accountability is the extent to which it might exacerbate existing societal inequalities if the outcomes for some groups of citizens are prioritized over others when voters evaluate governmental performance. We analyze a decade of California school board elections and find evidence that voters reward or punish incumbent board members based on the achievement of white students in their…
Politics, Markets, and Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to examine how local governments respond to a public health crisis amid high levels of partisan polarization. As an arena that has historically been relatively insulated from national partisan cleavages, public schools provide a useful window into understanding the growing nationalization of local politics. Leveraging the fact that all school districts had to adopt a reopening plan in fall 2020,…
Off-Cycle and Out of Sync
States exert significant control over many different types of electoral institutions that influence the tone and direction of political representation in American democracy. Yet almost nothing is known about the consequences of the institution that has the greatest singular impact on the turnout and composition of the electorate: election timing. We argue that off-cycle elections will tend to produce governments that are not well-aligned with the…
Financial Solidarity
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted a “right-to-work” (RTW) legal regime for the entire government workforce (Janus v. AFSCME). While many predict lower union membership, few have considered howJanuswill challenge the overall cost-sharing strategy that unions use to ensure their affiliates’ organizational maintenance and survival. Using the National Education Association (NEA) as our empirical example, we develop and test a theory we call “fi…
Off-Cycle and Off Center
Who governs America's cities: organized interests or mass publics? Though recent scholarship finds that local governments enact policies that align with citizens' preferences, others argue that it is organized interests, not mass publics that are influential. To reconcile these perspectives, we show that election timing can help shed light on when voters or groups will be pivotal in city politics. Examining 1,600 large US cities, we find that off…
Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in considering collectivities to be moral agents and holders of collective rights. While the term ‘collective right’ has become familiar through these political debates, one would be hard pressed to find references to collective rights in any dictionary or encyclopaedia of philosophy or in any standard work on political philosophy. Most proponents of collective tights, at least in recent polit…
Teachers’ unions and school board elections
State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion
We investigate the effects of states’ labor laws, which can enhance or diminish the political power of public and private sector labor unions, on government responsiveness to public opinion. Drawing on newly developed measures of public opinion and policy liberalism in the US states over time, we leverage differences in the timing of law enactments across the states and find that labor laws impact government responsiveness in distinct ways. State…
The politics of teachers' union endorsements
School board candidates supported by local teachers' unions overwhelmingly win, and we examine the causes and consequences of the “teachers' union premium” in these elections. First, we show that union endorsement information increases voter support. Although the magnitude of this effect varies across ideological and partisan subgroups, an endorsement rarely hurts a candidate's prospects with the electorate. Second, we benchmark the size of the e…
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