John E Owens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 222580 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John E Owens |
| NOMBRES | John E |
| APELLIDO | Owens |
| FIRMA | OWENS J E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8149-0640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1953 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
After Full Employment
First published in 1986. This book analyses, at an introductory level, the four main and competing political interpretations of the cause of unemployment and the future of paid work – social democracy, free market liberalism, the disciplinary state, and utopian socialism. Considered together these four interpretations are highly revealing – and challenging. They raise considerable doubts about the viability or desirability of policies design to ‘…
Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006
Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leaders’ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadership—particularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agency is thus discounted, and leaders’ personal characteristics and leadership styles are underplayed. Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. H…
Rethinking Crises and the Accretion of Executive Power
External shocks to democratic systems are likely to threaten the stability of relations between the executive and the representative assembly. This article investigates the impact of the so‐called “war on terror” on executive‐assembly relations in comparative perspective. We analyze data from seven countries, which varied in terms of form of government, level of democracy, culture, social structure, and geographic location, to evaluate its effect…
The resilience of democratic institutions in Britain, Australia and the United States under conditions of total war
To what extent are democratic institutions resilient when nation states mobilise for war? Normative and empirical political theorists have long argued that wars strengthen the executive and threaten constitutional politics. In modern democracies, national assemblies are supposed to hold the executive to account by demanding explanations for events and policies; and by scrutinising, reviewing and, if necessary, revising legislative proposals inten…
Thinking about Congress
The War on Terror and the Growth of Executive Power
Constitutions – codified or unwritten – institutionalise and actually constitute specific equilibria or balances of power between the executive and the legislature. Yet equilibria may shift over time. In particular, normative and empirical political theorists have long recognised that critical events – war, civil unrest, economic and political crises, terrorist attacks and other external shocks – strengthen the power of the executive, disrupt and…
Congressional Acquiescence to Presidentialism in the US ‘War on Terror’
Congressional dominance theory holds that not only can the US Congress control the executive, it does. The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 and the Bush administration’s ensuing global ‘war on terror’ suggest a different result. Bush’s response to 9/11 signalled not only new directions in US foreign and domestic policy but a new stage in the aggrandisement of presidential power in the United States and a further s…
Introduction
In democratic polities, constitutional equilibria or balances of power between the executive and the legislature shift over time. Normative and empirical political theorists have long recognised that war, civil unrest, economic and political crises, terrorist attacks, and other events strengthen the power of the executive, disrupt and threaten constitutional politics, and damage democratic institutions: crises require swift action and executives …
Presidential Power and Congressional Acquiescence in the “War” on Terrorism
U.S. presidents have expanded executive power in times of war and emergency, sometimes aggressively so. This article builds on Burnham’s application of punctuated equilibria theory to suggest that the combination of President George W. Bush’s presidentialist doctrine, the external shock of the 9/11 atrocities and the president’s “war” on terror has consolidated a new, constitutional equilibrium between the president and the Congress. While some m…
Introduction
Qualified exceptionalism
The framers of the American Constitution devised a singular bicameral legislative body, which invested substantial power in both a broadly representative lower chamber and a second "deliberative" chamber that was both insulated from the voters and unrepresentative of the population as a whole. Until the early 20th Century, the singular U.S. Congress changed little, but\nwith growing national responsibilities, it sought to construct organizational…
Institutional Competition and Conflict in a Separated System
Cet article montre comment des partis polarisés ont reconquis leur place au Capitole tout en devenant de fortes sources de tension dans les relations Présidence-Congrès. Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, de nouvelles tensions institutionnelles se sont ajoutées à ces divisions partisanes. George W. Bush s’est auto-proclamé président de guerre et a affirmé ses privilèges exécutifs unilatéralement, avec agressivité. Ce n’est que dans certaines limites – …
Part 1
Legislative party discipline and cohesion are important phenomena in the study of political systems. Unless assumptions are made that parties are cohesive and act as unified collectivities with reasonably well-defined goals, it is really difficult, if not impossible, to consider their electoral and legislative roles usefully. But levels of legislative party cohesiveness are also important because they provide us with crucial information about how…
Leadership in Context
The seven essays in this collection explore important questions that are at the heart of the understanding of political leadership. We ask: what are the relationships among personal political skill, the strength or weakness of institutional roles available to leaders, and the changing historical and political contexts within which leaders act?\n\nPoliticians with agendas for change seek to create dynamic relations of talent, institutional powers,…
Late Twentieth Century Congressional Leaders as Shapers of and Hostages to Political Context
Most contemporary explanations of congressional leadership postulate a version of contextual theory that typically places greatest emphasis on the strength of party and downplays the personal skills of individual leaders. By analyzing the leadership of just three recent individuals—Gingrich, Hastert, and Lott—this essay demonstrates the extent to which these leaders' different styles, skills, and characteristics interacted with changing political…
From committee government to party government
The Importance of Candidate Characteristics and Local Political Conditions in the 1994 US Mid-Term Elections
The Return of Party Government in the US House of Representatives
Following the Republican victory in the 1994 mid-term elections, the balance of power in the US House of Representatives between committees and central party leader shifted decisively in favour of the latter. The central thrust of the procedural and personnel changes instituted under Newt Gingrich in 1994 and 1995 was to consolidate party government. This article reviews these important changes and analyses their impact on the legislative process…
Good Public Policy Voting in the US Congress
Two important themes in the literature on the United States Congress are that members experience difficulty transacting complex technical legislation – because most are not experts – and that they make their decisions on the basis of what will help them win re-election, by following the economic preferences of their interest group or electoral constituencies. The few writers who have examined congressional decisionmaking on financial institutions…
The Impact of Campaign Contributions on Legislative Outcomes in Congress
Extreme Advocacy Leadership in the Pre-Reform House
Committee chairmen in the United States House of Representatives were often very powerful figures until the reforms of the early 1970s – as the numerous tales about those stereotyped villains, the southern Democrats, bear witness. Yet, surprisingly little explicit typologizing about leadership in congressional committees appears in the academic literature despite a growing awareness of the different goals which congressmen pursue and the variety …
Sociology in East Pakistan
Sociology in Pakistan
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El Pensamiento Sociológico de Hobhouse
Sociology in Finland
Part 1
Legislative party discipline and cohesion are important phenomena in the study of political systems. Unless assumptions are made that parties are cohesive and act as unified collectivities with reasonably well-defined goals, it is really difficult, if not impossible, to consider their electoral and legislative roles usefully. But levels of legislative party cohesiveness are also important because they provide us with crucial information about how…
The Return of Party Government in the US House of Representatives
Following the Republican victory in the 1994 mid-term elections, the balance of power in the US House of Representatives between committees and central party leader shifted decisively in favour of the latter. The central thrust of the procedural and personnel changes instituted under Newt Gingrich in 1994 and 1995 was to consolidate party government. This article reviews these important changes and analyses their impact on the legislative process…
Introduction
In democratic polities, constitutional equilibria or balances of power between the executive and the legislature shift over time. Normative and empirical political theorists have long recognised that war, civil unrest, economic and political crises, terrorist attacks, and other events strengthen the power of the executive, disrupt and threaten constitutional politics, and damage democratic institutions: crises require swift action and executives …
Extreme Advocacy Leadership in the Pre-Reform House
Committee chairmen in the United States House of Representatives were often very powerful figures until the reforms of the early 1970s – as the numerous tales about those stereotyped villains, the southern Democrats, bear witness. Yet, surprisingly little explicit typologizing about leadership in congressional committees appears in the academic literature despite a growing awareness of the different goals which congressmen pursue and the variety …
Qualified exceptionalism
The framers of the American Constitution devised a singular bicameral legislative body, which invested substantial power in both a broadly representative lower chamber and a second "deliberative" chamber that was both insulated from the voters and unrepresentative of the population as a whole. Until the early 20th Century, the singular U.S. Congress changed little, but\nwith growing national responsibilities, it sought to construct organizational…
The Importance of Candidate Characteristics and Local Political Conditions in the 1994 US Mid-Term Elections
Presidential Power and Congressional Acquiescence in the “War” on Terrorism
U.S. presidents have expanded executive power in times of war and emergency, sometimes aggressively so. This article builds on Burnham’s application of punctuated equilibria theory to suggest that the combination of President George W. Bush’s presidentialist doctrine, the external shock of the 9/11 atrocities and the president’s “war” on terror has consolidated a new, constitutional equilibrium between the president and the Congress. While some m…
Sociology in East Pakistan
Rethinking Crises and the Accretion of Executive Power
External shocks to democratic systems are likely to threaten the stability of relations between the executive and the representative assembly. This article investigates the impact of the so‐called “war on terror” on executive‐assembly relations in comparative perspective. We analyze data from seven countries, which varied in terms of form of government, level of democracy, culture, social structure, and geographic location, to evaluate its effect…
Thinking about Congress
Leadership in Context
The seven essays in this collection explore important questions that are at the heart of the understanding of political leadership. We ask: what are the relationships among personal political skill, the strength or weakness of institutional roles available to leaders, and the changing historical and political contexts within which leaders act?\n\nPoliticians with agendas for change seek to create dynamic relations of talent, institutional powers,…
Late Twentieth Century Congressional Leaders as Shapers of and Hostages to Political Context
Most contemporary explanations of congressional leadership postulate a version of contextual theory that typically places greatest emphasis on the strength of party and downplays the personal skills of individual leaders. By analyzing the leadership of just three recent individuals—Gingrich, Hastert, and Lott—this essay demonstrates the extent to which these leaders' different styles, skills, and characteristics interacted with changing political…
Social Science and Philosophy
Sociology in Finland
El Pensamiento Sociológico de Hobhouse
Sociology in Pakistan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Sociology in East Pakistan
Extreme Advocacy Leadership in the Pre-Reform House
Committee chairmen in the United States House of Representatives were often very powerful figures until the reforms of the early 1970s – as the numerous tales about those stereotyped villains, the southern Democrats, bear witness. Yet, surprisingly little explicit typologizing about leadership in congressional committees appears in the academic literature despite a growing awareness of the different goals which congressmen pursue and the variety …
The Impact of Campaign Contributions on Legislative Outcomes in Congress
Good Public Policy Voting in the US Congress
Two important themes in the literature on the United States Congress are that members experience difficulty transacting complex technical legislation – because most are not experts – and that they make their decisions on the basis of what will help them win re-election, by following the economic preferences of their interest group or electoral constituencies. The few writers who have examined congressional decisionmaking on financial institutions…
The Return of Party Government in the US House of Representatives
Following the Republican victory in the 1994 mid-term elections, the balance of power in the US House of Representatives between committees and central party leader shifted decisively in favour of the latter. The central thrust of the procedural and personnel changes instituted under Newt Gingrich in 1994 and 1995 was to consolidate party government. This article reviews these important changes and analyses their impact on the legislative process…
The Importance of Candidate Characteristics and Local Political Conditions in the 1994 US Mid-Term Elections
From committee government to party government
Leadership in Context
The seven essays in this collection explore important questions that are at the heart of the understanding of political leadership. We ask: what are the relationships among personal political skill, the strength or weakness of institutional roles available to leaders, and the changing historical and political contexts within which leaders act?\n\nPoliticians with agendas for change seek to create dynamic relations of talent, institutional powers,…
Late Twentieth Century Congressional Leaders as Shapers of and Hostages to Political Context
Most contemporary explanations of congressional leadership postulate a version of contextual theory that typically places greatest emphasis on the strength of party and downplays the personal skills of individual leaders. By analyzing the leadership of just three recent individuals—Gingrich, Hastert, and Lott—this essay demonstrates the extent to which these leaders' different styles, skills, and characteristics interacted with changing political…
Part 1
Legislative party discipline and cohesion are important phenomena in the study of political systems. Unless assumptions are made that parties are cohesive and act as unified collectivities with reasonably well-defined goals, it is really difficult, if not impossible, to consider their electoral and legislative roles usefully. But levels of legislative party cohesiveness are also important because they provide us with crucial information about how…
Institutional Competition and Conflict in a Separated System
Cet article montre comment des partis polarisés ont reconquis leur place au Capitole tout en devenant de fortes sources de tension dans les relations Présidence-Congrès. Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, de nouvelles tensions institutionnelles se sont ajoutées à ces divisions partisanes. George W. Bush s’est auto-proclamé président de guerre et a affirmé ses privilèges exécutifs unilatéralement, avec agressivité. Ce n’est que dans certaines limites – …
Presidential Power and Congressional Acquiescence in the “War” on Terrorism
U.S. presidents have expanded executive power in times of war and emergency, sometimes aggressively so. This article builds on Burnham’s application of punctuated equilibria theory to suggest that the combination of President George W. Bush’s presidentialist doctrine, the external shock of the 9/11 atrocities and the president’s “war” on terror has consolidated a new, constitutional equilibrium between the president and the Congress. While some m…
Introduction
Qualified exceptionalism
The framers of the American Constitution devised a singular bicameral legislative body, which invested substantial power in both a broadly representative lower chamber and a second "deliberative" chamber that was both insulated from the voters and unrepresentative of the population as a whole. Until the early 20th Century, the singular U.S. Congress changed little, but\nwith growing national responsibilities, it sought to construct organizational…
Congressional Acquiescence to Presidentialism in the US ‘War on Terror’
Congressional dominance theory holds that not only can the US Congress control the executive, it does. The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 and the Bush administration’s ensuing global ‘war on terror’ suggest a different result. Bush’s response to 9/11 signalled not only new directions in US foreign and domestic policy but a new stage in the aggrandisement of presidential power in the United States and a further s…
Introduction
In democratic polities, constitutional equilibria or balances of power between the executive and the legislature shift over time. Normative and empirical political theorists have long recognised that war, civil unrest, economic and political crises, terrorist attacks, and other events strengthen the power of the executive, disrupt and threaten constitutional politics, and damage democratic institutions: crises require swift action and executives …
The War on Terror and the Growth of Executive Power
Constitutions – codified or unwritten – institutionalise and actually constitute specific equilibria or balances of power between the executive and the legislature. Yet equilibria may shift over time. In particular, normative and empirical political theorists have long recognised that critical events – war, civil unrest, economic and political crises, terrorist attacks and other external shocks – strengthen the power of the executive, disrupt and…
The resilience of democratic institutions in Britain, Australia and the United States under conditions of total war
To what extent are democratic institutions resilient when nation states mobilise for war? Normative and empirical political theorists have long argued that wars strengthen the executive and threaten constitutional politics. In modern democracies, national assemblies are supposed to hold the executive to account by demanding explanations for events and policies; and by scrutinising, reviewing and, if necessary, revising legislative proposals inten…
Thinking about Congress
Rethinking Crises and the Accretion of Executive Power
External shocks to democratic systems are likely to threaten the stability of relations between the executive and the representative assembly. This article investigates the impact of the so‐called “war on terror” on executive‐assembly relations in comparative perspective. We analyze data from seven countries, which varied in terms of form of government, level of democracy, culture, social structure, and geographic location, to evaluate its effect…
Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006
Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leaders’ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadership—particularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agency is thus discounted, and leaders’ personal characteristics and leadership styles are underplayed. Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. H…
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