Duncan Macrae
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586503 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Duncan Macrae |
| NOMBRES | Duncan |
| APELLIDO | Macrae |
| FIRMA | MACRAE D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7158-6585 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 94 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 380 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1911 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? ‘Antiquarianism’ and Historical Evidence between Republican Rome and the Early Modern Republic of Letters
The Laws of the Rites and of the Priests’
Starting from Cicero's famous panegyric on Varro's Antiquitates and attempting to look past the image of the book provided by Augustine, this article proposes a new reading of that work and its place in late Republican intellectual culture. Cicero's specific claim that Varro opened up ‘the laws of the rites and of the priests’ for his readers allows us to contextualize the Antiquitates within a contemporary jurisprudence. The rise of Roman legal …
Legible Religion
Scholars have long separated a few privileged "religions of the Book" from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman treatises on the nature of gods and rituals to grapple with a central question: what was the significance of books in a religion without scripture
Sulpicia, Augustan poet
Sulpicia was an elegiac poet of the Augustan period and one of the few female writers in Latin whose work survives.
Vestricius Spurinna, Titus
Titus Vestricius Spurinna (24–after ca. 105 CE ) was a soldier and politician in the period from the civil wars of 68–69 to the accession of Trajan.
Sulpicia, Flavian poet
Sulpicia was a Latin poet under Domitian and the subject of two epigrams by Martial.
Cornelius Fuscus
Cornelius Fuscus ( RE 158; PIR 2 C 1365) was a partisan of Galba and then the Flavians in the civil wars of 68–69 CE and a Praetorian Prefect under Domitian.
Acquired and Congenital Heart Disease in Children
Cross‐national perspectives for aiding policy choice
The field of public policy analysis; centered about practical choices, is being extended by this journal to include useful comparisons among nations or other political units, as well as borrowing or lesson‐drawing. This extension should remain close to the practical orientation of the field, rather than seeking to contribute to those disciplinary theories that lack practical usefulness in the short term (several decades). Implications of this adm…
Building the Policy Studies Enterprise
Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several decades. There has been substantial growth in the literature, the number of courses, the number of professionals who identify themselves with the field, and, arguably, in the impact on public sector and programs. The studies field is an eclectic one, claimed by public administrators, political scientists, economists, sociologists, psychologists, edu…
The Structure of and Prospects for Policy Research as Suggested by Journal Citation Analysis
Annick Percheron
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Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
In modern industrial democracies, the making of public policy is dependent on policy analysis--the generation, discussion, and evaluation of policy alternatives. Policy analysis is often characterized, especially by economists, as a technical, nonpartisan, objective enterprise, separate from the constraints of the political environment. however, says the eminent political scientist Giandomenico Majone, this characterization of policy analysis is …
Effective Social Science
Policy Indicators
The social indicator movement has always faced in two directions—toward academic disciplines that provide quality control and estimate causal relations, and toward the political system that chooses and uses indicator statistics. At worst, the movement has risked appearing to be peripheral to both theoretical social science and policy choice; such perceptions may have contributed to the movement's weakening. The use of noneconomic time series of d…
Policies for America's Public Schools
This volume discusses teacher training, pay and incentives, equity and diversity among the student population, and the use of indicators to assess educational progress and to inform decision making. Chapters in each section emphasize policies that schools should adopt to address the respective issues
Whatever Happened to Social Indicators? A Symposium
Twenty years ago the publication of Toward a Social Report by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare was hailed as a major forward step in developing indicators of conditions in society into a national system of social accounting of relevance to public policy. The resulting social indicators movement quickly mobilized able social scientists to produce a variety of indicators monitoring trends in their society, and internati…
Assessing Preferences in Cost-Benefit Analysis
This article examines an area of cost-benefit methodology which has come under increasing philosophical scrutiny in recent years: the appropriate treatment of individuals' preferences. We illustrate some of the difficulties involved in assessing preferences in the context of a concrete example: the evaluation of a rural water supply project in southern Haiti. Four problems in the application of cost-benefit principles are discussed: (1) how to co…
Evaluating American Government
Social Science and Social Policy
Building Policy-Related Technical Communities
The development of valid and useful social science requires social structures different from those of basic disciplines and departments. One such structure is a "technical community"; whereas a basic scientific community ideally looks only to its own members for definitions of problems, a technical community also looks to laymen. In planning to build or strengthen policy-related technical communities, we must systematically examine various aspect…
Policy Analysis
The Issue of Standing in Cost-Benefit Analysis
The issue of standing in cost‐benefit analysis
Insufficient attention has been given in cost‐benefit analysis to whose benefits are to be counted. Foreigners, illegal aliens, fetuses, and criminals are problematic cases. Persons or entities may be given “standing” by participation in decision processes; by having their preferences counted, if meaningful preferences exist; by having their welfare counted, if they cannot express their preferences; or by representation by others whom they do not…
Policy Indicators
Duncan MacRae analyzes the ways in which experts can aid a political community in choosing public statistics for citizens to use in making policy judgments. In contrast to the study of social indicators, which has emphasized descriptions and models of social change, he stresses that the relevant measures should be selected in view of their potential applications.The usefulness of a public statistical series depends on the goals it represents and …
The Relation Between Roll Call Votes and Constituencies in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
A major concern of political theorists has been the definition of the proper role of legislators in relation to their constituencies. Yet relatively little analysis has been made of the uniformities of behavior that actually prevail in these relations. Such uniformities, if they could be found, would bear directly on the theory of the party system, on speculation about the nature of representative government, and on the feasibility of proposals f…
Parliament, Parties, and Society in France, 1946-1958
Game Theory and Cumulative Voting in Illinois
Since the theory of games was first made widely available, with application to economic behavior, its use has been suggested in many other areas, from the global to the individual. Several correspondences between game theory and certain aspects of political process have been noted.The contribution of game theory to substantive knowledge in the empirical sciences, however, has been modest; Luce and Raiffa judge that its impact has been greater in …
Direct Factor Analysis of Sociometric Data
Electronic computation allows cliques or subgroups within a larger group to be separated by direct factor analysis of sociometric choices, followed by analytic rotation. Information on the positions of individuals within subgroups is also provided by this procedure, which is illustrated here with a group numbering 67. Existing computer routines permit extension to groups as large as 125; the principles may be extended to larger groups by addition…
The Social Function of Social Science
The Social Function of Social Science
Growth and Decay Curves in Scientific Citations
In a rapidly advancing scientific discipline, new contributions will supersede older ones. This selection in favor of recent literature should be observable in the distribution of footnote citations in a given discipline, by age of article cited. However, the age distribution of citations also depends on the rate of growth of the disciplinary literature. The effects of growth of the literature and of selection favoring recent articles can be sepa…
A Method for Identifying Issues and Factions from Legislative Votes
Roll-call votes are being used increasingly to throw light on various aspects of the legislative process. As long as these votes are neither simply unanimous nor cast purely on party lines, they contain information that can often be rendered more intelligible by the simplification or condensation of many votes into fewer variables or dimensions. The researcher interested in a particular legislative decision can thus profit by seeing whether it ex…
Electronic Processing of Sociometric Data for Groups up to 1,000 in Size
Critical Elections in Illinois
In the past seventy years, lasting reorientations of the national electorate have taken place in two periods, centering about the presidential elections of 1896 and 1918. Most other presidential elections have involved relatively uniform swings of states or counties toward one party or the other; Louis Bean summarized this phenomenon in his chapter title, "As Your State Goes, So Goes the Nation." But the occasions when this uniform swing does not…
The Issue of Standing in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Technical communities and political choice
Scientific Communication, Ethical Argument, and Public Policy
The paper argues that ethical discourse is intimately involved in the research literature of social science, and especially of political science, but is relegated to a subsidiary position. It therefore shares some of the vagueness, flexibility, and potential self-contradiction of the discourse of everyday life, rather than being sharpened by rational criticism. The norms governing scientific discourse provide not only for empirical testing, but a…
The issue of standing in cost‐benefit analysis
Insufficient attention has been given in cost‐benefit analysis to whose benefits are to be counted. Foreigners, illegal aliens, fetuses, and criminals are problematic cases. Persons or entities may be given “standing” by participation in decision processes; by having their preferences counted, if meaningful preferences exist; by having their welfare counted, if they cannot express their preferences; or by representation by others whom they do not…
Philanthropy in England 1480-1660
Group Differences in Attitudes and Votes
Whatever Happened to Social Indicators? A Symposium
Twenty years ago the publication of Toward a Social Report by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare was hailed as a major forward step in developing indicators of conditions in society into a national system of social accounting of relevance to public policy. The resulting social indicators movement quickly mobilized able social scientists to produce a variety of indicators monitoring trends in their society, and internati…
Building Policy-Related Technical Communities
The development of valid and useful social science requires social structures different from those of basic disciplines and departments. One such structure is a "technical community"; whereas a basic scientific community ideally looks only to its own members for definitions of problems, a technical community also looks to laymen. In planning to build or strengthen policy-related technical communities, we must systematically examine various aspect…
Policy Analysis as an Applied Social Science Discipline
A test of Piaget's theories of moral development
Floating Voters and the Floating Vote
The Laws of the Rites and of the Priests’
Starting from Cicero's famous panegyric on Varro's Antiquitates and attempting to look past the image of the book provided by Augustine, this article proposes a new reading of that work and its place in late Republican intellectual culture. Cicero's specific claim that Varro opened up ‘the laws of the rites and of the priests’ for his readers allows us to contextualize the Antiquitates within a contemporary jurisprudence. The rise of Roman legal …
Assessing Preferences in Cost-Benefit Analysis
This article examines an area of cost-benefit methodology which has come under increasing philosophical scrutiny in recent years: the appropriate treatment of individuals' preferences. We illustrate some of the difficulties involved in assessing preferences in the context of a concrete example: the evaluation of a rural water supply project in southern Haiti. Four problems in the application of cost-benefit principles are discussed: (1) how to co…
The University and the Utility of Policy Analysis1
Normative assumptions in the study of public choice
Notice of some Unrecorded Sculptured Stones at Edderton, Ross-shire, and at Foss, Perthshire
A slab at Edderton has an incised, equal-armed cross with trefoil ends, and, below it, a long sword with recurved guards, pointed trefoil pommel, and blunt point. In the fourth quadrant of the cross there is a lion rampant, langued. The stone has evidently been a palimpsest, used and lettered more than once, for initials of later occupants of the grave have been cut through part of the cross and the lion. The stone is probably originally of the t…
The Bell in the Town House at Burntisland
In 1677 the bell was sent abroad to be mended. The ornamentation, which consists of grapes and vine leaves, is of a kind not uncommon on bells made in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. When the bell was sent to be recast the original French inscription of 1595 was reproduced (badly) and a second inscription in Dutch was added
Dumfries Speaks Out
The Relation Between Roll Call Votes and Constituencies in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
A major concern of political theorists has been the definition of the proper role of legislators in relation to their constituencies. Yet relatively little analysis has been made of the uniformities of behavior that actually prevail in these relations. Such uniformities, if they could be found, would bear directly on the theory of the party system, on speculation about the nature of representative government, and on the feasibility of proposals f…
The Policy Sciences
The Role of the State Legislator in Massachusetts
deviance and deviant behavior in a preliminary way. There are at least two directions in which it can be explored. First, the main components and types of deviance and of deviant behavior, as analyzed by Parsons in The Social System, should be systematically studied in their relation to various types of reference group behavior. Second, looking into the development of deviant reference group orientations, and identification with them should prove…
A test of Piaget's theories of moral development
Occupations and the Congressional Vote, 1940-1950
SINCE the nineteenth century, United States politics has undergone a transition from a sectional basis toward a class basis. Among the factors contributing to this change have been the increasing predominance of urban occupational strata 1 and the increased appeal made by the Democratic party to the urban working class.2 The extent to which this political change has proceeded and the contrast between sectional and class politics can be shown with…
Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations
An Exponential Model for Assessing Fourfold Tables
Group Differences in Attitudes and Votes
Une analyse factorielle des préférences politiques
Macrae Duncan. Une analyse factorielle des préférences politiques. In: Revue française de science politique, 8e année, n°1, 1958. pp. 95-109
Religious and Socioeconomic Factors in the French Vote, 1946-56
Persistent cleavages in the French body politic are analyzed by multiple regression methods. Religiosity, urban-rural differences, agricultural wealth, and agricultural proletarization are related to various divisions of the multiparty vote at three major elections. Common features of the regression coefficients at the three elections reveal lastings divisions in the electorate, while changes in the coefficients from one election to another refle…
Collective Decision and Polarization in a 125-Man Group
The interplay of social relationships and attitudes during a campaign is a very attractive field for research. This study of a “middle-sized” group of students provides a limited test of a hypothesis about the social divisiveness of political issues
The Politics of Despair
Introduction to Difference Equations
Approaches to the Study of Politics
Direct Factor Analysis of Sociometric Data
Electronic computation allows cliques or subgroups within a larger group to be separated by direct factor analysis of sociometric choices, followed by analytic rotation. Information on the positions of individuals within subgroups is also provided by this procedure, which is illustrated here with a group numbering 67. Existing computer routines permit extension to groups as large as 125; the principles may be extended to larger groups by addition…
The Making of Society
Philanthropy in England 1480-1660
Electronic Processing of Sociometric Data for Groups up to 1,000 in Size
Critical Elections in Illinois
In the past seventy years, lasting reorientations of the national electorate have taken place in two periods, centering about the presidential elections of 1896 and 1918. Most other presidential elections have involved relatively uniform swings of states or counties toward one party or the other; Louis Bean summarized this phenomenon in his chapter title, "As Your State Goes, So Goes the Nation." But the occasions when this uniform swing does not…
Legislators' Social Status and Their Votes
The houses in which Massachusetts state legislators lived in 1951, when rated according to Warner's models, showed differences as between their owners' political parties but only low associations with the voting record within each party. Socialization into the role of professional party politician reduced this association. Legislators in each party who were over 35 years old, and who had spent relatively little time in public office, tended more …
Floating Voters and the Floating Vote
Game Theory and Cumulative Voting in Illinois
Since the theory of games was first made widely available, with application to economic behavior, its use has been suggested in many other areas, from the global to the individual. Several correspondences between game theory and certain aspects of political process have been noted.The contribution of game theory to substantive knowledge in the empirical sciences, however, has been modest; Luce and Raiffa judge that its impact has been greater in …
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