Bruce A Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3620683 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce A Williams |
| NOMBRES | Bruce A |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS B A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Virginia |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 199 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1922 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Women of “The Wire”
In this paper we analyze the representation of women on the popular television show The Wire. We discuss how, while writers attempt to portray race, crime, and inner-city life with sociological accuracy, characterizations of women, and of violence against women, are not especially complex or realistic. In particular, the crime of rape is underrepresented. While the show does feature certain competent, successful professional women, overall the po…
After Broadcast News
The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, d…
Monica and Bill All the Time and Everywhere
This article argues that by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information, the new media environment undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through which political information passes: If there are no gates, there can be no gatekeepers. The difficulty of elites (political and media both) and academics in understanding the Lewinsky scandal stems from their failure to recognize the increasingly limited ability of journali…
Fitting Item Response Theory Models to Two Personality Inventories
The present study compared the fit of several IRT models to two personality assessment instruments. Data from 13,059 individuals responding to the US-English version of the Fifth Edition of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and 1,770 individuals responding to Goldberg's 50 item Big Five Personality measure were analyzed. Various issues pertaining to the fit of the IRT models to personality data were considered. We examined two o…
Unchained reaction
In this article we use the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to illustrate a fundamental change in the contemporary American media environment: the virtual elimination of the gatekeeping role of the mainstream press. The new media environment, by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information (although these sources do not provide anything like an unlimited number of perspectives), undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through …
Identity Politics, Disinterested Politics, and Environmental Justice
The environmental justice movement practices two kinds of politics-an identity politics basing appeals on the experiential, subjective knowledge of its grassroots members and a disinterested politics basing appeals on the expert, objective knowledge of scientists. Yet each form of politics currently undermines the other because they draw on very different assumptions about the nature of scientific knowledge. The movement can increase the likeliho…
‘Fictional’ and ‘Non-fictional’ television celebrates earth day
While there is much new work in the field of communications that challenges such distinctions, many scholars who study the medium still assume a clear and natural separation between fictional and non-fictional television. Falling into the former category are most prime-time shows, specials, movies and other broadcasts serving, it is assumed, primarily as entertainment. Further, many scholars assume that such shows have little impact on the way pe…
Methods, Metaphors, and Media Research
The purpose in this article is threefold: to make explicit the implicit metaphors underlying mainstream public-opinion research and their relationships to the methodologies employed, to offer an alternative “conversational” metaphor for the relationship between television and public opinion, and to present some findings form the authors' initial attempts to investigate empirically this relationship. First the authors argue that most public-opinio…
National Politics, International Dependency, and Basic Needs Provision
Multinational Corporate Penetration, Protest, and Basic Needs Provision in Non-Core Nations
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of domestic well-being in less-developed countries. In particular, we examine the impact of both penetration of foreign investment and levels of domestic political protest on economic growth and the provision of basic needs. Our work is an attempt to explore the effects of both international economic processes and intranational political processes on development
Television and Terrorism
Knowledge vs. Nimby
Testing Theories of Social Regulation
Much current debate over "the new social regulation" results from failure to test empirically differing assertions about three critical relationships that underlie its politics: (1) the relationship between market failure and social regulation; (2) the impact of the economic strength of regulated industries on the regulatory process; and (3) the effect of organized public interest groups on the regulatory process. This paper empirically tests com…
Regulation, Risk Assessment, and the Supreme Court
As a case study of policy distortion in the legal and regulatory processes, this article first establishes the incongruities among the political, scientific, and legal issues surrounding OSHA's Cancer Policy and then examines the political consequences of ignoring these incongruities in judicial and administrative decisions about that policy. By delineating the political, scientific, and legal issues involved, we develop a basis for assessing the…
A Reply
Scientific Disputes and Adversary Procedures in Policy‐making
Beyond “Incrementalism”, Organizational Theory and Public Policy
The League Commission on the Composition of the Council
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Special Assembly of the League of Nations
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State Morality in International Relations
Much has recently been said concerning the moral obligations of the state. It is not infrequently asserted that it is the moral duty of a state to assume some function in the interest of international society. The reaction against the philosophy which considered all state action as moral and which posited the realization of national aims as a paramount ethical end, has been followed by an increasing emphasis on the ethical liability of the state …
The Institute of Politics
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The Institute of Politics
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Testing Theories of Social Regulation
Much current debate over "the new social regulation" results from failure to test empirically differing assertions about three critical relationships that underlie its politics: (1) the relationship between market failure and social regulation; (2) the impact of the economic strength of regulated industries on the regulatory process; and (3) the effect of organized public interest groups on the regulatory process. This paper empirically tests com…
Unchained reaction
In this article we use the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to illustrate a fundamental change in the contemporary American media environment: the virtual elimination of the gatekeeping role of the mainstream press. The new media environment, by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information (although these sources do not provide anything like an unlimited number of perspectives), undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through …
Methods, Metaphors, and Media Research
The purpose in this article is threefold: to make explicit the implicit metaphors underlying mainstream public-opinion research and their relationships to the methodologies employed, to offer an alternative “conversational” metaphor for the relationship between television and public opinion, and to present some findings form the authors' initial attempts to investigate empirically this relationship. First the authors argue that most public-opinio…
Identity Politics, Disinterested Politics, and Environmental Justice
The environmental justice movement practices two kinds of politics-an identity politics basing appeals on the experiential, subjective knowledge of its grassroots members and a disinterested politics basing appeals on the expert, objective knowledge of scientists. Yet each form of politics currently undermines the other because they draw on very different assumptions about the nature of scientific knowledge. The movement can increase the likeliho…
Knowledge vs. Nimby
Multinational Corporate Penetration, Protest, and Basic Needs Provision in Non-Core Nations
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of domestic well-being in less-developed countries. In particular, we examine the impact of both penetration of foreign investment and levels of domestic political protest on economic growth and the provision of basic needs. Our work is an attempt to explore the effects of both international economic processes and intranational political processes on development
Monica and Bill All the Time and Everywhere
This article argues that by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information, the new media environment undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through which political information passes: If there are no gates, there can be no gatekeepers. The difficulty of elites (political and media both) and academics in understanding the Lewinsky scandal stems from their failure to recognize the increasingly limited ability of journali…
National Politics, International Dependency, and Basic Needs Provision
Television and Terrorism
The Institute of Politics
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Regulation, Risk Assessment, and the Supreme Court
As a case study of policy distortion in the legal and regulatory processes, this article first establishes the incongruities among the political, scientific, and legal issues surrounding OSHA's Cancer Policy and then examines the political consequences of ignoring these incongruities in judicial and administrative decisions about that policy. By delineating the political, scientific, and legal issues involved, we develop a basis for assessing the…
Scientific Disputes and Adversary Procedures in Policy‐making
The Institute of Politics
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
State Morality in International Relations
Much has recently been said concerning the moral obligations of the state. It is not infrequently asserted that it is the moral duty of a state to assume some function in the interest of international society. The reaction against the philosophy which considered all state action as moral and which posited the realization of national aims as a paramount ethical end, has been followed by an increasing emphasis on the ethical liability of the state …
The Institute of Politics
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
The League Commission on the Composition of the Council
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Special Assembly of the League of Nations
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Beyond “Incrementalism”, Organizational Theory and Public Policy
A Reply
Scientific Disputes and Adversary Procedures in Policy‐making
Testing Theories of Social Regulation
Much current debate over "the new social regulation" results from failure to test empirically differing assertions about three critical relationships that underlie its politics: (1) the relationship between market failure and social regulation; (2) the impact of the economic strength of regulated industries on the regulatory process; and (3) the effect of organized public interest groups on the regulatory process. This paper empirically tests com…
Regulation, Risk Assessment, and the Supreme Court
As a case study of policy distortion in the legal and regulatory processes, this article first establishes the incongruities among the political, scientific, and legal issues surrounding OSHA's Cancer Policy and then examines the political consequences of ignoring these incongruities in judicial and administrative decisions about that policy. By delineating the political, scientific, and legal issues involved, we develop a basis for assessing the…
Knowledge vs. Nimby
Television and Terrorism
Multinational Corporate Penetration, Protest, and Basic Needs Provision in Non-Core Nations
In this paper, we investigate the determinants of domestic well-being in less-developed countries. In particular, we examine the impact of both penetration of foreign investment and levels of domestic political protest on economic growth and the provision of basic needs. Our work is an attempt to explore the effects of both international economic processes and intranational political processes on development
National Politics, International Dependency, and Basic Needs Provision
‘Fictional’ and ‘Non-fictional’ television celebrates earth day
While there is much new work in the field of communications that challenges such distinctions, many scholars who study the medium still assume a clear and natural separation between fictional and non-fictional television. Falling into the former category are most prime-time shows, specials, movies and other broadcasts serving, it is assumed, primarily as entertainment. Further, many scholars assume that such shows have little impact on the way pe…
Methods, Metaphors, and Media Research
The purpose in this article is threefold: to make explicit the implicit metaphors underlying mainstream public-opinion research and their relationships to the methodologies employed, to offer an alternative “conversational” metaphor for the relationship between television and public opinion, and to present some findings form the authors' initial attempts to investigate empirically this relationship. First the authors argue that most public-opinio…
Identity Politics, Disinterested Politics, and Environmental Justice
The environmental justice movement practices two kinds of politics-an identity politics basing appeals on the experiential, subjective knowledge of its grassroots members and a disinterested politics basing appeals on the expert, objective knowledge of scientists. Yet each form of politics currently undermines the other because they draw on very different assumptions about the nature of scientific knowledge. The movement can increase the likeliho…
Unchained reaction
In this article we use the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to illustrate a fundamental change in the contemporary American media environment: the virtual elimination of the gatekeeping role of the mainstream press. The new media environment, by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information (although these sources do not provide anything like an unlimited number of perspectives), undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through …
Fitting Item Response Theory Models to Two Personality Inventories
The present study compared the fit of several IRT models to two personality assessment instruments. Data from 13,059 individuals responding to the US-English version of the Fifth Edition of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and 1,770 individuals responding to Goldberg's 50 item Big Five Personality measure were analyzed. Various issues pertaining to the fit of the IRT models to personality data were considered. We examined two o…
Monica and Bill All the Time and Everywhere
This article argues that by providing virtually unlimited sources of political information, the new media environment undermines the idea that there are discrete gates through which political information passes: If there are no gates, there can be no gatekeepers. The difficulty of elites (political and media both) and academics in understanding the Lewinsky scandal stems from their failure to recognize the increasingly limited ability of journali…
After Broadcast News
The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, d…
Women of “The Wire”
In this paper we analyze the representation of women on the popular television show The Wire. We discuss how, while writers attempt to portray race, crime, and inner-city life with sociological accuracy, characterizations of women, and of violence against women, are not especially complex or realistic. In particular, the crime of rape is underrepresented. While the show does feature certain competent, successful professional women, overall the po…
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