James Fowler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3745832 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Fowler |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Fowler |
| FIRMA | FOWLER J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0815-2493 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1873 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Price of Everything and the Cost of Nothing
This paper explores the historical development of management thought around the cost of public infrastructure. We argue that swings between ex post pricing and ex ante discounting as temporal frameworks within which the public, managers, politicians, and the media appraised major transport infrastructure projects constitute a dominant but unrecognized narrative. We use London in the twentieth century as a case study, identifying major changes in …
James Stavridis, The Sailor’s Bookshelf
Of all contemporary writers publishing on maritime topics, possibly none are more qualified than Admiral James Stavridis USN (ret'd) to compile a list of books which faithfully introduce the reader to the true nature of the sea.In The Sailor's Bookshelf: Fifty Books to Know the Sea, Stavridis introduces the reader to what he believes are the best literary works that ought to bring a comprehensive understanding to even the most uninitiated landlub…
Exploring the perspectives of Australian neurodivergent university students
More Australian students who are neurodivergent are entering post-secondary education. Experiences of higher education varies for these students. We investigated the university experience of 33 neurodivergent undergraduates in higher education through individual semi-structured interviews. Participants were enrolled in Education or Health Sciences. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and three major themes were identified: lived perspectiv…
Britain’s First Net Zero
This paper assesses a major transition in energy usage and distribution in the United Kingdom (UK) between 1953–73 as domestic coal gave way to electricity, and a centralized electricity generation and distribution system reached every home in the country. Our analysis significantly extends and reinterprets the business history of the National Grid by exploring the consequences of its completion. We argue that the National Grid facilitated the re…
Passengers, citizens, customers
This paper examines a transformation in the corporate control of London’s transport between 1977 and 1987. We offer a detailed case study explaining how a corporatist consensus broke down, what replaced it, and why. By 1977, London Transport was a centralised monopoly captured by its producer groups while passengers were treated as passive recipients. Two alternatives presented themselves: a utility maximising perspective, empowering passengers a…
Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians
Suicide in probation
Suicide in probation services is far higher than the general population. This paper presents secondary analysis of data previously used to evaluate the outcome of delivering psychological treatment to probationers in London. A sample of probation service users who screened positive for clinically significant symptoms of distress and were subsequently assessed and offered treatment ( n = 274) were allocated retrospectively to one of three groups: …
Historical Institutionalism, Hybridity and Institutional Logics in Public Transport History
This paper responds to calls for new theoretical frameworks within which to examine transport history and bring it into contact with other disciplines with a view to overcoming some of its alleged previous preoccupations with Anglocentric economic data. It offers three interconnected ideas from other fields, historical institutionalism, hybridity and institutional logics and it proposes that these tools can assist historians in making sense of th…
Slowing Covid-19 transmission as a social dilemma
To reduce transmission of COVID-19, public officials must help their communities resolve a series of novel social dilemmas. For instance, when social distancing becomes widespread, the likelihood of COVID-19 exposure decreases, thus tempting individuals to leave their homes while others stay sheltered. Yet, if all indulge that temptation, then rates of transmission will increase: everyone would have fared better by cooperatively staying at home. …
Geoffrey Channon, Richard Potter. Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist
Compensating the passengers. A comparison of the management of three London underground crashes 1909–1975
This study considers organisational responses to three accidents on the London Underground 1909–1975. The private sector response to an accident at Moorgate in 1909 made generous awards. Responses to the Charing Cross crash in 1938 during the period of quasi-public governance by the London Passenger Transport Board show ongoing high levels of awards. Finally, a severe accident at Moorgate in 1975 reveals public sector management making low offers…
Moralizing Satire
In the period 1660–1740, major events in France and Britain (the beginning of Louis XIV’s personal reign, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution) stimulated comparisons with Augustus Caesar’s accession to power—a tendency connected with the Querelle des anciens et des modernes, and with cultural rivalry among modern nations. Poets including Boileau, Dryden, and Pope focused on the relationship between Augustus and Horace; they also reflecte…
The Structure of Negative Social Ties in Rural Village Networks
Negative (antagonistic) connections have been of longstanding theoretical importance for social structure. In a population of 24,696 adults interacting face to face within 176 isolated villages in western Honduras, we measured all connections that were present, amounting to 105,175 positive and 16,448 negative ties. Here, we show that negative and positive ties exhibit many of the same structural characteristics. We then develop a complete taxono…
Korean-American Relations, 1866-1997
Richardson and the Philosophes
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the novel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the English author is expressed in La Religieuse…
Something Downright Detestable”
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), several characters express repugnance for Edward Hyde’s person without quite being able to explain their aversion. First
Enlightenment Orientalism
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(3), pp. 331–332
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
The Best of All Possible Marriages
A recent edition of Voltaire's Paméla (1750-53) by Jonathan Mallinson emphasizes that it exists 'on the border of truth and fiction, of openness and concealment'. In the first letter of Paméla , Voltaire describes a landscape of exceptional natural beauty, near Cleves; but he also reveals that in this case nature has been arranged according to human design. The only visible evidence of this is a statue of Minerva. Yet it turns out that, in a sens…
Diderot
In his Images de Diderot en France, 1784–1913, Raymond Trousson shows how the philosophe’s major texts were appropriated or repudiated between his death and the bicentenary of his birth. A picture gradually emerges of how far Diderot’s reputation has been from having a safe or permanent home. Other reception studies include Rene Tarin’s monograph on responses to Diderot in the period from 1789 to the dawn of the First Empire. A recent special iss…
La Religieuse
The pioneering critic Georges May characterises La Religieuse as Diderot's novel ‘à la manière de Richardson’ (‘in the manner of Richardson’); and in many respects it would be perverse to argue with this assessment. Richardson's Clarissa in particular became a source of plot elements, characters and themes without which La Religieuse would surely have been a very different work. In some ways, Diderot was bound to love the English author because h…
New Essays on Diderot
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the Fr…
NSF Political Science Program Awards and AAAS Political Scientist Electees
The political science program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2010. The program funded 75 new projects and 31 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments, which result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but for which funds are being disbursed on a yearly b…
An economic history of British steam engines, 1774–1870, a study on technological diffusion
Elections and Markets
Rational partisan theory's exclusive focus on electoral uncertainty ignores the importance of policy uncertainty for the economy. I develop a theory of policy risk to account for this uncertainty. Using an innovative measure of electoral probabilities based on Iowa Electronic Markets futures data for the U.S. from 1988-2000, I test both theories. As predicted by rational partisan theory, positive changes in the probability that the Left wins the …
Dynamic Responsiveness in the U.S. Senate
I develop a theory of dynamic responsiveness that suggests that parties that win elections choose candidates who are more extreme and parties that lose elections choose candidates who are more moderate. Moreover, the size of past victories matters. Close elections yield little change, but landslides yield larger changes in the candidates offered by both parties. I test this theory by analyzing the relationship between Republican vote share in U.S…
The United States and South Korean Democratization
Journal Article The United States and South Korean Democratization Get access James Fowler James Fowler JAMES FOWLER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 265–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657739 Published: 15 February 2013
The Structure of Negative Social Ties in Rural Village Networks
Negative (antagonistic) connections have been of longstanding theoretical importance for social structure. In a population of 24,696 adults interacting face to face within 176 isolated villages in western Honduras, we measured all connections that were present, amounting to 105,175 positive and 16,448 negative ties. Here, we show that negative and positive ties exhibit many of the same structural characteristics. We then develop a complete taxono…
Historical Institutionalism, Hybridity and Institutional Logics in Public Transport History
This paper responds to calls for new theoretical frameworks within which to examine transport history and bring it into contact with other disciplines with a view to overcoming some of its alleged previous preoccupations with Anglocentric economic data. It offers three interconnected ideas from other fields, historical institutionalism, hybridity and institutional logics and it proposes that these tools can assist historians in making sense of th…
XI.— On Mediæval Representations of the Months and Seasons
None of the phenomena of Nature can earlier, or more widely, or more deeply have attracted notice and curiosity than the phenomena of the Seasons ; and none, probably, earlier or more widely became embodied in art and poetry. For that reason few subjects, probably, would prove of greater interest in themselves, or in the light which they reflected, incidentally, on the life and thought of those who have gone before us, if undertaken by an accompl…
III.— On the Process of Decay in Glass, and, incidentally, on the Composition and Texture of Glass at different periods, and the History of its Manufacture
Glass is, in many respects, one of the most remarkable substances in the world. No known substance combines such varied uses with such matchless beauties. For innumerable domestic purposes it has for centuries been considered a necessity of daily life. Without glass innumerable paths in science and the arts would never have been explored; and in these paths progress has been made in proportion as the methods of making glass have been improved. On…
Archives of the Dance
The United States and South Korean Democratization
Journal Article The United States and South Korean Democratization Get access James Fowler James Fowler JAMES FOWLER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 2, Summer 1999, Pages 265–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657739 Published: 15 February 2013
Theater in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe
Dynamic Responsiveness in the U.S. Senate
I develop a theory of dynamic responsiveness that suggests that parties that win elections choose candidates who are more extreme and parties that lose elections choose candidates who are more moderate. Moreover, the size of past victories matters. Close elections yield little change, but landslides yield larger changes in the candidates offered by both parties. I test this theory by analyzing the relationship between Republican vote share in U.S…
Elections and Markets
Rational partisan theory's exclusive focus on electoral uncertainty ignores the importance of policy uncertainty for the economy. I develop a theory of policy risk to account for this uncertainty. Using an innovative measure of electoral probabilities based on Iowa Electronic Markets futures data for the U.S. from 1988-2000, I test both theories. As predicted by rational partisan theory, positive changes in the probability that the Left wins the …
Computational Social Science
A field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors.
When Opposites Attract
La Religieuse
The pioneering critic Georges May characterises La Religieuse as Diderot's novel ‘à la manière de Richardson’ (‘in the manner of Richardson’); and in many respects it would be perverse to argue with this assessment. Richardson's Clarissa in particular became a source of plot elements, characters and themes without which La Religieuse would surely have been a very different work. In some ways, Diderot was bound to love the English author because h…
New Essays on Diderot
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the Fr…
NSF Political Science Program Awards and AAAS Political Scientist Electees
The political science program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2010. The program funded 75 new projects and 31 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments, which result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but for which funds are being disbursed on a yearly b…
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
Questions of Influence in Modern French Literature
The Best of All Possible Marriages
A recent edition of Voltaire's Paméla (1750-53) by Jonathan Mallinson emphasizes that it exists 'on the border of truth and fiction, of openness and concealment'. In the first letter of Paméla , Voltaire describes a landscape of exceptional natural beauty, near Cleves; but he also reveals that in this case nature has been arranged according to human design. The only visible evidence of this is a statue of Minerva. Yet it turns out that, in a sens…
Diderot
In his Images de Diderot en France, 1784–1913, Raymond Trousson shows how the philosophe’s major texts were appropriated or repudiated between his death and the bicentenary of his birth. A picture gradually emerges of how far Diderot’s reputation has been from having a safe or permanent home. Other reception studies include Rene Tarin’s monograph on responses to Diderot in the period from 1789 to the dawn of the First Empire. A recent special iss…
Something Downright Detestable”
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), several characters express repugnance for Edward Hyde’s person without quite being able to explain their aversion. First
Enlightenment Orientalism
Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(3), pp. 331–332
Korean-American Relations, 1866-1997
Richardson and the Philosophes
In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the novel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination with the English author is expressed in La Religieuse…
Moralizing Satire
In the period 1660–1740, major events in France and Britain (the beginning of Louis XIV’s personal reign, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution) stimulated comparisons with Augustus Caesar’s accession to power—a tendency connected with the Querelle des anciens et des modernes, and with cultural rivalry among modern nations. Poets including Boileau, Dryden, and Pope focused on the relationship between Augustus and Horace; they also reflecte…
The Structure of Negative Social Ties in Rural Village Networks
Negative (antagonistic) connections have been of longstanding theoretical importance for social structure. In a population of 24,696 adults interacting face to face within 176 isolated villages in western Honduras, we measured all connections that were present, amounting to 105,175 positive and 16,448 negative ties. Here, we show that negative and positive ties exhibit many of the same structural characteristics. We then develop a complete taxono…
Slowing Covid-19 transmission as a social dilemma
To reduce transmission of COVID-19, public officials must help their communities resolve a series of novel social dilemmas. For instance, when social distancing becomes widespread, the likelihood of COVID-19 exposure decreases, thus tempting individuals to leave their homes while others stay sheltered. Yet, if all indulge that temptation, then rates of transmission will increase: everyone would have fared better by cooperatively staying at home. …
Geoffrey Channon, Richard Potter. Beatrice Webb’s Father and Corporate Capitalist
Compensating the passengers. A comparison of the management of three London underground crashes 1909–1975
This study considers organisational responses to three accidents on the London Underground 1909–1975. The private sector response to an accident at Moorgate in 1909 made generous awards. Responses to the Charing Cross crash in 1938 during the period of quasi-public governance by the London Passenger Transport Board show ongoing high levels of awards. Finally, a severe accident at Moorgate in 1975 reveals public sector management making low offers…
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