Andrew T Cowart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1005892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew T Cowart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew T |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowart |
| SIGNATURE | COWART A T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Elections and Wall Street
he interface between economic enterprise and political processes in Western, capitalist democracies is a subject of longstanding interest to social scientists. As it has been operationalized in recent work in political science, however, the term has been equated with macroeconomic conditions. Thus most contemporary work in this context has had little to do with the business community itself. As scholarly interest in the subject of economics and p…
Budgets, Institutions, and Change
This paper assesses the budgetary responsiveness of American governmental and political institutions to the growth of crime over the last four decades. Several linear decision models are developed which posit that changes in budgetary requests and appropriations for seven criminal justice agencies are functions of changes in the level of criminal activity and of partisan control of the presidency. Tests of these decision models confirm a substant…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part II
While political controversies over the legitimacy of monetary interventions in Western economies were settled decades ago, the widespread acceptance of fiscal interventions as appropriate tools for achieving economic stability and economic growth is much more recent and much less pervasive. Even the pre-Depression classical economic model specified a role for government monetary policy: ensuring an appropriate stock of money. While institutions o…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part I
Rapidly changing economic conditions and the acceptance by governments of the responsibility for those conditions have together provided one of the most volatile and perplexing policy contexts for governments in the post-war era. The volatility of economic policy is inherent in its potential for change over the short run. It can take several years before changes are approved and implemented in order to deal with failures in social welfare program…
The Machiavellian Budgeter
Some political theorists maintain that Niccolò Machiavelli was a rather immoral sort. His exhortations to guile, perfidy, deception and opportunism were numerous, his scruples few. Others, in a more revisionist vein, suggest that his preferred tactics were only meant for the common good. Yet, whether Machiavelli was a scientist, a descriptivist, a technician, a moralist or an immoralist is immaterial from one standpoint: he taught us something ab…
Expanding Formal Models of Budgeting to Include Environmental Effects
Earlier conceptualizations of environmental effects on public spending suffer from at least two weaknesses: (1) a failure to treat those factors to which decision-makers might respond under conditions of environmental stress; and (2) a failure to develop formally the notion that relevant environments will differ for different governmental units. In this paper, several formal models of budgetary decision-making are extended to include environmenta…
Partisan Politics and the Budgetary Process in Oslo
Two alternative models of political effects on budgetary decisions are set out: the party programmatic model and the alliance structure model. Multiple regression tests of the validity of each model are conducted with reference to systematic interview/questionnaire responses from agency officials in the municipal government of Oslo, Norway. Support from various political parties and alliance structures is shown to have substantial effects on agen…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
Electoral Choice in the American States
It is a relatively common occurrence in American politics for state electorates to divide their partisan majorities between different parties, depending on the office contest. Observations concerning these divergent aggregate patterns are usually accompanied by speculation that the theoretical propositions on individual voting behavior, developed and tested in the context of presidential voting, hold less relevance for voting in statewide contest…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part II
While political controversies over the legitimacy of monetary interventions in Western economies were settled decades ago, the widespread acceptance of fiscal interventions as appropriate tools for achieving economic stability and economic growth is much more recent and much less pervasive. Even the pre-Depression classical economic model specified a role for government monetary policy: ensuring an appropriate stock of money. While institutions o…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part I
Rapidly changing economic conditions and the acceptance by governments of the responsibility for those conditions have together provided one of the most volatile and perplexing policy contexts for governments in the post-war era. The volatility of economic policy is inherent in its potential for change over the short run. It can take several years before changes are approved and implemented in order to deal with failures in social welfare program…
Budgets, Institutions, and Change
This paper assesses the budgetary responsiveness of American governmental and political institutions to the growth of crime over the last four decades. Several linear decision models are developed which posit that changes in budgetary requests and appropriations for seven criminal justice agencies are functions of changes in the level of criminal activity and of partisan control of the presidency. Tests of these decision models confirm a substant…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
Electoral Choice in the American States
It is a relatively common occurrence in American politics for state electorates to divide their partisan majorities between different parties, depending on the office contest. Observations concerning these divergent aggregate patterns are usually accompanied by speculation that the theoretical propositions on individual voting behavior, developed and tested in the context of presidential voting, hold less relevance for voting in statewide contest…
Elections and Wall Street
he interface between economic enterprise and political processes in Western, capitalist democracies is a subject of longstanding interest to social scientists. As it has been operationalized in recent work in political science, however, the term has been equated with macroeconomic conditions. Thus most contemporary work in this context has had little to do with the business community itself. As scholarly interest in the subject of economics and p…
Partisan Politics and the Budgetary Process in Oslo
Two alternative models of political effects on budgetary decisions are set out: the party programmatic model and the alliance structure model. Multiple regression tests of the validity of each model are conducted with reference to systematic interview/questionnaire responses from agency officials in the municipal government of Oslo, Norway. Support from various political parties and alliance structures is shown to have substantial effects on agen…
The Machiavellian Budgeter
Some political theorists maintain that Niccolò Machiavelli was a rather immoral sort. His exhortations to guile, perfidy, deception and opportunism were numerous, his scruples few. Others, in a more revisionist vein, suggest that his preferred tactics were only meant for the common good. Yet, whether Machiavelli was a scientist, a descriptivist, a technician, a moralist or an immoralist is immaterial from one standpoint: he taught us something ab…
Expanding Formal Models of Budgeting to Include Environmental Effects
Earlier conceptualizations of environmental effects on public spending suffer from at least two weaknesses: (1) a failure to treat those factors to which decision-makers might respond under conditions of environmental stress; and (2) a failure to develop formally the notion that relevant environments will differ for different governmental units. In this paper, several formal models of budgetary decision-making are extended to include environmenta…
Electoral Choice in the American States
It is a relatively common occurrence in American politics for state electorates to divide their partisan majorities between different parties, depending on the office contest. Observations concerning these divergent aggregate patterns are usually accompanied by speculation that the theoretical propositions on individual voting behavior, developed and tested in the context of presidential voting, hold less relevance for voting in statewide contest…
Expanding Formal Models of Budgeting to Include Environmental Effects
Earlier conceptualizations of environmental effects on public spending suffer from at least two weaknesses: (1) a failure to treat those factors to which decision-makers might respond under conditions of environmental stress; and (2) a failure to develop formally the notion that relevant environments will differ for different governmental units. In this paper, several formal models of budgetary decision-making are extended to include environmenta…
Partisan Politics and the Budgetary Process in Oslo
Two alternative models of political effects on budgetary decisions are set out: the party programmatic model and the alliance structure model. Multiple regression tests of the validity of each model are conducted with reference to systematic interview/questionnaire responses from agency officials in the municipal government of Oslo, Norway. Support from various political parties and alliance structures is shown to have substantial effects on agen…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
The Machiavellian Budgeter
Some political theorists maintain that Niccolò Machiavelli was a rather immoral sort. His exhortations to guile, perfidy, deception and opportunism were numerous, his scruples few. Others, in a more revisionist vein, suggest that his preferred tactics were only meant for the common good. Yet, whether Machiavelli was a scientist, a descriptivist, a technician, a moralist or an immoralist is immaterial from one standpoint: he taught us something ab…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part II
While political controversies over the legitimacy of monetary interventions in Western economies were settled decades ago, the widespread acceptance of fiscal interventions as appropriate tools for achieving economic stability and economic growth is much more recent and much less pervasive. Even the pre-Depression classical economic model specified a role for government monetary policy: ensuring an appropriate stock of money. While institutions o…
The Economic Policies of European Governments, Part I
Rapidly changing economic conditions and the acceptance by governments of the responsibility for those conditions have together provided one of the most volatile and perplexing policy contexts for governments in the post-war era. The volatility of economic policy is inherent in its potential for change over the short run. It can take several years before changes are approved and implemented in order to deal with failures in social welfare program…
Budgets, Institutions, and Change
This paper assesses the budgetary responsiveness of American governmental and political institutions to the growth of crime over the last four decades. Several linear decision models are developed which posit that changes in budgetary requests and appropriations for seven criminal justice agencies are functions of changes in the level of criminal activity and of partisan control of the presidency. Tests of these decision models confirm a substant…
Elections and Wall Street
he interface between economic enterprise and political processes in Western, capitalist democracies is a subject of longstanding interest to social scientists. As it has been operationalized in recent work in political science, however, the term has been equated with macroeconomic conditions. Thus most contemporary work in this context has had little to do with the business community itself. As scholarly interest in the subject of economics and p…
Economics (7 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)