Nelson C Dometrius
Biographic Data
| ID | 1026327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson C Dometrius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dometrius |
| SIGNATURE | DOMETRIUS N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project
The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of …
Governors, Legislatures, and State Budgets across Time
Prior research by Abney and Lauth concluded that governors were losing ground to legislatures in shaping the state budget. Goodman examined Abney and Lauth’s explanations for this change and found empirical support for some but not others. This article’s findings reveal that governors, as a group, have not declined in budgetary influence, although some have gained and others lost during recent decades. The longitudinal analysis arrives at two maj…
Deil S. Wright
Deil Spencer Wright, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed away on June 30 2009, at the age of 79. Born on June 18, 1930, in Three Rivers, Michigan, to working-class parents, Deil received his BA, MPA, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent time on the faculties of Wayne State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at Berkeley befo…
Academic Double-Dipping
In my three decades in the profession I have served on an uncountable number of search committees. In recent years I increasingly encountered an annoying (to me) practice among applicants, multiple vita entries for identically titled, and thus presumably identically written, conference papers. I originally dismissed such practices as vita padding, a not well socialized, nor particularly well accomplished, applicant seeking to make his or her rese…
The Evolving Norms of Conference Papers
Organizations of any duration develop norms of behavior. A few are codified in organizational rules but many remain informal, transmitted to new members through socialization mechanisms. All norms, informal norms in particular, are resilient but not permanent. They change if socialization instruments are no longer effective or if members are aware of established norms but opt to no longer follow them
Strategies for Measuring Influence over State Agencies
In the summer 2006 edition ofState Politics and Policy Quarterly, Michael Baranowski and Donald Gross examined two methods of measuring influence over state agency activities: freestanding versus paired comparison. Their analysis led them to conclude that the paired-comparison measures might be theoretically superior, but are often impractical. Using the American State Administrator Project (ASAP) surveys, we supplement Baranowski and Gross's ana…
Legislative Professionalism and Democratic Success
Fiorina (1992, 1994) argued that increased professionalism of state legislatures in the 1970s and 1980s increased Democratic control of those bodies. While some subsequent empirical studies have been consistent with this hypothesis, doubt remains about the causal connection of this relationship. Our review of Fiorina's theoretical argument leads us to add legislative district size as a conditioning element to the model. Using data from state legi…
State Legislative Influence over Agency Rulemaking
Scholars have argued that legislatures can use administrative procedures to constrain bureaucratic discretion and maintain policy control when delegating authority. One such mechanism is the formal authority to review agency rule proposals. We find that legislatures with stronger formal authority to review rules ex ante are viewed by agency heads as more influential in their rulemaking decisions, but this power is mitigated when such review is ch…
Gubernatorial Approval and Administrative Influence
The connection between the government and the governed is often evaluated using election results. This article explores this connection between elections using data on gubernatorial approval in the states. Specifically, I ask the question, Do governors with greater job approval ratings have greater influence over the state bureaucracy than governors with lower approval ratings? Measures of both gubernatorial influence and administrator contact wi…
Bugs in the NRC's Doctoral Program Evaluation Data
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
Organizational Regeneration Reconsidered
Theory: A model of organizational regeneration produced 1990 forecasts of the gender composition of the state and local government workforce that were at odds with the actual results for 1990. Hypotheses: The errors arise from changing government practices rather than from errors in the model per se. Methods: More recent data are examined to identify possible changes in the model's parameters. Results: The rates at which women enter or leave stat…
Modeling the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions
In May, 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Jackson, Michigan, school district's policy of protecting minority teachers during periods of mandatory layoffs. This paper models the implications of this decision in an attempt to project its likely impact on black representation in the educational workforce. The results suggest that under most plausible future conditions the decision's impact should be negligible, due largely to the fact tha…
Spreadsheets and Student Records
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Changing Gubernatorial Power
Changing Gubernatorial Power
VER the years, social scientists have become very adept at quantifying and measuring the attributes of our subject matter. We recognize that human institutions and behavior are changeable, not immutable. Nevertheless, we sometimes forget that as the objects we study change, the measurements we use for our studies must also change. This paper examines one case where our measures have not kept pace with our subject Schlesinger's index of gubernator…
Organizational Regeneration and Political Change
This paper develops a model of organizational regeneration-the process by which organizations reconstitute themselves over time through replacement of their members. Though not often studied by political scientists, the regeneration process is fraught with political implications. Model development is wrapped around the substantive case of the employment of women in state and local governments in the United States. Some 1980 data are factored into…
Assessing Progress toward Affirmative Action Goals in State and Local Government
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 extended to minorities and women the same protections vis-a-vis state and local government employment that they had enjoyed for several years as employees or potential employees of the federal government and the private sector. The act also established a monitoring system that has now produced four separate reports on the employment status of minorities and women in state and local governments.' Data f…
Serious Distortion
The Case for Bureaucracy
Organizing the Executive Branch
Measuring Gubernatorial Power
Measuring Gubernatorial Power
Gubernatorial Approval and Administrative Influence
The connection between the government and the governed is often evaluated using election results. This article explores this connection between elections using data on gubernatorial approval in the states. Specifically, I ask the question, Do governors with greater job approval ratings have greater influence over the state bureaucracy than governors with lower approval ratings? Measures of both gubernatorial influence and administrator contact wi…
State Legislative Influence over Agency Rulemaking
Scholars have argued that legislatures can use administrative procedures to constrain bureaucratic discretion and maintain policy control when delegating authority. One such mechanism is the formal authority to review agency rule proposals. We find that legislatures with stronger formal authority to review rules ex ante are viewed by agency heads as more influential in their rulemaking decisions, but this power is mitigated when such review is ch…
Changing Gubernatorial Power
VER the years, social scientists have become very adept at quantifying and measuring the attributes of our subject matter. We recognize that human institutions and behavior are changeable, not immutable. Nevertheless, we sometimes forget that as the objects we study change, the measurements we use for our studies must also change. This paper examines one case where our measures have not kept pace with our subject Schlesinger's index of gubernator…
Governors, Legislatures, and State Budgets across Time
Prior research by Abney and Lauth concluded that governors were losing ground to legislatures in shaping the state budget. Goodman examined Abney and Lauth’s explanations for this change and found empirical support for some but not others. This article’s findings reveal that governors, as a group, have not declined in budgetary influence, although some have gained and others lost during recent decades. The longitudinal analysis arrives at two maj…
Organizational Regeneration and Political Change
This paper develops a model of organizational regeneration-the process by which organizations reconstitute themselves over time through replacement of their members. Though not often studied by political scientists, the regeneration process is fraught with political implications. Model development is wrapped around the substantive case of the employment of women in state and local governments in the United States. Some 1980 data are factored into…
Strategies for Measuring Influence over State Agencies
In the summer 2006 edition ofState Politics and Policy Quarterly, Michael Baranowski and Donald Gross examined two methods of measuring influence over state agency activities: freestanding versus paired comparison. Their analysis led them to conclude that the paired-comparison measures might be theoretically superior, but are often impractical. Using the American State Administrator Project (ASAP) surveys, we supplement Baranowski and Gross's ana…
Legislative Professionalism and Democratic Success
Fiorina (1992, 1994) argued that increased professionalism of state legislatures in the 1970s and 1980s increased Democratic control of those bodies. While some subsequent empirical studies have been consistent with this hypothesis, doubt remains about the causal connection of this relationship. Our review of Fiorina's theoretical argument leads us to add legislative district size as a conditioning element to the model. Using data from state legi…
Organizational Regeneration Reconsidered
Theory: A model of organizational regeneration produced 1990 forecasts of the gender composition of the state and local government workforce that were at odds with the actual results for 1990. Hypotheses: The errors arise from changing government practices rather than from errors in the model per se. Methods: More recent data are examined to identify possible changes in the model's parameters. Results: The rates at which women enter or leave stat…
Measuring Gubernatorial Power
Organizing the Executive Branch
The Case for Bureaucracy
Assessing Progress toward Affirmative Action Goals in State and Local Government
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 extended to minorities and women the same protections vis-a-vis state and local government employment that they had enjoyed for several years as employees or potential employees of the federal government and the private sector. The act also established a monitoring system that has now produced four separate reports on the employment status of minorities and women in state and local governments.' Data f…
Serious Distortion
Organizational Regeneration and Political Change
This paper develops a model of organizational regeneration-the process by which organizations reconstitute themselves over time through replacement of their members. Though not often studied by political scientists, the regeneration process is fraught with political implications. Model development is wrapped around the substantive case of the employment of women in state and local governments in the United States. Some 1980 data are factored into…
Spreadsheets and Student Records
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
Changing Gubernatorial Power
Changing Gubernatorial Power
VER the years, social scientists have become very adept at quantifying and measuring the attributes of our subject matter. We recognize that human institutions and behavior are changeable, not immutable. Nevertheless, we sometimes forget that as the objects we study change, the measurements we use for our studies must also change. This paper examines one case where our measures have not kept pace with our subject Schlesinger's index of gubernator…
Modeling the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions
In May, 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Jackson, Michigan, school district's policy of protecting minority teachers during periods of mandatory layoffs. This paper models the implications of this decision in an attempt to project its likely impact on black representation in the educational workforce. The results suggest that under most plausible future conditions the decision's impact should be negligible, due largely to the fact tha…
Organizational Regeneration Reconsidered
Theory: A model of organizational regeneration produced 1990 forecasts of the gender composition of the state and local government workforce that were at odds with the actual results for 1990. Hypotheses: The errors arise from changing government practices rather than from errors in the model per se. Methods: More recent data are examined to identify possible changes in the model's parameters. Results: The rates at which women enter or leave stat…
Bugs in the NRC's Doctoral Program Evaluation Data
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
Gubernatorial Approval and Administrative Influence
The connection between the government and the governed is often evaluated using election results. This article explores this connection between elections using data on gubernatorial approval in the states. Specifically, I ask the question, Do governors with greater job approval ratings have greater influence over the state bureaucracy than governors with lower approval ratings? Measures of both gubernatorial influence and administrator contact wi…
State Legislative Influence over Agency Rulemaking
Scholars have argued that legislatures can use administrative procedures to constrain bureaucratic discretion and maintain policy control when delegating authority. One such mechanism is the formal authority to review agency rule proposals. We find that legislatures with stronger formal authority to review rules ex ante are viewed by agency heads as more influential in their rulemaking decisions, but this power is mitigated when such review is ch…
Legislative Professionalism and Democratic Success
Fiorina (1992, 1994) argued that increased professionalism of state legislatures in the 1970s and 1980s increased Democratic control of those bodies. While some subsequent empirical studies have been consistent with this hypothesis, doubt remains about the causal connection of this relationship. Our review of Fiorina's theoretical argument leads us to add legislative district size as a conditioning element to the model. Using data from state legi…
Academic Double-Dipping
In my three decades in the profession I have served on an uncountable number of search committees. In recent years I increasingly encountered an annoying (to me) practice among applicants, multiple vita entries for identically titled, and thus presumably identically written, conference papers. I originally dismissed such practices as vita padding, a not well socialized, nor particularly well accomplished, applicant seeking to make his or her rese…
The Evolving Norms of Conference Papers
Organizations of any duration develop norms of behavior. A few are codified in organizational rules but many remain informal, transmitted to new members through socialization mechanisms. All norms, informal norms in particular, are resilient but not permanent. They change if socialization instruments are no longer effective or if members are aware of established norms but opt to no longer follow them
Strategies for Measuring Influence over State Agencies
In the summer 2006 edition ofState Politics and Policy Quarterly, Michael Baranowski and Donald Gross examined two methods of measuring influence over state agency activities: freestanding versus paired comparison. Their analysis led them to conclude that the paired-comparison measures might be theoretically superior, but are often impractical. Using the American State Administrator Project (ASAP) surveys, we supplement Baranowski and Gross's ana…
Deil S. Wright
Deil Spencer Wright, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed away on June 30 2009, at the age of 79. Born on June 18, 1930, in Three Rivers, Michigan, to working-class parents, Deil received his BA, MPA, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent time on the faculties of Wayne State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at Berkeley befo…
Governors, Legislatures, and State Budgets across Time
Prior research by Abney and Lauth concluded that governors were losing ground to legislatures in shaping the state budget. Goodman examined Abney and Lauth’s explanations for this change and found empirical support for some but not others. This article’s findings reveal that governors, as a group, have not declined in budgetary influence, although some have gained and others lost during recent decades. The longitudinal analysis arrives at two maj…
State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project
The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of …
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