Harvey J Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1034618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey J Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey J |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Visualizing timescape issues in a comparative study of the American states
This paper considers a range of time-related issues in the comparative empirical study of the American States and demonstrates how visualizations animated to show change over time can provide information that summary statistics do not. Issues discussed include proactive and reactive policies, proper measurement of money over time, and proper linking of variables over time. Relationships with nearly identical annual correlations can exhibit striki…
Vanishing Marginals in State Legislative Elections
Legislative Calendars and Workload Management in Texas
There is a well-developed normative model of how state legislatures ought to use calendars to make the management of their workloads more efficient. State legislatures that follow the normative model identify more and less important bills. Presumably, major and minor bills are treated differently--but are they? This study desegregates the agenda of the Texas Legislature into unimportant, less important, and more important bills as defined by bill…
Legislative Workload Congestion in Texas
There is considerable evidence that the processing of work in American state legislatures is characterized by bottlenecks, congestion, and logjams. Yet past research has examined only part of the legislative workload and part of the legislative calendar. Measurement and evaluation of legislative workload is complicated by the complexity of legislation and the legislative process. However, comprehensive analyses show that, although some important …
State Legislative Election Outcomes: Contextual Effects and Legislative Performance Effects
This paper adds to the growing literature on state legislative election outcomes. The empirical focus is on Washington state house elections for 1976 through 1984. Explanatory variables include measures of partisan strength, campaign expenditures, incumbency, and legislative performance. Separate models are developed for contests between Democrats and Republicans and for incumbents and challengers. As has been reported for other states, partisan …
Contextual Models of Participation in U.S. State Legislative Elections
The analysis of turnout in state legislative elections is a relatively novel subject of inquiry that ought to be pursued. A contextual model of electoral participation provides a useful alternative to aggregate models of turnout in other elections that emphasize socioeconomic factors. The empirical success of the contextual model compares favorably with that of models employing aggregate socioeconomic data or individual level survey data. Neverth…
Contextual Models of Participation in U. S. State Legislative Elections
Does Heavy Turnout Help Democrats in Presidential Elections
There is conventional political wisdom that high voter turnout in a U.S. presidential election advantages the majority party. Because the Democratic party has been the dominant party in recent decades, this turnout advantage is often believed to accrue to Democratic presidential candidates. In an article in the June 1980 issue of the Review, James DeNardo challenged this conventional view. Indeed, he claimed that the majority party was likely to …
Legislative Logjams: A Comparative State Analysis
Beyond these basic generalizations, we know precious little about how state legislatures handle their workloads. How is the workload divided among committees? At what stage of committee consideration do bills die? Why do some bills pass and others fail? When during the session are the various kinds of legislative business transacted? What linkages exist between legislative practice and legislative performance? No practice of state legislatures' w…
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Jewell (1982) has recently called for even more comparative study of the states. He speculated that major changes in the last two decades may make the knowledge accumulated from earlier studies obsolete. Empirical evidence of this phenomenon has already begun to appear in print (Tucker 1982a, 1982b; Robey and Jenkins 1982)1 A number of studies published in the mid-1960s and early 1970s found that the states are becoming more alike in their socioe…
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Bureaucratic Accountability: Problems and Paradoxes; Panaceas and (Occasionally) Palliatives
It's About Time: The Use of Time in Cross-Sectional State Policy Research
This paper discusses three interrelated issues concerning the use of time in cross-sectional policy research in the American states: (1) the proper relation of independent and dependent variables with respect to time, (2) the instability of cross-sectional variable arrays and measures of association over time, and (3) the proper relation of variables measured at a single point in time and variables measured over longer periods of time. Data are d…
Incremental Budgeting: Myth or Model
F nOR NEARLY two decades the notion of incrementalism has dominated conceptualization, analysis and description of the budgetary process. Incremental models have been applied to budgeting in the United States federal government, state and local governments in the United States, central and local budgeting in other countries, and in international organizations. (See Davis et al., 1966a, 1966b, 1971, 1974; Cowart et al., 1975; Crecine, 1969, 1970; …
Budgeting Strategy: Cross-Sectional versus Longitudinal Models
ment not only on its own practices but also on those of other executive agencies and the legislature. Also, no attempt was made to verify the responses; the research team did not try to validate the extent to which any given state was truly conducting policy analyses. This data has had broad exposure to practitioners and researchers, however, and has been widely reported upon for other purposes. See Mushkin, op. cit.; Robert D. Lee, Jr. and Raymo…
Responsiveness in Public School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of Boards of Education
Boards of education of public school districts are legislative bodies. As such, they can be analyzed using the same theoretical assumptions, empirical procedures, and evaluative criteria employed by political scientists to study other legislative bodies. This paper considers the responsiveness of school boards to their constituents. The authors argue that responsiveness is a complex multi-faceted concept, and present prototype empirical indices f…
C. Professionalism, Community Structure, and Decision‐making: School Superintendents and Interest Groups
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
Data on International Organizations: Availability and Needs
Journal Article Data on International Organizations: Availability and Needs Get access Francis W. Hoole, Francis W. Hoole Department of Political Science, Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Harvey J. Tucker Harvey J. Tucker Center for Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarter…
Vanishing Marginals in State Legislative Elections
State Legislative Election Outcomes: Contextual Effects and Legislative Performance Effects
This paper adds to the growing literature on state legislative election outcomes. The empirical focus is on Washington state house elections for 1976 through 1984. Explanatory variables include measures of partisan strength, campaign expenditures, incumbency, and legislative performance. Separate models are developed for contests between Democrats and Republicans and for incumbents and challengers. As has been reported for other states, partisan …
Does Heavy Turnout Help Democrats in Presidential Elections
There is conventional political wisdom that high voter turnout in a U.S. presidential election advantages the majority party. Because the Democratic party has been the dominant party in recent decades, this turnout advantage is often believed to accrue to Democratic presidential candidates. In an article in the June 1980 issue of the Review, James DeNardo challenged this conventional view. Indeed, he claimed that the majority party was likely to …
It's About Time: The Use of Time in Cross-Sectional State Policy Research
This paper discusses three interrelated issues concerning the use of time in cross-sectional policy research in the American states: (1) the proper relation of independent and dependent variables with respect to time, (2) the instability of cross-sectional variable arrays and measures of association over time, and (3) the proper relation of variables measured at a single point in time and variables measured over longer periods of time. Data are d…
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
Contextual Models of Participation in U. S. State Legislative Elections
Legislative Calendars and Workload Management in Texas
There is a well-developed normative model of how state legislatures ought to use calendars to make the management of their workloads more efficient. State legislatures that follow the normative model identify more and less important bills. Presumably, major and minor bills are treated differently--but are they? This study desegregates the agenda of the Texas Legislature into unimportant, less important, and more important bills as defined by bill…
Legislative Logjams: A Comparative State Analysis
Beyond these basic generalizations, we know precious little about how state legislatures handle their workloads. How is the workload divided among committees? At what stage of committee consideration do bills die? Why do some bills pass and others fail? When during the session are the various kinds of legislative business transacted? What linkages exist between legislative practice and legislative performance? No practice of state legislatures' w…
Incremental Budgeting: Myth or Model
F nOR NEARLY two decades the notion of incrementalism has dominated conceptualization, analysis and description of the budgetary process. Incremental models have been applied to budgeting in the United States federal government, state and local governments in the United States, central and local budgeting in other countries, and in international organizations. (See Davis et al., 1966a, 1966b, 1971, 1974; Cowart et al., 1975; Crecine, 1969, 1970; …
Contextual Models of Participation in U.S. State Legislative Elections
The analysis of turnout in state legislative elections is a relatively novel subject of inquiry that ought to be pursued. A contextual model of electoral participation provides a useful alternative to aggregate models of turnout in other elections that emphasize socioeconomic factors. The empirical success of the contextual model compares favorably with that of models employing aggregate socioeconomic data or individual level survey data. Neverth…
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Responsiveness in Public School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of Boards of Education
Boards of education of public school districts are legislative bodies. As such, they can be analyzed using the same theoretical assumptions, empirical procedures, and evaluative criteria employed by political scientists to study other legislative bodies. This paper considers the responsiveness of school boards to their constituents. The authors argue that responsiveness is a complex multi-faceted concept, and present prototype empirical indices f…
Legislative Workload Congestion in Texas
There is considerable evidence that the processing of work in American state legislatures is characterized by bottlenecks, congestion, and logjams. Yet past research has examined only part of the legislative workload and part of the legislative calendar. Measurement and evaluation of legislative workload is complicated by the complexity of legislation and the legislative process. However, comprehensive analyses show that, although some important …
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Jewell (1982) has recently called for even more comparative study of the states. He speculated that major changes in the last two decades may make the knowledge accumulated from earlier studies obsolete. Empirical evidence of this phenomenon has already begun to appear in print (Tucker 1982a, 1982b; Robey and Jenkins 1982)1 A number of studies published in the mid-1960s and early 1970s found that the states are becoming more alike in their socioe…
Data on International Organizations: Availability and Needs
Journal Article Data on International Organizations: Availability and Needs Get access Francis W. Hoole, Francis W. Hoole Department of Political Science, Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Harvey J. Tucker Harvey J. Tucker Center for Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarter…
C. Professionalism, Community Structure, and Decision‐making: School Superintendents and Interest Groups
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
Responsiveness in Public School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of Boards of Education
Boards of education of public school districts are legislative bodies. As such, they can be analyzed using the same theoretical assumptions, empirical procedures, and evaluative criteria employed by political scientists to study other legislative bodies. This paper considers the responsiveness of school boards to their constituents. The authors argue that responsiveness is a complex multi-faceted concept, and present prototype empirical indices f…
Budgeting Strategy: Cross-Sectional versus Longitudinal Models
ment not only on its own practices but also on those of other executive agencies and the legislature. Also, no attempt was made to verify the responses; the research team did not try to validate the extent to which any given state was truly conducting policy analyses. This data has had broad exposure to practitioners and researchers, however, and has been widely reported upon for other purposes. See Mushkin, op. cit.; Robert D. Lee, Jr. and Raymo…
It's About Time: The Use of Time in Cross-Sectional State Policy Research
This paper discusses three interrelated issues concerning the use of time in cross-sectional policy research in the American states: (1) the proper relation of independent and dependent variables with respect to time, (2) the instability of cross-sectional variable arrays and measures of association over time, and (3) the proper relation of variables measured at a single point in time and variables measured over longer periods of time. Data are d…
Incremental Budgeting: Myth or Model
F nOR NEARLY two decades the notion of incrementalism has dominated conceptualization, analysis and description of the budgetary process. Incremental models have been applied to budgeting in the United States federal government, state and local governments in the United States, central and local budgeting in other countries, and in international organizations. (See Davis et al., 1966a, 1966b, 1971, 1974; Cowart et al., 1975; Crecine, 1969, 1970; …
Bureaucratic Accountability: Problems and Paradoxes; Panaceas and (Occasionally) Palliatives
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Jewell (1982) has recently called for even more comparative study of the states. He speculated that major changes in the last two decades may make the knowledge accumulated from earlier studies obsolete. Empirical evidence of this phenomenon has already begun to appear in print (Tucker 1982a, 1982b; Robey and Jenkins 1982)1 A number of studies published in the mid-1960s and early 1970s found that the states are becoming more alike in their socioe…
The Nationalization of State Policy Revisited
Legislative Logjams: A Comparative State Analysis
Beyond these basic generalizations, we know precious little about how state legislatures handle their workloads. How is the workload divided among committees? At what stage of committee consideration do bills die? Why do some bills pass and others fail? When during the session are the various kinds of legislative business transacted? What linkages exist between legislative practice and legislative performance? No practice of state legislatures' w…
Contextual Models of Participation in U.S. State Legislative Elections
The analysis of turnout in state legislative elections is a relatively novel subject of inquiry that ought to be pursued. A contextual model of electoral participation provides a useful alternative to aggregate models of turnout in other elections that emphasize socioeconomic factors. The empirical success of the contextual model compares favorably with that of models employing aggregate socioeconomic data or individual level survey data. Neverth…
Contextual Models of Participation in U. S. State Legislative Elections
Does Heavy Turnout Help Democrats in Presidential Elections
There is conventional political wisdom that high voter turnout in a U.S. presidential election advantages the majority party. Because the Democratic party has been the dominant party in recent decades, this turnout advantage is often believed to accrue to Democratic presidential candidates. In an article in the June 1980 issue of the Review, James DeNardo challenged this conventional view. Indeed, he claimed that the majority party was likely to …
Legislative Workload Congestion in Texas
There is considerable evidence that the processing of work in American state legislatures is characterized by bottlenecks, congestion, and logjams. Yet past research has examined only part of the legislative workload and part of the legislative calendar. Measurement and evaluation of legislative workload is complicated by the complexity of legislation and the legislative process. However, comprehensive analyses show that, although some important …
State Legislative Election Outcomes: Contextual Effects and Legislative Performance Effects
This paper adds to the growing literature on state legislative election outcomes. The empirical focus is on Washington state house elections for 1976 through 1984. Explanatory variables include measures of partisan strength, campaign expenditures, incumbency, and legislative performance. Separate models are developed for contests between Democrats and Republicans and for incumbents and challengers. As has been reported for other states, partisan …
Legislative Calendars and Workload Management in Texas
There is a well-developed normative model of how state legislatures ought to use calendars to make the management of their workloads more efficient. State legislatures that follow the normative model identify more and less important bills. Presumably, major and minor bills are treated differently--but are they? This study desegregates the agenda of the Texas Legislature into unimportant, less important, and more important bills as defined by bill…
Vanishing Marginals in State Legislative Elections
Visualizing timescape issues in a comparative study of the American states
This paper considers a range of time-related issues in the comparative empirical study of the American States and demonstrates how visualizations animated to show change over time can provide information that summary statistics do not. Issues discussed include proactive and reactive policies, proper measurement of money over time, and proper linking of variables over time. Relationships with nearly identical annual correlations can exhibit striki…
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