Dennis W Gleiber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1103696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis W Gleiber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis W |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleiber |
| SIGNATURE | GLEIBER D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Justifying Presidential Decisions: The Scope of Veto Messages
The presidential veto is a highly visible and effective form of elite decision making. We measure the scope of the president's explanation of his use of the veto by the number of distinct justifications articulated and the length of his veto messages. Together these indicators tap variation in presidential opposition to legislation, unavailable from other sources. We examine the relationships of a variety of indicators of personal, political, beh…
Testing a dynamic process of policy making in civil rights
Presidential influence is examined at successive stages of the civil rights policy process. The sequential nature of the policy process implies a temporal component. We find support for short term linkages and the existence of institutional constraint over and above the impact of individual presidents. Longer term, year to year, linkages prove less important. For civil rights, then, the policy process is predominantly a short term phenomenon in w…
Presidential Influence in the Policymaking Process
(1989) has provided the most extensive empirical investigation of pres-idential influence. He measures influence as the congruence of presi-dential positions with congressional votes and then correlates this indi-cator of success with the resource popular support. We examine presidential influence in the broader context of the multiple roles of the president in policymaking. We analyze the impact of distinct mea-sures of preferences, resources, a…
Delegate interactions at the 1984 national party conventions: The Tennessee delegations
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
Evaluating Conflict of Interest Theory: Western European Cabinet Coalitions, 1945–80
More than a decade has elapsed since Robert Axelrod first published his theory of political coalitions. At the time, it represented a significant departure from existing theoretical work by defining as a major component of an actor's utility function a preference to join winning coalitions which minimize the degree of ‘conflict of interest’ among potential partners. Axelrod has defined the degree of conflict of interest in terms of the incompatib…
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
Evaluating Conflict of Interest Theory: Western European Cabinet Coalitions, 1945–80
More than a decade has elapsed since Robert Axelrod first published his theory of political coalitions. At the time, it represented a significant departure from existing theoretical work by defining as a major component of an actor's utility function a preference to join winning coalitions which minimize the degree of ‘conflict of interest’ among potential partners. Axelrod has defined the degree of conflict of interest in terms of the incompatib…
Presidential Influence in the Policymaking Process
(1989) has provided the most extensive empirical investigation of pres-idential influence. He measures influence as the congruence of presi-dential positions with congressional votes and then correlates this indi-cator of success with the resource popular support. We examine presidential influence in the broader context of the multiple roles of the president in policymaking. We analyze the impact of distinct mea-sures of preferences, resources, a…
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
Justifying Presidential Decisions: The Scope of Veto Messages
The presidential veto is a highly visible and effective form of elite decision making. We measure the scope of the president's explanation of his use of the veto by the number of distinct justifications articulated and the length of his veto messages. Together these indicators tap variation in presidential opposition to legislation, unavailable from other sources. We examine the relationships of a variety of indicators of personal, political, beh…
Evaluating Conflict of Interest Theory: Western European Cabinet Coalitions, 1945–80
More than a decade has elapsed since Robert Axelrod first published his theory of political coalitions. At the time, it represented a significant departure from existing theoretical work by defining as a major component of an actor's utility function a preference to join winning coalitions which minimize the degree of ‘conflict of interest’ among potential partners. Axelrod has defined the degree of conflict of interest in terms of the incompatib…
An “Events” Approach to the Problem of Cabinet Stability
This article seeks to develop the argument that existing theoretical work investigating cabinet stability in parliamentary democracies is in need of reorientation. In the first part, we offer an extended critique of historical and contemporary literature, focusing heavily on contributions from coalition theory and recent empirical research on situational determinants of cabinet longevity. Arguing that the various models associated with both these…
Dissolution of Governments in Scandinavia: A Critical Events Perspective
For many years, scholars have sought to discover why governments in Western European parliamentary democracies frequently dissolve before the time constitutionally mandated for the holding of elections. Recent research has suggested the potential importance of unpredictable changes in the political environment for bringing about governmental dissolutions. Although not specifically described. the importance of ‘critical events‘ is suggested by bot…
The Study of Cabinet Dissolutions in Parliamentary Democracies
While earlier research stressed the importance of attributes of the government, parliament, and political system in determining the point of governmental dissolution, the most recent studies emphasize the random character of this phenomenon. This article describes the points of convergence and divergence between these distinct research phases. Ultimately these differing approaches are seen to be complementary, both conceptually and in their abili…
The Process of Cabinet Dissolution: An Exponential Model of Duration and Stability in Western Democracies
Contemporary research on cabinet stability has focused upon relating specific attributes of political actors and parliamentary settings with the duration of cabinets over time. Statistical testing, however, has failed to produce convincing evidence for explanations based on such deterministic models. Our contention is that such models are misspecified. They focus upon elapsed time in office as the surrogate measure for cabinet stability. We prese…
Delegate interactions at the 1984 national party conventions: The Tennessee delegations
Presidential Influence in the Policymaking Process
(1989) has provided the most extensive empirical investigation of pres-idential influence. He measures influence as the congruence of presi-dential positions with congressional votes and then correlates this indi-cator of success with the resource popular support. We examine presidential influence in the broader context of the multiple roles of the president in policymaking. We analyze the impact of distinct mea-sures of preferences, resources, a…
Testing a dynamic process of policy making in civil rights
Presidential influence is examined at successive stages of the civil rights policy process. The sequential nature of the policy process implies a temporal component. We find support for short term linkages and the existence of institutional constraint over and above the impact of individual presidents. Longer term, year to year, linkages prove less important. For civil rights, then, the policy process is predominantly a short term phenomenon in w…
Justifying Presidential Decisions: The Scope of Veto Messages
The presidential veto is a highly visible and effective form of elite decision making. We measure the scope of the president's explanation of his use of the veto by the number of distinct justifications articulated and the length of his veto messages. Together these indicators tap variation in presidential opposition to legislation, unavailable from other sources. We examine the relationships of a variety of indicators of personal, political, beh…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (5 works) · Cabinet (room (4 works) · Positive economics (4 works)