Mark Zachary Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1234280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Zachary Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR M Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5850-3004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Presidency of Bill Clinton after Thirty Years: A Review Article
Did Bill Clinton destroy the U.S. economy? In a recent book, Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein offer a scathing new critique. In this account, Clinton not only ravaged the United States in his own time but is largely to blame for America's subsequent economic inequality, monopolistic corporations, the Great Financial Crisis, the rise of China, and the advent of Trumpism. And yet, the economic data speak well of the Clinton presidency. He fares…
The economic drivers of political time
Skowronek's theory of “political time” posits that presidential success follows historical cycles, but it does not specify a unique causal mechanism. Each president merely reacts to their predecessor or to historical circumstance. Scholars of “political time” also suggest that the power of history may be diminishing over time. This article uses theory and evidence to address the causality issue in both instances. First, it shows that economic cri…
Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity
Journal Article Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity Get access Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. London: Basic Books. 2023. 560pp. £25.00. Isbn978 1 39980 445 5. Available as e-book. Mark Zachary Taylor Mark Zachary Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Ideas and Their Consequences: Benjamin Harrison and the Seeds of Economic Crisis, 1889-1893
The little-studied presidency of Benjamin Harrison offers valuable insights into the surprising role that political ideas can play in government. Harrison was a highly qualified president who demonstrated energetic leadership and political skill, but whose ideological commitment to the Republican party as a quasi-sacred enterprise overrode other important considerations, thereby contributing to one of the greatest economic catastrophes in U.S. hi…
The Historical Presidency: The Gilded Age Presidents and the Economy
Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? This article reports several findings and hypotheses derived from a set of least likely cases, the Gilded Age presidents. These executives are often dismissed as weak and ineffective non‐entities. However, statistical data and qualitative evidence suggest that presidents do matter, even during the Gilded Age. They are powerful and essential actors who can deeply affect American economic per…
Response to Damon V. Coletta's review of The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
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Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
Why are some countries better than others at science and technology? Written in accessible language, 'The Politics of Innovation' provides readers from all backgrounds with a useful survey of the innovation debate. It presents extensive evidence to show that national institutions and policies do not determine innovation rates, but politics do.
America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
An Economic Ranking of the US Presidents, 1789–2009: A Data-Based Approach
How relatively good or bad were the economic performances of our past presidents? The answers to this question remain unclear. Most evaluations of presidential performance cloud the issue with partisan bias and subjective judgments or mix economics together with other policy areas. To address these shortcomings, this article uses new data from the Measuring Worth Project to calculate the relative economic rankings of the United States presidents …
Toward an International Relations Theory of National Innovation Rates
The ability of nations to innovate technologically plays an important causal role in both security studies and international political economy. Explanations for national differences in technological capabilities, however, have had little place in international relations theory. This gap is partly the result of assumptions made by scholars that the rate and direction of technological change are determined by a state's domestic institutions and pol…
Conclusion: International Political Economy—The Reverse Salient of Innovation Theory
This conclusion attempts to answer three sets of questions regarding our experiment in cross‐field collaboration: What did we find and were these findings cohesive? What did our findings add to the debate? What are the implications of our findings, and, more importantly, what's next? It suggests that politics have become a “reverse salient” in innovation theory. Specifically, innovation scholars have yet to devise a theory that fully incorporates…
International Linkages and National Innovation Rates: An Exploratory Probe1
The conventional wisdom among political economists holds that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely which domestic institutions matter or exactly how they affect innovation rates. Anecdotal observations within the research on institutions suggest that international linkages may be the missing piece to the national innovation rate puzzle. An explorato…
Political Decentralization and Technological Innovation: Testing the Innovative Advantages of Decentralized States
Are politically decentralized states better at fostering long-run technological innovation than centralized states? Societies with decentralized governments are widely seen as agile, competitive, and well structured to adapt to innovation's gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come to be viewed as rigid and thus hostile to the risks, costs, and change associated with new technology, or prone to c…
Empirical Evidence Against Varieties of Capitalism's Theory of Technological Innovation
How can one explain cross-national differences in innovative activity across the industrialized democracies? In this article, I examine the "varieties of capitalism" (VOC) response to this question. VOC theory predicts that societies with liberal-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward radical technological change, while societies with coordinated-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward incremental techno…
Dominance through Technology: Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in Southeast Asia
Empirical Evidence Against Varieties of Capitalism's Theory of Technological Innovation
How can one explain cross-national differences in innovative activity across the industrialized democracies? In this article, I examine the "varieties of capitalism" (VOC) response to this question. VOC theory predicts that societies with liberal-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward radical technological change, while societies with coordinated-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward incremental techno…
Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity
Journal Article Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity Get access Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. London: Basic Books. 2023. 560pp. £25.00. Isbn978 1 39980 445 5. Available as e-book. Mark Zachary Taylor Mark Zachary Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Toward an International Relations Theory of National Innovation Rates
The ability of nations to innovate technologically plays an important causal role in both security studies and international political economy. Explanations for national differences in technological capabilities, however, have had little place in international relations theory. This gap is partly the result of assumptions made by scholars that the rate and direction of technological change are determined by a state's domestic institutions and pol…
International Linkages and National Innovation Rates: An Exploratory Probe1
The conventional wisdom among political economists holds that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely which domestic institutions matter or exactly how they affect innovation rates. Anecdotal observations within the research on institutions suggest that international linkages may be the missing piece to the national innovation rate puzzle. An explorato…
America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
Political Decentralization and Technological Innovation: Testing the Innovative Advantages of Decentralized States
Are politically decentralized states better at fostering long-run technological innovation than centralized states? Societies with decentralized governments are widely seen as agile, competitive, and well structured to adapt to innovation's gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come to be viewed as rigid and thus hostile to the risks, costs, and change associated with new technology, or prone to c…
Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
Dominance through Technology: Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in Southeast Asia
Dominance through Technology: Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in Southeast Asia
Empirical Evidence Against Varieties of Capitalism's Theory of Technological Innovation
How can one explain cross-national differences in innovative activity across the industrialized democracies? In this article, I examine the "varieties of capitalism" (VOC) response to this question. VOC theory predicts that societies with liberal-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward radical technological change, while societies with coordinated-market economies will direct their inventive activity toward incremental techno…
Political Decentralization and Technological Innovation: Testing the Innovative Advantages of Decentralized States
Are politically decentralized states better at fostering long-run technological innovation than centralized states? Societies with decentralized governments are widely seen as agile, competitive, and well structured to adapt to innovation's gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come to be viewed as rigid and thus hostile to the risks, costs, and change associated with new technology, or prone to c…
Conclusion: International Political Economy—The Reverse Salient of Innovation Theory
This conclusion attempts to answer three sets of questions regarding our experiment in cross‐field collaboration: What did we find and were these findings cohesive? What did our findings add to the debate? What are the implications of our findings, and, more importantly, what's next? It suggests that politics have become a “reverse salient” in innovation theory. Specifically, innovation scholars have yet to devise a theory that fully incorporates…
International Linkages and National Innovation Rates: An Exploratory Probe1
The conventional wisdom among political economists holds that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, there is still no agreement on precisely which domestic institutions matter or exactly how they affect innovation rates. Anecdotal observations within the research on institutions suggest that international linkages may be the missing piece to the national innovation rate puzzle. An explorato…
An Economic Ranking of the US Presidents, 1789–2009: A Data-Based Approach
How relatively good or bad were the economic performances of our past presidents? The answers to this question remain unclear. Most evaluations of presidential performance cloud the issue with partisan bias and subjective judgments or mix economics together with other policy areas. To address these shortcomings, this article uses new data from the Measuring Worth Project to calculate the relative economic rankings of the United States presidents …
Toward an International Relations Theory of National Innovation Rates
The ability of nations to innovate technologically plays an important causal role in both security studies and international political economy. Explanations for national differences in technological capabilities, however, have had little place in international relations theory. This gap is partly the result of assumptions made by scholars that the rate and direction of technological change are determined by a state's domestic institutions and pol…
America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
Why are some countries better than others at science and technology? Written in accessible language, 'The Politics of Innovation' provides readers from all backgrounds with a useful survey of the innovation debate. It presents extensive evidence to show that national institutions and policies do not determine innovation rates, but politics do.
Response to Damon V. Coletta's review of The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries Are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
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
Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
The Historical Presidency: The Gilded Age Presidents and the Economy
Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? This article reports several findings and hypotheses derived from a set of least likely cases, the Gilded Age presidents. These executives are often dismissed as weak and ineffective non‐entities. However, statistical data and qualitative evidence suggest that presidents do matter, even during the Gilded Age. They are powerful and essential actors who can deeply affect American economic per…
Ideas and Their Consequences: Benjamin Harrison and the Seeds of Economic Crisis, 1889-1893
The little-studied presidency of Benjamin Harrison offers valuable insights into the surprising role that political ideas can play in government. Harrison was a highly qualified president who demonstrated energetic leadership and political skill, but whose ideological commitment to the Republican party as a quasi-sacred enterprise overrode other important considerations, thereby contributing to one of the greatest economic catastrophes in U.S. hi…
The economic drivers of political time
Skowronek's theory of “political time” posits that presidential success follows historical cycles, but it does not specify a unique causal mechanism. Each president merely reacts to their predecessor or to historical circumstance. Scholars of “political time” also suggest that the power of history may be diminishing over time. This article uses theory and evidence to address the causality issue in both instances. First, it shows that economic cri…
Power and progress: Our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity
Journal Article Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity Get access Power and progress: our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. London: Basic Books. 2023. 560pp. £25.00. Isbn978 1 39980 445 5. Available as e-book. Mark Zachary Taylor Mark Zachary Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
The Presidency of Bill Clinton after Thirty Years: A Review Article
Did Bill Clinton destroy the U.S. economy? In a recent book, Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein offer a scathing new critique. In this account, Clinton not only ravaged the United States in his own time but is largely to blame for America's subsequent economic inequality, monopolistic corporations, the Great Financial Crisis, the rise of China, and the advent of Trumpism. And yet, the economic data speak well of the Clinton presidency. He fares…
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