John A Hamman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1323936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Hamman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamman |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMAN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Incumbent vulnerability and entry in gubernatorial elections: The case of former governors
The vulnerability hypothesis predicts strategic, quality candidates only challenge weak incumbents. House election studies support this hypothesis. State level analyses produce mixed results. We test whether incumbent vulnerability affects the entry of one kind of strategic actor – former governors. Former governors are an ideal test case. Having already served in the state's highest office, they represent the highest quality and perhaps most str…
Career Experience and Performing Effectively as Governor
Although studies analyze the career paths of governors, virtually none investigates whether careers matter for how they perform once in office. This analysis merges attitudinal data from two 48-state ABC News/Washington Post national surveys with measures of career experience and state characteristics to assess the relationship between career experience and gubernatorial job performance. Controlling for contextual, attitudinal, and demographic fa…
Interest group PAC contributions and the 1992 regulation of cable television
The literature concerning political action committee (PAC) influence over congressional roll-call decisions offers mixed findings. Some studies find strong effects, others weak effects, while some detect no PAC impact on congressional roll-call voting. These mixed results imply that PAC influence might vary across contexts and perhaps interact with other variables. In this paper, we suggest that PAC influence might vary with two contexts. First, …
The Polls: Can Presidential Rhetoric Affect the Public's Economic Perceptions
In this article, the authors ask whether presidential speech can affect public expectations of the economy, which they view as an overall indicator of public optimism or pessimism about the future. They argue that foreign policy speeches, because of their nature, will have stronger impacts on the public's future orientations than other types of speeches, in particular, economic and domestic policy speeches. This derives from the leadership image …
State-Level Presidential Approval and Senatorial Support
The effect of public presidential approval on congressional support for the president has been the subject of considerable debate and controversy. Systematic, quantitative studies have been unable to demonstrate convincingly that public approval leads to greater legislative support for the president. The lack of constituency-level public approval data has hindered resolution of the controversy. Studies have relied upon either election results or …
Images and Reality in Local Government Personnel Practices: Investigating the "Quiet Crisis" among Illinois City Officials
In recent years, the public administration community and political leadership have expressed increasing concern that the conditions and status of public service are declining. It has been called a quiet crisis in American government (Levine and Kleeman, 1992). Beside the widely publicized Volcker Commission that focused on the federal civil service, especially at the senior executive level, several other commissions or task forces have also been …
Bureaucratic Accommodation of Congress and the President: Elections and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
Universalism, Program Development, and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
Bureaucratic Accommodation of Congress and the President: Elections and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
This article investigates whether elections provide bureaucrats with a means for accommodating political pressure from Congress and the White House. Specifically the article tests: (1) whether bureaucrats shorten the time they take to process applications from districts important to the agency and the White House in election years, and (2) whether such preferences are reflected in the resulting geographical distribution of assistance. An analysis…
The Impact of Presidential Campaigning on Midterm U.S. Senate Elections
The conventional wisdom about presidential campaigning in midterm Senate elections is that presidential efforts lack impact or have negative impact. We discuss conceptual problems with the conventional view and offer an alternative that views presidential campaigning as strategic. We test this alternative and find support for it. Further, we find that presidential campaign efforts have a positive impact on the vote through the mobilization of non…
State-Level Presidential Approval and Senatorial Support
The effect of public presidential approval on congressional support for the president has been the subject of considerable debate and controversy. Systematic, quantitative studies have been unable to demonstrate convincingly that public approval leads to greater legislative support for the president. The lack of constituency-level public approval data has hindered resolution of the controversy. Studies have relied upon either election results or …
The Impact of Presidential Campaigning on Midterm U.S. Senate Elections
The conventional wisdom about presidential campaigning in midterm Senate elections is that presidential efforts lack impact or have negative impact. We discuss conceptual problems with the conventional view and offer an alternative that views presidential campaigning as strategic. We test this alternative and find support for it. Further, we find that presidential campaign efforts have a positive impact on the vote through the mobilization of non…
Bureaucratic Accommodation of Congress and the President: Elections and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
This article investigates whether elections provide bureaucrats with a means for accommodating political pressure from Congress and the White House. Specifically the article tests: (1) whether bureaucrats shorten the time they take to process applications from districts important to the agency and the White House in election years, and (2) whether such preferences are reflected in the resulting geographical distribution of assistance. An analysis…
Career Experience and Performing Effectively as Governor
Although studies analyze the career paths of governors, virtually none investigates whether careers matter for how they perform once in office. This analysis merges attitudinal data from two 48-state ABC News/Washington Post national surveys with measures of career experience and state characteristics to assess the relationship between career experience and gubernatorial job performance. Controlling for contextual, attitudinal, and demographic fa…
Interest group PAC contributions and the 1992 regulation of cable television
The literature concerning political action committee (PAC) influence over congressional roll-call decisions offers mixed findings. Some studies find strong effects, others weak effects, while some detect no PAC impact on congressional roll-call voting. These mixed results imply that PAC influence might vary across contexts and perhaps interact with other variables. In this paper, we suggest that PAC influence might vary with two contexts. First, …
Incumbent vulnerability and entry in gubernatorial elections: The case of former governors
The vulnerability hypothesis predicts strategic, quality candidates only challenge weak incumbents. House election studies support this hypothesis. State level analyses produce mixed results. We test whether incumbent vulnerability affects the entry of one kind of strategic actor – former governors. Former governors are an ideal test case. Having already served in the state's highest office, they represent the highest quality and perhaps most str…
The Impact of Presidential Campaigning on Midterm U.S. Senate Elections
The conventional wisdom about presidential campaigning in midterm Senate elections is that presidential efforts lack impact or have negative impact. We discuss conceptual problems with the conventional view and offer an alternative that views presidential campaigning as strategic. We test this alternative and find support for it. Further, we find that presidential campaign efforts have a positive impact on the vote through the mobilization of non…
Bureaucratic Accommodation of Congress and the President: Elections and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
Universalism, Program Development, and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
Bureaucratic Accommodation of Congress and the President: Elections and the Distribution of Federal Assistance
This article investigates whether elections provide bureaucrats with a means for accommodating political pressure from Congress and the White House. Specifically the article tests: (1) whether bureaucrats shorten the time they take to process applications from districts important to the agency and the White House in election years, and (2) whether such preferences are reflected in the resulting geographical distribution of assistance. An analysis…
Images and Reality in Local Government Personnel Practices: Investigating the "Quiet Crisis" among Illinois City Officials
In recent years, the public administration community and political leadership have expressed increasing concern that the conditions and status of public service are declining. It has been called a quiet crisis in American government (Levine and Kleeman, 1992). Beside the widely publicized Volcker Commission that focused on the federal civil service, especially at the senior executive level, several other commissions or task forces have also been …
State-Level Presidential Approval and Senatorial Support
The effect of public presidential approval on congressional support for the president has been the subject of considerable debate and controversy. Systematic, quantitative studies have been unable to demonstrate convincingly that public approval leads to greater legislative support for the president. The lack of constituency-level public approval data has hindered resolution of the controversy. Studies have relied upon either election results or …
Interest group PAC contributions and the 1992 regulation of cable television
The literature concerning political action committee (PAC) influence over congressional roll-call decisions offers mixed findings. Some studies find strong effects, others weak effects, while some detect no PAC impact on congressional roll-call voting. These mixed results imply that PAC influence might vary across contexts and perhaps interact with other variables. In this paper, we suggest that PAC influence might vary with two contexts. First, …
The Polls: Can Presidential Rhetoric Affect the Public's Economic Perceptions
In this article, the authors ask whether presidential speech can affect public expectations of the economy, which they view as an overall indicator of public optimism or pessimism about the future. They argue that foreign policy speeches, because of their nature, will have stronger impacts on the public's future orientations than other types of speeches, in particular, economic and domestic policy speeches. This derives from the leadership image …
Career Experience and Performing Effectively as Governor
Although studies analyze the career paths of governors, virtually none investigates whether careers matter for how they perform once in office. This analysis merges attitudinal data from two 48-state ABC News/Washington Post national surveys with measures of career experience and state characteristics to assess the relationship between career experience and gubernatorial job performance. Controlling for contextual, attitudinal, and demographic fa…
Incumbent vulnerability and entry in gubernatorial elections: The case of former governors
The vulnerability hypothesis predicts strategic, quality candidates only challenge weak incumbents. House election studies support this hypothesis. State level analyses produce mixed results. We test whether incumbent vulnerability affects the entry of one kind of strategic actor – former governors. Former governors are an ideal test case. Having already served in the state's highest office, they represent the highest quality and perhaps most str…
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