Donald A Debats
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald A Debats |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald A |
| FAMILY NAME | Debats |
| SIGNATURE | DEBATS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It's Not Just What You Have, but Who You Know: Networks, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections
Individual-level studies of electoral turnout and vote choice have focused largely on personal attributes as explanatory variables. We argue that scholars should also consider the social network in which individuals are embedded, which may influence voting through variation in individuals' social proximity to elites. Our analysis rests on newly discovered historical records revealing the individual votes of all electors in the 1859 statewide elec…
Australia's Adoption of Compulsory Voting: Revising the Narrative — not Trailblazing, Uncontested or Democratic
Presentations of the history of Australian democracy inevitably dwell on the innovative and early democratic practices of the colonies and, later, the nation. Compulsory voting is typically placed in this frame. This article challenges three key pillars of the accepted narrative of the Australian adoption of compulsory voting by placing nineteenth‐century debates over the mandatory franchise in the Australian colonies in the context of other simi…
The Power of the Map, and Its Dangers
The thoughts and musings of eleven scholars, on the future of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the field of humanities scholarship, are brought together in this volume. Their explorations te
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Over the past decade or so geographic information systems (GIS) methodology has become an accepted tool in historical research (Gregory and Ell 2007; Knowles 2008). Although often regarded as a mapping tool, GIS is perhaps better thought of as a type of database. What makes a GIS database unique is that a location is stored for each item of data, with this location taking any of a variety of forms: a point, a line, a polygon representing an area …
Political Consequences of Spatial Organization: Contrasting Patterns in Two Nineteenth-Century Small Cities
The unique feature of geographic information systems (GIS) and other forms of historical data visualization is the capacity to hold and display large amounts of data associated with spatial reference points. This software can display all data for a given point, a single variable for all points, or, most important, any combination of variables across all reference points. In doing so, these systems bring to the screen instantly and cheaply a displ…
Using GIS and Individual-Level Data for Whole Communities: A Path Toward the Reconciliation of Political and Social History
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can assist the reintegration of the estranged fields of American political and social history when focused on individual-level political and social information for whole communities of moderate size. This article illustrates these integrative possibilities through an exploration of political and social life in four 19th-century North American communities. Place of residence has been determined for approximatel…
A Tale of Two Cities: Using Tax Records to Develop GIS Files for Mapping and Understanding Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
Advances in geographic information systems (GIS) programs for both mapping and analysis make possible a new era of small-city studies. The author uses often-neglected tax records as a central part of the mapping process for two mid-nineteenth-century U.S. cities with populations of about 14, 000-Alexandria, Virginia, and Newport, Kentucky-that were respectively commercial and industrial in character. Approximately 80 percent of the inhabitants of…
Mr Howard Goes to Washington: September 11, the Australian–American Relationship and Attributes of Leadership
Avoiding judgements on policy, this article provides, from the perspective of participants, an account of the events surrounding John Howard's presence in Washington on 11 September 2001. It examines the significance of those events for the realisation of his government's goal of strengthening the Australia–US relationship and explores what his responses reveal about his leadership attributes, using a template (with an emphasis on emotional intel…
Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority
(2001). Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 20, Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Agreement?, pp. 63-88
Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000
(2001). Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000' Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 21-28
Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000
Comparing Individual-Level Returns with Aggregates a Historical Appraisal of the King Solution
Key Words: votingpoll booksecological inferenceaggregate data analysis
Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America
Journal Article Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America Get access Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. By Bourke Paul DeBats Donald. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $45.00.) Marilyn P. Watkins Marilyn P. Watkins Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America
Journal Article Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. By Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xx, 407 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-4950-0.) Get access Margaret K. Holden Margaret K. Holden University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 210–211, h…
Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860
The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United S…
Elites and Masses: Political Structure, Communication, and Behavior in Ante-Bellum Georgia. Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Political and Social History
Hide and Seek: The Historian and Nineteenth-Century Social Accounting
An Uncertain Arena: The Georgia House of Representatives, 1808-1861
Restoring Politics to Political History
The phrase restoring politics to political threatens to become the slogan for a new scholarly campaign. Kousser's recent elaboration of the theme is the most challenging, offering the author's usual theoretical and methodological inventiveness in combination with a sweeping indictment of recent work. Before the slogan gathers too many adherents, however, problems about the work of restoration need airing.' The urge to restore politics to politica…
Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate
(1982). Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate. Politics: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 78-88
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
After more than a decade's impressive achievement in the “new” social history and the “new” political history, two distinct though related problems require us to reconsider the data appropriate to these inquiries. First, recent commentators (Foner, 1974; Formi-sano, 1976) have pointed to the relative failure of research in these areas to converge, a failure made more obvious in the light of the programmatic optimism of the 1960s which held out th…
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
It's Not Just What You Have, but Who You Know: Networks, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections
Individual-level studies of electoral turnout and vote choice have focused largely on personal attributes as explanatory variables. We argue that scholars should also consider the social network in which individuals are embedded, which may influence voting through variation in individuals' social proximity to elites. Our analysis rests on newly discovered historical records revealing the individual votes of all electors in the 1859 statewide elec…
A Tale of Two Cities: Using Tax Records to Develop GIS Files for Mapping and Understanding Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
Advances in geographic information systems (GIS) programs for both mapping and analysis make possible a new era of small-city studies. The author uses often-neglected tax records as a central part of the mapping process for two mid-nineteenth-century U.S. cities with populations of about 14, 000-Alexandria, Virginia, and Newport, Kentucky-that were respectively commercial and industrial in character. Approximately 80 percent of the inhabitants of…
Using GIS and Individual-Level Data for Whole Communities: A Path Toward the Reconciliation of Political and Social History
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can assist the reintegration of the estranged fields of American political and social history when focused on individual-level political and social information for whole communities of moderate size. This article illustrates these integrative possibilities through an exploration of political and social life in four 19th-century North American communities. Place of residence has been determined for approximatel…
Mr Howard Goes to Washington: September 11, the Australian–American Relationship and Attributes of Leadership
Avoiding judgements on policy, this article provides, from the perspective of participants, an account of the events surrounding John Howard's presence in Washington on 11 September 2001. It examines the significance of those events for the realisation of his government's goal of strengthening the Australia–US relationship and explores what his responses reveal about his leadership attributes, using a template (with an emphasis on emotional intel…
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Over the past decade or so geographic information systems (GIS) methodology has become an accepted tool in historical research (Gregory and Ell 2007; Knowles 2008). Although often regarded as a mapping tool, GIS is perhaps better thought of as a type of database. What makes a GIS database unique is that a location is stored for each item of data, with this location taking any of a variety of forms: a point, a line, a polygon representing an area …
An Uncertain Arena: The Georgia House of Representatives, 1808-1861
Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority
(2001). Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 20, Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Agreement?, pp. 63-88
Comparing Individual-Level Returns with Aggregates a Historical Appraisal of the King Solution
Key Words: votingpoll booksecological inferenceaggregate data analysis
Hide and Seek: The Historian and Nineteenth-Century Social Accounting
Restoring Politics to Political History
The phrase restoring politics to political threatens to become the slogan for a new scholarly campaign. Kousser's recent elaboration of the theme is the most challenging, offering the author's usual theoretical and methodological inventiveness in combination with a sweeping indictment of recent work. Before the slogan gathers too many adherents, however, problems about the work of restoration need airing.' The urge to restore politics to politica…
Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate
(1982). Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate. Politics: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 78-88
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
After more than a decade's impressive achievement in the “new” social history and the “new” political history, two distinct though related problems require us to reconsider the data appropriate to these inquiries. First, recent commentators (Foner, 1974; Formi-sano, 1976) have pointed to the relative failure of research in these areas to converge, a failure made more obvious in the light of the programmatic optimism of the 1960s which held out th…
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
After more than a decade's impressive achievement in the “new” social history and the “new” political history, two distinct though related problems require us to reconsider the data appropriate to these inquiries. First, recent commentators (Foner, 1974; Formi-sano, 1976) have pointed to the relative failure of research in these areas to converge, a failure made more obvious in the light of the programmatic optimism of the 1960s which held out th…
Individuals and Aggregates: A Note on Historical Data and Assumptions
Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate
(1982). Political reform and the decline of party: Finding meaning in an American shadow debate. Politics: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 78-88
Restoring Politics to Political History
The phrase restoring politics to political threatens to become the slogan for a new scholarly campaign. Kousser's recent elaboration of the theme is the most challenging, offering the author's usual theoretical and methodological inventiveness in combination with a sweeping indictment of recent work. Before the slogan gathers too many adherents, however, problems about the work of restoration need airing.' The urge to restore politics to politica…
An Uncertain Arena: The Georgia House of Representatives, 1808-1861
Hide and Seek: The Historian and Nineteenth-Century Social Accounting
Elites and Masses: Political Structure, Communication, and Behavior in Ante-Bellum Georgia. Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Political and Social History
Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860
The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United S…
Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America
Journal Article Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. By Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xx, 407 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-4950-0.) Get access Margaret K. Holden Margaret K. Holden University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 210–211, h…
Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America
Journal Article Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America Get access Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America. By Bourke Paul DeBats Donald. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xvii + 407 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $45.00.) Marilyn P. Watkins Marilyn P. Watkins Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority
(2001). Road Block on the Fast Track: The Struggle for Trade Promotion Authority. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 20, Special Edition: An American-Australian Free Trade Agreement?, pp. 63-88
Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000
(2001). Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000' Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 21-28
Into the political shrubbery: Finding meaning in America's 'Decision 2000
Comparing Individual-Level Returns with Aggregates a Historical Appraisal of the King Solution
Key Words: votingpoll booksecological inferenceaggregate data analysis
Mr Howard Goes to Washington: September 11, the Australian–American Relationship and Attributes of Leadership
Avoiding judgements on policy, this article provides, from the perspective of participants, an account of the events surrounding John Howard's presence in Washington on 11 September 2001. It examines the significance of those events for the realisation of his government's goal of strengthening the Australia–US relationship and explores what his responses reveal about his leadership attributes, using a template (with an emphasis on emotional intel…
A Tale of Two Cities: Using Tax Records to Develop GIS Files for Mapping and Understanding Nineteenth-Century U.S. Cities
Advances in geographic information systems (GIS) programs for both mapping and analysis make possible a new era of small-city studies. The author uses often-neglected tax records as a central part of the mapping process for two mid-nineteenth-century U.S. cities with populations of about 14, 000-Alexandria, Virginia, and Newport, Kentucky-that were respectively commercial and industrial in character. Approximately 80 percent of the inhabitants of…
Using GIS and Individual-Level Data for Whole Communities: A Path Toward the Reconciliation of Political and Social History
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can assist the reintegration of the estranged fields of American political and social history when focused on individual-level political and social information for whole communities of moderate size. This article illustrates these integrative possibilities through an exploration of political and social life in four 19th-century North American communities. Place of residence has been determined for approximatel…
Introduction to Historical GIS and the Study of Urban History
Over the past decade or so geographic information systems (GIS) methodology has become an accepted tool in historical research (Gregory and Ell 2007; Knowles 2008). Although often regarded as a mapping tool, GIS is perhaps better thought of as a type of database. What makes a GIS database unique is that a location is stored for each item of data, with this location taking any of a variety of forms: a point, a line, a polygon representing an area …
Political Consequences of Spatial Organization: Contrasting Patterns in Two Nineteenth-Century Small Cities
The unique feature of geographic information systems (GIS) and other forms of historical data visualization is the capacity to hold and display large amounts of data associated with spatial reference points. This software can display all data for a given point, a single variable for all points, or, most important, any combination of variables across all reference points. In doing so, these systems bring to the screen instantly and cheaply a displ…
The Power of the Map, and Its Dangers
The thoughts and musings of eleven scholars, on the future of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the field of humanities scholarship, are brought together in this volume. Their explorations te
Australia's Adoption of Compulsory Voting: Revising the Narrative — not Trailblazing, Uncontested or Democratic
Presentations of the history of Australian democracy inevitably dwell on the innovative and early democratic practices of the colonies and, later, the nation. Compulsory voting is typically placed in this frame. This article challenges three key pillars of the accepted narrative of the Australian adoption of compulsory voting by placing nineteenth‐century debates over the mandatory franchise in the Australian colonies in the context of other simi…
It's Not Just What You Have, but Who You Know: Networks, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections
Individual-level studies of electoral turnout and vote choice have focused largely on personal attributes as explanatory variables. We argue that scholars should also consider the social network in which individuals are embedded, which may influence voting through variation in individuals' social proximity to elites. Our analysis rests on newly discovered historical records revealing the individual votes of all electors in the 1859 statewide elec…
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